FC Bayern Munich

The football club Bayern, München e. V. , FC Bayern München, Bayern Munich or FC Bayern for short, is a German sports club from the Bavarian capital Munich. It was founded on 27 February 1900 and is the sports club with the most members in the world, with around 293,000 members (as of 15 November 2019).

FC Bayern München became known for its football department, which has been partially outsourced to FC Bayern München AG since 2001. The first men's team has played continuously in the Bundesliga since the 1965/66 season and is the German record champion with 31 championship titles and the German record cup winner with 20 cup victories. The club is also one of the most successful clubs in Europe at international level, having won eight European Cups, six of them in the Champions League or the European Cup of Nations. They have also won the World Cup and FIFA Club World Cup twice, as well as the UEFA Super Cup twice. The club's greatest successes came in 2013 and 2020, when they won the treble. The first team has played its home games at the Allianz Arena since 2005. Previously, the stadium on Grünwalder Straße and the Olympiastadion had been home venues for many years.

FC Bayern also has other departments that can also boast a number of successes. For example, the women's football team, which plays in the women's Bundesliga, became German champions in 1976, 2015, 2016 and 2021 and DFB Cup winners in 2012. Thus, in 2015, 2016 and 2021, FC Bayern's football departments managed to win the German championship in both the men's and women's divisions. Further successes were achieved by the chess department with nine German championships and one European Cup victory, the gymnasts with four German championships, the basketball players with three championships and two cup victories, and the baseball players with two German championship titles.

History

1900 to 1910 - The founding years

On February 27, 1900, a meeting of the football department of MTV München took place at the Bäckerhöfl inn, where a dispute arose about the further development of the football department after the general assembly of MTV had rejected the club's entry into the Association of South German Football Clubs shortly before. At 9:30 p.m. Arthur Ringler, Otto Ludwig Naegele, Albert Zoepfel, Josef Pollack, Fritz Wamsler, Carl Wamsler, Georg Schmid, Paul Francke, Kuno Friederich, Wilhelm Focke and Franz John left the pub and met at the Weinhaus Gisela at Jäger- und Fürstenstraße (today Kardinal-Döpfner-Straße) in Maxvorstadt to found the F.C. Bayern the same evening. Among the members mentioned on the founding charter was the later famous sculptor Benno Elkan. The chairman was Franz John from Berlin, who also became the first chairman in the history of the club. Blue and white were chosen as the club colours, and the membership fee was set at one mark. Most of the founders of the club did not come from Munich or Bavaria, but from Berlin, Freiburg, Leipzig and Bremen. A memorial stone (location48.1437111.57656) has stood at the founding site, in front of today's Siemens premises, since 2017. Adolph von Neger, Arnulf Hecking, Wilhelm Hirsch, Erich Gottschalk and August Evers appear on the document as further founding fathers of the association.

The Schyrenwiese at the Wittelsbacherbrücke served as the first playing and training ground. The first opponent was the 1st Munich FC 1896 in March 1900, FC Bayern won the match with 5:2. Quickly more players joined the club, among others three players of the football department of TSV Munich 1860. In spring 1900 the stove and oven manufacturer Friedrich Wamsler gave FC Bayern a piece of land at the Clemensstraße as a playing field. In January 1901, they also started playing hockey. The first match in the derby history between FC Bayern and the "Sechzigern" took place in 1902. FC Bayern won the match 3:0. In order to expand its playing activities, the club decided to join Münchner Sport-Club in 1906, but retained a certain independence, which was expressed in the name "F.A. Bayern im Münchner SC" (F.A. = football department). As a result of the merger, Bayern now competed in white shirts and red shorts, these colours thus replacing the blue and white of the founding period, and the name Die Roten was born. On a local level, the "Bavarians" developed into the undisputed number one in football, but they were less successful in competition on a southern German level. At that time, the teams that had already emerged and developed along the Upper Rhine between Freiburg and Frankfurt in the 1890s still dominated the football scene too much.

After the pitch on Clemensstraße had to make way for residential development, the team played for a short time a few hundred metres to the north on Karl-Theodor-Straße and then moved in 1907, by now under president Angelo Knorr, to Leopoldstraße a little further east. The first grandstand on a football pitch in Munich was inaugurated there. The opening match was an 8:1 victory over Wacker München. By 1908, FC Bayern had more than 300 members, eight teams and more than 100 youth players. This resulted in a change in the statutes, separating administrative work and the sports area. This gave the players more time to concentrate on the sport. In 1910, they were able to participate in the finals of the South German championship for the first time. In the end, the team finished 2nd behind Karlsruher FV. In the same year, the Bavarians provided their first national player with Max Gablonsky.

1918 to 1928 - The period after the First World War

During the First World War, the sport came to a temporary standstill and there were constant ups and downs in the club and its environment. It was not until the 1919/20 season that regular league play was again guaranteed in southern Germany. In October 1919, the Bavarians left the Munich SC and merged with Turnverein Jahn München to form TuSpV Jahn München. William Townley was again engaged as coach, continuing the tradition of English coaches at the club. Already in the pre-war years Bayern had three Englishmen as coaches, Coach Taylor, Hoer and Charles Griffiths, the latter of whom was the first full-time Bayern coach.

In the spring of 1924, the club was separated from TuSpV Jahn München in the course of the clean divorce. After that it only appeared as an independent club under the name "FC Bayern München". With the Scot Jim McPherson, the Bavarians again relied on a British coach. In 1926, the Bavarians played for the South German championship. The toughest rivals at the time came from Bavaria in the form of 1. FC Nürnberg and SpVgg. Fürth, who were considered the best team in Germany at the time. The second leg against Fürth at Grünwalder Stadion was broadcast live on the radio. After a dramatic match, FCB won 4:3, making Bayern the South German champions for the first time. The battle for the German championship ended 0:2 against SV Fortuna Leipzig 02 in the round of sixteen. Two years later, with the Hungarian coach Leo Weisz, the team succeeded in winning the second South German championship. In the final round of the German championship, they reached the semi-finals with victories against FC Wacker Halle and SpVgg Sülz 07, which was the biggest success in the club's history up to that point. In Duisburg's Wedaustadion, however, the Bavarians lost clearly to Hamburger SV with 2:8.

1928 to 1933 - The first championship

After the change of coach from Kálmán Konrád to Richard Dombi in 1930 and three failed attempts to win the German championship in 1926, 1928 and 1929, FC Bayern lost the final for the South German championship in 1931/32 to Eintracht from Frankfurt, but went into the final round for the German championship as South German runners-up. FCB defeated Minerva 1893 Berlin and Polizei SV Chemnitz before defeating arch-rivals 1. FC Nürnberg, by then five-time German champions, 2-0 in the semi-finals in Mannheim. The goals were scored by Oskar Rohr and Hans Welker. In the final on 12 June 1932 in Nuremberg, the opponents were Eintracht Frankfurt, as they had been in the final for the Southern German championship. Thousands of Bayern fans made the journey, including about 400 unemployed people on bicycles. Afterwards, the club covered the costs for these fans for accommodation and tickets. On the day of the final, it was 30 degrees in the shade and 55,000 spectators watched the game in the stadium. In the 35th minute, Frankfurt's Hans Stubb took a hand on the goal line and FC Bayern was awarded a penalty. "Ossi" Rohr converted safely to make it 1:0. In the second half, Frankfurt pressed for the equalizer, but in the 75th minute Franz Krumm scored the decisive 2:0 for Bayern. At the final whistle, FC Bayern München held Victoria for the first time in the club's history. For the first time a club from Munich became German Champion and the team was enthusiastically welcomed in the state capital. The victory celebration took place in Munich's Löwenbräukeller, and the players were brought to the celebration on horse-drawn carriages. In one of the celebratory speeches, it was said that "what was thought for sure at 1860 the previous year, FC Bayern has achieved this year".

Dates of the final match for the German championship 1932

1933 to 1945 - Dictatorship and Second World War

League and season	Place	Gates	Points
Bavarian regional league 1933/34	3	53:35	27-17
Bavarian Regional League 1934/35	4	49:31	24-16
Bavarian Regional League 1935/36	3	47:26	27-09
Bavarian Regional League 1936/37	3	49:31	20-16
Bavarian Regional League 1937/38	5	37:29	19-17
Bavarian Regional League 1938/39	7	26:31	17-19
Bavarian Gau League 1939/40	8	21:35	10-26
Sports League Bavaria 1940/41	7	35:35	21-23
Sports League Bavaria 1941/42	8	41:40	17-25
Southern Bavarian Gau League 1942/43	3	52:23	22-14
*Gauliga South Bavaria 1943/44*	1	56:15	31-05
**Gauliga Munich/Upper Bavaria 1944/45**	1	75:15	29-01
Orange background: First of the corresponding Gauliga*Final match for the German championship lost**German championship was not played (Bavaria was uncatchable in front four matchdays before the end of the round).

In 1933, the title could not be defended after the club lost both games against TSV 1860 München for the South German championship. After the Nazi takeover of governmental power under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, president Kurt Landauer had to resign due to his Jewish descent under political pressure in the same year. Coach Dombi, also of Jewish descent, moved to Switzerland shortly afterwards. FC Bayern, unlike its city rival 1860 Munich, was frowned upon by the new rulers as a "Jewish club" because of Landauer and Dombi, although it had already announced the exclusion of all Jewish members in the Stuttgart Declaration on 9 April 1933, along with 13 other southern German football clubs, and implemented it in 1935 with an Aryan paragraph in the club's statutes. In addition, sports historian Markwart Herzog found out in 2017 that August Harlacher, who had been registered at the club since 1908 and was vice-president at the time, had already joined the NSDAP in 1930. Josef Kellner, president of FC Bayern from 1938 to 1943, had not only been a party member of the NSDAP since 1933, but had also been an influential National Socialist as Gauhauptstellenleiter and Landrat in the Sudetengau. From 1938 to 1945, FC Bayern Munich's club crest included a swastika and a Reich eagle in the inner circle. In 2017, FC Bayern itself commissioned a research paper from the Institute of Contemporary History (IfZ) on the club's role in National Socialism.

In 1933 Oskar Rohr also left the club to become a professional player with Grasshoppers Zurich. New coach was Hans Tauchert, who could not continue the old successes and was replaced by Ludwig Hofmann already in 1934. Hofmann died a short time later of a throat disease and Richard Michalke took over as coach. This was not the end of the slump, because in 1939 the first relegation in the history of the club threatened. The class was just held. In the course of the war, the Gauligen were further regionalized in order to keep the distances for the clubs for away games as short as possible. If the Bavarians were initially in the Gauliga Bayern, they subsequently played in the Gauliga Südbayern, which was created by splitting up the Gauliga Bayern. Shortly before the end of the war, they played in the Gauliga Munich-Oberbayern. In 1944, Die Roten were able to win another Southern German championship and qualified again for the final round of the German championship. Already in the eighth finals, however, they lost after extra time against the VfR Mannheim. On 13 July of the same year, the office and part of the archives were destroyed in bombing raids. The following year, FC Bayern again qualified for the final round of the German championship under player-coach Conny Heidkamp. However, the final round was not held in the year the Second World War ended. Since the stadium on Grünwalder Straße was destroyed during bombing raids in 1943 and was not reopened until August 1945, FC Bayern played its games in these years in the Dante Stadium (1943-1944), on the pitch on Schlierseestraße (1944-1945) and on the Hypobank sports ground on Grünwalder Straße (1945).

