Facts about Bayern Munich: While everyone knows that just like FC Barcelona and Real Madrid has dominated Spanish Premier League, Bayern Munich has dominated German Primer League Bundesliga. What many don’t know is that Bayern has also dominated European Football Circuit and is considered one of the most dominating football teams in the world. Here are few facts that we think many people would be unaware of the German football Giants Bayern München.
- In 2015 Bayern Munich reached UEFA Champions League semifinals for a fourth year in a row. They have reached a total of 10 European Cup or UEFA Champions League finals and have won the Champions League title five times.
Bayern Muenchen Bundesliga Champions
- Bayern is the most successful football team in German football history. They have won a total of 25 league titles, 15+ cups and is the only German club to have won all of the European Cup, Cup Winners Cup and UEFA Cup.
- There are only seven European teams to have achieved a treble and Bayern Munich is the only German team on that list, others are FC Barcelona (Barça), Celtic, Ajax, PSV Eindhoven, Manchester United and Inter Milan.
- In Bundesliga Season 2014-15, Bayern sealed the Premier League title three times in a row for the fourth time in history; previously they had achieved hat-tricks in 1972-73-74, 1985-86-87 and then again 1999-2000-2001.
Manuel Neuer
- In the Previous season, Bayern and Germany’s national team goalkeeper Manuel Neuer broke Oliver Kahn’s 2001-02’s record for most number of clean sheets by a Bundesliga keeper, when Neuer beat Kan’s 19 clean sheets record with his own 20 clean sheets in the league.
- A Bayern Munich Football player has been nominated for the prestigious Ballon d’Or 15 times, but, unfortunately, a Bayern player has won it only five times that are twice by Franz Beckenbauer, twice by Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and once by Gerd Müller.
- There is a total of four coaches who have coached both Spain’s FC Barcelona team and Germany’s Bayern Munich, these four are Jack Domby, Udo Lattek, Louis van Gaal, and Bayern Munich`s current coach Pep Guardiola.
Allianz Arena - Bayern’s Home ground
- Bayern Munich`s home ground Allianz Arena has the total capacity of sitting 75,024 people in one go, it can add more seats, but they have kept the number on a slightly lower side as compared to other European competitions for safety reasons.
- The German national team that won 2014`s FIFA World Cup in Brazil last year had seven of Bayern Munich`s current or former football players playing in the starting 11 of the finals of the prestigious event.
- In season 2014-15, Bayern Munich`s triumph was the third-fastest in Bundesliga`s 52-year history, as Pep Guardiola led Munich team sealed the Bundesliga crown on Matchday 30. The league has only been won at an earlier point on two different occasions first back in the schedule of 2013 on Matchday 28 and then again in 2014 on Matchday 27. What are more all three times this record has been created by Bayern Munich.
