The club was founded in 1900 by eleven football players led by Franz John.[2] Although Bayern won its first national championship in 1932,[3] the club was not selected for the Bundesliga at its inception in 1963.[4] The club had its period of greatest success in the middle of the 1970s when, under the leadership of Franz Beckenbauer, it won the European Cup three times in a row (1974–76). In recent years Bayern Munich has been the most successful club in German football, winning five of the last ten Bundesliga titles. The club's last international title was the Intercontinental Cup in 2001, after they won their fourth European Cup the same year.
Bayern Munich has a rivalry with Borussia Dortmund, TSV 1860 München, and 1. FC Nuremberg. Since the beginning of the 2005–06 season Bayern plays its home games in the Allianz Arena. Previously the team had played in Munich's Olympic Stadium for 33 years. The team colours are red and white, and the team crest shows the colours of Bavaria.[5] Bayern is a membership-based club with more than 185,000 members..
Bayern considers itself a national club.[51] The club has more than 147,000 members and 2,437 fanclubs, making it the club with the largest number of organized supporters in Germany.[52] Owing partly to the club having supporters all over the country,[53] all of Bayern's away games have been sold out in recent years.[54] Their following is mainly recruited from the aspiring middle class and regional Bavaria.[citation needed] Despite a large proportion of their supporters having to travel more than 200 km (ca. 120 miles) regularly,[55] the club's home matches in the Allianz Arena have almost always been sold out.[54][56] According to a study by Sport+Markt Bayern is the fifth-most popular football club in Europe with 20.7 million supporters, and the most popular football club in Germany with 10 million supporters.[57]
Bayern Munich is also renowned for its well-organized ultra scene. The most prominent groups are the Schickeria München, the Red Munichs '89, the Südkurve '73, the Munichmaniacs 1996, the Service Crew Munich, the Red Angels, the Tavernen Crew München, and the Red Sharks. Stern des Südens is the song which fans sing at FCB home games. In the 1990s they also used to sing FC Bayern, Forever Number One.[58]
The club also has quite a number of high profile supporters, among them Pope Benedict XVI, the current Pope,[59] Boris Becker, retired German tennis player, Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer, and Horst Seehofer and Edmund Stoiber, current and former Minister-President..
Domestic
European
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
- Winner (1): 1967
- UEFA Europa League / UEFA Cup
- Winner (1): 1996
Worldwide
- Intercontinental Cup
- Winner (2):1976,2001
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The recent season-by-season performance of the club..
| Season | Rank | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | Cup | EL | CL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000–01 | 1 | 34 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 62 | 37 | 25 | 63 | 2R | — | Won |
| 2001–02 | 3 | 34 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 62 | 25 | 40 | 68 | SF | — | QF |
| 2002–03 | 1 | 34 | 23 | 6 | 5 | 70 | 25 | 45 | 75 | Won | — | 1R |
| 2003–04 | 2 | 34 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 70 | 39 | 31 | 68 | QF | — | 1/8 |
| 2004–05 | 1 | 34 | 24 | 5 | 5 | 75 | 33 | 42 | 77 | Won | — | QF |
| 2005–06 | 1 | 34 | 22 | 9 | 3 | 67 | 32 | 35 | 75 | Won | — | 1/8 |
| 2006–07 | 4 | 34 | 18 | 6 | 10 | 55 | 40 | 15 | 60 | 3R | — | QF |
| 2007–08 | 1 | 34 | 22 | 10 | 2 | 68 | 21 | 47 | 76 | Won | SF | — |
| 2008–09 | 2 | 34 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 71 | 42 | 29 | 67 | QF | — | QF |
| 2009–10 | 1 | 34 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 72 | 31 | 41 | 70 | Won | — | Runner-up |
| 2010–11 | 3 | 34 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 81 | 40 | 41 | 65 | SF | — | 1/8 |
| 2011–12 | 2 | 34 | 23 | 4 | 7 | 77 | 22 | 55 | 73 | Runner-up | — | Runner-up |
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