1945 to 1955 - The post-war period

League and season	Place	Gates	Points
First Division 1945/46	6	067:48	34-26
First Division 1946/47	11	075:56	36-40
First Division 1947/48	4	072:38	50-26
First Division 1948/49*	3	061:42	35-25
First division 1949/50	13	056:70	25-35
First Division 1950/51	9	064:53	33-35
First Division 1951/52	8	053:54	29-31
First Division 1952/53	7	059:56	30-30
First Division 1953/54	9	042:46	28-32
First Division 1954/55	16	042:76	15-45
Underlined in purple: Relegation to the 2nd Oberliga* Qualifying round for the German championship lost

After the end of the Second World War, all German sports clubs were dissolved by the Allied Control Council and had to apply for a license to reestablish themselves. FC Bayern players were soon reunited, played their first match after the end of the war on 24 June 1945 against FC Wacker München and entered the Oberliga Süd in November of the same year. The new start after the war was difficult, the coaches changed almost every year and the sporting success was initially limited. In June 1947 Kurt Landauer returned from exile and was re-elected as the club's 1st chairman a few weeks later. His fourth and last term ended in 1951.

The club's membership figures developed positively in the post-war years. Soon the FC Bayern again counted more than 1000 members, also the youth sections experienced a brisk influx. In 1949 the qualification games for the German championship were reached once again via a 3rd place in the table in the Oberliga. In the qualification a repetition play was necessary against the FC St. Pauli, which, already on the next day carried out, was lost however with 0:2. Afterwards began a longer sporty downhill run of the club, which culminated in the descent. In 1954/55 the Bavarians were relegated from the top league for the first and only time in their history. In the following year, the club was immediately promoted again.

1955 to 1965 - The DFB Cup and the wait for the Bundesliga

League and season	Place	Gates	Points
2nd upper league south 1955/56	2	089:43	46-22
First Division 1956/57	10	052:62	26-34
First Division 1957/58	7	066:56	30-30
Premier League 1958/59	4	079:49	39-21
1959/60 First Division	3	081:55	39-21
First Division 1960/61	8	057:54	30-30
First Division 1961/62	3	067:55	40-20
*Oberliga 1962/63*	3	067:52	40-20
Regional League 1963/64	2	115:61	52-24
Regional League 1964/65	1	146:32	55-17
Orange background: Promotion to the Oberliga SüdGrün unterlegt: Promotion to the Bundesliga* Not considered for the Bundesliga

One of the few sporting highlights of the 40s and 50s was winning the DFB Cup. In the year of the re-promotion, Bayern originally did not want to participate in the DFB Cup. They simply wanted to save travel expenses. But the new coach, Willibald Hahn, insisted on participation and in the end was able to prevail against the club's management. After beating 1. FC Saarbrücken 3:1 in the semi-final, Fortuna Düsseldorf was the opponent in the final. It took place on 29 December 1957 at Augsburg's Rosenaustadion in front of 42,000 spectators, including around 12,000 Bayern fans. There was heavy snowfall on the day of the match. The underdogs from Munich dominated from the start, but Fortuna goalkeeper Albert Görtz managed to keep his goal clean until the 78th minute. Then Rudi Jobst scored the only goal of the game after three attempts and Bayern managed to win their second national trophy after a quarter of a century since winning the championship final in 1932.

Dates of the final match for the DFB Cup 1957

In the top division, however, it was only enough for seventh place. New financial problems also seemed insurmountable. A new president was then elected in the form of the entrepreneur Roland Endler to succeed Alfred Reitlinger, who was prepared to commit himself accordingly.

With a new coach, the Austrian Adolf Patek, things initially started to look up again in 1958/59. With fourth place, the best result for ten years was achieved. In the following season, FC Bayern was deducted four points because of a so-called "overpayment" of players in the 57/58 season. The original penalty was an eight-point deduction, but an appeal reduced the penalty. The Bavarians would have finished third without the deduction, but this time they finished fifth. The young Peter Grosser scored 18 times in 21 appearances. The only highlight in the 1960/61 season was the victory in the derby against TSV 1860 München. After an interim 2:2, the Lions were defeated 6:2 in the end. Willi Giesemann, brought in from VfL Wolfsburg at the start of the season, scored three times on that "sacrarily cold" January day and then made his national team debut in May. After a disappointing eighth place finish at the end of the season, the already unpopular coach Patek had to go. He was replaced by Helmut Schneider, who had led Borussia Dortmund to two consecutive German championships in 1956 and 1957.

In the 1962/63 season, the club took part in a prestigious international competition for the first time. This involved reaching the quarter-finals of the Messestadt Cup, losing to Dinamo Zagreb. Nationally, Bayern's goal was to qualify for the upcoming new Bundesliga. In addition, a new era began at FC Bayern on 28 April 1962: Wilhelm Neudecker took over as president of the club, initially only on a temporary basis for a year - it was to become far more than just that. The new president only allowed one new signing, Herbert Erhardt, a seasoned player, otherwise coach Schneider was only allowed to bring young talent to the Isar, including the talented goalkeeper Sepp Maier. The latter made his debut as an 18-year-old on 30 December 1962, when regular goalkeeper Fritz Kosar had to help out in attack. Bayern finished the season in 3rd place in the table behind 1. FC Nürnberg and TSV 1860 München. This meant they missed out on the final round of the German championship.

The Bundesliga started in the 1963/64 season. In the Oberliga Süd, a total of five places were allocated by the DFB for the new league according to the twelve-year ranking, whereby the champions of the last Oberliga season 1962/63 of the five Oberliga divisions qualified in each case. City rivals TSV 1860 even found themselves behind Bayern Munich in the standings of the very broadly composed southern division, which was peppered with many top clubs, but benefited from their championship title. FC Bayern, on the other hand, was denied admission to the Bundesliga on 11 May 1963. Thus, the club had to compete in the newly created Regionalliga in 1963/64.

Points of the twelve-year evaluation of the candidates of the Oberliga Südfor the Bundesliga
01.	Nuremberg 1st FC	447
02.	Eintracht Frankfurt	420
03.	Karlsruhe SC	419
04.	VfB Stuttgart	408
05.	Offenbach kickers	382
06.	FC Bayern Munich	288
07.	TSV 1860 Munich	229
08.	VfR Mannheim	227
09.	SpVgg Fürth	224
10.	1st FC Schweinfurt 05	185
11.	FC Bayern Hof	090
12.	TSV Swabia Augsburg	061
13.	KSV Hessen Kassel	036

Qualified for the Bundesliga by the twelve-year ranking

Qualified for the Bundesliga by winning the championship in the last Oberliga season (1962/63)

Not qualified for the Bundesliga

Helmut Schneider's contract had already been extended, but he had to leave the club as a result. He was replaced by Zlatko Čajkovski. The declared goal of the 1963/64 season in the Regionalliga was to reach the promotion round to the Bundesliga. This goal was achieved with a second place at the end of the season. On 6 June 1964, FC St. Pauli were defeated 4-0 in the first match of the promotion round, the first competitive match for Franz Beckenbauer, who was only 18 at the time. In his first game for Bayern, Beckenbauer scored his first goal. Beckenbauer had decided against a move to TSV 1860 Munich and for FC Bayern after being slapped by an opponent in a match of his SC München of 1906 against TSV 1860. In the end, FC Bayern was just one point short of promotion and it was time to make another run. After signing Maier and Beckenbauer in the previous two years, two of the cornerstones of the club's success, the club added a striker in Gerd Müller, who later became the "Bomber of the Nation". In the process, rivals TSV 1860 München were outbid, with FC Bayern offering Müller a professional contract, while TSV only offered an amateur contract for one year. Čajkovski, however, was not thrilled with the signing of the stocky young striker: "What should isch with this boy, this figure, impossible." Later he affectionately called him "little fat Müller". In his very first game on 18 October 1964, Müller scored 3-0 against Freiburger FC and went on to score 33 goals in 26 games during the 1964/65 season. The goal difference of 146:32 as champions of the Regionalliga Süd is still a record today. In the promotion round, Tennis Borussia Berlin was defeated 8:0 in Berlin. FC Bayern was thus promoted to the Bundesliga.

1965 to 1970 - The first years in the Bundesliga

Season	Place	Gates	Points	Audience average
1965/66	3	71:38	47-21	26.294
1966/67	6	62:47	37-31	22.353
1967/68	5	68:58	38-30	21.706
1968/69	1	61:31	46-22	25.029
Green background: Winning the German championship

Before Bayern's first Bundesliga season, Čajkovski ranted that he didn't have any ready-made players and would be satisfied if the league was maintained. On the first matchday in the derby against TSV 1860, FC Bayern left the pitch as losers with 0:1. On the fourth matchday, the team stood at the top of the Bundesliga table for the first time. The first season ended in third place in the table. It was the only time in Bundesliga history that both clubs from Munich finished in the top three at the end of a season. In addition, the club managed to win the DFB Cup for the second time in its history. The final against Meidericher SV was won 4-2 at the Waldstadion in Frankfurt. Sepp Maier after the game: "It was great, we sweated and we were good. It was great!" In 1966, both the German champions and the German Cup winners came from Munich.

Dates of the final match for the DFB Cup 1966

In the next season, 1966/67, the team remained almost unchanged. Only Franz "Bulle" Roth joined from Kaufbeuren, Georg Schwarzenbeck from the team's own junior squad. After appearing in the unofficial Messestadt Cup, FC Bayern played for the first time in an international competition organised by UEFA, the European Cup Winners' Cup. This season of the Cup Winners' Cup became Bayern's first major triumph on the European stage. Overcoming Tatran Prešov, Shamrock Rovers, Rapid Wien and Standard Liege, FC Bayern reached the final, which almost turned into a home game as it was held in Nuremberg. It was at the same venue that Bayern had won the club's first major title 35 years earlier.

Their opponents in the final were Glasgow Rangers, who had previously knocked defending champions Borussia Dortmund out of the competition in the round of 16. In front of 71,000 spectators, Bulle Roth scored the 1:0 for the Munich side in extra time (108th minute). Roth had played for TSV Bertoldshofen in the C-Class two years earlier and now scored the decisive goal for FC Bayern München's first international title. After Borussia Dortmund the year before, this was another German club to win the Cup Winners' Cup.

