Bet on Bayern Munich FC

Want to talk about clubs that give you the best odds of winning your bet? Let’s talk about betting on Bayern Munich FC! This club holds the record of 14 consecutive wins against Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga. That could have been 14 bets! When it comes to the Bundesliga, Bayern hold all the records. They won the Meisterschale no less than 25 times! Bayern, known in Germany as Die Roten, are the most popular club (most members) and the most hated club. A fate shared by so many big clubs in their own country.

Bayern were the first German club to win the Treble, winning the Bundesliga, UEFA Champions League and German National Cup under Jupp Heynckes’ leadership in the 2012/13 season. (Those who placed bets on that beforehand are playing Bayern Munich at a high level).

They took on Dortmund in the Champions League Final, having lost to Chelsea in the previous year’s final. A final with a golden edge for Arjen Robben. While he was still the schmuck against Chelsea with a missed penalty, against Dortmund he made the winning goal just before time. With a delicious foot movement…

History of the club

Fans of Bayern Munich can easily work out how old their club is. After all, it all started on 27 February 1900. Some members of the Munich gymnastics club wanted to play football, but the club’s management stopped them from doing so. Thereupon, 11 people left the association and started the football club Fußball-Club Bayern München on the same evening.

In the early years, the football club was quite successful, with wins in regional competitions and cups. Of course, World War I called all development to a halt. But by 1920, with 700 members, Bayern Munich proved to be the city’s biggest club.

In 1926, the club won its first southern German championship, again two years later. When Bayern was founded in 1900, they did not immediately dominate German football as they do today. In fact, they had to wait until 1932 to win their first national title by beating southern German champion Eintracht Frankfurt in the final. Our thoughts automatically wander to the old-fashioned bookies with this kind of year. Striking figures, equipped with hats, notepad and pencil. Who made betting on FC Bayern Munich possible.

Bayern Munich loathed as ‘Jew club’

A year after the 1932 national title, there was disaster for the club, Europe and the world. Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. The club was labelled “the club of the Jews” and experienced hard times during the war, with most of the staff forced to leave the country.

Chairman Kurt Landauer and Hungarian coach Richard Kohn were both also Jewish and felt forced to leave the club and the country. Kohn would go on to coach Feyenoord between 1935-1939 and into the 1950s, and FC Barcelona in 1926-1927 and 1933-1934.

The club would fail to reach the German top for many years. The Nazi regime labelled Bayern a ‘Judenklub’ and had more affection for city rival 1860 Munich. After the end of World War II, Bayern Munich settled in the Oberliga Süd. In 1947, Landauer also returned from exile to become chairman one more time.

In the 1950s, the club almost went bankrupt. In 1957, the club’s fortunes turned a little and it won its first national cup, the DFB Pokal. Betting on Bayern Munich as the winner was undoubtedly a lucrative bet back then. Since odds for the club never winning before are usually attractive.

Bayern Munich in Bundesliga and Europe

In 1963, the Oberligas were merged into the new Bundesliga. However, Bayern was not included, as they had underperformed the based on the previous 12 years. The club then decided to recruit Zlatko Cajkovski as coach. He had become champion with 1.FC Köln in 1962.

With a young group of players, it had to fight its way through two divisions and finally promoted to the Bundesliga in 1965. Those young players included the three players, called “the axis”, who were responsible for this success two years later. You may have heard of Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller and Sepp Maier. Respectively “Die Kaiser”, “Der Bomber” and “Die Katze von Anzing”.

In their first Bundesliga season, Bayern Munich finished third but also won the cup. This allowed them to play in the Europa Cup II for Cup winners in 1966-1967. They also won that directly by beating Rangers in the final. That same year, they won the DFB Pokal again. In 1969, Bayern even won the double in Germany. Back then, betting on Bayern Munich didn’t put you in a winning position.

Udo Lattek and three times European Cup I

In 1970, 35-year-old coach Udo Lattek took the helm at Bayern Munich, at the intercession of Franz Beckenbauer. Under Lattek, Bayern won three league titles in a row between 1972 and 1974 and reached the semi-finals of the European Cup II in 1972. The biggest success came in 1974. That was when Bayern won its first Europa Cup I (precursor to the Champions League) after a replay of Atlético Madrid. Gerd Müller was the big man with eight goals.

However, after a poor start to the season in 1974-75, Lattek was sacked. Although his successor Dettmar Cramer did not win a national title or cup with Bayern Munich, it did win the European Cup I in 1975 and 1976. Doing the same trick as Ajax had done before – winning the Cup with the Big Ears 3 times in a row. In the latter year, he also won the World Cup with the club, the last prize of the 1970s for Bayern. Betting on Bayern Munich was therefore slightly less favourable in those years, especially where silverware was concerned, that is.

Bayern Munich strong again in 1980s

In 1980 and 1981, the club won the national title again, and in 1982 Bayern was again in the final of the Europa Cup I. However, it lost that one to England’s Aston Villa. In the summer of 1983, Udo Lattek returned as coach. Meanwhile, he had won the UEFA Cup with Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1979 and the Europa Cup II with FC Barcelona in 1982. This made him the first coach to have won all three European tournaments.

