Bayern Munich The Football Club

Full name: FC Bayern M??Â?nchen AG Nickname: Der FCB (The FCB) Die Bayern (The Bavarians) Die Roten (The Reds) FC Hollywood Founded: 27 February 1900 Stadium: Allianz Arena Capacity: 69,901 Chairman: Franz Beckenbauer Head Coach: Ottmar Hitzfeld League: Bundesliga Last season performance: Bundesliga 4th

FC Bayern Munich is the most prestigious German football club. They are located in Bavaria, Munich one of the biggest city of Germany. Bayern Munchen as the Germans call them are not only the greatest club in their home country, they are also one of the biggest football team in the football world. Bayern won the UEFA Champions league four times and has two Intercontinental Cups. Their trophy hall of game also include one UEFA Cup, one Cup Winner’s trophy, 20 national league titles and 13 German Cups.
Bayern are a membership based club and they rank third in the world with more than 135,000 members. Only SL Benfica and FC Barcelona have more supporters as the German champions.

The Allianz Arena
After playing for decades on the Olympia Stadium in Munich, Bayern has moved in 2002 on the new built Allianz Arena. While the Olympia Stadium was built preparing the Munich Olympic Games the new Allianz Arena is designed only for football games. This means that the new building was raised with the optimum conditions to host a football game in terms of spectators, players and officials. The Alianz Arena was opened in the 2005-2006 season and has a capacity of 69,000 places. The first player to score on the new stadium was Owen Hargreaves ho did it against Borussia Moncehngladbach in a 3-0 win.

Bayern Munich current squad

1 GKOliver Kahn (captain), 2 DF Willy Sagnol (vice-captain), 3 DF L??�cio, 4 DF Marcell Jansen, 5 DF Daniel Van Buyten, 6 MF Mart??­n Demichelis, 7 MF Franck Rib??©ry, 8 MF Hamit Altintop, 9 FW Luca Toni, 10 FW Roy Makaay, 11 FW Lukas Podolski, 16 MF Andreas Ottl, 17 MF Mark van Bommel, 18 DF Andreas G??¶rlitz, 19 MF Julio dos Santos, 21 DF Philipp Lahm

Bayern Munich club statistics
Club Presidents History
07.10.1994 – * Franz Beckenbauer
09.10.1985 – 07.10.1994 Prof. Dr. Fritz Scherer
24.04.1979 – 09.10.1985 Willi O. Hoffmann
1962 – 19.03.1979 Wilhelm Neudecker
1958 – 1962 Roland Endler
1955 – 1958 Alfred Reitlinger
1953 – 1955 Adolf Fischer
Karli Wild
Hugo Theisinger
1951 – 1953 Julius Scheuring
1947 – 1951 Kurt Landauer
1945 – 1947 Siegfried Hermann
1945 Josef Bayer
1945 Franz Xaver Heilmansseder
1943 – 1945 Sauter
1938 – 1943 Kellner
1937 – 1938 Franz Nu???¸hardt
1935 – 1937 Dr. Richard Amesmeier
1934 – 1935 Dr. Karl-Heinz Oettinger
1933 – 1934 Siegfried Hermann
1922 – 1933 Kurt Landauer
1921 – 1922 Fred Dunn
1919 – 1921 Kurt Landauer
1916 – 1919 Fritz Meier
1916 Hans Berm??Â?hler
1915 Fritz Meier
1915 Hans Tusch
1914 – 1915 Fred Dunn
1913 – 1914 Kurt Landauer
1907 – 1913 Dr. Angelo Knorr
1906 – 1907 Kurt M??Â?ller
1903 – 1906 Dr. Willem Hesselink
1900 – 1903 Franz John

Team Captains History
2002 – Present Oliver Kahn
1999 – 2002 Stefan Effenberg
1997 – 1999 Thomas Helmer
1994 – 1996 Lothar Matth??¤us
1991 – 1994 Raimond Aumann
1984 – 1991 Klaus Augenthaler
1983 – 1984 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
1980 – 1983 Paul Breitner
1979 – 1980 Georg Schwarzenbeck
1979 – 1979 Gerd M??Â?ller
1977 – 1979 Sepp Maier
1970 – 1977 Franz Beckenbauer
1965 – 1970 Werner Olk

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