FC Bayern only finished the regular Bundesliga season in sixth place, but successfully defended the DFB Cup. In Stuttgart, 68,000 spectators saw Bayern triumph in the cup once again. With 4:0, through goals by Müller (2), Ohlhauser and Brenninger (1 each), Hamburger SV with Uwe Seeler had no chance.

Dates of the 1967 DFB Cup final and the 1967 European Cup Winners' Cup final

This was the third cup success within twelve months. Franz Beckenbauer was voted "Footballer of the Year" for the first time in his still young career. The following season 1967/68 was not Bayern's year. The 1967/68 European Cup Winners' Cup semi-final was lost to eventual winners AC Milan, and in the DFB Cup, then regional league side VfL Bochum also knocked the defending champions out of the competition in the semi-finals. In the Bundesliga, the team only managed fifth place. For the first time in the Bundesliga, however, FC Bayern overtook arch-rivals TSV 1860 both in the table and in the favour of spectators in Munich, and has remained the more successful of the two clubs ever since.

Tschik Čajkovski left the club in 1968 after five years for Hannover 96, replaced by Branko Zebec. With him came the two Austrians Gustl Starek and Peter Pumm. Both proved to be mainstays of his concept in the following years, which was based on a strong defence. In his very first year as coach, Zebec won the double of championship and cup with Bayern in 1969, the first time in the club's history. In the cup final, FC Schalke 04 were defeated 2-1, the club that last managed to win the double in 1937. Before the match, Gerd Müller accepted the "Footballer of the Year" award.

Dates of the final match for the DFB Cup 1969

1970 to 1976 - On the way to the throne of Europe

Season	Place	Gates	Points	Audience average
1969/70	2	088:37	47-21	23.324
1970/71	2	074:36	48-20	24.088
1971/72	1	101:38	55-13	27.882
1972/73	1	093:29	54-14	33.529
1973/74	1	095:53	49-19	37.588
1974/75	10	057:63	34-34	36.412
1975/76	3	072:50	40-28	32.971
Green background: Winning the German championship

On 13 March 1970, Udo Lattek, who was only 35 years old and until then had no great coaching experience, replaced the previous coach Zebec. Lattek's appointment marked the beginning of a new, even more successful era for FC Bayern. Under Lattek, FC Bayern finished the 1969/70 season in second place. Borussia Mönchengladbach became champions for the first time. Gerd Müller became top scorer in the Bundesliga for the third time, scoring a then record 38 goals in a season. He was also top scorer at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. In that year 1970, there was a personnel change not only in the coaching position but also in the team. The long-time captain Werner Olk, now 32 years old, left FC Bayern and ended his active career with FC Aarau in Switzerland. Rainer Ohlhauser, who had scored a total of 186 league goals for Bayern over the past nine years, also left for Switzerland, while Gustl Starek returned to his native Austria after only making sporadic appearances in recent seasons. Before the start of the new season, the club signed two new 18-year-old talents, Uli Hoeneß from Ulm and Paul Breitner from Freilassing, who would later go on to play a key role in shaping Bayern's future.

In the 1970/71 season, Bayern was again at the top of the Bundesliga and was even top of the table before the last matchday, but lost the last match of the season 2-0 in Duisburg, while Gladbach, as reigning champions, successfully defended its title with a 4-1 win in Frankfurt. After the team had failed in the 1970 DFB Cup as defending champions against the now second-class 1st FC Nuremberg and also had to play a replay against Hessen Kassel and 1st FC Kaiserslautern in the new season, they now reached the final again after victories against Duisburg and in Düsseldorf, as they had last done in 1966, 1967 and 1969. The Bavarians were already 1-0 down after 13 minutes against 1. FC Köln, before Beckenbauer equalised in the 53rd minute. Edgar Schneider, who replaced Franz Roth, scored the winning goal in the 118th minute. This was the fifth time Bayern had reached the cup final and each time they had won the DFB Cup, but it was the last triumph in the DFB Cup for an entire decade.

Dates of the final of the DFB Cup 1971

The 1971/72 season was a record-breaking year for the club. From the first matchday, the Reds went 14 games in a row without defeat. On 28 June 1972, FC Bayern München played its first home game in the new Olympic Stadium. It was also the last game of the season, and in a "final" for the championship, second-placed Schalke 04 was beaten 5:1. The championship was achieved with 24 wins, 3 losses and 7 draws with 55 points. In the process, Bayern scored 101 goals, 40 of which were scored by Gerd Müller alone - the team record still stands today, Gerd Müller's best mark was only beaten by one goal almost half a century later, in the 2020/21 season by Robert Lewandowski, also in the service of FC Bayern München. The 11:1 at home against Borussia Dortmund was one of the highest Bundesliga victories. The Munich team continued where they left off the next season. From the first to the last matchday, the league leader was FC Bayern München, who became champions with an eleven-point lead over 1. FC Köln. In 1974, too, there was no getting past the Bavarians, the title was defended for the second time in a row, Gerd Müller became top scorer in the Bundesliga for the third time in a row and FC Bayern München now ascended "Europe's throne" for the first time.

In the first round of the European Champion Clubs' Cup, Bayern only advanced one round after a penalty shootout in the second leg at Swedish champions Åtvidabergs FF. Then came the round of 16 clash with Dynamo Dresden, which was the first German-German encounter in the UEFA European Cup. At half-time, Dynamo Dresden led 3:2 in Munich, but the Munich team managed to turn the game around and win 4:3. This gave Dresden a good starting position for the second leg. But the Reds already took a 2:0 lead after twelve minutes through two goals by Hoeneß. Shortly after the half-time break, the Saxons equalized in the 52nd minute and scored the opening goal four minutes later to make it 3-2. Gerd Müller equalized in the 58th minute for the final score of 3-3. The next two rounds were survived relatively easily against ZSKA Sofia and Újpest Budapest. Thus, Bayern reached the final in Brussels. Their opponents were Atlético Madrid and after 90 minutes the score was 0-0. Six minutes before the end of extra time Luis Aragonés made it 1-0 for Madrid with a free kick. Just before the final whistle, Georg "Katsche" Schwarzenbeck received the ball from Beckenbauer. He didn't see a face-off in midfield, Beckenbauer just shouted "Just shoot!" which he did from 30 yards out and scored to make it 1-1 in the 120th minute. Schwarzenbeck went down in football history with this goal. According to the rules of the time, the 1-1 meant a replay, which took place just two days later at the same venue. Two goals each from Hoeneß and Müller saw Atlético beaten 4-0. For the first time a German team won the Cup of the National Champions. The next day we went to Mönchengladbach for the Bundesliga finale. FC Bayern went down 5-0 and Gladbach striker Jupp Heynckes equalled Gerd Müller's 30 goals for the season with two, securing his first of two goalscoring crowns. Seven weeks later, seven Bavarians became world champions at Munich's Olympiastadion.

Dates of the final matches for the 1974 National Champions Cup

For the 1974/75 season, Paul Breitner followed ex-Gladbach player Günter Netzer to Real Madrid for a transfer fee of three million marks after one year. 20,000 marks of this went to Borussia Lippstadt for the 18-year-old talented striker Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. The season kicked off with a 6-0 defeat at Kickers Offenbach in Frankfurt's Waldstadion, where the game was played due to the renovation of the Bieberer Berg. After the first half of the season Bayern were 14th and due to the poor league position a crisis meeting between Lattek and president Neudecker took place. Lattek later described the conversation thus: "Mr. Neudecker, we have to change something", to which Neudecker replied with "You're right. You're fired," to which Neudecker replied. Beckenbauer's best man, DFB coach Dettmar Cramer, became the new coach. Cramer could not save the Bundesliga season: Bayern finished tenth. Fittingly for the club's 75th anniversary, however, they were able to defend the national champions' cup. The road to the final led through Sparwasser club 1. FC Magdeburg, where they celebrated their first away win in the National Champions Cup, Ararat Yerevan and AS Saint-Étienne. As Bayern and the 1974 Cup Winners' Cup winners, 1. FC Magdeburg, could not officially agree on a date to host the European Super Cup, these matches were cancelled. The clash in the Cup of the National Champions between the two teams was thus transfigured into a substitute decision, which turned out in favour of Bayern. In Paris, where the final was played to mark the reopening of the refurbished Prinzenpark Stadium, the Munich side prevailed 2-0 over Leeds United - not necessarily in keeping with the course of the game - thanks to two late goals from Franz "Bulle" Roth and Müller. Disappointed Leeds fans rioted during the game, which earned Leeds a five-year ban from European Cup matches. Bayern set a record: no club had ever been worse in the national league when they won the European Cup.

Dates of the final match for the Cup of the National Champions 1975

The 1975/76 season was again unsatisfactory in the league; at the winter break FC Bayern München was only in tenth place. The UEFA Super Cup matches against Dynamo Kiev were both lost. After the winter break, things went better and the club ended up in third place in the table. In the DFB Cup, Bayern reached the semi-finals, where they were defeated by Hamburger SV. After Jeunesse Esch, Malmö FF and Benfica Lisbon, Bayern faced Real Madrid in the semi-finals of the Champions Cup. The second leg at the Olympiastadion was completely sold out and with Günter Netzer and former Red Paul Breitner two German internationals were in the service of Real. After a 1-1 draw in the first leg, Real were defeated by two goals from Gerd Müller and Bayern progressed to their third consecutive final. There they faced AS Saint-Étienne. Franz Roth was the top scorer in the final, as he had been the year before, but this time he scored the golden goal: his 1:0 in the 57th minute was the only goal of the match and for the third time FC Bayern won the national championship cup. This had previously only been achieved by the royals from Madrid (five times in a row) and Ajax Amsterdam from 1971 to 1973.

Dates of the 1976 UEFA Cup final and the 1975 UEFA Super Cup final

1976 to 1979 - FC Bayern in upheaval

Season	Place	Gates	Points	Audience average
1976/77	7	74:65	37-31	31.550
1977/78	12	62:64	32-36	30.910
1978/79	4	69:46	40-28	34.153

After the years of international triumphs, the team was in transition. One of the last major highlights was becoming the first German team to win the World Cup in December 1976 against CruzeiroBelo Horizonte, while the Super Cup against RSC Anderlecht was again not won. The winning streak in the European Champion Clubs' Cup ended in the quarter-finals against Dynamo Kiev. In the league, only seventh place was achieved, which, however, meant UEFA Cup qualification with a lot of luck, as 1. FC Köln won the DFB Cup in fifth place and HSV won the European Cup Winners' Cup in sixth place. The 65 goals conceded in that season were the worst ever for Munich, with only the goalkeepers of the three teams relegated having conceded more. 12 of the 65 goals conceded came in two memorable games within the space of a few weeks: Firstly, in a 6:5 victory at VfL Bochum, in which the Bayern team had been the only Bundesliga team so far to manage to win the game after trailing 0:4, and secondly, in a 0:7 home defeat against FC Schalke 04, FC Bayern's highest ever. The season also marked the end of an era, as captain Franz Beckenbauer, who had won the Ballon d'Or as Europe's best footballer just a few months earlier, pulled up stakes in Munich and moved across the Atlantic to Cosmos New York.

