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Bayern Munich kicks off 2016-17 Bundesliga season against Bremen

Reuters

BERLIN - German champion Bayern Munich will open the Bundesliga season with a home game against Werder Bremen, after the fixtures for the 2016-17 campaign were released on Wednesday.

Carlo Ancelotti's first task in the league since taking over from Pep Guardiola as head coach sees the visit of a Bremen side that finished 13th last term, on Friday, August 26.

Former Barcelona boss Guardiola left Bavaria for Manchester City at the end of last season, a team Bayern Munich will play in a friendly on July 20.

Guardiola racked up seven major trophies at Bayern, but failed to take the five-time Champions League-winning team past the semi-finals of the competition.

Ancelotti, 56, has won Europe's premier competition three times, twice with AC Milan in 2003 and 2007, and once with Real Madrid in 2014.

Elsewhere on the first weekend in Germany, 7-year-old club RB Leipzig kicks off its maiden top-flight campaign against 1899 Hoffenheim.

Last season's runner-up Borussia Dortmund takes on FSV Mainz, while the pick of the games sees Bayer Leverkusen, who finished third last term, take on Borussia Monchengladbach, who came fourth.

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