Overview
- Bayern Munich beat VfB Stuttgart 3-0 in the DFB-Pokal final on Saturday with Harry Kane scoring a hat-trick, but the match was halted for about five minutes after coordinated banners and pyrotechnics from both fan sections filled the Olympic Stadium with smoke.
- The German Football Association has opened a post-match review and warned that its rules automatically increase fines for interruptions while charging roughly €1,000 per ignited pyrotechnic device, a combination that reporting says could push penalties for Bayern and Stuttgart into six-figure totals.
- Police have launched criminal investigations after a separate Landespokal final ended with SG Sonnenhof Großaspach fans reportedly attacking and robbing a Stuttgarter Kickers player on a parking lot, leaving him injured and prompting multiple suspect inquiries.
- Violent clashes in Turin before the city derby delayed kickoff by about an hour and left a 36-year-old Juventus supporter with life-threatening head injuries after being taken to hospital for emergency surgery, with several arrests and police action reported.
- In Montreal, Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli won for the fourth straight race while team-mate George Russell retired when his car suddenly shut down, an unexplained technical failure that has prompted internal Mercedes investigations and highlighted rising intra-team tension.