The unofficial start of the 2025-26 German football season on ABC and ESPN platforms will kick off with the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup between DFB-Pokal winners VfB Stuttgart and Bundesliga champions FC Bayern München at the MHP Arena in Stuttgart, Germany. The match will air live on Saturday, August 16, at 2 p.m. ET on ABC and ESPN+.

Saturday’s German Super Cup will be the first Bundesliga match for Luiz Diaz, FC Bayern München’s prized off-season player acquisition. Diaz’s transfer from Liverpool FC to FC Bayern München cost a whopping $88 million (USD).

Derek Rae , ESPN’s lead Bundesliga play-by-play commentator, and analyst Patrick Owomoyela will call the match in English from the match site. Germany-based reporter Archie Rhind-Tutt and former German international Thomas Hitzl

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