BAYERN GAME February 2025
1919 — Landauer and Townley return as president and head coach respectively . They come up against one of the best teams of the time , MTK Budapest . FCB lose 7-1 in front of 12,000 spectators and are inspired by the Hungarians ‘ style , known as Danube football .
1920 — THE CLUB CELEBRATES ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY WITH A HUGE PARTY . THE BAND OF THE 1ST BAVARIAN SCHÜTZENREGIERUNG PERFORMS AT THE BALL . CONDUCTOR GEORG FÜRST , LONG-TIME MEMBER AND COMPOSER OF THE “ BAYERN MARCH “, TURNS EVERYONE INTO PARTY ANIMALS .
1921 — Because the team is not performing successfully despite the appointment of former MTK Budapest head coach Izidor “ Dori “ Kürschner , Landauer resigns along with the board . Fred Dunn and Siegfried Herrmann take over .
1922 — Kurt Landauer becomes president again . In sporting terms , things are looking up : Bayern comfortably beat the South German champions FC Wacker 3-0 .
1923 — FC Bayern celebrate many big victories , including against former bogey team Karlsruher FV ( 7-1 ) and at a tournament in Switzerland against Young Fellows Zurich ( 6-3 ) and FC Basel ( 6-1 ).
1924 — In spring 1924 , after five years , FC Bayern dissolves its merger with Jahn München . It had already separated from MSC in 1919 . After 18 years , the club is once again independent .
Dahoam ( at home ) in Munich : The first competitive matches were played at Clemensstraße from 1901 .
1925 — THE STADIUM ON GRÜNWALDER STRASSE BECOMES THE NEW HOME OF FC BAYERN .
1926 — Bayern sweep through the final round of the South German Championship , beating reigning champions VfR Mannheim 10-0 and FV Saarbrücken 8-3 . In the final game against Fürth , in front of 30,000 spectators , FCB win 4-3 and are crowned South German champions for the first time .
1927 — On 10 April , FC Bayern play a friendly against top South American side Peñarol Montevideo . 30,000 spectators celebrate a 2-1 win .
1928 — FCB once again become South German champions and reach the final of the German championship for the first time . Even though they lose 8-2 to Hamburger SV in the final , FC Bayern are now one of the top teams in Germany .
1929 — Germany is labouring under a severe economic depression , yet the FC Bayern membership rises to 1,500 .
1930 — Richard “ Little “ Dombi from Vienna is named head coach and continues the tradition of Danube football at Bayern .
1931 — 19-year-old Oskar Rohr , who joined Bayern from VfR Mannheim in 1930 , demonstrates his quality . He is a gifted striker and makes FCB ‘ s game more purposeful and successful .
1932 — Bayern confidently reach the final of the German championship , where they face Eintracht Frankfurt . In front of 55,000 spectators in Nürnberg , FC Bayern run out triumphant 2-0 winners with goals from Rohr and Krumm . The next day , thousands of Munich residents turn out to welcome the new German champions . They form a guard of honour from the main railway station to
Marienplatz , and cheer the players , who are transported to the reception in horse-drawn carriages .
1933 — FC Bayern are becoming ever more competitive on the European stage and beat 12-time Hungarian champions Ferencváros 3-2 , with Oskar Rohr scoring the winner .
1934 — A fiercely-contested derby , and controversial too . With Bayern leading 2-0 , the “ Lions “ of TSV 1860 pull one back and are then awarded a dubious penalty due to a hand-ball in the dying seconds , which they convert . The FCB fans storm the pitch and the Bayern players leave it without giving the customary “ German salute “.
1935 — FC Bayern are enjoying a good season but suffer a terrible shock when head coach and unifying figure Ludwig “ Wiggerl “ Hofmann dies of meningitis at the age of 35 .
1936 — The Nazi regime issues decrees that lead to all youths under the age of 14 being excluded from sports clubs . It heralded the end of the schools section and the club ‘ s important youth work .
1937 — Centre-half Ludwig “ Lutte “ Goldbrunner , for a long time the record international appearance-maker at FC Bayern , is part of a Western European side who take on a Central European side in Amsterdam . In the same year , “ Kicker ” magazine name Lutte the best centre-half in Europe .
1938 — KURT LANDAUER IS INTERNED IN DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP . 13 OTHER FCB MEMBERS ARE IMPRISONED THERE ALONGSIDE HIM . AS HE HAD FOUGHT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR , HE IS ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE CAMP AFTER 33 DAYS . HE EMIGRATES TO SWITZERLAND IN 1939 .
1939 — Because more and more players are being called up for military service , Bayern ‘ s line-up constantly changes . It is also why FCB have an extremely poor season and end up battling ( successfully ) against relegation .
1940 — The league continues to operate despite the war . Bayern have a mixed season .
1941 — Five clubs from Bavaria and five from Vienna compete in the newly created Alpine Cup . FCB lose their first game 4-1 to Admira Vienna . The men from Munich only manage one draw and lose every other game . The war years are also dreadful for FCB in sporting terms .
1942 — As air raids start across Munich , FCB captain Conny Heidkamp and his wife Magdalena whisk the club ’ s trophies away to safety . They are packed into crates and hidden in a farmer ’ s stables in Ascholding , near Wolfratshausen .
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