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50 free Bayern Munich trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
FC Bayern München began on the evening of 27 February 1900, when eleven footballers walked out of a Munich gymnastics club that would not let them join the German FA. Snubbed for the first Bundesliga in 1963, the club built a side around Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller and Sepp Maier, won three European Cups in a row in the 1970s and has dominated German football ever since: a record 35 national titles, eleven of them consecutive, six European Cups and the only sextuple besides Barcelona's. This quiz covers the founders and the first title of 1932, Kurt Landauer's exile and return, the Cajkovski promotion side, the first match at the Olympiastadion, Leeds in Paris, FC Breitnigge and FC Hollywood, Norwich at the Olympiastadion, the 1999 and 2012 final heartbreaks, Robbery, the Wembley treble, Guardiola's 53-game run, Lisbon 2020, Lewandowski's 41, Harry Kane's record fee, the Allianz Arena's glowing skin, Mia San Mia, Berni the bear and the slap that started Der Klassiker. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for the pub.
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Q 01In what year was FC Bayern Munich founded?
1900
Eleven footballers walked out of a gymnastics club meeting and formed the club the same evening.
Q 02Who led the eleven founding players?
Franz John
Within months the new club was beating local rivals by scores like 15–0.
Q 03Bayern won their first national championship in 1932 by beating whom 2–0 in the final?
Eintracht Frankfurt
Coach Richard 'Little Dombi' Kohn and president Kurt Landauer, both Jewish, soon had to flee the Nazis.
Q 04Which Jewish club president returned from exile in 1947 to lead Bayern again?
Kurt Landauer
He remains the president with the longest accumulated tenure and is credited with the club turning professional.
Q 05Which local rival was picked ahead of Bayern for the inaugural Bundesliga in 1963?
1860 Munich
Bayern were only sixth in the twelve-year ranking; 1860 were reigning Oberliga Süd champions.
Q 06Which coach, hired in 1963, took Bayern up to the Bundesliga in 1965?
Zlatko Čajkovski
He had led 1. FC Köln to the 1962 title and fielded young Beckenbauer, Müller and Maier.
Q 07Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller and Sepp Maier were collectively known as what?
The axis
The trio carried the club from the regional league to three European Cups.
Q 08Which Scottish club did Bayern beat in the 1967 Cup Winners' Cup final?
Rangers
Franz Roth scored the extra-time winner; he would score in European finals again in 1975 and 1976.
Q 09Which coach delivered the first league and cup double in Bundesliga history in 1969?
Branko Zebec
He used only 13 players all season.
Q 10The 1972 title decider, the first match at the Olympiastadion, was a 5–1 win over whom?
Schalke 04
It was also the first live televised match in Bundesliga history.
Q 11Whom did Bayern beat 4–0 in a replay to win the 1974 European Cup final?
Atlético Madrid
It was the club's breakthrough as an international force.
Q 12Which English club lost the 1975 European Cup final to Bayern in Paris?
Leeds United
Their fans rioted afterwards and the club was banned from Europe for three years.
Q 13Bayern's third straight European Cup in 1976 came against which French club in Glasgow?
Saint-Étienne
Another Franz Roth goal decided it.
Q 14Which US club did Franz Beckenbauer leave Bayern for in 1977?
Q 21Who beat Bayern 2–1 with two injury-time goals in the 1999 Champions League final?
Manchester United
Ottmar Hitzfeld's side had led for most of the match in Barcelona.
Q 22Whom did Bayern beat on penalties to win the 2001 Champions League after a 25-year gap?
Valencia
Days earlier a stoppage-time goal had won the league on the final day.
Q 23Which club shared the Allianz Arena with Bayern until 2017?
1860 Munich
They left after relegation to the fourth-tier Regionalliga.
Which phrase did Louis van Gaal coin about a young forward promoted in 2009?
New York Cosmos
Gerd Müller joined the Fort Lauderdale Strikers two years later.
Q 15What does the term Bayerndusel describe?
Narrow, last-minute wins
It was coined in the 1970s as an expression of contempt or envy.
Q 16Which pair gave the early-1980s team the nickname 'FC Breitnigge'?
Paul Breitner and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
They led Bayern to titles in 1980 and 1981.
Q 17Why did the mid-1990s Bayern earn the nickname 'FC Hollywood'?
Players kept appearing in the gossip pages
Trapattoni and Rehhagel both finished trophyless in that period.
Q 18Which was the only English club to beat Bayern at the Olympiastadion?
Norwich City
It came in the 1993–94 UEFA Cup second round.
Q 19Whom did Bayern beat in the 1996 UEFA Cup final?
Bordeaux
Franz Beckenbauer was caretaker coach for the run-in.
Q 20Which newly promoted club took the 1998 title from Bayern?
Kaiserslautern
Trapattoni had to take his leave for a second time.
With me, Müller always plays
It has been much referenced ever since; Müller retired with a record 756 appearances.
Q 25Which wing pair did the press nickname 'Robbery'?
Arjen Robben and Franck Ribéry
They shaped Bayern's attacking style for a decade from 2009.
Q 26Who beat Bayern in the 2010 Champions League final?
Inter Milan
The same opponents knocked them out in the first knockout round a year later.
Q 27Who beat Bayern on penalties in the 2012 Champions League final at the Allianz Arena?
Chelsea
It was a second consecutive trophyless season.
Q 28How many points did the 2012–13 treble winners collect, a Bundesliga record?
91
Only eleven points shy of a perfect season.
Q 29Which club ended Bayern's 53-match unbeaten league run under Guardiola?
Augsburg
It came two match days after the title had already been clinched.
Q 30For what crime was president Uli Hoeneß sentenced to three and a half years in 2014?
Tax evasion
He resigned the next day but was re-elected president in 2016 after early release.