Welcome to the FC Bayern Campus Round Up, where the matches of Bayern Munich’s U-23, U-19 and U-17 squads are recapped, line ups are provided and the highlights to the matches are hyperlinked on top of their respective score line. Remember, to watch highlights one needs to have established an account on the website but there is no need to spend any money. The DFB YouTube channel streamed the U-17’s game this weekend, so, provided one is situated in Germany or has a VPN, the whole match can be viewed
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Information on the matches of the U-23, U-19, U-17 and the other youth teams down to the U-14 teams is provided by the official FC Bayern website here, here, here and here, respectively. If you wish to learn more about the format of the U-17 and U-19’s youth leagues and what is at stake, you can find more info here. Additionally, none of these matches can be viewed in full length without a paid FCBayernTV subscription. Without further ado, here is the round up:
Bayern II (U-23s) 1-0 TSV Aubstadt, Matchday 31
Bayern lineup (with subs): Bärtl – Schuhbauer, Heindl, Puljić, Yanda – Rüger (72. Chemwor), Deziel Jr., Sadat (72. Darboe) – Hentcho Nseke (63. Schmitz), Heinz, Scott (90.+2 Zöls)
Unused subs: Kösters
Goal: 1:0 Heinz (41.)
Unavailable players: Tim Binder, Leon Klanac, Steve Breitkreuz, Younes Aitamer, Louis Richter, David Santos Daiber, Artur Degraf, Maycon Cardozo, Guido Della Rovere, Deniz Ofli
Position: 9., 43 points
Bayern II’s season has been drifting for a long time now with nothing to play for. Most recently, they were humiliated 4-1 in midweek by top of the table Nürnberg II. How Nürnberg’s U-23s are so far ahead of Bayern’s despite the former’s much more modest funding is anyone’s guess. Meanwhile, every other youth team is either competing for a championship or making it into the knockout phases of league play, so this time is not even useful for promoting youngsters to the U-23s. Still, likely due to the lack of personnel at the wing, U-19 player Aristide Hentcho Nseke has been called up to the team and is doing quite well. For a team that has had to play a left back (Julien Yanda) and a right back (Maximilian Schuhbauer) on the wings in previous games, it is quite a change of pace.
The aforementioned full back duo were back in their more usual positions this games, while Hentcho Nseke and Michael Scott roamed the wings. Scott also had a good game, making some dangerous dribbles and providing the cross for the match winner. Given the senior team’s lack of personnel on the wing and his recent training session with the senior team, perhaps Scott can make his Bundesliga debut in the coming.
Star striker Anton Heinz, returning from a two game suspension, resumed regular business and scored the only goal with the game with an outrageously clinical header.
There are three games left in this season for the U-23s.
Bayern U-19s 3-3 Rasenballsport Leipzig U-19s, Matchday 10
Bayern lineup (with subs): Prescott – Moumouni, Mijatović (65. Pavlić), Schäfer, Ajayi – Olychenko, Gashi (86. Matosevic), Schmid (65. Snip) – Egwuatu (86. Chemwor), Codjo-Evora, Wilson (46. Lambe).
Goals: 1:2 Konate (12.), 1:1 Gashi (27.), 2:1 Egwuatu (30.), 2:2 Konate (36.), 2:3 Al Khalaf (40.), 3:3 Olychenko (79.)
Unavailable players: Chivano Wijks, Wisdom Mike, Michel Ekodi, Cassiano Kiala, Chris Afanou
This was the climactic final day of the season, in which Bayern would try to do enough to qualify in the top 4 of the table. They would have to do that by hosting Leipzig, the team top of the table. No pressure, eh?
So that things would remain really tense, Bayern would naturally concede the first goal. Striker Yll Gashi dropped deep to help open up the play but only succeeded in giving the ball away to a Leipzig forward. One pass later and the ball was in the back of Leonard Prescott’s net within 12 minutes. Leipzig would continue to look like the more dangerous team after the goal, despite having nothing to play for, before Bayern’s equalizer swung the game in the home side’s favor.
It would be the two main protagonists of the game, Gashi and Bogdan Olychenko, who played crucial roles in the goal. Olychenko crossed the ball in, Leopold Schmid headed it back across goal and Bayern’s #9 made up for his previous mistake and buried the ball into the back of the net. 1-1. Gashi would then provide a positive example of dropping deep, picking up the ball on the right hand side near the halfway line and bending a beautiful pass through to Frank Egwuatu, whose audacious attempt to squeeze the ball in from a nearly impossible angle was rewarded with the go ahead goal. 2-1.
