FC Bayern München Basketball GmbH, commonly referred to as Bayern Munich, is a professional

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club, a part of the

FC Bayern Munich Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (FCB, ), also known as FC Bayern (), Bayern Munich, or simply Bayern, is a German professional sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional men's football team, which play ...

sports club, based in

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, Germany. The club competes domestically in the

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(BBL) and internationally in the EuroLeague. The team plays its home games at

Audi Dome Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle, also known by its sponsorship name of Audi Dome, is an indoor arena located in Sendling-Westpark, Munich, Germany. It was initially named after the president of the Bavarian State Sport Association. The 6,700-seat hall opene ...

, which was opened in 1972. FC Bayern Munich Basketball also has a

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that plays in German third-tier level

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History

Bayern Munich has a long basketball tradition. Besides its most successful years in the 1950s and 1960s ( German Championships in 1954, 1955, and

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in 1968), the club enjoyed remarkable popularity in 1956, when it even drew 40,000 fans to an open-air test game against

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, once a top basketball club from Italy. Later, in 1966, the club was a founding member of the

. In the following years, the club slowly, but surely, faded into obscurity, and in 1974, was even relegated to the German 2nd Division. For a long time after that, the club never completely recovered, and only had a few successful years (Bayern moved up to the Basketball Bundesliga in 1987, and stayed there until 1989). In 2008, the declared goal of the team was to return to the club's former glory, and return to the top German League, which it eventually did. In the near future, the club seeks to become a major force in European basketball, so that Bayern Munich will not only be well known for its

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(soccer) operations, but also for its basketball operations as well. In the 2012–13 season the club reached the semifinals, where it lost 3–2 against the reigning champions

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. Thanks to a wild card, Bayern Munich played in the EuroLeague in the 2013–14 season. This was its first appearance in the top European championship, and it reached the Top 16 stage. On 18 June 2014, Bayern won its third national title when it beat Alba Berlin 3–1 in the Finals. It was the first title for the team since 1955; 59 years before. Star player of the team was

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, who won both the

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and Finals MVP. In the 2014–15 season, Bayern failed to win a title. In the BBL Finals they were defeated by

, 3–2. The team had to wait until 2018 for its next championship, as they beat Alba Berlin 3–2 in the Finals that year. By winning the BBL, Bayern also qualified for the following EuroLeague season.

Home arena

The team's home arena is called Audi Dome, which seats 6,700 spectators.

New arena

SAP Garden is a planned 11,500-capacity indoor arena, to be built in Oympiapark,

. It is expected to be completed in 2024 at the earliest.

Players

Retired numbers

Current roster

Depth chart

Notable players

Players at the NBA draft

Head coaches

Honours

Domestic competitions

* German Championship :Winners (5): 1953–54, 1954–55, 2013–14, 2017–18, 2018–19 :''Runners-up (3)'': 2014–15,

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, 2021–22 *

:Winners (3): 1968, 2018,

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:''Runners-up (2)'':

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, 2017 *

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:''Runners-up (1)'': 2014 * German 2nd League :Winners (1): 2010–11

European competitions

* EuroLeague: **

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(2):

, 2021–22 ** Top 16 (1): 2013–14 * EuroCup **

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(1): 2017–18

Worldwide competitions

* NBA G League International Challenge :Winners (1): 2019

Other competitions

* Zadar Basketball Tournament :''Runners-up (1)'': 2015

Individual awards

BBL Most Valuable Player *

– 2014 BBL Finals MVP *

– 2014 *

Danilo Barthel Danilo Timon Barthel (born 24 October 1991) is a German professional basketball player who last played for Fenerbahçe of the Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL) and the EuroLeague. Professional career Barthel began his professional career i ...

– 2018 *

Nihad Đedović Nihad Đedović (born January 12, 1990) is a Bosnian professional basketball player for Unicaja of the Liga ACB. He also represented the Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team internationally. Professional career Đedović started his c ...

