Fußball-Club Bayern München e.V., commonly known as FC
Bayern München , FCB, Bayern Munich, or FC Bayern, 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 tier of the German
football league system, and is the most successful club in German
football history, having won a record 29 national titles and 19 national
cups.
FC Bayern was founded in 1900 by 11 football players, led by
Franz John. Although Bayern won its first national championship in 1932,
the club was not selected for the Bundesliga at its inception in 1963.
The club had its period of greatest success in the middle of the 1970s
when, under the captaincy of Franz Beckenbauer, it won the European Cup
three consecutive times (1974–1976). Overall, Bayern has reached ten
European Cup/UEFA Champions League finals, most recently winning their
fifth title in 2013 as part of a continental treble. Bayern has also won
one UEFA Cup, one European Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one
FIFA Club World Cup and two Intercontinental Cups, making it one of the
most successful European clubs internationally and the only German club
to have won both international titles. Since the formation of the
Bundesliga, Bayern has been the dominant club in German football,
winning 29 titles, including seven consecutively since 2013. They have
traditional local rivalries with 1860 Munich and 1. FC Nürnberg, as well
as with Borussia Dortmund since the mid-1990s.