But, of course, the game would not remain calm and again Gashi was involved, failing to rise as high as Leipzig’s Konate at an opposition corner and only being able to watch as the equalizer was netted. Some lax defending from captain Luis Schäfer would allow Leipzig to steal ahead to end a breathless half 3-2 in favor of the visitors.
Desperate, Bayern threw all they had at the visitors to level the game. Gashi was denied, as was Olychenko twice. But there were big gaps at the back, with Prescott being called upon to keep the deficit at just one goal. Finally, near the end of the match, Olychenko won the ball inside the penalty area, jinked past a couple of defenders and wrong footed the goalkeeper to finally find the equalizer. Bayern even had the better chances to find a winner, with Gasi’s free shot from about the penalty spot only kept out with an utterly world class save by the Leipzig No.1
But the game would end square, meaning this is the final table:
- Rasenballsport Leipzig, 20 points, GD 5
- FC Kaisersalutern, 17 points, GD 5
- Hannover 96, 17 points, GD 2
- FC Bayern, 15 points, GD 8
- Borussia Mönchengladbach, 15 points, GD 4
- Berliner AK, 0 points, GD -24
Clearly, the good news is that Bayern secured progress from the group in a very difficult campaign. But the team may also look back at Gashi’s late missed chance and wonder what might have been. Remember, fourth placed teams gets drawn to play away to first placed teams in other groups while third placed teams get draw to play away to a second placed team. If Bayern had won the match, they would have jumped to 2nd in the table on goal difference, securing a much more favorable draw as well as a home game.
As it is, Bayern will travel to FC Köln U-19s for the first knockout round in a single tie elimination game on Saturday, May 2. The Billy Goat’s youth team finished top of Group G with 20 points and will be favorites to advance in this tie.
Schalke 04 U-17s 1-0 Bayern U-17s, Knockout Round 1- ELIMINATED
Bayern lineup (with subs): Podar-Sitube – El-Chaar, Gashi (80. Attalai) , Pavić (46. Pucci), Nuraj – Zogaj, Schaff – Hentcho Nseke (80. Maspimby), von Taube, Danioko (56. Turbic) – Assomo (46. Babl).
Goal: 1:0 Bangoura (40.)
Unavailable players: Jakub Horvath, Valentin Beckert, Kubo Horoszczak, Luis Nadler, Jonas El-Allali, Wisdom Imade, Erblin Osmani
Position: Season over
This is a very good example of how a less than satisfying finish in the league table can hamper a team. Bayern U-17’s 3rd place finish in the table was good, considering that the team was outside of the top 4 places for most of the campaign, but the finish still saw them drawn to play a road trip away to Schalke 04’s U-17s. Schalke finished 2nd on 22 points in their group, missing out on the top spot only on goal difference behind Bochum’s U-17s. For the sake of context, Bayern collected just 14 points.
Bayern were up against it but put out a very strong lineup. Most notably, star strikers Philipp von Taube and Bastian Assomo lined up to play together for the first time since October 2025. Meanwhile, do not be fooled by the name of Hentcho Nseke in the line up. That is Aristide’s little brother, Aviel, who played in today’s match.
Unfortunately, it would be goalkeeping uncertainty that would decide the match. David Podar-Stiube has enjoyed a fairly solid campaign despite some blow out losses, but he had a very poor game. He had already been bailed out a couple of times, including a wayward excursion out of the box, when a seemingly harmless shot sailed at him in the 40th minute. He flapped at it, however, allowing it to go over his head towards the net. He managed to push it out but only right in front of the line, where Schalke’s Bangoura would tap it in for the game’s only goal.
Assomo, still only haf-fit, could last no longer than 45 minutes. Still, Bayern pushed and pushed, getting mightily close to the equalizer. The closest they got was in the 72nd minute, when von Taube brilliantly controlled a cross from winger Simon Schaff, took it past a defender and got a clean shot off from seven yards. It was well hit and close to the corner, but Schalke goalkeeper Yüksel Kücük made a genuinely world class save that even the likes of former Schalke player Manuel Neuer would be proud of.
So it would finish 1-0 to the hosts, who move on to the quarterfinals. As for Bayern’s U-17s, they are eliminated from the league with this loss and their season is over in April. The team will have to re-group and do much better next season.
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