Bayern Crush Stuttgart 5-1 as Olise, Pavlović and Díaz Turn Brief Scare Into Rout

For three minutes, VfB Stuttgart had Bayern Munich exactly where they wanted them.

Josha Vagnoman had equalized early in the second half, the Allianz Arena had suddenly become a little less comfortable, and the defending Bundesliga champions were facing their first real test of the new season.

Then Bayern responded with the kind of speed that turns hope into damage.

Michael Olise restored the lead in the 55th minute. Two minutes later, Vagnoman went from Stuttgart’s scorer to the unfortunate owner of an own goal. By the time Aleksandar Pavlović and Luis Díaz added the late punishment, Bayern had transformed a briefly dangerous 1-1 game into a commanding 5-1 victory.

Dayot Upamecano had earlier opened the scoring in the 21st minute as Bayern began their Bundesliga title defense with another emphatic statement at the Allianz Arena.

The scoreline will command the headlines. The more important message is how many different players created it.

Harry Kane, the reigning European Golden Shoe winner, did not appear among Bayern’s five scorers.

That may be the most uncomfortable detail of all for the rest of Germany.

Bayern Munich vs VfB Stuttgart: Final Score and Goals

Event	Minute	Score
Dayot Upamecano, Bayern Munich	21′	Bayern 1-0 Stuttgart
Josha Vagnoman, VfB Stuttgart	52′	Bayern 1-1 Stuttgart
Michael Olise, Bayern Munich	55′	Bayern 2-1 Stuttgart
Josha Vagnoman own goal	57′	Bayern 3-1 Stuttgart
Aleksandar Pavlović, Bayern Munich	82′	Bayern 4-1 Stuttgart
Luis Díaz, Bayern Munich	90+2′	Bayern 5-1 Stuttgart

The official Bundesliga match center carries the competition’s match information, while the DFB’s official 2026/27 Bundesliga schedule confirms the fixture as the opening game of Matchday 1.

Upamecano Gives Bayern the Opening They Needed

Stuttgart arrived in Munich carrying an increasingly uncomfortable recent history against Bayern.

The champions had beaten them 4-2 in April to secure the 2025/26 Bundesliga title, then defeated them 3-0 in the DFB-Pokal final in May. Bayern had won the previous six competitive meetings between the clubs before Friday night.

Upamecano made sure that pattern continued moving in the same direction.

The France center-back struck in the 21st minute to give Bayern the advantage and ensured Vincent Kompany’s side could dictate the emotional shape of the first half rather than chase the game.

Upamecano returned to club football after a significant summer with France. He was also selected in The Sports Encounter’s fan-voted World Cup 2026 Dream Team, where his recovery speed and ability to defend large spaces were central to his case.

Against Stuttgart, his contribution came at the opposite end of the field.

Bayern went into halftime 1-0 ahead. The game was controlled, but it was far from finished.

Vagnoman Equalizes and Stuttgart Suddenly Have a Match

Stuttgart’s best moment arrived seven minutes after the restart.

Vagnoman scored in the 52nd minute to make it 1-1.

For the first time all night, Bayern faced a genuine question.

The champions could have allowed frustration to enter the match. Stuttgart could have slowed proceedings, protected the middle, forced Bayern into more patient possession and tried to make the final half-hour uncomfortable.

They never got the chance.

Three minutes separated Stuttgart’s equalizer from Bayern’s response.

Michael Olise Changes the Mood in Three Minutes

Olise made it 2-1 in the 55th minute.

That goal mattered because it prevented Stuttgart from settling into the emotional lift created by their equalizer. Instead of spending five or ten minutes believing they had dragged the champions into a contest, they were immediately behind again.

Olise has increasingly become one of Bayern’s most important sources of attacking invention.

His summer strengthened that reputation. The Sports Encounter ranked him among the leading players at the FIFA World Cup 2026 after his creative role for France, while our France vs Spain semifinal analysis examined how his movement and passing helped connect one of the tournament’s deepest attacks.

Those qualities translate naturally into Kompany’s Bayern.

Olise can attack from the right, move inside, combine around the penalty area and force defenders to make decisions before the final pass arrives.

