Best of 2024: Invincible! How Bayer Leverkusen forgot how to lose

A look back at how Xabi Alonso's champions became the first Bundesliga team to go a whole season unbeaten.

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00:00It justifies all logic, all belief, all we know about football, this team just do not

00:15know when they're beaten.

00:16Leverkusen show that they are invincible.

00:28Will it be 2-2?

00:29Oh, yes, it will.

00:31Palacios likes to take penalties against Bayern.

00:37Oh, it's a sensational strike.

00:41He has a goal.

00:43And now it truly is party time.

00:46Leverkusen 3, Bayern 0.

00:49We didn't talk much about the match start in the dressing room,

00:54but we all had it in our heads that this could be the year to become champions.

01:04Teller across, oh, and he's done it!

01:06Patrick Schick has done it again!

01:08Extraordinary.

01:10Absolutely extraordinary.

01:13And the flicker on!

01:15And they always, they always find a way, don't they?

01:20What a pass for Wiertz, who's never scored a senior hat-trick.

01:24He has now.

01:25Bayern 0-4 Leverkusen.

01:29Deutsche Fußball Meister.

01:33It's a real honour for this team, these fans, this club.

01:39The first time is always special for everyone.

01:43So to say that we were a part of this moment in Bayern Leverkusen,

01:50it feels great.

01:53And the ball breaks!

01:54I don't believe it!

01:58Oh, that's stylish!

02:00They're not going to be denied, are they?

02:02The first ever unbeaten season in the Bundesliga.

02:06We deserve this part of history, this part of history in European football.

02:15So in 20 years we'll look back and say we were there.

02:20If a Bundesliga team does that again, we'll do it again.

02:24The Meisterschale in Leverkusen's hands for the first time.

03:00We don't have a favourite role.

03:02The favourite role is again for me, for FC Bayern.

03:06How far can we go? We'll see.

03:09Our goal is to stay in the top four.

03:14That's realistic.