Editing FC Bayern Munich (section)

===Early years (1900s–1960s)===
[[File:Fcn-fcb1901.jpg|thumb|left|The first game of Bayern Munich against [[1. FC Nürnberg]] in 1901]]
Bayern Munich was founded by members of a Munich gymnastics club (MTV 1879). When a congregation of members of MTV 1879 decided on 27 February 1900 that the footballers of the club would not be allowed to join the [[German Football Association]] (DFB), eleven members of the football division left the congregation and on the same evening founded Fußball-Club Bayern München. Within a few months, Bayern achieved high-scoring victories against all local rivals, including a 15–0 win against Nordstern,<ref>{{cite web |date=22 May 2015 |title=Bayern fans bring club's earliest years to light |url=http://www.thelocal.de/20150522/fc-bayern-fans-early-history-rediscovered |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150525162232/http://www.thelocal.de/20150522/fc-bayern-fans-early-history-rediscovered |archive-date=25 May 2015 |access-date=30 May 2015 |website=The Local}}</ref> and reached the semi-finals of the 1900–01 [[Southern German football championship|South German championship]].<ref name="fcbbook1stch" /> In the following years, the club won some local trophies, and, in 1910–11, Bayern joined the newly founded "Kreisliga", the first regional Bavarian league. The club won this league in its first year, but did not win it again until the beginning of the [[First World War]] in 1914, which halted all football activities in Germany.<ref name="bayernhistory0045">{{cite web |title=1900 bis 1932: Von Beginn an erfolgreich |trans-title=1900 to 1932: Successful from the start |url=http://fcb-erlebniswelt.de/de/historie/meilensteine-ab-1900/1900-1932/index.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028114211/http://fcb-erlebniswelt.de/de/historie/meilensteine-ab-1900/1900-1932/index.php |archive-date=28 October 2014 |access-date=28 September 2014 |publisher=FC Bayern Munich Official Website |language=de }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Schulze-Marmeling |first=Dietrich |title=Die Bayern. Die Geschichte des deutschen Rekordmeisters |publisher=Die Werkstatt |year=2003 |isbn=3-89533-426-X |pages=30–40 |language=de}}</ref> By the end of its first decade of founding, Bayern had its first German national team player, Max Gablonsky.<ref name="auto1">{{cite web |last=Kwolek |first=Sarah-Luisa |date=13 July 2016 |title=Von Beginn an erfolgreich |url=https://fcbayern.com/de/club/historie/meilensteine-seit-1900/1900-bis-1932-von-beginn-an-erfolgreich |access-date=3 February 2019 |website=FC Bayern München |language=de |archive-date=1 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401104705/https://fcbayern.com/de/club/historie/meilensteine-seit-1900/1900-bis-1932-von-beginn-an-erfolgreich |url-status=live }}</ref> By 1920, it had over 700 members, making it the largest football club in Munich.<ref name="auto1" />

In the years after the war, Bayern won several regional competitions before winning its first South German championship in 1926, an achievement repeated two years later.<ref name="bayernhistory0045" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Schulze-Marmeling |first=Dietrich |title=Die Bayern. Die Geschichte des deutschen Rekordmeisters |publisher=Die Werkstatt |year=2003 |isbn=3-89533-426-X |pages=51–63 |language=de}}</ref> Its first national title was gained in [[German football championship 1932|1932]], when coach [[Richard Kohn|Richard "Little Dombi" Kohn]] led the team to the [[German champions (football)|German championship]] by defeating [[Eintracht Frankfurt]] 2–0 in the final.<ref name="bayernhistory0045" />

The rise of [[Adolf Hitler]] to power put an abrupt end to Bayern's development. Club president [[Kurt Landauer]] and the coach, both of whom were Jewish, left the country. Many others in the club were also purged. Bayern was taunted as the "[[Judenklub|Jew's club]]", while local rival [[TSV 1860 Munich|1860 Munich]] gained much support. Josef Sauter, who was inaugurated in 1943, was the only NSDAP member as president. After a friendly match in Switzerland, some Bayern players greeted Landauer, who was a spectator, and the club was subject to continued discrimination.<ref name="landauer">{{cite news |date=28 May 2003 |title=Onkel Kurt und die Bayern |url=http://www.zeit.de/2003/23/Sport_2flandauer/komplettansicht |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017200655/http://www.zeit.de/2003/23/Sport_2flandauer/komplettansicht |archive-date=17 October 2014 |access-date=16 October 2014 |website=Die Zeit |language=de |last1=Faller |first1=Heike }}</ref> Bayern was also affected by the ruling that football players had to be full amateurs again, which led to the move of gifted young centre-forward [[Oskar Rohr]] to [[Swiss national football team|Switzerland]]. In the following years, Bayern could not sustain its role of contender for the national title, achieving mid-table results in its regional league instead.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schulze-Marmeling |first=Dietrich |title=Die Bayern. Die Geschichte des deutschen Rekordmeisters |publisher=Die Werkstatt |year=2003 |isbn=3-89533-426-X |pages=101–2 |language=de}}</ref>

