FC Bayern Munich (women)

FC Bayern Munich is a German professional women's football team based in Munich, Bavaria. They currently play in the Frauen-Bundesliga, the top women's league in Germany.

Bayern Munich

Full name	FC Bayern München
Founded	7 June 1970; 53 years ago (1970-06-07)
Ground	FC Bayern Campus
Capacity	2,500
President	Herbert Hainer
General manager	Bianca Rech^[1]
Head coach	Alexander Straus
League	Bundesliga
2023–24	Bundesliga, 1st of 12 (champions)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

History

Bayern's women's football team was officially founded in 1970 although women had been playing at the club since 1967. However, because the DFB had outlawed women's football from 1955 to 1970 Bayern could only officially register the team in 1970. They won their first national championship in 1976. In 1990 Bayern were founding members of the Frauen-Bundesliga, but they were relegated after next season.

The club returned to the Bundesliga in 2000. In 2009, Bayern were runners-up in the Bundesliga, trailing champion Turbine Potsdam by a single goal. In the 2011–12 season on 12 May 2012, FC Bayern Munich dethroned the German Cup title holders 1. FFC Frankfurt with a 2–0 in the 2011–12 final in Cologne and celebrated the biggest success of the club's history since winning the championship in 1976.^[2] In 2015 they won the Bundesliga for the first time, without any defeat.^[3] They won the 2015–16 Bundesliga, for the second time in a row.^[4]

In May 2023, Bayern Munich celebrated a double championship when both the women's team and the men's team won the top national football leagues within 2 days.^[5] An 11–1 win over Turbine Potsdam on the final day of the season secured the FCB women their fourth Bundesliga championship and their fifth national championship overall, marking the club's biggest win in history.^[6]

Players

First-team squad

As of 27 January 2024^[7]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF   SWE Linda Sembrant (on loan from Juventus) 3 DF   FRA Inès Belloumou 4 DF   ISL Glódís Perla Viggósdóttir (captain) 5 DF   SWE Magdalena Eriksson 6 DF   NOR Tuva Hansen 7 DF   GER Giulia Gwinn 9 FW   SRB Jovana Damnjanović 10 MF   GER Linda Dallmann 11 FW   GER Lea Schüller 12 MF   GER Sydney Lohmann 13 DF   BRA Tainara 14 MF   GER Alara Şehitler 15 DF   COL Ana María Guzmán 17 FW   GER Klara Bühl

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF   NED Jill Baijings 19 DF   AUT Katharina Naschenweng 20 FW   GER Franziska Kett 21 FW   DEN Pernille Harder 22 GK   GER Maria Luisa Grohs 23 GK   NZL Erin Nayler 24 FW   POL Weronika Zawistowska 25 MF   AUT Sarah Zadrazil (vice-captain) 26 MF   SCO Samantha Kerr 30 DF   GER Carolin Simon 31 MF   ENG Georgia Stanway (vice-captain) 41 GK   GER Anna Wellmann 44 GK   ISL Cecilía Rán Rúnarsdóttir

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   JPN Momoko Tanikawa (on loan at FC Rosengård for the 2023–24 season) 14 DF   NOR Emilie Bragstad (on loan at Bayer Leverkusen for the 2023–24 season) 23 FW   ISL Karólína Lea Vilhjálmsdóttir (on loan at Bayer Leverkusen for the 2023–24 season)

Reserves

Bayern II, the women's reserves team, have played in the newly formed 2. Frauen-Bundesliga since 2018. They are managed by Nathalie Bischof.^[8]

Bayern II won the 2008–09 Regionalliga (Süd) and the 2001–02 Bavarian Cup. The team played in the Second Bundesliga (Süd) from 2009 to 2010 to 2018.^[9]

Honours

Domestic

• Frauen-Bundesliga (6): 1976, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2020–21, 2022–23, 2023–24
• DFB-Pokal: 2012
• Bundesliga Cup: 2003, 2011

Regional

• Bavarian women's football championship (21):^[10] 1972–1990 (19 consecutive), 2000, 2004
• Bavarian cup:^[11] 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990

Invitational

• Valais Cup: 2015

Record in UEFA Women's Champions League

Bayern Munich have set a few international records in their campaign to qualify for the 2009–10 UEFA Women's Champions League:

• Most goals scored throughout an UEFA Women's Champions League group stage: 32 (2009–10)
• Best goal difference throughout an UEFA Women's Champions League group stage: [phone])

All results (away, home and aggregate) list Bayern Munich's goal tally first.