Match dates of the 1976 World Cup final and match dates of the 1976 UEFA Super Cup final

In December 1977, the club made a swap deal with Eintracht Frankfurt: Cramer moved to the Main, in return Gyula Lóránt came to the Isar. Bayern only finished twelfth in the table, the worst placing in the club's Bundesliga history. At the end of the season, Paul Breitner returned to Munich from Eintracht Braunschweig for 1.75 million marks. Gyula Lóránt was already suspended in December 1978 and his previous co-coach Pál Csernai took over his post. Max Merkel was already engaged as his successor, but the team spoke out against him, so Csernai remained coach and president Neudecker resigned after 17 years in office. Willi O. Hoffmann became the new president. Gerd Müller followed Franz Beckenbauer to the USA in 1979. The only bright spot in the troubled times was the newly created duo of Rummenigge and Breitner, called Breitnigge. They alone accounted for 26 of the 69 goals scored. In April 1979, Uli Hoeneß returned to FC Bayern after an intermezzo of several months at 1. FC Nürnberg and, having had to end his playing career due to injury, became manager of the club at the age of just 27.

1979 to 1991 - The success comes back

Season	Place	Gates	Points	Audience average
1979/80	1	84:33	50-18	39.579
1980/81	1	89:41	53-15	36.412
1981/82	3	77:56	43-25	33.372
1982/83	4	74:33	44-24	31.324
1983/84	4	84:41	47-21	30.794
1984/85	1	79:38	50-18	32.765
1985/86	1	82:31	49-19	27.265
1986/87	1	67:31	53-15	37.471
1987/88	2	83:45	48-20	28.034
1988/89	1	67:26	50-18	30.353
1989/90	1	64:28	49-19	36.235
1990/91	2	74:41	45-23	35.833
Green background: Winning the German championship

In July 1979, the club received the next piece of bad news: Sepp Maier injured himself so severely in a car accident that the Cat of Anzing, as he was also known, had to end his career prematurely. At the age of 35 he had played 473 Bundesliga games, all for FC Bayern, 442 of them in a row. Maier's successors were the young goalkeeper Walter Junghans, who had been signed two years earlier from Victoria Hamburg, and the experienced second division goalkeeper Manfred Müller. The last great of the 70s era also had to end his career early: Katsche Schwarzenbeck played his last Bundesliga game against FC Schalke 04 on 18 August 1979, suffering an Achilles tendon injury that forced him to end his career. Schwarzenbeck played 416 Bundesliga games for Bayern, scoring 16 goals. Other players moved into the limelight in his place: Klaus Augenthaler, by now a regular, Dieter Hoeneß, who came to the Isar from VfB Stuttgart, and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. The latter was voted European Footballer in 1979.

In the DFB Cup, the Reds were eliminated by SpVgg Bayreuth in the third main round. In the UEFA Cup, they reached the semi-finals, where they lost again in a German-German duel against Eintracht from Frankfurt despite a 2:0 score in the first leg. The year before, Bayern had already been eliminated by Eintracht Frankfurt in the round of 16 of the UEFA Cup. In the second half of the Bundesliga, Bayern went head-to-head with HSV. The championship was not decided until the last matchday. Bayern Munich won 2-1 at home in the Olympiastadion against Eintracht Braunschweig with goals from Breitner and Rummenigge. It was the first title for Bayern since winning the World Cup in 1976 and also the first championship in six years. The upheaval initiated in 1977/78 was complete and Bayern found themselves back on the road to success.

In 1980/81 FC Bayern München successfully defended their championship title, with the Breitnigge duo scoring a total of 46 goals. They reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions Cup, beating Ajax Amsterdam and other teams. They didn't lose a game to Liverpool FC in the semi-finals either, but were knocked out by the away goals rule after a 1-1 draw in the second leg in Munich. The Reds from Liverpool won their third national champions' cup in the final. In the third main round of the DFB Cup, they again lost out to 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

But the following year, eleven years after their last victory, the club brought the trophy to the Isar for the sixth time. The final at Frankfurt's Waldstadion was one of the most extraordinary in the competition's history, with Dieter Hoeneß playing it out with a head bandage despite suffering a head injury in the match. Bayern were already 2-0 down to 1. FC Nürnberg at half-time. After a header duel with Alois Reinhardt, Hoeneß sustained the serious head injury, which was initially only bandaged up in a makeshift manner. During the half-time break, his brother Uli told him to grit his teeth, because he would be needed. Dieter Hoeneß then had the wound stitched up without anaesthetic and reappeared on the pitch for the second half. FC Bayern turned the game around and Dieter Hoeneß even scored the decisive goal in the 89th minute to make it 4:2 with his head. FC Bayern München was also more successful in the European Cup and reached the final of the Cup of the National Champions, but was defeated there by Aston Villa with 0:1 despite a clear dominance in the course of the game. In the championship, HSV and 1. FC Köln fought out the title between themselves. Only the 3rd place remained for the Munich team, after they lost at the Bökelberg against Gladbach with 0:3.

Dates of the 1982 DFB Cup final and the 1982 European Champion Clubs' Cup final

Belgian international goalkeeper Jean-Marie Pfaff was signed from SK Beveren for the 1982/83 season. Although Pfaff was instrumental in the 1-0 defeat at Werder Bremen on the very first matchday when he deflected a throw-in from Uwe Reinders into his own goal, he was both a regular goalkeeper and crowd favourite for the next six years. His first season, however, was rather moderately successful and coach Pal Csernai was sacked three matchdays before the end of the season. They finished fourth in the Bundesliga, were beaten in the quarter-finals of the Cup Winners' Cup by Aberdeen FC, who went on to win the title, and were eliminated early in the DFB Cup by Eintracht Braunschweig. At the end of the season, Paul Breitner, another of the "greats", ended his career. On the 33rd matchday against Schalke, Michael Rummenigge, Karl-Heinz's younger brother by about eight years, made his debut for Bayern. In July 1983, Udo Lattek returned to Munich as coach. Under him, very successful years followed once again. The team reached the cup final three times in a row under his leadership. The 1984 final against Borussia Mönchengladbach had to be decided on penalties. Lothar Matthäus, whose move to the Isar for the following season had already been confirmed, missed the first penalty for Gladbach. The following year, Bayern lost 2-1 to Bayer 05 Uerdingen after leading 1-0, followed by a comfortable 5-2 final victory over VfB Stuttgart in 1986.

Dates of the final of the DFB Cup 1984; dates of the final of the DFB Cup 1985 and dates of the final of the DFB Cup 1986

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was sold to Inter Milan in 1984 for the then world-record transfer fee of 11.4 million Marks, thus ridding Bayern of their debts and keeping several million in change in their coffers, securing financial supremacy in Germany that was never lost again.

In 1985 Bayern only reached the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup, but in 1987 they were back in the final of the Cup of Nations Champions. In Vienna they met the underdog FC Porto. Bayern led 1-0 until the 78th minute through an early goal from Ludwig Kögl, before Rabah Madjer equalised through a hack goal. FC Porto's 2-1 followed just two minutes later and FC Bayern once again missed the chance to win the European Champion Clubs' Cup. The championship was won three times in a row from 1985 to 1987. By winning the championship in 1986, FC Bayern replaced 1. FC Nürnberg as Germany's record champions, with FC Bayern achieving the rare feat of being Bundesliga leaders from the first to the last matchday in the 1984/85 season. Udo Lattek took his hat at the end of the 1986/87 season, bidding Bayern farewell for the final time. In his two terms as coach of FC Bayern München, he won a total of six championships, the DFB Cup three times and the National Champions Cup once.

Dates of the final of the European Champion Clubs' Cup 1987

Udo Lattek was followed by Jupp Heynckes as coach at Bayern. In his first season in charge, he finished second behind Werder Bremen. This was followed by another upheaval in the team, with five internationals leaving the club. Matthäus and Brehme left for Inter Milan, and Jean-Marie Pfaff left for Lierse SK. Pfaff had played 156 Bundesliga games for Bayern. Pfaff was succeeded by the then 25-year-old Raimond Aumann. New signings included Stefan Reuter, Olaf Thon and Roland Grahammer. Heynckes won the championship at the second attempt and Roland Wohlfarth became top scorer in the Bundesliga with 17 goals. Heynckes was not so successful in the DFB Cup, however, and Bayern were eliminated in the third round by Karlsruher SC. In the UEFA Cup, the team reached the semi-finals. There, the Bavarians were defeated by SSC Napoli, who went on to win the title with the then world star Diego Armando Maradona. One of the best memories from that 1988/89 European Cup season, however, was the second leg at Inter Milan in the round of 16. After a 2-0 defeat in the first leg, Bayern achieved the "Miracle of Milan" and won the second leg 3-1. Also legendary was the argument between Christoph Daum, the coach of title rivals 1. FC Köln, with Uli Hoeneß and Jupp Heynckes in the ZDF sports studio, which was mainly about Daum's comments, which the Munich players found insulting, e.g. that a weather map was more interesting than a conversation with Heynckes.

For the 1989/90 season, which was similar to the previous season, seven new players were added. The championship title was successfully defended, in the DFB Cup FC Bayern was eliminated in the round of 16 by VfB Stuttgart and in the European Cup of Nations the semi-finals were reached, where AC Milan was too strong. Klaus Augenthaler scored the "goal of the decade" when he scored the decisive 1:0 from 48.90 metres in the cup match at Eintracht Frankfurt. With Augenthaler, Kohler, Pflügler, Reuter, Thon and Aumann, six Bayern players went to the 1990 World Cup and returned as world champions.

