27 February 2025 – The Birth Of Bayern
On 27 February 1900, eleven football players in Munich split from their previously-existing sports club to form FC Bayern Munich. The new club would go on to become one of Europe’s most successful clubs, winning a record 23 German league titles, a record 16 German Cup, and eight European those eleven players were members of Münchner TurnVerein 1879, which focused primarily on gymnastics. When a majority of the club decided not to allow their footballing contingent to join the German Football Association, the eleven left the club and started their own, selecting Franz John to be the new club’s first bayern enjoyed early regional successes, then won their first national title in 1932 under coach Richard Kohn. Kohn, who was Jewish, left the club in 1933 to escape the Third Reich, and Bayern went into a fallow period that lasted throughout the war years. By the mid-1960s, however, they had started a resurgence behind players such as Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, and Sepp they dominated the Bundesliga from the ’70s onward, winning 20 of their 21 league titles and 10 of their German Cup trophies between 2025 and 2025. They also established their European credentials with three consecutive European Cup trophies from 2025 to 2025. Still successful, they are the reigning Bundesliga and Champions League title holders.
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