Nagelsmann was Leipzig coach until the end of last season and two of his Bayern players, defender Dayot Upamecano and midfielder Marcel Sabitzer, were on that Leipzig team, too.
German football clubs resisted last-minute splurges on players with Leipzig’s signing of Ilaix Moriba from Barcelona the most eye-catching move on the last day of the summer transfer window.
Serge Gnabry scored twice and Robert Lewandowski got the other goal to ensure Bayern Munich victory against Cologne at home ground.
Manchester United, Chelsea and Tottenham all play their first away games of the Premier League season as they seek second straight wins.
Some 23,000 supporters were allowed at the game under new regulations that permit up to 25,000 or half capacity, whichever is greater.
Bayern begins its bid for a record-extending 10th consecutive German championship at Borussia Mönchengladbach on Friday.
Lewandowski missed a host of chances before he finally struck in the 90th minute of Bayern Munich’s 5-2 win over Augsburg.
Bremen dropped into the demotion zone Saturday with a loss at Augsburg
Four more Schalke players have been ordered to isolate as close contacts, further weakening a squad already diminished by injuries.
Schalke said on Tuesday both infections to date involved players, who haven't been named.
It’s Bayern's 30th Bundesliga title and its 31st German championship including the 1932 title.
First-half goals from Jonathan Burkardt and Robin Quaison put Bayern’s title celebrations on hold and lifted Mainz five points clear of the relegation zone
Bundesliga club Hertha Berlin and three second-division clubs have all had to postpone games this month after virus outbreaks in their squads.
Borussia Monchengladbach under-23 coach Heiko Vogel earlier said female match officials that women don’t belong on a football pitch.
Schalke was Bundesliga runner-up in 2018, when it reached the semifinals of the German Cup. It is a seven-time German champion and five-time German Cup champion. It won its last cup final in 2011.
Leipzig increased the pressure on Bayern Munich ahead of its clash with Borussia Dortmund by moving top of the Bundesliga with a 3-0 win at Freiburg on Saturday.
Leipzig can cut Bayern’s lead to two points with a win at Hertha Berlin on Sunday, while Frankfurt is now just seven points off the lead.
After title rivals Leipzig, Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund all lost earlier in the weekend, three assists from Joshua Kimmich took Bayern a step closer towards ninth consecutive Bundesliga title.
Christian Seifert, CEO of the German Football League, said he presumes there will be no change to the policy before the end of the season, in comments published Sunday by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper.
The federation said Saturday that there was a “suspicion” that Hübner racially insulted Amiri, whose parents are from Afghanistan, at the end of Union’s 1-0 win.
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