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 | Felix Magath | ||
| 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
| Championship | Number of championships won | Years won | Number of years as Runners up | Years as Runners up | ||||||||||
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| Domestic championships | ||||||||||||||
| German Championships | 19 | 1932, 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 | 8 | 1969/70, 1970/71, 1987/88, 1990/91, 1992/93, 1995/96, 1997/98, 2003/04 | ||||||||||
| DFB Cup | 12 | 1957, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005 | 2 | 1985, 1999 | ||||||||||
| Championships in European competitions | ||||||||||||||
| UEFA Champins League/European Cup | 4 | 1973/74, 1974/75, 1975/76, 2000/01 | 3 | 1981/82, 1986/87, 1998/99 | ||||||||||
| UEFA Cup | 1 | 1995/96 | 0 | - | ||||||||||
| UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1 | 1967 | 0 | - | World championships | |||||||||
| Intercontinental Cup | 2 | 1976, 2001 | ||||||||||||
Records
- 19 German championship
- 15 straight victories in Bundesliga
2005/2006 First Team 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
Reserve squad
Noted players
"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:
| "Greatest Ever" team | |||||
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| Player | Years | Description | |||
| Sepp Maier (GK) | 1963-1979 | Legendary goalkeeper and prankster, Germany's most successful goalie of all time | |||
| Klaus Augenthaler | 1977-1991 | Tough-as-nails libero who played all his 16 players years for Bayern. | |||
| Franz Beckenbauer | 1965-1977 | The arguably most beloved defender of all time and current president of FC Bayern. | |||
| Paul Breitner | 1970-1983 | Controversial, but extremely talented and successful fullback | |||
| Georg Schwarzenbeck | 1966-1980 | Beckenbauer's trusty lieutenant and the quintessential sweeper. | |||
| Stefan Effenberg | 1990-1992 1998-2002 |
Controversial, but genius captain of the squad who won the 2001 UEFA Champions League | |||
| Lothar Matthäus | 1984-1988 1992-2000 |
Played for Bayern early and late in his career, the epitome of fighting spirit, was still world-class at age 39 | |||
| Mehmet Scholl | 1992-Present | Often injured, but lethal dribbler and a big fan favourite | |||
| Giovane Elber | 1997-2003 | the most succesful foreigner in the Bundesliga | |||
| Gerd Müller | 1964-1979 | probably the best pure center-striker of all time. | |||
| Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | 1974-1984 | suave, versatile left-footed striker and vice president today | |||
| Ottmar Hitzfeld (trainer) | 1998-2004 | sparked the renaissance of Bayern in the late Nineties and won the 2001 UEFA Champions League | |||
Other noted players
Listed according to when they debuted for Bayern Munich (year in parentheses):
- 1900s-1910s: Max 'Gaberl' Gablonsky
- 1920s-1930s: Ludwig Goldbrunner (1927), Oskar Rohr (1930), Conrad Heidkamp, Franz Krumm, Wilhelm Simetsreiter, Jakob Streitle
- 1940s:
- 1950s:
- 1960s: Dieter Brenninger (1963?), Werner Olk (1963?), Franz Roth (1966)
- 1970s: Uli Hoeneß (1970), Rainer Zobel (1970), Wolfgang Dremmler (1979), Dieter Hoeneß (1979)
- 1980s: Hans Pflügler (1981?), Raimond Aumann (1984), Roland Wohlfarth (1984), Andreas Brehme (1986), Olaf Thon (1988)
- 1990s: Thomas Helmer (1992), Oliver Kahn (1994), Jürgen Klinsmann (1995), Mario Basler (1996), Bixente Lizarazu (1997)
- 2000s: Michael Ballack (2002), Roy Makaay (2003)
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
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