At Bayern, Lattek again won three national titles in a row, from 1985-1987, and two national cups. Betting on Bayern Munich was thus again a treat. In 1987, he also reached the final of the European Cup, but this time FC Porto were too strong (thanks in part to Madjer’s famous heel). After four years of Lattek, Jupp Heynckes took over as coach and he won the national title in 1989 and 1990.

From FC Hollywood to new success

In the early 1990s, Bayern Munich would dip again. They won little, and players featured more often on the gossip pages than on the sports pages. As a result, Bayern acquired the not-so-flattering nickname FC Hollywood. In 1994, Franz Beckenbauer was briefly coach and led the club to the Bundesliga title. He then became president of the club. In 1996, he was briefly interim coach and won the UEFA Cup.

Ottmar Hitzfeld was taken over as coach of Borussia Dortmund in 1998. He would lead the club to great successes. Between 1998 and 2003, he won nine German prizes with Bayern Munich. In 1999, he still lost the Champions League final to Manchester United in bizarre fashion (two goals against in injury time) – live betting on Bayern Munich was insane that night. In 2001, however, he took revenge and won with Bayern in the final against Valencia.

Arjen Robben, Franck Ribéry, Louis van Gaal, Thomas Müller

After several more prizes in the Bundesliga and DFB Pokal, a big change came to the club in the late 2000s. Franck Ribéry, Miroslav Klose, Luca Toni and Arjen Robben were recruited by the club. In 2009, Louis van Gaal came in as coach and he brought in David Alaba and Thomas Müller from youth.

Van Gaal almost won the treble in his first year. Besides the double, he reached the Champions League final against José Mourinho and Wesley Sneijder’s Internazionale. Unfortunately, the Italians were too strong. In April 2011, Louis van Gaal already had to leave the club, but the biggest top players remained.

Jupp Heynckes, Pep Guardiola, Champions League and many national titles

From 2013, things really started to go fantastic at the club. Under the returning Jupp Heynckes, Bayern Munich finally won the Champions League again in 2013. In the final, they were too strong for Jürgen Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund. After four prizes in one season, Heynckes was replaced by Pep Guardiola, who came from FC Barcelona.

He was the second coach allowed to dominate nicely in the Bundesliga with Bayern. In three seasons, he won three league titles, two cups, and shortly after his appointment, the UEFA Super Cup and the World Cup for clubs. Several trainers were allowed to try to win the Champions League afterwards, but it remained ‘only’ every year already the Bundesliga since 2013 for Der Rekordmeister. Finally, in 2020, Hans-Dieter Flick managed to win the Champions League alongside a number of other prizes.

Bayern Munich club icons

The first club icon to be mentioned is, of course, Kurt Landauer. He was president of Bayern Munich from 1913-1914, 1919-1933 and 1947-1951. The most famous coach under Landauer was Richard Kohn who took the first national title in 1932. The best-known player was Konrad Heidkamp, player between 1928-1936 and in the club’s Hall of Fame.

In the 1960s, it was coach Zlatko Cajkovski who developed the selection with some great players. Among them, of course, ‘Der Kaiser’ Franz Beckenbauer, later coach and club president. However, also Sepp Maier (most games with 700), club top scorer Gerd Müller, Franz Roth and Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck.

Udo Lattek was responsible for six league titles and a European Cup I, among others, in two periods as coach in the 1970s and 1980s. His first successor Dettmar Cramer won two, of course. Klaus Augenthaler, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Uli Hoeneß and Paul Breitner experienced many successes as players under Lattek.

From 1984 to 1988, one Lothar Matthäus also played under Lattek at Bayern. He would return in 1992 to continue playing until 2000. Mehmet Scholl was Matthäus’ teammate for a long time, as were Stefan Effenberg and Oliver Kahn. Over the past 25 years, further coach Ottmar Hitzfeld, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Philipp Lahm, Manuel Neuer, Robert Lewandowski, Franck Ribéry, Arjen Robben and David Alaba were people who remained loyal to Bayern for a long time.

Retrospective Bayern Munich season 2021/2022

For the tenth year in a row, Bayern Munich managed to win the Bundesliga in 2022. Not surprisingly, as they are simply much stronger than the rest sporting and financially. If Borussia Dortmund already have a top player, Bayern simply buys them away. Like Robert Lewandowski, who just scored 35 times in the league.

In the second round of the cup, however, the club surprisingly lost 5-0 to Borussia Mönchengladbach. In the Champions League, there was also a relatively early exit. After a straightforward group stage, Bayern won against Red Bull Salzburg in the eighth final. However, in the quarter-finals, the club surprisingly went down against Villarreal.

Outlook Bayern Munich season 2022/2023

As mentioned, when betting on football, you don’t have to hope for high odds for a Bayern Munich national title. You’re better off looking at live betting football if you want to make it interesting for yourself. So we expect a simple eleventh national championship in a row.

But we also like to watch Bayern Munich in the Champions League. With FC Barcelona and Internazionale already in the group as opponents, it will be a tough European season for coach Julian Nagelsmann’s club.

Moreover, he will have to do without Robert Lewandowski, who left for FC Barcelona. However, with Sadio Mané, Matthijs de Ligt, Ryan Gravenberch and Noussair Mazraoui, the club has strengthened itself well for the future. Betting on Bayern Munich could be exciting all year long!