Eindhoven Fall Again: 50-Year German Jinx Remains Unbroken!

Do You Know About the German Curse Haunting Dutch Champions in the Champions League? It Has Lasted Nearly 50 Years.

According to "Verzeh Se", PSV Eindhoven showed fierce resistance until the last minutes of this match, but in the end, this European Champions League match against Leipzig ended with a 1-0 defeat of the Dutch representative. This loss caused the spell of failures of the Dutch champions against the Germans to continue, as Alkhmin Dakhblad headlined.

With this defeat in Leipzig, Eindhoven failed to defeat a German rival in this country for the 18th game in a row. It has been 49 years since they last tasted victory in Germany; Where the Dutch passed the Eintracht Braunschweig barrier with a score of 2-1 in the round of 16 of the UEFA Cup.

Since then, Eindhoven have recorded only one memorable win in Germany, which dates back to their 1988 European Club Cup final in Stuttgart; However, their opponent in that game was Benfica from Portugal. In this way, Eindhoven's away matches against German rivals have practically become an impossible mission.

Eindhoven's record looks pretty grim after 18 attempts: no wins, 3 draws and 15 defeats. Eindhoven vs Magdeburg (1978), Hamburg (1980 and 2010), Frankfurt (1984), Bayern Munich (1990, 1999 and 2016), Karlsruhe (1993), Bayer Leverkusen (1994), Kaiserslautern (1998 and 2001), Schalke (2005), Wolfsburg (2015), Borussia Dortmund (2024) and now Leipzig has accepted defeat. Eindhoven's only positive results were 3 draws against Bayern Munich (1986), Werder Bremen (1995) and Bayer Leverkusen (2025).

In the recent match against Leipzig, Eindhoven even had a very good chance to take the lead, but the full points of the game remained in Germany. In the 19th minute of the game, after the ball hit the 28-year-old Leipzig defender Riedel Bako, the referee announced a penalty kick in favor of Eindhoven.

However, 37-year-old former Bundesliga striker Ivan Perisic, who spent many years in German football, squandered this golden opportunity with a weak shot into the middle of the goal. Leipzig gradually dominated the game and got the reward of their attacks in the 75th minute. Germany Under-21 international Brian Groda, 22, shot from the edge of the box and the ball bounced off the unlucky Perisic and into the net to keep Eindhoven's spell of failure alive in Germany.