Stuttgart had barely processed his goal when the match turned again.

Josha Vagnoman’s Five Minutes Tell the Story of the Night

Few players will experience a stranger five-minute sequence this season.

At 52 minutes, Vagnoman had scored the goal that brought Stuttgart level at the Allianz Arena.

At 57 minutes, the same player had put the ball into his own net.

Bayern led 3-1.

That sequence was the real breaking point.

Stuttgart went from believing they had disrupted the champions to trailing by two goals in roughly the time it takes a team to regain its defensive shape after scoring.

There is an important distinction here.

Bayern did not dominate because Stuttgart never threatened them. Stuttgart did threaten them. They found the equalizer and briefly created uncertainty.

What separated the teams was Bayern’s reaction once uncertainty appeared.

Elite sides often reveal themselves most clearly after conceding. The response can become cautious, irritated or disorganized. Bayern’s response was aggressive and immediate.

The score went from 1-1 to 3-1 in five minutes.

That ended Stuttgart’s strongest period before it had time to become a genuine momentum shift.

Aleksandar Pavlović Ends Any Remaining Stuttgart Hope

Stuttgart still had more than half an hour after Vagnoman’s own goal, but chasing Bayern at the Allianz Arena creates its own problems.

Every additional attacking commitment opens another pocket of space.

Pavlović eventually converted Bayern’s control into a fourth goal in the 82nd minute.

For Kompany, that contribution will be particularly useful because the source of Bayern’s goals already looks broader than a conventional striker-dependent attack.

Upamecano scored from defense.

Olise scored from the attacking line.

Pavlović arrived from midfield.

Díaz eventually supplied the fifth.

This was not one star carrying Bayern through an opening fixture. It was a team finding goals from several parts of the structure.

Luis Díaz Adds the Final Blow

Díaz completed the scoring in the second minute of stoppage time.

By then, the competitive argument had already been settled.

The fifth goal still mattered.

A 3-1 opening-night victory would have represented a strong start. A 5-1 win becomes something opponents notice.

Díaz returned to Bayern after another busy international summer, having remained one of Colombia’s major attacking figures. His ability to turn transition moments into direct attacking danger was also visible during Colombia’s World Cup campaign covered by The Sports Encounter.

Bayern already possess Olise’s creativity, Kane’s finishing and several midfield routes into the penalty area. Díaz adds another problem because he can attack space rather than waiting for Bayern to build everything through controlled possession.

The stoppage-time goal made the final score ruthless.

It also made the larger point harder to ignore.

Bayern Score Five Without Harry Kane on the Scoresheet

Kane entered the new Bundesliga season as Europe’s defending Golden Shoe winner after scoring 36 league goals in 2025/26.

The Sports Encounter recently examined how his second European Golden Shoe strengthened his 2026 Ballon d’Or case after a season that also included Bayern’s domestic double.

He had already spent the summer adding another major tournament to his résumé, scoring six goals as England finished third at the World Cup. Those numbers placed him among The Sports Encounter’s leading World Cup 2026 goalscorers.

Yet Bayern scored five against Stuttgart without Kane appearing among the scorers.

That is more significant than it may initially sound.

Bayern know Kane will score goals. The larger question for opponents is what happens when they successfully prevent him from doing so.

Friday provided an uncomfortable answer.

Upamecano, Olise, Pavlović and Díaz scored instead, with Vagnoman’s own goal completing the five.

If Bayern can consistently generate that kind of secondary scoring, marking Kane becomes only one part of a much larger defensive problem.

Bayern Are Starting Another Season at Full Speed

There is also a wider pattern developing around Kompany’s Bayern.

They opened the previous Bundesliga campaign by destroying RB Leipzig 6-0. That victory put them on top of the league immediately, and they never surrendered control of the title race.

Now comes 5-1 against Stuttgart to begin 2026/27.

The opposition matters.

Stuttgart finished fourth last season and qualified for the Champions League. They were also Bayern’s opponents in the DFB-Pokal final. This was not a ceremonial opening fixture against a side simply happy to be at the Allianz Arena.

It was a meeting between two German Champions League clubs.

Bayern won by four goals.

