Bayern München vs SpVgg Greuther Fürth

SpVgg Greuther Fürth and FC Bayern München have met five times in professional football, SpVgg are still winless against FCB (four defeats after 90 minutes, plus a 3-4 in a penalty shoot-out in the 1998-99 DFB-Pokal) and have failed to score in three of these five matches (three goals in total).

FC Bayern München lost 2-4 at VfL Bochum, after going unbeaten in 16 consecutive Bundesliga games against promoted teams. The last time Bayern Munich lost two consecutive Bundesliga games against promoted teams was in 1997 under Giovanni Trapattoni (0-2 at Bielefeld, 0-1 at home against Kaiserslautern).

With FC Bayern München and SpVgg Greuther Fürth, the first-placed team in this season’s Bundesliga meets the bottom-placed side. In the last 18 such encounters, there has been only one defeat for the first-placed side (W16 D1), in December 2016 RB Leipzig lost 0-1 away at Ingolstadt. The last time the first-placed team lost at home to the 18th placed side was Leverkusen's 0-1 against Düsseldorf in August 1996.

FC Bayern conceded four goals in the first half of a Bundesliga match for the first time since November 1975 (0-5 in Frankfurt, final score 0-6) in their 2-4 loss at VfL Bochum. Bayern have lost for the fourth time this BL season, as often as in the entire previous season, last losing more often in 2014-15 (5).

FC Bayern have experienced their worst start to the second half of a Bundesliga season in 10 years (8 points at that time), with only nine points accrued in the first five such matchdays. The last time they had lost two or more matches in the first five matchdays of the second half of the season was in 2008-09 under Jürgen Klinsmann (3).