After the end of the [[Second World War]] in 1945, Bayern became a member of the [[Oberliga Süd (1945–63)|Oberliga Süd]], the southern conference of the German first division, which was split five ways at that time. Bayern struggled, hiring and firing 13 coaches between 1945 and 1963. Landauer returned from exile in 1947, and was once again appointed club president, the tenure lasted until 1951. He remains as the club's president with the longest accumulated tenure. Landauer has been deemed the most important figure in Bayern's transition to a professional club.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kurt Landauer: Der Mann, der den FC Bayern erfand |url=http://www.br.de/fernsehen/bayerisches-fernsehen/sendungen/kurt-landauer-der-film/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015172638/http://www.br.de/fernsehen/bayerisches-fernsehen/sendungen/kurt-landauer-der-film/index.html |archive-date=15 October 2014 |access-date=16 October 2014 |publisher=[[Bayerischer Rundfunk]] |language=de }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=14 October 2014 |title=DFB-Auszeichnung: Bayern-Ultras erhalten Julius-Hirsch-Preis |url=http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/fc-bayern-muenchen-schickeria-ultras-erhalten-julius-hirsch-preis-a-997151.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018005832/http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/fc-bayern-muenchen-schickeria-ultras-erhalten-julius-hirsch-preis-a-997151.html |archive-date=18 October 2014 |access-date=16 October 2014 |website=Der Spiegel |language=de }}</ref> In 1955, the club was relegated but returned to the ''Oberliga'' in the following season and won the [[DFB-Pokal]] for the first time, beating [[Fortuna Düsseldorf]] 1–0 in the [[DFB-Pokal 1956–57#Final|final]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schulze-Marmeling |first=Dietrich |title=Die Bayern. Die Geschichte des deutschen Rekordmeisters |publisher=Die Werkstatt |year=2003 |isbn=3-89533-426-X |pages=105–120 |language=de}}</ref><ref name="bayernhistory4667">{{cite web |title=1933 bis 1965: Harte Zeiten und Wiederaufbau |trans-title=1933 to 1965: Hard Times and Reconstruction |url=http://fcb-erlebniswelt.de/de/historie/meilensteine-ab-1900/1933-1965/index.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312074509/http://fcb-erlebniswelt.de/de/historie/meilensteine-ab-1900/1933-1965/index.php |archive-date=12 March 2014 |access-date=28 September 2014 |publisher=FC Bayern Erlebniswelt |language=de }}</ref>

The club struggled financially, though, verging on bankruptcy at the end of the 1950s. President Reitlinger was ousted in the club's elections of 1958 by the industrialist Roland Endler, who provided financial stability for the club. Under his reign, Bayern had its best years in the Oberliga.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schulze-Marmeling |first=Dietrich |title=Die Bayern. Die Geschichte des deutschen Rekordmeisters |publisher=Die Werkstatt |year=2003 |isbn=3-89533-426-X |pages=120–126 |language=de}}</ref> Endler was no longer a candidate in 1962, when Wilhelm Neudecker<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fcbayern.com/en/club/fcb-club/wilhelm-neudecker%E2%80%A0|title=Wilhelm Neudecker (†)}}</ref>, who became wealthy in the postwar construction boom, replaced him.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fcbayern.com/en/news/2020/04/april-1962-wilhelm-neudecker-takes-over|title=Wilhelm Neudecker and the beginning of a new era}}</ref>

In 1963, the Oberligas in Germany were consolidated into one national league, the [[Bundesliga]]. Five teams from the Oberliga South were admitted. The key to qualifying for the Bundesliga was the accumulated record of the last twelve years, where Bayern was only the sixth-ranked club. To boot, local rivals [[TSV 1860 Munich|1860 Munich]], ranked seventh, were champions of the last Oberliga-Süd season and were given preference on the basis of this achievement.<ref>Hardy Grüne, Christian Karn: Das große Buch der deutschen Fußballvereine. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, p. 364, 414.</ref><ref name="nobl">{{Cite book |last=Schulze-Marmeling |first=Dietrich |title=Die Bayern. Die Geschichte des deutschen Rekordmeisters |publisher=Die Werkstatt |year=2003 |isbn=3-89533-426-X |page=134 |language=de}}</ref> After initial protests by Bayern for alleged mistreatment remained fruitless, president Neudecker rose to the challenge and hired [[Zlatko Čajkovski]], who in 1962 led [[1. FC Köln]] to the national championship. Fielding a team with young players like [[Franz Beckenbauer]], [[Gerd Müller]] and [[Sepp Maier]]&nbsp;– who would later be collectively referred to as ''the axis'', they achieved promotion to the Bundesliga in 1965.<ref name="bayernhistory4667" />