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Monday, April 9, 2012

FC Bayern Munich


FC Bayern Munich is a German Sports Club  based in Munich,Bavaria.It is best known for its professional football team, which plays in the Bundesliga, the top league of German football and is the most successful football club in Germany, having won 22 National Titles and 15 Cups.
The club was founded in 1900 by 11 Football Players led by Franz John. Bayern is a membership-based club with 162,187 members.
The club has other departments for Chess,Handball,Basketball,Gymnastics,Bowling,Table Tennis,Referees and Senior Football  with more than 1,100 active members.
Although Bayern won its first National Champioship in 1932, the club was not selected for the Bundesliga at its inception in 1963.

 Ownership
Bayern is run like a joint stock company, a company whose stock are not listed on the public stock exchange, but is privately owned. 84.1% of FC Bayern München AG is owned by the club, the FC Bayern München e. V. (e. V. is short for Eingetragener Verein, which translates into "Registered Club") and 9.4% by sports goods manufacturer Adidas and 6.5% by automobile company Audi 
Management
Bayern is led mostly by former club players. The club President is Uli Hoeneß. He has been in office, formerly as general manager of the club, since 1979. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is the chairman of the executive board of the AG.[77] The supervisory board of nine consists mostly of managers of big German corporations. They are Herbert Hainer (CEO adidas), Uli Hoeneß, Timotheus Höttges, Helmut Markwort, Dieter Rampl, Fritz Scherer, Rupert Stadler, Edmund Stoiber, and Martin Winterkorn

Stadium
Since the beginning of the 2005–06 season, Bayern plays its home games in the Allianz Arena .
  Previously the team had played in Munich's Olympic Stadium  for 33 years(1972-2005)


Champioship Titles
German Champions - a record 22 times
European Cup/UEFA Champions League since 1992 - 4 times in 1974-76(three times in a row under Frank Beckenbauer) and in 2001
Intercontinental Cup -twice in 1976 and 2001
UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League since 2009-10 season - in 1996
UEFA Cup Winners Cup  in 1967

Bayern is one of only 3 Clubs to have Won all 3 Major Eiropean Competitions ,that is,
1)European Cup/UEFA Champions League
2) UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League
3) UEFA Cup Winners Cup
Juventus -
Ajax -
Bayern -European Cup/UEFA Champions League since 1992 - 4 times in 1974-76 and 2001;UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League in 1996 and UEFA Cup Winners Cup  in 1967

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