Leverkusen dropped to second and was nearly beaten by Bayern despite playing with one man more since the 57th minute. Yildiray Basturk tied the game in the 81st, while Michael Ballack missed a penalty for Bayern, which trailed twice.
Werder Bremen moved into third by beating 1860 Munich 2-1 and Wolfsburg rose to fourth with a 3-2 win in Cologne. In other matches, Freiburg beat Schalke 2-1, Hannover downed Borussia Moenchengladbach 2-0 and Bochum drew 2-2 with Hertha Berlin.
Bayern dropped to fifth place after settling for the draw against Leverkusen, which has not won in Munich in 10 games. The match drew 63,000 fans on the opening day of the Oktoberfest.
Scottish League
Henrik Larsson celebrated his 32nd birthday by sparking a 3-0 Celtic victory over Motherwell Saturday as Martin O'Neill's team continued its weekly game of leapfrog with defending champion Rangers.
Chris Sutton and Shaun Maloney also scored at Parkhead and the victory enabled Celtic to jump to the top with 16 points from six games.
Rangers, which has 15 from five, goes to third place Hearts on Sunday bidding to maintain its 100 percent start to the campaign with another win.
Celtic had scored 10 goals in its previous two home games and looked like being thwarted by Motherwell who ensured the game was scoreless until half time.
Larsson finally broke 'Well's resistance in the 47th minute before Sutton added a second in the 64th and Maloney a third six minutes later.
Elsewhere, Tom Cowan scored on his debut as Dundee posted its first home league win over Aberdeen for 15 years. After the Dons' David Zdrilic had hit the post from a penalty, Nacho Novo added a second eight minutes from the end.
Goals by Sean Hessey and Kris Boyd earned Kilmarnock a 2-1 win at Livingston although Killy's Barry McLaughlin was sent off for a second yellow card.
Two goals by Charlie Miller earned Dundee United its first win of the season at Partick. It was enough to lift Ian McCall's team off last place and leave Thistle in its place.
Dunfermline and Hibernian fought out a 0-0 tie on a new artificial but grass-like playing surface at East End Park.
"It wasn't the greatest of games, but that could have happened on any surface and it will be interesting to see what the players think of it," said Scottish Football Association chief executive David Taylor.
"There is a natural tendency for older people in the game to be opposed to this idea and I know as a youngster that I preferred to play on grass.
"But this is part of the future of football. FIFA have used it in the Under-17 tournaments and if young players are brought up on this surface then they will get used to it.
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