Bayern Munich top at Christmas after record-breaking start to 2025/26
Bayern Munich head into the winter break nine points clear at the top of the Bundesliga table, thanks to a record-breaking start to the 2025/26 campaign.
Vincent Kompany's side have the best record of any other team in the German top-flight's history after 15 matchdays, having chalked up 13 wins, two draws, 41 points and recorded a goal difference of +44.
The defending champions have scored 55 goals while conceding just 11, giving them both the league’s most potent attack and its tightest defence. Those numbers were bolstered in their final game before the winter break as they produced a commanding 4-0 win at Heidenheim.
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Bayern have only dropped points twice in the league - drawing with Union Berlin and Mainz - and lost once in all competitions (at Arsenal in the UEFA Champions League). Their run of 16 straight competitive wins to start the season, although ended in the German capital on 8 November 2025, stands as the outright record among teams past or present in Europe's top five leagues.
Central to their success has been the form of Harry Kane, who also broke the record for the fastest player to 100 Bundesliga goal involvements in that win over Heidenheim. It took Kane 35 games fewer than the previous record holder, legendary Dutch striker Roy Makaay, and puts him on a runaway league-leading tally of 19 goals for the campaign.
The England captain's well on course to landing a record-extending third straight top scorer's prize since moving to Bayern from Tottenham Hotspur in summer 2023. Robert Lewandowski’s remarkable single-season record of Bundesliga 41 goals (2020/21) is also in sight.
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With 19 matches still to play, Bayern also have their eyes on more records. The team's current scoring rate puts the Bundesliga single-season goals record of 101 firmly within reach, while the all-time best total of 91 points looks in danger, too.
Approaching the halfway stage, Bayern are not only leading the league table by nine points, but also rewriting history with every passing week.
"We have a good foundation for next year," Kompany said modestly after the Heidenheim triumph. "The titles will be decided from March on, but we have the foundation now. Our squad will be strengthened again in January, at just the right time. Now we'll take a break and then carry on."
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