The 1990s began for Bayern as the 1980s ended. By reaching the semi-finals of the Cup of the National Champions, the club reached the last four of a European cup competition for the third time in a row. The last time this was achieved was almost ten years earlier, from 1980 to 1982. After SSC Napoli and AC Milan in the years before, this time Red Star Belgrade was the final stop. In the process, the team was eliminated narrowly and unhappily. Until the 90th minute of the second leg, FC Bayern was leading 2-1 and would have been in extra time. However, Raimond Aumann was unable to hold on to Klaus Augenthaler's fluttering ball on his own goal and with a 2-2 draw, Red Star entered the final. In the DFB Cup, the Reds suffered an embarrassing 0:1 defeat in the first round at the hands of the amateurs of FV 09 Weinheim, while in the league they finished runners-up behind 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

1991 to 1998 - Long search for the right coach with sporadic successes

Season	Place	Gates	Points	Audience average
1991/92	10	59:61	36-40	32.526
1992/93	2	74:45	47-21	46.059
1993/94	1	68:37	44-24	48.176
1994/95	6	55:41	43-25	54.176
1995/96	2	66:46	62	59.353
1996/97	1	68:34	71	58.059
1997/98	2	69:37	66	54.412
Green background: Winning the German championship

Kohler and Reuter moved to Juventus Turin for the 1991/92 season. Although Bayern received around 15 million marks in transfer fees for Kohler alone, the sporting loss weighed heavily; Thomas Berthold, signed from AS Roma, did not prove to be an equal replacement. Klaus Augenthaler had also ended his career, in which he played 404 Bundesliga games for FC Bayern and was seven times champion and three times cup winner. Raimond Aumann and Brian Laudrup both suffered torn cruciate ligaments. Gerald Hillringhaus was brought in to replace Aumann and Sven Scheuer, who was also out of action, but was only able to convince to a limited extent, so that former national goalkeeper Toni Schumacher was reactivated at short notice and kept the Bayern goal in eight Bundesliga matches before the 1991/92 winter break.

After a 1:4 home defeat against the Stuttgarter Kickers, thus four winless league games in a row and the drop to 12th place in the table, the pressure from the public was so great that the club dismissed Jupp Heynckes on 8 October 1991. According to Raimond Aumann, the players had tears in their eyes when Heynckes said goodbye to them. Uli Hoeneß, who is friends with Jupp Heynckes and had supported the decision to dismiss him, said several times years later that it had been his biggest mistake.

Heynckes was succeeded by Søren Lerby, who had played 89 games for Bayern between 1983 and 1986. Nevertheless, better results did not materialise, on the contrary, as Bayern were outclassed 6-2 by B 1903 Copenhagen in the 2nd round of the UEFA Cup. In the end, Bayern finished tenth in the Bundesliga and failed to qualify for an international competition for the first time since 1979. In March 1992, Erich Ribbeck was hired as the new coach and successor to Lerby. In addition, the club invested a total of 23.5 million marks in new players that summer, a large sum by the standards of the time. However, Stefan Effenberg and Brian Laudrup left the club together for AC Florence for 17 million. In return, Lothar Matthäus returned to the Isar after four years in Italy. Players such as Thomas Helmer, Mehmet Scholl and Jorginho also joined the club. For 32 match days, FC Bayern remained in first place in the table, finishing second behind Werder Bremen.

In 1994, the Munich team won its 13th league title. Before that, coach Ribbeck had been sacked during the winter break and Franz Beckenbauer, then vice-president, took over the coaching post at his Bayern for the first time.

For the new season 1994/95, Giovanni Trapattoni, one of the most successful coaches in football history, was hired, but he initially stayed at the Isar for only one year. The language problems were too great. Oliver Kahn, who later became an icon in Munich, joined Bayern as the new goalkeeper. In the autumn of 1994, Franz Beckenbauer replaced Fritz Scherer, who had been in office since 1985, as president of the club as a whole. FC Bayern only finished sixth in the championship, but under "Mister" Trapattoni they at least reached the semi-finals of the national championship cup, which had been renamed the UEFA Champions League in the meantime, where they had no chance against the eventual winners Ajax Amsterdam. As in 1990, Bayern made a disgraceful mistake in the first round of the DFB Cup. This time their opponents were TSV Vestenbergsgreuth, against whom they lost 0:1 in Nuremberg. Borussia Mönchengladbach's cup win meant that FC Bayern, despite finishing sixth in the table, still made it into international business and were able to take part in the UEFA Cup the following season. Franz Beckenbauer then referred to the competition as the "Cup of Losers".

In Otto Rehhagel, the club succeeded in bringing not only another renowned coach to the Isar in the following season, but also the representative of their direct rival, who had previously coached SV Werder Bremen for 14 years and frequently competed with Bayern Munich for the championship. Despite finishing second in the league, still possibly winning the championship and reaching the UEFA Cup finals, Rehhagel was forced to vacate his post on 27 April 1996 after a 1-0 home defeat to Hansa Rostock. Franz Beckenbauer once again took his place on the bench, but the team remained second in the Bundesliga behind Borussia Dortmund. However, he won both UEFA Cup finals against Girondins Bordeaux. Although this means Beckenbauer has won the European Cup Winners' Cup, the Cup of Nations Champions, the World Cup, the European and World Cups as a player and the World Cup and UEFA Cup as a coach, and the only thing missing from his career is the European Super Cup, he personally did not want to identify with the title as an interim coach and does not consider himself a UEFA Cup winner. Jürgen Klinsmann, who moved to Munich from Tottenham Hotspur before the season, set a new record this UEFA Cup season with 15 goals in the tournament, only equalled by Falcao in 2011.

Match dates of the 1996 UEFA Cup final

For the new season, they chose a practical solution and brought Giovanni Trapattoni back to the Isar, this time with a little more success: he became German champion with FC Bayern in the 1996/97 season, which was his first title outside Italy. In 1998, he also won the DFB Cup with Bayern against MSV Duisburg. The 1998 DFB Cup victory was also the club's first cup win in twelve years. The championship, however, was rather disappointing: They had a thrilling title fight with the promoted 1. FC Kaiserslautern, coached by Otto Rehhagel, but remained in second place for practically the entire season. Afterwards, the Italian left Munich for the second time. Unforgettable was his angry speech after a 0:1 at Schalke on March 10, 1998 in a press conference.

Dates of the DFB-Cup final 1998

1998 to 2004 - The Hitzfeld era with the Champions League victory in 2001

Season	Place	Gates	Points	Audience average
1998/99	1	76:28	78	53.765
1999/2000	1	73:28	73	52.588
2000/01	1	62:37	63	48.471
2001/02	3	65:25	68	52.765
2002/03	1	70:25	75	51.588
2003/04	2	70:39	68	55.471
Green background: Winning the German championship

For the 1998/99 season, the champion of Dortmund Borussia, Ottmar Hitzfeld, who had worked as Dortmund's sports director the previous year, came to Munich as Trapattoni's successor. With Hitzfeld, Stefan Effenberg returned to the Isar, who had already played for FC Bayern from 1990 to 1992. He became Hitzfeld's extended arm in the team over the next few years. Under the new coach, Bayern became champions at the first attempt, 15 points ahead of runners-up Bayer Leverkusen, and the triple seemed possible.

With the championship already secured, Bayern faced Manchester United, against whom they had drawn twice in the group stage, in the Champions League final in Barcelona on 26 May 1999. Bayern took a 1-0 lead as early as the 6th minute through a Mario Basler goal. FC Bayern continued to be superior throughout the rest of the game and could have extended their lead through both Mehmet Scholl and Carsten Jancker. However, both only hit the goal post and the crossbar respectively. In the 80th minute, Lothar Matthäus, until then one of the best players on the pitch, was substituted at his own request. The team held the 1-0 until injury time, when Manchester managed to turn the game around within two minutes with goals from Sheringham and Solskjær. This Champions League final went down as one of the most memorable in history, and for a long time the substitution of Matthäus was controversially discussed.

Two and a half weeks later, Matthäus was once again the tragic figure when the DFB Cup final against Werder Bremen was tied 1-1 after extra time and the penalty shootout had to decide. The last penalty was saved by Werder goalkeeper Rost against Matthäus. So this penalty shootout was lost with 4:5. It was the first time that FC Bayern lost two finals in one season.

Match data of the DFB Cup Final 1999 and match data of the Champions League Final 1999

For the 1999/2000 season, the then 17-year-old Roque Santa Cruz, Patrik Andersson and Paulo Sérgio joined the club, while Thomas Helmer, Ali Daei and later Mario Basler left. The season was quite successful. Bayern became champions for the 16th time, won the DFB-Pokal for the 10th time with a 3-0 win over Werder Bremen in a rematch of last year's final, and reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, where they were eliminated by Real Madrid, against whom they had won twice more in the group stage. The club also celebrated its 100th anniversary in the spring of 2000. To mark the occasion, an invitational tournament was held with Real Madrid, Manchester United and Galatasaray Istanbul, which FC Bayern won.

The championship was not decided until the final matchday. Leverkusen had been leading the Bundesliga table since matchday 30 of the season. After the 33rd matchday, the lead was three points. A draw at SpVgg Unterhaching would have been enough for coach Christoph Daum's team to win their first title, even if Bayern had beaten Werder Bremen. But things turned out differently. Bayern got the job done at home, winning 3-1, while just a few miles away Leverkusen failed to get the one point under their belt. Leverkusen lost 0:2 at the promoted club from the suburbs of Munich - Michael Ballack scored an own goal to make it 0:1 - and the championship went to FC Bayern.

Dates of the final match for the DFB Cup 2000

In the 2000/01 season, FC Bayern successfully defended its Bundesliga title. The last Bundesliga matchday was one of the most memorable in the history of the Bundesliga. On matchday 33, FC Schalke 04 lost their lead in the standings to Bayern, who as a result were three points ahead but had the worse goal difference. FC Schalke won their last match at home against Unterhaching with 5:3. At the same time, Bayern's match in Hamburg remained goalless for a long time, but in the 90th minute HSV took the lead 1:0 through a header by Sergej Barbarez, which would have meant the championship for the Königsblauen. While the Schalkers were already storming onto the pitch of the Parkstadion to celebrate, the final minutes from Hamburg were being broadcast on the big screen. Because Mathias Schober, goalkeeper of HSV, had picked up a back pass in the third minute of injury time, there was an indirect free kick for FC Bayern, which Patrik Andersson shot through the wall into the goal for the final score of 1:1, making FC Bayern the champions.

Just four days after that dramatic championship decider, Bayern managed to win the European Champions Cup for a fourth time, 25 years after their last victory and two years after the dramatic final in Barcelona. After knocking out Arsenal London, Manchester United and Real Madrid, Bayern faced Valencia FC in the Champions League final in Milan and won 5-4 on penalties after a tight game. The hero of the match was goalkeeper Oliver Kahn, who saved a total of three penalties.

Dates of the final of the Champions League 2001

2004 to 2012 - Move to the Arena, changing coaches and the final dahoam

Season	Place	Gates	Points	Audience average
2004/05	1	75:33	77	53.294
Move to the Allianz Arena
2005/06	1	67:32	75	67.641
2006/07	4	55:40	60	68.647
2007/08	1	68:21	76	69.000
2008/09	2	71:42	67	69.000
2009/10	1	72:31	70	69.000
2010/11	3	81:40	65	69.000
2011/12	2	77:22	73	69.000
Green background: Winning the German championship

The 2001/02 season was initially less successful. Already the first games FC Bayern could not win. They lost in the League Cup and in the European Super Cup in Monaco with 2:3 against Liverpool FC. On 27 November 2001, Bayern won the World Cup in Tokyo for the second time since 1976, beating Boca Juniors 1-0 after extra time. Samuel Kuffour scored the winning goal. However, this was to remain the only title of the season. They finished third in the Bundesliga behind Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen, but lost out to Real Madrid in the quarter-finals of the Champions League and Schalke 04 in the semi-finals of the DFB Cup.