Season	Round	Opponents	Away	Home	Aggregate
2009–10	Qualifying round	Glasgow City	5–2	–	–
		Norchi Dinamoeli Tbilisi	19–0	–	–
		Gintra Universitetas (Host)	8–0	–	–
	Round of 32	Viktória Szombathely	5–0 ^f	4–2	9–2
	Round of 16	Montpellier	0–0 ^f	0–1 (a.e.t.)	0–1
2015–16	Round of 32	Twente	1–1 ^f	2–2	3–3 (a)
2016–17	Round of 32	Hibernian	6–0 ^f	4–1	10–1
	Round of 16	Rossiyanka	4–0	4–0 ^f	8–0
	Quarter-final	Paris Saint-Germain	0–4	1–0 ^f	1–4
2017–18	Round of 32	Chelsea	0–1 ^f	2–1	2–2 (a)
2018–19	Round of 32	Spartak Subotica	7–0 ^f	4–0	11–0
	Round of 16	FC Zürich	2–0 ^f	3–0	5–0
	Quarter-final	Slavia Prague	1–1 ^f	5–1	6–2
	Semi-final	Barcelona	0–1	0–1 ^f	0–2
2019–20	Round of 32	Kopparbergs/Göteborg	2–1 ^f	0–1	2–2 (a)
	Round of 16	BIIK Kazygurt	5–0 ^f	2–0	7–0
	Quarter-final	Lyon	1–2
2020–21	Round of 32	Ajax	3–1 ^f	3–0	6–1
	Round of 16	BIIK Kazygurt	6–1 ^f	3–0	9–1
	Quarter-final	FC Rosengård	1–0	3–0 ^f	4–0
	Semi-final	Chelsea	1–4	2–1 ^f	3–5
2021–22	Group stage	Benfica	0–0 ^f	4–0	2nd
		BK Häcken	4–0 ^f	5–1
		Lyon	1–2 ^f	1–0
	Quarter-finals	Paris Saint-Germain	1–2 ^f	2–2	3–4
2022–23	Qualifying round 2	Real Sociedad	1–0 ^f	3–1	4–1
	Group stage	Barcelona	0–3 ^f	3–1	2nd
		Benfica	3–2 ^f	2–0
		Rosengård	4–0	2–1 ^f
	Quarter-finals	Arsenal	0–2	1–0 ^f	1–2
2023–24	Group stage	Ajax	0–1	1–1 ^f	3rd
		Paris Saint-Germain	1–0 ^f	2–2
		Roma	2–2	2–2 ^f

^f First leg.

Coaching staff

As of 16 January 2024^[12][13]

Position	Name
Head coach	Alexander Straus
Assistant coach	Jérôme Reisacher Moritz Volz
Fitness coach	Hamid Masoum Beygi
Goalkeeping coach	Michael Netolitzky
General manager	Bianca Rech
Techncial director	Francisco De Sá Fardilha
Team manager	Timeea Lica
Team supervisor	Alexandra Milchgießer
Team doctors	Jan-Philipp Müller Vanessa Pfetsch
Physiotherapists	Johannes Schöttl Franziska Bachmaier Larissa Hauenstein
Coordination	Andrea Ernst

References

1. "Karin Danner leaving – Bianca Rech becomes new head of department". FC Bayern Munich. 2 May 2023. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
2. "FC Bayern ist Pokalsieger – im dritten Anlauf!" (in German). kicker.de. 12 May 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
3. "Münchnerinnen sind Frauenfußball-Meister!". kicker.de. 10 May 2015.
4. . Archived from the original on 13 May 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
5. "FC Bayern celebrate German championship with men and women". fcbayern.com. FC Bayern München AG. 28 May 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
6. "FCB Women seal club's fifth league title". fcbayern.com. FC Bayern München AG. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
7. "FC Bayern Women - First Team". FC Bayern München. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
8. "Steckbriefe – Coach Nathalie Bischof" (in German). FC Bayern women's section. 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
9. "2. Mannschaft: Meisterschaft und 2. Bundesliga Süd!" (in German). FC Bayern women's section. 24 May 2009. Retrieved 29 June 2009.
10. (in German). Bavarian Football Association. 2008. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
11. "Wissenswertes – Sportliche Erfolge" (in German). FC Bayern Frauenfußball. 2008. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
12. "FC Bayern Women – Coaches & Functional team 2023/24". FC Bayern Munich. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
13. "Francisco De Sá Fardilha named technical director of women's football". FC Bayern Munich. 21 February 2023. Retrieved 23 August 2023.

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