Over 40 facts about Bayern Munich

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Facts

FC Bayern Munich was founded on the 27 February 1900 by 11 football players, led by Franz John

The club was not selected for the Bundesliga at its inception in 1963

Bayern has had 19 coaches since its promotion to the Bundesliga in 1965.

Bayern plays its home games at the Allianz Arena.

the Allianz Arena has a capacity of 75,000

Bayern Munich used to play at the Olympiastadion from 1972 to 2005

Jupp Heynckes had four separate spells as coach, including one as caretaker

Bayern have won six European Cup/UEFA Champions League titles

Bayern won the European Cup three consecutive times in the 70’s (1974–1976)

Bayern have won 81 major trophies: 67 national titles and 14 international titles.

Bayern Munich are one of five clubs to have won all three of UEFA’s main club competitions

Bayern players have won the European Golden Shoe 4 times

Bayern Munich became only the second club to win the sextuple.

Gerd Müller won it in 1970 with 38 goals and in 1972 with 40 goals

Robert Lewandowski won it in 2021 with 41 goals and in 2022 goals

They have the most consecutive seasons in Bundesliga at 58

Bayern have won the most Bundesliga titles won with 31 titles as of this article

Bayern have won the DFB-Pokal 20 times.

They have also the most consecutive Bundesliga titles won which stands at 10 between 2013 to 2022. this is still ongoing.

Roy Makaay scored the fastest goal in UEFA Champions League history after 10.12 seconds against Real Madrid on 7 March 2007.

Sepp Maier has the most League appearances at 537

Thomas Müller has the most European Cup/UEFA Champions League appearances at 136

Gerd Muller has the record for the most goals in all competitions at 563

Gerd Muller has the record for the most League goals at 398

Gerd Muller has the record for the most Bundesliga goals at 365

Gerd Müller has the record for the most goals in a season at 66 during the 1972–73 season

Robert Lewandowski has the record for the most Bundesliga goals in a season at 41 during the 2020–21 season

For most of the club’s early history, Bayern had mainly worn white and maroon home kits

In 1968–69 season, Bayern changed to red and blue striped shirts, with blue shorts and socks.

The club’s away kit has had a wide range of colours over the years, including white, black, blue, and gold-green

In recent years Bayern has mostly worn an all-red home kit with white trim. A few exceptions to this from season to season.

The current crest is blue, red, and white.

The current crest has the colours of Bavaria in its centre.

There are 4,433 officially registered fan clubs with over 390,000 members in the world

As of 2018,2019 the club had 293,000 regsitered members.

Bayern Munich has completed all available Trebles (seasonal treble, domestic treble and European treble

Bayern set the record for the most points in a Bundesliga campaign in 2013, when they collected 91 points

FC Bayern conceded just 17 goals in the 2015/16 campaign which is a Bundesliga record

Bayern scored 101 goals in the 1971/72 season which is a Bundesliga record as well

FC Bayern managed 22 clean sheets in the 2014/15 campaign, a Bundesliga record

Ottmar Hitzfeld is Bsyerns most successful manager winning a total of 14 trophies

Lucas Hernandez is the record transfer fee paid out at £72m from Athletic Madrid.

Robert Lewandowski the record transfer fee paid received at £40.50m from Barcelona

Their record Bundesliga victory at 11–1 versus Borussia Dortmund on the 27th November 1971

Their record Bundesliga defeat is 0–7 versus Schalke 04 on 9th October 1976

7 players have been the top scorer in the Bundesliga

Those 7 players above were top scorers in the Bundesliga 21 times in total

Bayern players have won the Ballon d’Or 5 times – Robert Lewandowski never did at his time at Bayern !!!!

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