Champions League 24/25: Bayern Munich squad, starting 11 and odds

Now the 2024/25 season has started, Ladbrokes takes you through Bayern Munich's Champions League squad, their chances of winning the competition and what we expect their starting 11 to be.

Vincent Kompany, after getting relegated with Burnley last season, was appointed as Bayern Munich's manager this summer, and he's leading the German giants into the Champions League this season.

The former Man City defender is hoping to bring Europe's top club prize back to Germany for the first time since 2020, when Bayern beat PSG in the final in win their sixth Champions League.

With all that said, Ladbrokes takes you through Bayern Munich's squad for the current Champions League campaign, what their starting XI has looked like, and their odds winning the competition.

Below is the squad that Bayern Munich are taking into the 2024/25 Champions Legaue campaign.

The squad features some new names from last year, including Michael Olise, who completed a big-money move from Crystal Palace to Germany over the summer.

• Manuel Neuer (c), Daniel Peretz, Sven Ulreich
• Dayot Upamecano, Kim Min-jae, Joshua Kimmich, Eric Dier, Alphonso Davies, Hiroki Ito, Raphael Guerreiro, Sacha Boey, Tarek Buchmann, Josip Stanisic
• Leon Goretzka, Joao Palhinha, Arijon Ibrahimović, Konrad Laimer, Aleksandar Pavlovic
• Serge Gnabry, Harry Kane, Leroy Sane, Kingsley Coman, Michael Olise, Thomas Muller, Mathys Tel, Jamal Musiala
  

Manuel Neuer has remainded as the club's captain and starting goalkeeper whenever he's fit, despite some questioning whether a retirement is on the cards.

Joshua Kimmich has played a few games at right-back, but he usually partners Leon Goretzka in the heart of the midfield, with Konrad Laimer getting minutes for Bayern at full-back.

On the other flank, Alphonso Davies plays when he's fit, but Raphael Guerreiro offers another option if Kompany wants to go for something different.

After failing to bring Jonathan Tah to the club in the summer, Dayot Upamecano and Kim Min-jae complete the defence for Bayern in the Champions League this season.

The attacking prowess of three of Jamal Musiala, Serge Gnabry, new signing Olise, Mathys Tel, Thomas Muller and Kingsley Coman play in behind Harry Kane, with the Tottenham striker Harry Kane, coming off the back of a fantastic debut season with Bayern where, despite failing to win his first professional trophy, he showed that he remains one of the world's best number nines.

Bayern are one of the favourites to win the Champions League come May 2025 priced similarly to Arsenal and with longer odds than, Real Madrid, Barcelona and PSG.

The bookies have given Bayern Munich just a 17% chance of winning the Champions League next year, five years after last winning the competition.

The feeling seems to be that if Kompany can implement his ideas quickly and begin to get the better of top coaches, then Bayern could be a real handful in the Champions League this year.

The new Champions League format sees teams play eight games in the 'league phase', with Bayern kicking off their campaign at home against Dinamo Zagreb on September 17.

The game ended as an 11-goal thriller, with Bayern beating the Croatian side 9-2 in what has gone down as one of the biggest wins in the competition's history.

Next up, Kompany returned to England to play Aston Villa at Villa Park on October 2, which ended in 1-0 loss, before another tough away fixture on October 23, this time against Hansi Flick's Barcelona, ended in a 4-1 loss.

Bayern's fourth game of the 2024/25 Champions League saw them beat Benfica 1-0 at home on November 6, before a potentially difficult home game against PSG on November 26 ending in another 1-0 victory.

A trip to Shaktar Donetsk on December 10 could have been difficult, and it seemed like it would after going 1-0 down, but Bayern were able to turn things around and emphatically win 5-1.

That came before Kompany and co concluded the 'league phase' of this season's Champions League in 2025 with a 3-0 loss against Feyenoord on January 22 and a 3-1 win against Slovan Bratislava on January 29.

After seeing off Celtic in the playoff round, Bayern Munich managed to beat German rivals Bayer Leverkusen 5-0 on aggregate in the last 16 to progress to the quarter-finals, where they'll now face Inter Milan.

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