Bayern Munich Trivia
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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 01Which kind of club did Bayern's founders walk out of in 1900?
Gymnastics
Gymnastics. MTV 1879 refused to let its footballers join a football association, so they left the meeting and founded FC Bayern in a Munich restaurant that same evening.
Q 02Which English club beat Bayern 1–0 in the 1982 European Cup final in Rotterdam?
Aston Villa
Aston Villa. Their goalkeeper went off injured after nine minutes, and reserve Nigel Spink, who had played only one first-team game, kept Bayern out before Peter Withe scored the winner.
Q 03Bayern won their first national championship in 1932 by beating whom 2–0 in the final?
Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt had beaten Bayern 2–0 in the southern German final seven weeks earlier, so the national final in Nuremberg turned that score exactly on its head.
Q 04Which Jewish club president returned from exile in 1947 to lead Bayern again?
Kurt Landauer
Kurt Landauer had been held in Dachau for 33 days in 1938 and fled to Switzerland the following year, yet he came home to Munich after the war and was voted president once more.
Q 05At which stadium did Bayern beat Borussia Dortmund in the 2013 Champions League final?
Wembley
Wembley. A year after losing the final in their own stadium, Bayern won the first all-German final when Arjen Robben scored in the 89th minute.
Q 06Which coach, hired in 1963, took Bayern up to the Bundesliga in 1965?
Zlatko Čajkovski
Zlatko Čajkovski arrived a year after winning the German title with Köln. His young Bayern side missed promotion at the first attempt in 1964 before going up the following season.
Q 07Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller and Sepp Maier were collectively known as what?
The axis
The axis. Goalkeeper Maier and sweeper Beckenbauer came through Bayern's own youth teams and striker Müller arrived from Nördlingen; together they took a second-tier side to three straight European Cups.
Q 08Which Scottish club did Bayern beat in the 1967 Cup Winners' Cup final?
Rangers
Rangers lost to a Franz Roth goal in extra time, six days after their city rivals Celtic had won the European Cup, so Glasgow missed out on holding both trophies at once.
Q 09Which Bayern coach delivered the first league and cup double in Bundesliga history in 1969?
Branko Zebec
Branko Zebec swapped the team's free-scoring style for strict discipline and used only 13 players all season, ending Bayern's 37-year wait for a second German title.
Q 10Bayern's first match at the Olympiastadion, the 1972 title decider, was a 5–1 win over whom?
Schalke 04
Schalke 04 arrived one point behind, so the season's last match was a straight final for the title, and it was moved to the evening as the first Bundesliga game shown live on television.
Q 11Whom did Bayern beat 4–0 in a replay to win the 1974 European Cup final?
Atlético Madrid
Atlético Madrid led the first match until defender Georg Schwarzenbeck equalised in the last minute of extra time. The replay two days later was no contest.
Q 12Which English club lost the 1975 European Cup final to Bayern in Paris?
Leeds United
Leeds United had a Peter Lorimer goal ruled out for offside at 0–0, then conceded twice late on. Their fans tore out seats and rioted, and UEFA banned the club from European competition.
Q 13Bayern's third straight European Cup in 1976 came against which French club in Glasgow?
Saint-Étienne
Q 21Who beat Bayern 2–1 with two injury-time goals in the 1999 Champions League final?
Manchester United
Manchester United trailed from the sixth minute, and Bayern hit the post and the bar late on before substitutes Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjær both scored in stoppage time.
Q 22Whom did Bayern beat on penalties to win the 2001 Champions League after a 25-year gap?
Valencia
Valencia were beaten when Oliver Kahn saved three penalties in the shootout, days after a stoppage-time free kick had won Bayern the league title.
Q 23Which club shared the Allianz Arena with Bayern until 2017?
TSV 1860 Munich
Saint-Étienne hit Hampden Park's square-edged woodwork twice and lost 1–0. French fans still blame 'the square posts', and in 2013 the club bought the goalposts for its museum.
Q 14Which US club did Franz Beckenbauer leave Bayern for in 1977?
New York Cosmos
New York Cosmos. He lined up beside Pelé and won the league title in his first season there, while Bayern, without their captain, ended the 1970s with no further trophies.
Q 15What does the term Bayerndusel describe?
Narrow, last-minute wins
Narrow, last-minute wins. Dusel is German for undeserved luck, and the taunt outgrew its target: German sportswriters have pinned 'Bayern-Dusel' on other clubs' lucky wins too.
Q 16Which striker formed Bayern's title-winning early-1980s partnership with midfielder Paul Breitner?
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. He won the Ballon d'Or in both title years, 1980 and 1981, and the press fused his name with Breitner's to call the club 'FC Breitnigge'.
Q 17Why did the mid-1990s Bayern earn the nickname 'FC Hollywood'?
Players kept appearing in the gossip pages
Players kept appearing in the gossip pages more than the sports pages. Results suffered too: star coaches Giovanni Trapattoni and Otto Rehhagel each left within a season without a trophy.
Q 18Which was the only English club to beat Bayern at the Olympiastadion?
Norwich City
Norwich City were playing their first European campaign when goals from Jeremy Goss and Mark Bowen won 2–1 in Munich in 1993, and a home draw then knocked Bayern out of the UEFA Cup.
Q 19Whom did Bayern beat in the 1996 UEFA Cup final?
Bordeaux
Bordeaux. Bayern had sacked coach Otto Rehhagel four days before the first leg, so club president Franz Beckenbauer took the bench himself and won 5–1 on aggregate.
Q 20Which newly promoted club took the 1998 title from Bayern?
Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern were coached by Otto Rehhagel, whom Bayern had sacked two years earlier. They won in Munich on the opening day and became the first promoted side to win the Bundesliga.
TSV 1860 Munich built the stadium with Bayern as equal partners, then sold their half to their rivals for €11 million in 2006 and stayed on as tenants.
Q 24Which phrase did Bayern coach Louis van Gaal coin about a young forward he promoted in 2009?
With me, Müller always plays
With me, Müller always plays. Van Gaal promoted the little-known 19-year-old from the reserves in 2009, and within a year Müller was top scorer at the World Cup.
Q 25Which Bayern player finished third in the 2013 Ballon d'Or vote behind Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi?
Franck Ribéry
Franck Ribéry had beaten both men to UEFA's Best Player in Europe award months earlier, after Bayern's treble. He and Arjen Robben were the wing pair the press called 'Robbery'.
Q 26Who beat Bayern in the 2010 Champions League final?
Inter Milan
Inter Milan won 2–0 in Madrid. Both clubs had already won their league and cup that month, so the final decided which of them would complete a treble.
Q 27Who beat Bayern on penalties in the 2012 Champions League final at the Allianz Arena?
Chelsea
Chelsea levelled in the 88th minute through Didier Drogba, who then struck the winning kick of the shootout. Bayern finished the season as runners-up in the league, the cup and Europe.
Q 28Which coach led Bayern to their first treble in 2012–13?
Jupp Heynckes
Jupp Heynckes's side had finished runners-up in all three competitions a year earlier. In 2012–13 they took 91 league points and added the cup and the Champions League, the first treble by a German club.
Q 29Which Bavarian neighbours ended Bayern's 53-match unbeaten league run in April 2014?
Augsburg
Augsburg won 1–0 through Sascha Mölders after Pep Guardiola, with the title already won, rested seven regulars before a Champions League quarter-final.
Q 30For what crime was Bayern president Uli Hoeneß sentenced to three and a half years in prison in 2014?
Tax evasion
Tax evasion. He resigned the day after the verdict and went to prison, yet in 2016 the club's members voted him back in as president with more than 97% of the vote.