Match dates of the 2001 UEFA Super Cup and match dates of the 2001 World Cup

For Stefan Effenberg, who left Bayern, the midfield stars Michael Ballack, Zé Roberto and Sebastian Deisler were signed for the 2002/03 season. In the Champions League season 2002/03, Bayern could only gain two points from six games and were eliminated in the preliminary round. In the Bundesliga it went more successfully and Bayern reached at the end with a lead of 16 points on the second-placed VfB Stuttgart the renewed championship. They also won the DFB Cup. With 3:1 the 1. FC Kaiserslautern was defeated in the final and the Bavarians won the double again. That season, Bastian Schweinsteiger made his debut with the FC Bayern professionals in the Champions League home match against RC Lens. In spring 2003, the Kirch affair, probably the biggest scandal in the club's history, came to light.

Dates of the final match for the DFB Cup 2003

In the summer of 2003, Dutch striker Roy Makaay moved from Deportivo La Coruña to FC Bayern München for a then record sum of €18.7 million. Makaay had scored four goals against FC Bayern in the Champions League in the previous season. In addition, Argentine defender Martín Demichelis joined the team. In the 2003/04 season, however, the Munich side were unable to successfully defend their title against a dazzling Werder Bremen, the eventual champions, with a strong Aílton. In the end, they finished second and qualified directly for the Champions League the following year. In 2003/04, the Munich side reached the last 16, where they were eliminated by Real Madrid, as they had been two years earlier. In the DFB Cup, the team was eliminated by AlemanniaAachen in the quarter-finals. At the end of the season, FC Bayern prematurely terminated the contract with coach Hitzfeld, which was due to run until mid-2005. In 2011, Hitzfeld announced on TV station Sport1 that he had left the club of his own accord because he was on the verge of a burnout.

Hitzfeld was replaced in the following season by Felix Magath from VfB Stuttgart. The Brazilian world champion Lúcio came from Bayer Leverkusen to strengthen the central defence. The new coach was immediately successful. In 2004/05, the team once again managed to win the double. By the end of the second half of the season, the Bundesliga team was on 77 points and 14 points ahead of second-placed FC Schalke 04, who had beaten Bayern twice in the Bundesliga season. Both teams faced each other in the final of the DFB Cup, which the Munich team won 2-1. In the Champions League, FC Bayern was eliminated by Chelsea FC in the quarter-finals. At the end of the season, Bayern played their last Bundesliga match at the Olympiastadion. The match was won 6:3 against 1. FC Nürnberg and so the era ended in this stadium with the German championship, as it had already begun in 1971/72.

Dates of the final match for the DFB Cup 2005

With the new season, Bayern moved to the newly built AllianzArena. In his second season at FC Bayern, Magath achieved a first. Under him, FC Bayern became the first German team in men's football to successfully defend the double. In the end, they beat Werder Bremen and HSV in the Bundesliga. In the final of the DFB Cup, Eintracht Frankfurt was defeated 1:0 by a goal from Claudio Pizarro. The Champions League ended in the round of 16. After a 1-1 draw in the first leg against AC Milan, Bayern had no chance in the second leg in Italy and lost 1-4. Michael Ballack's contract expired at the end of the season. Bayern made him an offer of €36 million for a new four-year contract, but after much deliberation the international turned it down and moved to Chelsea FC on a free transfer. After the season, Bixente Lizarazu ended his career at FC Bayern.

Dates of the final match for the DFB Cup 2006

Lukas Podolski and Mark van Bommel were signed for the 2006/07 season. The third season at FC Bayern was less successful for Magath. Like three years before, Bayern failed in the cup round of 16 against Alemannia Aachen. In addition, they were in fourth place in the Bundesliga and threatened to miss out on qualifying for the Champions League. Therefore, on 31 January 2007, Felix Magath was replaced by his predecessor Ottmar Hitzfeld after winning two doubles in a row. However, he too failed to qualify for the Champions League and finished fourth, Bayern's worst finish in the last twelve years. In the Champions League itself, the end of the line was again against AC Milan, this time in the quarter-finals. This elimination and fourth place in the league meant that Bayern did not qualify for the Champions League the next season for the first time since the 1996/97 season, and had to make do with the UEFA Cup. After this season, Mehmet Scholl ended his long career at FC Bayern. Before that, Sebastian Deisler announced his career end in January.

In order to avoid a repeat of last year's season, Bayern invested a record sum of around €70 million in preparation for the new season. They spent €25 million on Franck Ribéry from Olympique Marseille and €12.5 million on Luca Toni from AC Florence. When a third new striker, Miroslav Klose, was bought in addition to Jan Schlaudraff, Roy Makaay requested his release and moved to Feyenoord Rotterdam. In addition, Hasan Salihamidžić moved to Juventus Turin. Club's own Owen Hargreaves, who had long expressed ambitions for the Premier League, moved to Manchester United for a transfer fee of €25 million. The heavy investment paid off, and Bayern managed to win their fifth double in a decade and seventh ever this season. The game offered spectators a refreshing display of football, with Ribéry in particular demonstrating his excellent technique. The season itself was quite one-sided. With a start-finish victory, FC Bayern ended up with a ten-point lead over Werder Bremen. In the DFB Cup final, Borussia Dortmund was defeated 2-1 after extra time. In the UEFA Cup, Bayern made it to the semi-finals, where they were beaten 4-0 away by eventual winners Zenit St. Petersburg after a 1-1 first leg draw in Munich. Oliver Kahn ended his career at the end of the season with a record of eight league titles and six DFB Cups won. In his last season, Kahn managed to beat Oliver Reck's record (22 goals conceded in 34 games from the 1987/88 season) with 21 goals conceded in 34 games. After the season, he was appointed honorary captain of FC Bayern München.

Dates of the final match for the DFB Cup 2008

Already in the winter break of the pre-season, Ottmar Hitzfeld announced that he would not renew his contract at Bayern, which expired at the end of the season. To replace him, former player and German national coach Jürgen Klinsmann was hired as the new coach for the new season. At the start of the 2008-09 season, Michael Rensing was the new number 1 goalkeeper for Bayern, but lost his place to Hans Jörg Butt in April 2009. After initial difficulties in the Bundesliga, Bayern managed to go into the winter break level on points with leaders TSG 1899 Hoffenheim; however, after failing to stabilise performances in the second half of the season, Jürgen Klinsmann was forced to vacate his position five matchdays before the end and was replaced by Jupp Heynckes as head coach and his assistant coach Hermann Gerland. Under the new coach, the team finished second behind new champions VfL Wolfsburg with four wins and one draw, securing direct qualification for the Champions League the following season. In the DFB Cup, Bayern had previously been knocked out by Bayer Leverkusen in the quarter-finals. In the Champions League, they still managed to win 5-0 at Sporting Lisbon in the round of 16 first leg and advanced to the quarter-finals after a 7-1 win in the second leg; the 12-1 aggregate score against Sporting was a Champions League record. In the quarter-finals, they suffered another 4-0 debacle at FC Barcelona four days after a 5-1 loss at VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga, and Bayern were eliminated after a 1-1 draw in the second leg.

On 1 July 2009, Dutchman Louis van Gaal took over as head coach of FC Bayern. The new sports director was Christian Nerlinger, who replaced Uli Hoeneß. After 30 years as manager of FC Bayern, Hoeneß took over the presidency in November, which had been held by Franz Beckenbauer since 1994. For the 2009/10 season, Bayern once again invested heavily and signed numerous new players, including Mario Gómez from VfB Stuttgart, who, with a transfer fee of over 30 million euros, became the most expensive transfer in Bundesliga history to date. Thomas Müller and Holger Badstuber, who later became internationals, were promoted from the second team to the professional squad. In August 2009, Dutch international Arjen Robben was signed from Real Madrid for €25 million. The first third of the season was not very successful for FC Bayern. They slipped down to 14th place in the Bundesliga and their progress in the Champions League was in jeopardy. In the last match of the Champions League group stage, Bayern defeated Juventus Turin 4:1 away from home, which allowed them to reach the final round of the Champions League. They also managed to catch up in the Bundesliga, and on matchday 24 Bayern finally took the top spot in the Bundesliga table, which they only relinquished once until the end of the season. On the last matchday, a 3:1 victory at Hertha BSC made the 22nd German championship perfect. They also won the DFB Cup final against Werder Bremen 4-0, which was their 15th cup win, also their eighth double. By reaching the final of the Champions League, Bayern had the chance to become the first German men's team to win the triple of championship, national and international cup. This had previously been achieved twice in women's football by 1. FFC Frankfurt. Bayern lost the final 2-0 to Inter Milan at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid on 22 May 2010, missing out on the historic triumph.

The 4-2-3-1 basic order introduced by van Gaal would see Bayern through to the 2013 treble, but the possession football he introduced was taken to a less extreme by his successor Jupp Heynckes.

Match dates of the 2010 DFB Cup final and the 2010 Champions League final

At the start of the 2010/11 season, the club won the Supercup, which had been reintroduced by the DFL, with a 2-0 win over Schalke 04. In the Champions League, Munich reached the round of 16, where they were eliminated by Inter Milan in a 3-2 home defeat after a 1-0 away win. In the DFB Cup, they were eliminated in the semi-finals after a 1-0 home loss to Schalke. On 10 April 2011, due to the sporting slump in the league, the club announced Louis van Gaal's immediate leave of absence and appointed previous co-coach Andries Jonker as head coach until the end of the season. After 5 games and 13 out of a possible 15 points under Jonker, the team finished the 2010/11 season in third place, securing at least a place in the Champions League qualifiers.

Jonker was succeeded for the 2011/12 season by Jupp Heynckes, who received a two-year contract. The signing of national goalkeeper Manuel Neuer from FC Schalke 04 had led to expressions of rejection, particularly in sections of the fan base that can be counted as belonging to the Ultras, due to Neuer's youth in the Schalke fan scene. In this Bundesliga season, Borussia Dortmund once again became champions, while Bayern finished runners-up. They also reached the cup final in Berlin, which they lost 5-2 to Dortmund. In the Champions League qualifiers, Bayern defeated FC Zurich to reach the group stage. They progressed past FC Basel, Olympique Marseille and Real Madrid to reach the Champions League final, which was held at their home Allianz Arena. Despite a strong performance, Bayern lost 4-3 on penalties to Chelsea FC in the so-called Finale dahoam (Bavarian for final at home) on 19 May 2012. With three second-place finishes, the season went down in club history as a year of missed opportunities.

