FC Bayern Munich
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| Full name | FC Bayern München | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Die Bayern (the Bavarians), FC Hollywood | ||
| Founded | 1900 | ||
| Ground | Allianz Arena | ||
| Capacity | 70,000 | ||
| Chairman | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | ||
| Manager | Uli Hoeness | ||
| League | Bundesliga | ||
| 2004-05 | Bundesliga, 1st | ||
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Bayern Munich or FC Bayern (German: FC Bayern München) is a German football club.
Founded in 1900, it is based in the Bavarian city of Munich. It used to play in the Olympiastadion München, but moved to a new ground, Allianz Arena, in 2005. The club is the most famous and successful in Germany and has a fan base of 104,720 members and 2,189 fan clubs, which makes it the biggest sport club in Germany. The club is also one of only four to have won all three major European trophies. Four Champions League trophies, including three successive wins in a phenomenally successful era in the mid 1970s, are the particular highlights of their massive success in Europe.
As Bayern is the country's most successful club, it is the inevitable subject of intensive attention by the German media, and an object of envy and outright resentment by supporters of other clubs. Its off-field dramas in particular have led German media to dub the club FC Hollywood, a nickname that has occasionally been used by football media in the English-speaking world.
Bayern Munich won its 19th German Championship in the 2004/05 season, retaining its reputation as the very best and most successful team in Germany.
Honours
German Championships (19): 1932, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005
German Cup titles (12): 1957, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005
European Champions' Cup/League titles (4): 1974, 1975, 1976, 2001
European Cup Winners' Cup title: 1967
Intercontinental Cup: 1976, 2001
Records
- 19 German championship
- 15 straight victories in Bundesliga
2005/2006 First Team Squad
Reserve squad
New players
- Valérien Ismaël from SV Werder Bremen in transfer deal with Torsten Frings
- Ali Karimi from Al-Ahli of UAE
- Philipp Lahm from VfB Stuttgart (Return from Loan)
- Andreas Ottl from Bayern Munich youth system
- Julio Dos Santos from Cerro Porteno
Players leaving
- Thomas Linke to Austria Salzburg
- Alexander Zickler to Austria Salzburg
- Samuel Kuffour to AS Roma
- Robert Kovač to Juventus
- Torsten Frings to Werder Bremen in transfer with Valérien Ismaël
- Vahid Hashemian to Hannover 96
- Tobias Rau to Armenia Bielefeld
Famous players
Bayern Munich "Greatest Ever" squad
On June 1 2005, on the opening of the new Allianz Arena, Bayern Munich announced the results of its "Greatest Ever" squad [1]. 66000 fans participated in an online poll, where they could pick players from a hand-picked list of 66. The result was:
- Sepp Maier (GK) - legendary goalkeeper and prankster
- Klaus Augenthaler - tough-as-nails libero who played all his 16 players years for Bayern
- Franz Beckenbauer - the arguably most beloved defender of all time and current president
- Paul Breitner - controversial, but extremely talented and successful fullback
- Georg Schwarzenbeck - Beckenbauer's trusty lieutenant and the quintessential sweeper
- Stefan Effenberg - controversial, but genius captain of the squad who won the 2001 UEFA Champions League
- Lothar Matthäus - played for Bayern early and late in his career, the epitome of fighting spirit
- Mehmet Scholl - often-injured, but lethal dribbler and a big fan favourite on and off the pitch
- Giovane Elber - the most succesful foreigner in the Bundesliga and a big fan favourite
- Gerd Müller - probably the best pure "Number 9" striker of all time
- Karlheinz Rummenigge - genius, versatile left-footed striker and vice president today
- Ottmar Hitzfeld (trainer) - sparked the renaissance of Bayern in the late Nineties and won the 2001 UEFA Champions League
Players from youth system
- Owen Hargreaves
- Bastian Schweinsteiger
- Philipp Lahm
- Thomas Hitzlsperger
- Dietmar Hamann
- Michael Rensing
- Stefan Wessels
- Andreas Ottl
- José Paolo Guerrero
Coaches
- Tschik Cajkovski (1965-1968)
- Branko Zebec (1968-1970)
- Udo Lattek (1970-1975)
- Dettmar Cramer (1975-1977)
- Gyula Lóránt (1977-1979)
- Pál Csernai (1979-1983)
- Reinhard Saftig (1983)
- Udo Lattek (1983-1987)
- Jupp Heynckes (1987-1991)
- Søren Lerby (1991-1992)
- Erich Ribbeck (1992-1993)
- Franz Beckenbauer (1993-1994)
- Giovanni Trapattoni (1994-1995)
- Otto Rehhagel (1995-1996)
- Franz Beckenbauer (1996)
- Giovanni Trapattoni (1996-1998)
- Ottmar Hitzfeld (1998-2004)
- Felix Magath (since 2004)
See also
External link
- Official site in English (German, Japanese and Chinese versions also available)
- Bayern Munich MSN Group
- Pizarro
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