FC Bayern Munich: founding, title, coach, stadium - all information about the German record champions
Created: 01/07/2022, 4:15 pm
Matchday in the Allianz Arena © Sven Hoppe / dpa
As a successful German football club, FC Bayern Munich has won numerous championship titles in the Bundesliga, but also in European competitions.
Nuremberg - On June 12, 1932, the soccer club Bayern Munich won the first German championship title.
The game for the German soccer championship took place in the Franconian metropolis of Nuremberg.
Bayern Munich played against the football club Eintracht Frankfurt and defeated the Hessians 2-0.
The two goals were scored by Oskar Rohr and Franz Krumm.
Over 55,000 spectators followed the fight for the German title in the Nuremberg stadium.
FC Bayern Munich: the beginnings of the football club's history
The soccer club Bayern Munich was founded in February 1900. At that time there were differences of opinion about the further development of the soccer division of MTV Munich.
Several members then left this club and gathered in an inn in Maxvorstadt to found FC Bayern Munich under the name “FC Bayern”.
These founding members included the following personalities:
Otto Ludwig Naegele
Josef Pollack
Franz John
Wilhelm Focke
Adolph von Neger
Wilhelm Hirsch
Franz John was elected the first president of the newly formed football club.
The Bavarian national colors blue and white were chosen as the association's colors.
Football club FC Bayern Munich: the rest of the story up to 1945
In the first few years after the football club was founded, the number of members grew rapidly. In 1908, FC Bayern Munich already had more than 300 club members. At that time, the club had eight soccer teams. In 1910, FC Bayern Munich became the South German runner-up for the first time. During the First World War, regular game operations were interrupted several times. After some renaming, the club was given its current name FC Bayern Munich in 1924. In 1926 the Munich soccer team succeeded in winning the southern German championship for the first time; The first German championship title followed in 1932.
After the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933, the government forced the resignation of the then President Kurt Landauer and the trainer Richard Kohn ("Dombi") because of their Jewish descent.
In addition, FC Bayern Munich had to use the imperial eagle in the club's coat of arms.
During the Second World War, games were largely maintained, but FC Bayern Munich had to change stadiums several times due to the destruction caused by the war.
FC Bayern Munich - history from World War II to the 1970s
In the summer of 1945, the soccer club FC Bayern Munich started playing in the Oberliga Süd.
In the first post-war years there were no major sporting successes.
The low point of this development was reached in the 1954/55 season when FC Bayern Munich suffered relegation from the top division.
In the Augsburg Rosenaustadion, the traditional Munich club won the DFB Cup final on December 29, 1957.
The Bundesliga started its game operations in the 1963/64 season, Bayern Munich was initially unable to qualify for participation in this division.
In the 1964/65 season, FC Bayern Munich finally made it to the top division.
This achievement was largely thanks to the following young players:
Franz Beckenbauer
Sepp Maier
Gerd Müller
In the second half of the 1960s, FC Bayern Munich developed into a football club that was regularly at the top of the German Bundesliga and was able to establish itself as a constant in international competitions.
The team was strengthened in the early 1970s by the legendary players Paul Breitner and Uli Hoeneß.
The history of the soccer club FC Bayern Munich to the present day
In the mid-1970s there was a crisis at the soccer club FC Bayern Munich.
In the 1977/78 season, for example, the club had the worst placement in its Bundesliga history with twelfth place.
In 1979 the 27-year-old Uli Hoeneß took over the position of manager of FC Bayern Munich and led the football club back on the road to success.
In the 1980s (1979/80 to 1990/91 season) the club won the German championship a total of seven times.
FC Bayern Munich was unable to repeat this series of successes in the 1990s.
During this period, the club was only twice German champions, in the 1993/94 and 1996/97 seasons.
In the first decade of the new millennium, FC Bayern Munich won the championship title four times (2004/05, 2005/06, 2007/08 and 2009/10).
In the following decade, the traditional Bavarian club finished the Bundesliga in 2010/11 in third place and in 2011/12 in second place.
Since the 2012/13 season, FC Bayern Munich has won all German championship titles in uninterrupted fashion.
Major national and international successes of the soccer club FC Bayern Munich
In addition to the successful streak in the Bundesliga, FC Bayern Munich has won the DFB club cup many times over the past few decades.
Since 2000, the team has been able to do this against the following teams:
2002/03 1. FC Kaiserslautern
2004/05 Schalke 04
2005/06 Eintracht Frankfurt
2007/08 Borussia Dortmund
2009/10 Werder Bremen
2012/13 VfB Stuttgart
2013/14 Borussia Dortmund
2015/16 Borussia Dortmund
2018/19 RB Leipzig
2019/20 Bayer Leverkusen
FC Bayern Munich regularly qualifies for the major European football competitions.
The Munich soccer club has also taken part in the most important competition, the UEFA Champions League, on several occasions.
The UEFA Champions League emerged from the European Cup, which was played from 1955 to 1992.
So far, FC Bayern Munich has achieved six wins in this league, in the following years against these teams:
1974 Atletico Madrid
1975 Leeds United
1976 AS St. Etienne
2001 Valencia CF
2013 Borussia Dortmund
2020 Paris Saint-Germain
In 2012/13, FC Bayern Munich won the so-called "triple" for the first time and thus the title in the following competitions:
1. German Bundesliga
DFB club cup
Champions League
Important players and coaches of the soccer club FC Bayern Munich
Numerous important personalities were active as coaches or players at the soccer club Bayern Munich.
The well-known coaches of this club include:
Richard Dombi: 1930 to 1933
Adolf Patek: 1958 to 1961
Zlatko "Tschik" Cajkovski: 1963 to 1968
Udo Lattek: 1970 to 1975 and 1983 to 1987
Jupp Heynckes: 1987 to 1991 and 2011 to 2013 and 2017 to 2018
Giovanni Trapattoni: 1996 to 1998
Ottmar Hitzfeld: 1998 to 2004 and 2007 to 2008
Felix Magath: 2004 to 2007
Josep Guardiola: 2013 to 2016
Niko Kovac: 2018 to 2019
Hansi Flick: 2019 to 2021
The prominent players in the history of the club include the following athletes:
Klaus Augenthaler, 1976 to 1991
Oliver Kahn, 1994 to 2008
Michael Ballack, 2002 to 2006
Mario Basler, 1996 to 1999
Franz Beckenbauer, 1965 to 1977
Sebastian Deisler, 2002 to 2007
Hansi Flick, 1985 to 1990
Mario Gomez, 2009 to 2013
Niko Kovac, 2001 to 2003
Bruno Labbadia, 1991 to 1994
Sepp Maier, 1965 to 1979
Gerd Müller, 1965 to 1979
Arjen Robben, 2009 to 2019
Bastian Schweinsteiger, 2002 to 2015
The stadium of the soccer club FC Bayern Munich
Since the 2005/06 season, the Bayern Munich soccer club has played its home games in the Allianz Arena.
Today the club is also the sole owner of the venue.
This stadium is located on Werner-Heisenberg-Allee in the Munich district of Fröttmaning.
It was built from 2002 to 2005, with the opening game taking place on May 30, 2005.
After an experiment with hybrid turf, natural turf has been growing again in this stadium since 2016, as it did between 2005 and 2014.
For national games there is space for 75,021 spectators in the Allianz Arena.
The stadium is approved for international competitions for a maximum of 70,000 spectators.
Games of the German national team and the UEFA Champions League have been played here on a regular basis since 2006.