Match dates of the 2012 DFB Cup final and the 2012 Champions League final

Since 2012 - Championships in series, triple and sextuple

Season	Place	Gates	Points	Audience average	BL Squad
2012/13	1	98:18	91	71.000
2013/14	1	94:23	90	71.131	BL Squad
2014/15	1	80:18	79	72.966	BL Squad
2015/16	1	80:17	88	75.006	BL Squad
2016/17	1	89:22	82	75.000	BL Squad
2017/18	1	92:28	84	75.000	BL Squad
2018/19	1	88:32	78	75.000	BL Squad
2019/20	1	100:32	82	A 175,000A 1	BL Squad
2020/21	1	99:44	78	A 2-A 2	BL Squad
Green background: Winning the German championship A 1 Only matches without spectator restrictions, including ghost matches: 57,353 A 2 16 ghost matches, only the last home match was attended by 250 spectators

 

Germany New Germany Lame Germany Boateng Brazil Dante Austria Alaba Spain Martínez Germany Schweinsteiger Netherlands Seals Germany Müller France Ribéry Croatia Mandžukić

Starting line-up in the 2013 Champions League final.

The 2012/13 season began with the surprising dismissal of sporting director Nerlinger and the simultaneous appointment of his successor Matthias Sammer as sporting director. Shortly before the end of the transfer phase, the Spanish international Javi Martínez was signed from Athletic Bilbao after lengthy negotiations; the transfer fee of €40 million was the highest in Bundesliga history to date. The season subsequently developed into the most successful in the club's history, with Munich winning all four competitions in which they competed: In the first competitive match of the new season, they won the Supercup for the fourth time, defeating Borussia Dortmund 2-1 at the Allianz Arena. In the Bundesliga, the team already secured the league title on matchday 28 and had a lead of 25 points over the previous season's champions from Dortmund at the end of the season with 91 points. All three stats, as well as the 29 wins, goal difference of +80 and 18 goals conceded, set a new Bundesliga record. In the Champions League, Bayern finished the preliminary round as group winners and faced Arsenal FC in the round of 16. They won the first leg 3-1 away from home, but lost the second leg 2-0 in Munich, meaning they only progressed on the away goals rule. In the quarter-finals, both games against Italian champions Juventus Torino were won 2-0 before they met FC Barcelona in the semi-finals. A 4-0 first leg win at home and a 3-0 win in Barcelona meant a commanding qualification for the final on 25 May 2013 at London's Wembley Stadium, which FC Bayern won 2-1 against their league rivals from Dortmund thanks to an 89th minute goal from Arjen Robben. In the DFB Cup, revenge against the previous year's winners was achieved: after a 1-0 home win against Borussia Dortmund in the quarter-finals and a 6-1 win against VfL Wolfsburg in the semi-finals, FC Bayern won the final against VfB Stuttgart 3-2 at Berlin's Olympiastadion on 1 June 2013, becoming the seventh European and first German club in men's football to win the big triple.

Match dates of the 2013 DFB Cup final and the 2013 Champions League final

For the 2013/14 season, the successful Spanish coach and two-time Champions League winner Pep Guardiola, who by then had taken a year off from football after leaving FC Barcelona, was signed as Jupp Heynckes' successor for three years. The young international Mario Götze was also signed from Borussia Dortmund for a reported transfer fee of 37 million euros. In addition, Guardiola's desired player Thiago moved to Munich from Guardiola's former club, FC Barcelona, for €25 million. The club lost the first competitive match of the season for the DFL Super Cup 4-2 at Borussia Dortmund. FC Bayern became the first German club to win the UEFA Super Cup on 30 August 2013, beating Chelsea FC on penalties at Prague's Eden Aréna; the match was rehashed by the media in advance as a watered-down remake of the 2012 Champions League final, which this time the Munich side won. The club ended the 2013 calendar year on 21 December by winning the FIFA Club World Cup in Marrakech with a 2-0 final victory over the host nation's representative, Moroccan champions Raja Casablanca, winning five of a possible six titles in a calendar year. In the Bundesliga, FC Bayern secured the autumn championship with a seven-point lead despite playing fewer matches due to the Club World Cup being postponed.

Match dates for the 2013 UEFA Super Cup match and the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup final

As a consequence of his sentence to three and a half years in prison for tax evasion, Uli Hoeneß announced his resignation as President of FC Bayern München e. V. and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of FC Bayern München AG on 14 March 2014.

Already on the 27th matchday of the 2013/14 season, FC Bayern was the winner of the German championship, surpassing its own record from the previous season with a 19-point lead. With the longest series without defeat (53 games) and the longest winning streak (19 games), two Bundesliga records were set. In the Champions League, the team was eliminated in the semi-finals against Real Madrid, losing the first leg 1-0 in Madrid and the second leg 4-0 in Munich, which is the highest home defeat in Bayern's European Cup history. On 17 May 2014, FC Bayern secured the tenth double in the club's history by beating Borussia Dortmund 2-0 after extra time in the DFB Cup final.

Match dates of the final of the DFB Cup 2014

The 2014/15 season saw the signing of Robert Lewandowski from Borussia Dortmund and Xabi Alonso from Real Madrid, among others. The internationals Toni Kroos, Mario Mandžukić and Daniel Van Buyten, on the other hand, left FC Bayern. At the winter break, FC Bayern became autumn champions in the Bundesliga for the fourth time in a row with an eleven-point lead over VfL Wolfsburg, setting a new record with only four goals conceded in the first half of the season. In the quarter-finals of the Champions League, the team progressed from a 3-1 first leg defeat at FC Porto with a 6-1 victory in the second leg on 21 April 2015, marking the first time the club had reached the semi-finals of a European competition for four consecutive seasons. On 26 April 2015, the club became German champions for the 25th time, four matchdays before the end of the season. In both cup competitions, the team was eliminated in the semi-finals. In the DFB Cup, the home match against Borussia Dortmund (1-1 after extra time) was lost 0-2 on penalties. In the Champions League, Bayern missed out on the final due to a 3-0 defeat in the first leg at FC Barcelona after conceding three goals in the closing stages, despite winning the second leg 3-2.

In the 2015/16 season, Arturo Vidal and Kingsley Coman from Champions League finalists Juventus Turin and Brazilian Douglas Costa were among the new additions to the team. In return, Bastian Schweinsteiger left FC Bayern for Manchester United after 17 years at the club. On 22 September, Robert Lewandowski became the first substitute in the Bundesliga to score five goals in nine minutes against VfL Wolfsburg, turning Bayern's game around after Wolfsburg had taken the lead to win 5-1 at home. Lewandowski thus managed the fastest five-goal haul, four-goal haul as well as the fastest hat-trick in Bundesliga history. The team set a new start record with ten wins in the first ten Bundesliga games. After finishing the first half of the season with 15 wins and 46 points, their fifth consecutive autumn championship and eight points ahead of Borussia Dortmund, the club announced that coach Pep Guardiola would not renew his contract, which expires at the end of the season, and that Italian Carlo Ancelotti would succeed him. In the Champions League, the team - in the semi-finals for the third year in a row - was eliminated on the away goals rule against Atlético Madrid after a 1-0 away defeat and a 2-1 home win. On the penultimate matchday, a 2-1 away win at Ingolstadt decided the German championship, marking the first time in Bundesliga history that a club had won four in a row. With only 17 goals conceded in a Bundesliga season and a total of 21 Bundesliga games without conceding a goal, the club once again improved its own records. On 21 May 2016, FC Bayern won the DFB Cup in Berlin against Borussia Dortmund with 4:3 i. E. (0:0 n. V.) and thus the national double. For Pep Guardiola, it was his last game as coach of the Munich club. With the DFB Cup, he was able to celebrate his seventh title win in Munich in three years.

Match dates of the final of the DFB Cup 2016

On 10 July 2016, FC Bayern announced that the club would comply with Matthias Sammer's request to relieve him of his duties as sporting director and terminate his contract, which ran until 2018. On 11 July 2016, new coach Carlo Ancelotti was introduced in a press conference. For the new season, central defender Mats Hummels returned from Borussia Dortmund after eight years. In mid-August 2016, the team won the DFL Supercup with a 2-0 victory at Borussia Dortmund. On the 31st Bundesliga matchday, the German championship was won early for the fifth time in a row. In the two cup competitions, however, FC Bayern failed prematurely. In the Champions League quarter-finals, defending champions Real Madrid, with world footballer Cristiano Ronaldo as a five-time goalscorer, proved too strong, meaning that they were eliminated from the competition for the fourth time in a row against a Spanish club. In the DFB Cup semi-finals, the team lost at home to Borussia Dortmund, as they had done two years earlier. At the end of the season, captain Philipp Lahm and Xabi Alonso ended their playing careers.

On 31 July 2017, Hasan Salihamidžić was presented as the new sporting director at FC Bayern. The former midfielder, who played for FC Bayern München from 1998 to 2007, thus took over the post that had been vacant for over a year since the resignation of Matthias Sammer. On August 5, 2017, FC Bayern won the DFL Supercup for the sixth time in a penalty shootout against Borussia Dortmund.

On 28 September 2017, coach Carlo Ancelotti was sacked. This was preceded by a 3-0 defeat at Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League group stage, an overall unsatisfactory start to the season and tensions between Ancelotti and his team. After a ten-day interim solution with former co-coach Willy Sagnol, Jupp Heynckes once again became FC Bayern's head coach until the end of the season, for the fourth time overall. On the 29th matchday, the sixth championship in a row was secured, in the Champions League, the team failed as in the previous year to defending champion Real Madrid, this time in the semifinals. They finished the season with 84 points, 21 points ahead of FC Schalke 04. In the last match under Heynckes, FC Bayern lost the DFB Cup final 3-1 to Eintracht Frankfurt.

Match dates of the final of the DFB Cup 2018

For the 2018/19 season, Niko Kovač took over the team, whose signing had already been fixed since April 2018 and who had beaten FC Bayern in the cup final in his last game with Eintracht Frankfurt. While Arturo Vidal (FC Barcelona), Sebastian Rudy (FC Schalke 04) and Juan Bernat (Paris Saint-Germain), among others, left the club, the squad was strengthened with Leon Goretzka (FC Schalke 04), who is free on loan, and Serge Gnabry, who was loaned to TSG Hoffenheim immediately after signing last year. In their first competitive match under Kovač, they won the Supercup 5-0 against his former club Eintracht Frankfurt. With four victories in a row, the Bundesliga season got off to a satisfactory start, but after several winless games and a defeat in a direct duel, FC Bayern was nine points behind league leader Borussia Dortmund in the autumn. Niko Kovač was now questioned as Bayern coach, but the team's performances stabilised. In October, a press conference at which the club's management criticised the media for its reporting and announced that it would take action against disrespectful reporting in future also generated a great deal of media attention. Most memorable were Rummenigge's reference to Article 1 of the Basic Law in relation to the media's treatment of Bayern players, as well as Hoeneß's statement that former player Juan Bernat had played "like crap" in the Champions League away game in Seville in pre-season. During an appearance on the football talk show Doppelpass in February 2019, Hoeneß expressed that they had "clearly made mistakes" at the press conference.

