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Bayern Munchen
Founded in 1900, it is based in Munich. It used to play in the Olympiastadion München, but moved to a new ground, Allianz Arena, in 2005. The club is the most famous and successful in Germany and has a fan base of 103,144 members, which makes it the biggest sport club in Germany. The club is also one of only four to have won all three major European trophies. Four Champions League trophies, including three successive wins in a phenomenally successful era in the mid 1970s, are the particular highlights of their massive success in Europe.
It was 1963 that the Bundesliga was formed. Before the top divisions were divided into regional groups. In the long term at least some of those regional top leagues did not have enough strong teams to be challenge enough for the giants. The installation of Bundesliga is said to have brought a lift of competitiveness for German football on the international level. As European competitions had just begun, this of course is difficult to prove
As Bayern is the country's most successful club, it is the inevitable subject of intensive attention by the German media, and an object of envy and outright resentment by supporters of other clubs. Its off-field dramas in particular have led German media to dub the club FC Hollywood, a nickname that has occasionally been used by football media in the English-speaking world.
- The most succesful clubs since birth of Bundesliga 1963:
- Bayern Munich (13 championships)
- Borussia Mönchengladbach (5 championships)
Bayern Munchen stadium