February 2025 BAYERN FAMILY
ALL ABOUT THE RECORD CHAMPIONS ’ SHIELD
1 . 302 DIFFERENT PLAYERS WON THE GERMAN CHAMPIONSHIP WITH BAYERN AT LEAST ONCE .
2 . The 20 players who won the title the most times are Reds : Müller ( 12 ), Neuer ( 11 ), Alaba ( 10 ), Ribéry ( 9 ), Martínez , Boateng , Kimmich ( 8 ), Robben , Coman , Ulreich , Lahm , Schweinsteiger , Kahn , Scholl , Augenthaler ( 7 ), Matthäus , Thiago , Rafinha , Zickler , Dreher . Lewandowski also won the championship 10 times , 2 of them with Dortmund .
3 . All German champions since 1903 are engraved on the shield – a total of 114 clubs . The first German football champion was VfB Leipzig . 4 . FC Bayern was engraved 33 times . When the club won its first championship in 1932 , the “ FC “ was missing from its name . All subsequent championships have the addition “ F . C .“ or “ FC .“
5 . SINCE THE FINAL IN 1922 DID NOT PRODUCE A CLEAR RESULT , TWO CLUBS WERE ENGRAVED : 1 . FC NÜRNBERG AND HAMBURGER SV .
6 . The championship trophy replaced “ Viktoria ”, which was lost in the Second World War – a 100 cm high bronze statue with angel wings . 7 . 1 . FC Nürnberg became the first German champion after the war in 1948 . Max Morlock and his teammates had to celebrate without a trophy and received a laurel wreath . 8 . After the Bundesliga was founded , 1 . FC Köln was the first club to win the trophy in 1964 . 9 . If the title decision can be made on the last matchday in several stadiums , a duplicate has been used since the 1964 / 1965 season .
10 . THE COPY WAS INITIALLY MADE OF SILVER-PLATED PLASTIC .
11 . Since the 1980s , high-quality duplicates of the championship trophy have been available for this purpose , which are twelve percent smaller than the original .
12 . In 1992 and 2002 , three trophies were up for grabs on the final matchday because so many clubs had a chance of winning the title . In the end , Stuttgart ( 1992 ) and BVB were the winners . 13 . The championship shield was created in 1949 by the goldsmith Elisabeth Treskow in Cologne : it had a diameter of 50 cm , consisted of 5.5 kg of sterling silver , 16 tourmalines and had a material value of 9,000 euros . 14 . The first captain to lift the trophy was Philipp Henninger from VFR Mannheim in 1949 . 15 . In the sports press , the championship trophy was called “ little Viktoria ”. To this day , the shield has no official name . 16 . The real Viktoria resurfaced in 1990 in an East Berlin coal cellar . Today she stands in the DFB headquarters in Frankfurt . 17 . The current trophy has space for the champions until 2027 , as long as there are not too many clubs with overlong names such as Borussia Mönchengladbach . 18 . In 1981 and 2009 , more silver rings were added to the shield to offer space for new champions . The shield now weighs eleven kilos and is set with 21 large and small tourmalines . It has a diameter of 59 centimetres and a material value of 25,000 euros .
19 . THE ENGRAVING OF THE NEW CHAMPION ON THE SHIELD TAKES UP TO TWO HOURS .
20 . In 1970 , the shield fell to the ground in Mönchengladbach and some of the green gemstones popped out . 21 . Pep Guardiola also dropped the trophy in Munich in 2014 after being showered with beer . He said : “ It is not only very , very beautiful , but also very heavy .“
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