Football Club Bayern Munchen e.V., commonly known as FC Bayern Munchen, FCB,Bayern Munich or FC Bayern, is a german sports club based in Munich, Bavaria Germany. It is best known for its professional football team, which plays in the Bundesliga. The top tier of the German football league system abd is the most successful club in german football history having won a record 26 national titles and 18 national cups. FC Bayern was founded in 1900 by eleven 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 times in a row (1974-76). 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 winner's cup, one UEFA Super cup, one FIFA club world cup and two Intercontinental Cups, making it one of the most successful European clubs Internatinally. They have a nicknames of The FCB, The Bavarians, The Reds, Star of the south, FC Hollywood. Since the formation of the bundeliga , bayern has been the dominant club in German football with 26 titles and has won 8 of the last 12 titles. They have traditional local rivalries with TSV 1860 Munchen and 1.FC Nurnberg, as well as with Borussia Dortmund since the mid 1990s. Since the beginning of the 2005-06 season, Bayern has played its home games at the Allianz Arena. Previously the team had played at Munich's Olympiastadion for 33 years. the team colors are red and white and the team crest shows the white and blue flag of Bavaria. In terms of revenue Bayern Munich is the biggest sports club in the world,generating 487.5 million euro for the 2013-14 season. Batern has over 270,000 members. There are more than 4,000 officially- registered fan clubs with over 314,000 members. The club has other departments for chess, handball, basketball,gymnastics,bowling,table tennis and senor football with more than 1,1.. active members. FC Bayern is ranked second in the current UEFA club coefficient rankings and second in IFFHS's latest IFFHS club world ranking. Amongst Bayern's chief European rivals are Real Madrid, A.C.Milan and Manchester united due to many classic wins, draws and losses. Real Madrid versus Bayern is the match that has historically been played most often in the champions league with 14 matches and the european cup with 19 matches. Real's biggest loss at home in champions league came at the hands of Bayern on 29 February 2000 (2-4). Due to Bayern being traditionally hard to beat for madrid. Madrid supporters often refer to Bayern as the Black Beast. Despite the number of duels, Bayern and Real have never met in the final of a champions league or European cup. The two teams met in the 2011-12 champions league semi-finals which resulted in 3-3 on aggregate forcing extra tie and penalties. Bayern won 3-1 on penalties to reach their first ever home champions league final. They then again met in 2013-14 UEFA champions league semi-finals a rematch of the 2012 semi-finals with Real Madrid winning 5-0 on aggregate.
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