At the winter break of the season, the 18-year-old Canadian international Alphonso Davies was signed from Vancouver Whitecaps in the North American professional league Major League Soccer. After Dortmund dropped a number of points during the second half of the season, FC Bayern took the lead in the standings on matchday 25 thanks to its superior goal difference. However, the Bundesliga's catching up was countered by an early exit in the Champions League. In the round of 16 against the eventual title winners FC Liverpool with coach Jürgen Klopp, a 0-0 draw was achieved at Anfield Road, but the return match in Munich was lost 3-1. The last time FC Bayern München was eliminated from the European Cup this early was in 2011 against Inter Milan. In the league, they temporarily lost their lead in the standings, but managed to regain it with a 5-0 home win in a direct clash with Dortmund. After Matchday 32, FC Bayern München had a four-point lead over Dortmund, but could not get beyond a 0-0 draw in Leipzig, while BVB defeated Fortuna Düsseldorf. Thus, for the first time since 2010, the German championship was decided on the last matchday. Bayern was two points in front and received Eintracht Frankfurt, Dortmund played in Mönchengladbach. Both title contenders led 1-0 at half-time, but Eintracht equalised shortly after half-time, but goals from David Alaba and Renato Sanches made it 3-1 to FC Bayern just eight minutes later, and substitutes Franck Ribéry and Arjen Robben made it 5-1 on their final home game. This was the first time since 2000 that FC Bayern had won the championship in their own stadium, after the following twelve championships had all been won away from home or once by defeat of a rival on the following day. One week after the championship, the DFB Cup was also won. Opponents at Berlin's Olympiastadion were RB Leipzig, with FC Bayern winning 3-0, making Niko Kovac the first person in German football to win the double as a player and as a coach.

Match dates for the final of the DFB Cup 2019

Germany New Germany Kimmich Germany Boateng Austria Alaba Canada Davies Germany Goretzka Spain Thiago Germany Gnabry Germany Müller France Coman Poland Lewandowski

Starting line-up in the 2020 Champions League final.

Ahead of the 2019/20 season, three mainstays - Arjen Robben (career end), Franck Ribéry (AC Florence) and Rafinha (Flamengo Rio de Janeiro) - left the team that had won the treble in 2013. New arrivals at FC Bayern München included French World Cup winners Lucas Hernández from Atlético Madrid and Benjamin Pavard from VfB Stuttgart, with the former replacing Javi Martínez as the record transfer with a transfer fee of €80 million. In addition, Philippe Coutinho was loaned from FC Barcelona and Ivan Perišić from Inter Milan for one year each. The team started the season with a 2-0 loss at Borussia Dortmund in the DFL Supercup match. In the league, the start of the season was also mixed. After matchday 10, the club parted ways with Niko Kovač and initially replaced him with his former co-coach Hansi Flick on a transitional basis. At that point, FC Bayern were in fourth place with 18 points, four points off the top of the table. Under Flick, the team regained its former strength, finishing the first half of the season in third place with 33 points and advancing to the round of 16 in the Champions League as group winners. Over the course of the second half of the season, which was suspended for over two months between Matchday 25 and 26 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and eventually continued with ghost matches, Bayern outpaced their rivals and Flick's contract was extended long-term. On matchday 32, the team secured their eighth consecutive championship. FC Bayern eventually finished the season 13 points ahead of Borussia Dortmund. In the process, it scored a season-best 100 goals, 101 goals after the 1971/72 season. With 49 out of a possible 51 points, the team played the best second half of the season in history (2013 also had 49 points, but a goal difference that was one goal worse). FC Bayern won the DFB Cup for the 20th time overall in early July, beating Bayer Leverkusen 4-2 in the final. A short summer break followed before the Champions League competition, which had been interrupted in the spring, resumed in August. From the quarter-finals onwards, the competition was concluded in an abbreviated form at a final tournament in Lisbon, played without spectators. In the quarter-finals, the team managed an 8:2 thumping of FC Barcelona, in the semi-finals Olympique Lyon was defeated 3:0, in the final against Paris Saint-Germain Kingsley Coman scored the decisive goal for a 1:0 victory and thus for the second triple after 2013. FC Bayern had become the first club to win all matches in a Champions League competition.

Match dates of the 2020 DFB Cup final and the 2020 Champions League final

The 2020/21 Bundesliga season, which began in mid-September, saw the signing of Leroy Sané from Manchester City, who had been courted for some time. Thiago, on the other hand, left the club after seven years for Liverpool FC. In the same month, FC Bayern won both Super Cup competitions. In the UEFA Super Cup, they defeated Europa League winners FC Sevilla 2-1 after extra time in Budapest, followed shortly after by winning the DFL Super Cup with a 3-2 win over Borussia Dortmund. The season was marked by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, almost all matches took place without spectators and several Bayern players were also affected by an infection with the virus. Due to the pandemic, the Club World Cup in Qatar, which was originally scheduled for December 2020, had also been postponed to February 2021; FC Bayern won the competition with victories over al Ahly SC of Egypt and UANL Tigres of Mexico. This marked FC Bayern's achievement of winning the Sextuple, the process of winning six titles in one sporting year. This had previously only been achieved by FC Barcelona in 2009 under Pep Guardiola.

The apparent bliss did not last very long, however, as the team had already failed in the second round of the DFB Cup against second-division team Holstein Kiel in January, and in the quarter-finals of the Champions League the team was eliminated from the competition against Paris Saint-Germain without the injured goal scorer Robert Lewandowski, who had been voted World Footballer of the Year in 2020. Internal power struggles between Hansi Flick and sporting director Hasan Salihamidžić also emerged in the spring. In mid-April, Flick announced his intention to leave the club after the season and terminate his contract, which was still valid until 2023.

FC Bayern's dominance of the Bundesliga, on the other hand, continued and the club became German champions for the ninth time in a row on matchday 32. Robert Lewandowski scored 41 of the 99 league goals, beating Gerd Müller's record of 40 from the 1971/72 season, but with 44 goals conceded, the defence recorded its highest number of goals conceded since the 1995/96 season. The runners-up behind FC Bayern, 13 points behind, were RB Leipzig, who had been just behind FC Bayern in the standings for several weeks in the spring, but were defeated in the head-to-head clash on matchday 27 and immediately lost touch with the record champions.

The FC Bayern board complied with Flick's request to terminate his contract. In addition to Flick, who succeeds Joachim Löw as national coach, co-coaches Hermann Gerland and Miroslav Klose also left the club. At the same time, David Alaba, Jérôme Boateng and Javi Martínez, three long-serving defensive players and 2013 triple winners, also said goodbye.

The new head coach for the 2021/22 season will be 33-year-old Julian Nagelsmann, who previously worked for RB Leipzig and was given a five-year contract. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, vice-president of the e. V. from 1991 to 2002 and CEO of the AG since February 2002, will leave FC Bayern and hand over the chairmanship to Oliver Kahn.

Club coat of arms history (incomplete)

In Hitzfeld's 6-year tenure as head coach, FC Bayern became German champions 4 times, cup winners 2 times, and Champions League and World Cup winners, among other achievements.


Ticket for the second leg of the Champions League semi-final 2001


The founding charter of FC Bayern


First football match against 1. FC Nuremberg 1901


The European Champion Clubs' Cup


Trophy at the first cup victory ("Goldfasanen-Pokal")


Replica of the Victoria in the showcase of the FC Bayern

Achievements/Titles

The first team has played in the Bundesliga since the 1965/66 season. FC Bayern München is the most successful German football club and German record champion. Since the 30th championship after the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963/64, it has been allowed to wear five championship stars on its jersey. FC Bayern is the first German club to successfully defend the double. Along with Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Hamburger SV, it is one of four clubs to have successfully defended its Bundesliga championship title. With 826 matchdays as league leaders, the club ranks 1st in the perpetual list of league leaders (as of 2020/21 season end) and 1st in the perpetual table of the Football Bundesliga with 3847 points (as of 2020/21 season end). By winning the championship in the 2019/20 season, it has won more German championships in the Bundesliga at this point (29) than all other teams combined (28). With the 2020 Cup win, FC Bayern has won 50 national titles (30 German Championships and 20 Cup wins). Like Ajax Amsterdam and Juventus Turin, FC Bayern has won all three European Cups as well as UEFA Super Cup and World Cup. In addition, becoming FIFA Club World Champions was its first achievement until Manchester United matched it in 2017 by winning the UEFA Europa League. Apart from Bayern Munich, only Real Madrid and Ajax Amsterdam have won the European Champion Clubs' Cup three times in a row. That's why UEFA allows FC Bayern, among others, to wear a special version of the Starball at Champions League matches, which also features the number '6' for the European Champion Clubs' Cup and Champions League titles won.

International titles

European Champion Clubs' Cup/UEFA Champions League (6)
1973/74	1974/75	1975/76	2000/01	2012/13	2019/20
European Cup Winners' Cup (1)
1966/67
UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League (1)
1995/96
UEFA Super Cup (2)
2013	2020
World Cup (2)
1976	2001
FIFA Club World Cup (2)
2013	2020

National titles

German Football Championship (31)

1931/32

1968/69

1971/72

1972/73

1973/74

1979/80

1980/81

1984/85

1985/86

1986/87

1988/89

1989/90

1993/94

1996/97

1998/99

1999/2000

2000/01

2002/03

2004/05

2005/06

2007/08

2009/10

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

DFB Cup (20)

1957

1965/66

1966/67

1968/69

1970/71

1981/82

1983/84

1985/86

1997/98

1999/2000

2002/03

2004/05

2005/06

2007/08

2009/10

2012/13

2013/14

2015/16

2018/19

2019/20

League Cup (6)

1997

1998

1999

2000

2004

2007

Supercup (8)

1987

1990

2010

2012

2016

2017

2018

2020

The "Supercup 1982", which was won by FC Bayern Munich in spring 1983, was only held unofficially.

Other successes, titles and awards

This outsourced section recognizes multiple successes (double, triple, ...), lists second places and names the regional titles won by FC Bayern from its early days until its promotion to the Bundesliga. The trophies won in invitational tournaments, as well as awards bestowed upon FC Bayern, are also mentioned there.

Champions League Cup 2013


Coat of arms crowned by four master stars


The three European Champion Clubs' Cup trophies won consecutively between 1974 and 1976 (on the right, an original that the club is allowed to keep permanently, on the left, two smaller replicas).