For many football fans, Munich Bayern is the most popular club in Germany. If we look at the last fifty years of the football history of Germany, we can definitely say that this is so. This is not the oldest football club. Although the flag of Bayern still flies proudly over the Munich stadium, it’s worthwhile to understand the modern heraldry of this club and look not only at what the modern banner of the team looks like, but also why it is like that. Let's start with the history of the club. Consider how his heraldry was formed.
History of FC Bayern
The history of the football club is closely connected with the fate of the flag. According to statistics on the world's leading clubs, FC Bavaria, whose flag is presented in the article above, was formed at the beginning of the twentieth century - in 1900. This is not the only and not the oldest club in Munich. Initially, “Bavaria” included poor students, for a long time there were no professional players or a coach. Before the First World War, the Gestapo organized a hunt for the club’s head coach, because of his nationality, he was forced to leave Nazi Germany.
The revival of the club began after the war, and by the sixties, Bayern not only entered the highest echelon of German football, but also became its leader. From that time to the present, the flag of Bavaria proudly flies not only at domestic competitions in Germany, but also abroad. He has earned the respect of football fans around the world.
Flag of Bavaria and its heraldry
If we talk about the banner and the emblem of a football club, it is easy to notice that their stories are intertwined. The emblem of the club and the flag of Bavaria (Munich) have undergone many changes. Today the club’s emblem is a circle in three colors.
The first banner of the team did not have color, it was black and white. Subsequently, the color scheme was added, and the flag of Bavaria began to take its usual shape. Since the club was created on Bavarian lands, the choice of the flag of FC is connected with the heraldry of Bavaria.
The three colors that are present on it have a corresponding meaning. Since the administrative district of Bavaria includes seven federal states: Lower Bavaria, Upper Bavaria, Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia, Upper Palatinate and Swabia. With a different color on the flag symbolizes the land of the Bavarians, and red - Franconians.
The inner circle on the FC emblem represents the flag and elements of the coat of arms of Bavaria. A white-blue pattern with diagonal lines appeared in symbolism, thanks to the coat of arms of the Wittelsbach dynasty, who ruled Upper Bavaria from 1240 to 1918.
Thus, the flag of Bavaria took a modern look.
Munich Bavaria trophies under the flag of the team
If we talk about the trophies of the Munich team, then there really are a lot of them. For good reason the flag of the Bayern football club has been modified. Four stars were added to it, symbolizing the victory of the team in the German championship. So, in recent years, the club won the Bundesliga twenty-six times and even more than eleven times became vice-champion of the country.
If we talk about the country's cup, the flag of “Bavaria” soared as a winner's phage more than twenty times. And these are achievements only in the domestic arena. On the international field, the team is not so bad. Although, according to statistics, the club is not the unequivocal leader of these competitions, nevertheless, the team won the UEFA European Champions League 4 times, and 3 times in a row in the mid-seventies. Then the famous Franz Beckenbauer was the captain, and the legendary Gerd Müller played in the attack .
Prospects for FC Bavaria to raise their flag above all in Europe
This season, the club’s football affairs are going well. And the flag of Bayern still flies proudly over the Alliance Arena, which is home to this football club.
This year, the team continues to lead in the German championship, breaking away from the pursuers by more than ten points. This allows her to calmly move to the next championship. In the international arena, things are also going well. The team quietly reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League, in which it is waiting for one of the most uncomfortable and titled opponents, last year's winner of this trophy - Real Madrid from Madrid. How this confrontation ends, time will tell.