Bayern Munich are Germany’s most famous and most successful football club. The Bavarians are routinely in the hunt for the Bundesliga title and contenders each season for the Champions League trophy.

Bayern Munich aren’t just the biggest team in Germany, but a club that players dream of playing for. Die Roten have the pick of the litter when it comes to the best Bundesliga players and constantly weaken title rivals by attracting their top stars. 

Known as FC Hollywood, Bayern Munich regularly dazzle fans with an exciting brand of football. With over 30 Bundesliga titles now won by the Bavarians, fans can expect more domestic silverware to be placed onto the club’s trophy shelves. 

About Bayern Munich 

Bayern Munich were founded in 1900. Although the club have achieved tremendous amounts of success over the years, it took some time to collect silverware. In fact, for many years, Bayern Munich were the city’s second team behind 1860 Munich. 

Die Roten were not one of the original 16 Bundesliga founding clubs in 1963. It took them two years to gain promotion to the German top-flight, a place they have been accustomed to ever since. Between 1965 and 1979, Bayern Munich transformed themselves from a local Bavarian club into the German powerhouse fans support today. In 14 years, Bayern Munich won four DFB Pokal trophies, four Bundesliga championships, a UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, and three consecutive European Cups.

Some of the game’s greatest-ever players, Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Muller, played for Bayern Munich during these highly successful years. 

The 1980s saw further domestic success at Bayern Munich. They won five Bundesliga titles between 1980 and 1989. Yet, after the highly successful 1980s, Bayern Munich experienced a flat decade during the 1990s in terms of their high standards. Between 1993 and 1999, the club won just three Bundesliga trophies. 

The lean decade brought on greater amounts of success at the turn of the millennium. Since 2000, Bayern Munich have won 15 Bundesliga trophies in just over two decades of football. Along with dominating the domestic title race, Bayern Munich have collected 20 DFB Pokal trophies and won six European Cup/Champions League trophies. The most recent came in 2019-20.

This season, Bayern Munich will once again be stacked with some of the world’s best players. Trophies could find their way to Bavaria once more at the end of the campaign. 

Bet on Bayern Munich 

Leading sportsbooks offer betting markets on Bayern Munich every matchday of the football season. The long football campaign provides bettors the opportunity to wager on the German club in a variety of ways. Bettors can wager on Die Roten as the outright winner of the Bundesliga, the Champions League, or the DFB Pokal competitions before they kick off each tournament.

There is the opportunity to bet on one-off matches, players, correct scores, goals, and more. Special offers on big games in the league or European cup competitions are also available with major bookies. Of course, football bettors love to wager on Der Klassiker between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.

Bettors have the chance to select bets on Bayern Munich in the transfer market and which player(s) will arrive at the club each transfer window. Bettors can even wager on who will be the next Bayern Munich manager.

Bayern Munich Players

Bayern Munich are the home of one of the world’s best – if not the best – strikers. Robert Lewandowski has scored 340 goals for the club since arriving in 2014. Lewandowski nearly single-handedly led Bayern Munich to a treble in 2019-20, scoring 55 goals in in 47 appearances. Had the Balon D’or been given out in 2020, Lewandowski would have surely won. 

Bayern Munich don’t just employ one of the world’s best strikers as the club are home to top-rated players in goal, defence, and midfield. Thomas Muller continues to be the assist king of European football. Muller has tallied over 220 career assists in all competitions for Die Roten.

Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer remains one of Europe’s best goalkeepers. Neuer has tallied more than 200 clean sheets for Bayern Munich. 

Bayern Munich Honours

German Champions/Bundesliga

Winners: (31) 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, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21

DFB-Pokal

Winners: (20) 1956–57, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2018–19, 2019–20 

DFB/DFL-Supercup

Winners: 1987, 1990, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 

DFL-Ligapokal

Winners: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2007 

UEFA Champions League / European Cup

Winners: 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 2000–01, 2012–13, 2019–20

UEFA Europa League / UEFA Cup

Winners: 1995–96

UEFA/European Cup Winners' Cup

Winners: 1966–67

UEFA/European Super Cup

Winners: 2013, 2020

Intercontinental Cup

Winners: 1976, 2001

FIFA Club World Cup

Winners: 2013, 2020

Bayern Munich All-Time Top Goalscorers

Gerd Muller is Bayern Munich's all-time top goalscorer with 563 goals for the Bavarians. Below are the top five Bayern Munich goalscorers of all-time.

1. Gerd Muller – 563 goals
2. Roberto Lewandowski – 340 goals
3. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge – 217 goals
4. Rainer Ohlhauser – 215 goals
5. Thomas Muller – 214 goals 

Bayern Munich Legends

Gerd Muller is one of the all-time Bayern Munich greats. He scored an incredible number of goals (563) and helped Bayern Munich win a number of trophies. Franz Beckenbauer played alongside Muller in the Bayern Munich team and became the prototype of what a sweeper/defender should be.

Bayern Munich have created many legendary footballers and will continue doing so. 

Here is a list of some of the best players to player of Bayern Munich over the years:

• Franz Beckenbauer
• Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
• Gerd Muller
• Oliver Kahn
• Lothar Matthaus
• Paul Breitner
• Stefan Effenberg
• Uli Hoeness
• Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck
• Sepp Maier
• Mehmet Scholl
• Klaus Augenthaler
• Philipp Lahm
• Bastian Schweinsteiger
• Michael Ballack
• Bixente Lizarazu
• Ze Roberto
• Frank Ribery
• Lucio
• Franz Roth
• Arjen Robben
• Owen Hargreaves

Bayern Munich Managers 

Bayern Munich recently said good bye to highly successful coach Hansi Flick, who took over the German national team after departing. Flick was another in a long line of great coaches to oversee Bayern Munich.

Pep Guardiola, Franz Beckenbauer, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Carlo Ancelotti, and Jupp Heynckes are some of the other top coaches to patrol the Bayern Munich sidelines in the past. With trophy success expected each season, Bayern Munich are not afraid to change coaches if the results are not satisfactory. 

Below is a list of every manager that has taken charge of the Bavarians.