The result also arrives only days after the 2026/27 Champions League draw handed Bayern a league-phase schedule featuring Arsenal at home and away trips to Atlético Madrid and Manchester United among their major European tests.

Europe will demand more than Stuttgart did.

Friday nevertheless provided an early sign that Bayern’s attacking machinery has not needed a long post-World Cup adjustment period.

Manuel Neuer and Bayern’s Experienced Core Still Matter

Bayern’s attack will receive most of the attention after five goals, but the club’s continuity remains another strength.

Manuel Neuer continues to provide experience behind a team that increasingly contains players from different generations.

The 2026 World Cup carried the feeling of an international farewell for several icons, including Neuer, something explored in The Sports Encounter’s feature on the generation saying goodbye after World Cup 2026.

At club level, however, Bayern continue blending that experience with players such as Pavlović and an attack increasingly shaped by Olise and Díaz.

That mixture is one reason their title defense feels difficult to separate from expectations of another deep run in Europe.

Stuttgart Must Separate the Collapse From the First 52 Minutes

A 5-1 defeat naturally produces uncomfortable questions for Stuttgart.

The useful part of their review may lie in what happened before Bayern’s second goal.

They were only 1-0 down at halftime.

They found an equalizer at the Allianz Arena.

They had forced the champions into a position where the match needed to be won again.

Then everything unraveled.

The lesson is therefore not simply that Stuttgart could not compete with Bayern. They competed for long enough to make the game interesting.

The problem was what happened once the emotional temperature rose.

Conceding three minutes after equalizing was damaging. Conceding again two minutes after that was decisive.

Against most Bundesliga opponents, Stuttgart may have time to recover from such a spell.

Against Bayern, five minutes can decide the entire night.

What Bayern’s 5-1 Win Means for the Bundesliga

It is far too early to declare a title race finished after one match.

Seventeen other teams still have to begin or complete their opening fixtures. Form will change, injuries will intervene, European competition will stretch squads and the Bundesliga season will create problems no opening-night performance can predict.

But title defenses are partly about establishing the emotional terms of the race.

Bayern have done that immediately.

They conceded an equalizer and responded within three minutes.

They scored five times through multiple routes.

The Bundesliga’s reigning Golden Shoe winner was not one of the scorers.

They defeated a Champions League-qualified opponent by four goals.

And they extended an already commanding recent record against Stuttgart.

The rest of Germany should not read the 5-1 score as proof that another Bayern title is inevitable.

It should read it as a warning that the champions have begun the new season without needing much time to remember how they win.

Frequently Asked Questions

What was the Bayern Munich vs VfB Stuttgart score?

Bayern Munich beat VfB Stuttgart 5-1 at the Allianz Arena in the opening match of the 2026/27 Bundesliga season.

Who scored for Bayern against Stuttgart?

Dayot Upamecano, Michael Olise, Aleksandar Pavlović and Luis Díaz scored for Bayern. Stuttgart defender Josha Vagnoman also scored an own goal.

Who scored Stuttgart’s goal against Bayern?

Josha Vagnoman scored Stuttgart’s equalizer in the 52nd minute before later putting the ball into his own net in the 57th minute.

When did Michael Olise score against Stuttgart?

Michael Olise scored in the 55th minute, restoring Bayern’s lead only three minutes after Stuttgart had equalized.

Did Harry Kane score against Stuttgart?

No. Harry Kane did not appear on the scoresheet despite Bayern scoring five goals. Bayern’s scoring came from Upamecano, Olise, Pavlović, Díaz and a Vagnoman own goal.

Was Bayern vs Stuttgart the first Bundesliga game of 2026/27?

Yes. Bayern Munich vs VfB Stuttgart was the official opening match of the 2026/27 Bundesliga season on Friday, August 28, 2026.

How many consecutive games have Bayern now won against Stuttgart?

Bayern entered the match having won their previous six competitive meetings with Stuttgart. The 5-1 victory extended that winning run to seven.

Who do Bayern face next in the Bundesliga?

According to the official 2026/27 Bundesliga schedule, Bayern’s next league match is away to Schalke on September 5, while Stuttgart host Cologne on September 4.