Premier League’s pull could spell trouble for Bayern Munich and Bundesliga

From 2013 to 2022, the title winner in Germany bears the same name. Bayern Munich are celebrating a 10th championship in a row. A decade of dominance is a novelty in the five strongest leagues in Europe. Such statistics are otherwise known in Europe only from clubs such as Skonto Riga, Dinamo Zagreb, Rosenborg or Dynamo Berlin from the East German Oberliga.Bayern are a club who win titles. In the past 50 years of the Bundesliga, they have ended up on top 30 times. They owe this to their unique identity: as the club of players. One successful generation takes over from another. And former players have been at the helm for a long time.

The foundation was laid by Sepp Maier, Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Müller, homegrown players and world-class footballers. They were a gift to the club and the football nation. From their team, which won the European Cup three times, the leadership of the following decades was recruited.

At the end of the 70s, a footballer, Uli Hoeneß, took over responsibility for the club. He led it for more than 40 years, for a long time with his former teammates Beckenbauer and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. They combined an understanding of football with leadership qualities and helped the club to achieve an exceptional position in Germany.

Since then, the club have relied on a principle that only it can afford in Germany. The best Germans or the best in the Bundesliga are identified and bought by Bayern. There they have to assert themselves among strong competition.

A regular German player at Bayern practically automatically plays for the national team. In the early 80s they were called Rummenigge and Paul Breitner, in the late eighties Lothar Matthäus, Andreas Brehme and Klaus Augenthaler, from the mid-90s