TEARFUL GUARDIOLA WINS GERMAN CUP IN HIS FINAL GAME

Pep's golden goodbye: Tearful Guardiola wins German Cup in final Bayern game

Douglas Costa scored the final penalty kick after two Dortmund misses

Neither side were able to score in the opening 90 minutes of football

Bayern Munich won a fourth consecutive Bundesliga prior to the game

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang missed a simple opportunity towards the end

Extra-time could not separate the sides as it went to a penalty shoot-out 

Bayern Munich defeated Borussia Dortmund 4-3 on penalties in the German Cup final on Saturday to seal the club's 11th domestic double and give coach Pep Guardiola a winning send-off.

Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer saved Sven Bender's spot kick and Sokratis Papastathopoulos missed the next for Dortmund.

Dortmund goalkeeper Roman Buerki saved Joshua Kimmich's penalty but Thomas Muller kept Bayern in control, and Douglas Costa scored the decisive spot kick.

It's Bayern's 18th German Cup win and the club's third in four seasons.

Guardiola, who is leaving after three years in Munich to join Manchester City, also won the trophy in his first season in charge, in 2014.

'The three years with the players and the club were outstanding,' said Guardiola, who led Bayern to the Bundesliga crown in each season. 'I'll miss my players. It was a great experience and a lot of fun.' 

Dortmund counterpart Thomas Tuchel said he would miss the Spanish coach.

'It's like many things that you only notice when they're gone what an effect they had,' Tuchel said.

Dortmund, who last won the cup in 2012, have lost three straight finals after defeats to Wolfsburg in 2015, and to Bayern in 2014 in extra time.

'It's extremely bitter, to lose that way,' Buerki said of the shootout. 'We fought and tried everything.'

Both sides missed chances to win before the shootout in what was a tense encounter contested to the limits of the players' endurance, though Buerki was by far the busier goalkeeper.