– 2019 German Cup MVP *

Vladimir Lučić Vladimir Lučić ( sr, Владимир Лучић, born June 17, 1989) is a Serbian professional basketball player for Bayern Munich of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and the EuroLeague. He also represents the Serbian national basketball team. ...

– 2021 BBL Best German Young Player *

Paul Zipser Paul Victor Louis Zipser (born 18 February 1994) is a German professional basketball player for Bayern Munich of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and the EuroLeague. Standing at 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in), he plays at the small forward position. He ...

– 2016 All-BBL First Team *

– 2014 * John Bryant – 2015 * Bryce Taylor – 2016 All-BBL Second Team *

Chevon Troutman Chevon Stephen Ray Troutman (born November 25, 1981) is an American professional basketball player. He is a 6'8" (2.02 m) tall power forward, who plays for Regatas Corrientes of the Liga Nacional de Básquet The Liga Nacional de Básquet (abbre ...

– 2012, 2013 *

Tyrese Rice Tyrese Jammal Rice (born May 15, 1987) is an American-born naturalized Montenegrin former professional basketball player who last played for AEK Athens of the Greek Basket League and the Basketball Champions League. He also represents the senior m ...

– 2013 * Bryce Taylor – 2014 *

Deon Thompson Deon Marshall Thompson (born September 16, 1988) is an American-Ivorian professional basketball player for Tofaş of Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and Basketball Champions League. He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels. Stan ...

– 2014 *

– 2015 *

Maxi Kleber Maximilian Kleber (born 29 January 1992) is a German professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). At 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in), he plays the power forward position. Early life Kleber playe ...

– 2017 *

– 2018, 2019 *

Devin Booker Devin Armani Booker (born October 30, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is the son of former basketball player Melvin Booker. After playing college basketba ...

– 2018 *

– 2019

BBL Most Effective Player The Basketball Bundesliga Most Effective Player Awards are annual awards that are given to the best player in a given Basketball Bundesliga The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) (English language: ''Federal Basketball League''), for sponsorship reasons ...

– 2017 ProA Young Player of the Year *

Bastian Doreth Bastian Doreth (born 8 June 1989) is a German basketball player for Medi Bayreuth of the Basketball Bundesliga. He is a former member of the German national basketball team. Career Born in the city of Nürnberg, Doreth played his first professio ...

– 2011 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors
''Nominated:'' *

Svetislav Pešić Svetislav "Kari" Pešić ( sr-cyrl, Светислав "Кари" Пешић; born August 28, 1949) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach of the Serbia men's national team. Playing career During his ...

EuroLeague Basketball 2010–20 All-Decade Team
''Nominated:'' *

James Gist James Clough Gist III (born October 26, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for Bahçeşehir Koleji S.K., Bahçeşehir Koleji of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and Basketball Champions League. Standing at , he plays as a Power for ...

All-EuroLeague First Team The All-EuroLeague Team is an award for Europe's premier level league, the EuroLeague, that is given to the league's top ten basketball players for each season, since the 2000–01 season. During the FIBA era of the EuroLeague, players were honor ...

–

All-EuroLeague Second Team The All-EuroLeague Team is an award for Europe's premier level league, the EuroLeague, that is given to the league's top ten basketball players for each season, since the 2000–01 season. During the FIBA era of the EuroLeague, players were honor ...

– 2021–22

EuroLeague MVP of the Round The EuroLeague MVP (Most Valuable Player) of the Round, previously known as the EuroLeague MVP of the Week, is an award of Europe's premier level basketball league, the EuroLeague, that is given to the best player of each round of the season. Eac ...

– 2013–14, Top 16, Week 10 *

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– 2014–15, Regular Season, Week 9 * Derrick Williams – 2018–19, Regular Season, Round 12 *

–

, Regular Season, Round 3–4 *

–

, Regular Season, Round 8 *

Wade Baldwin Wade Manson Baldwin IV (born March 29, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League and the EuroLeague. High school and college career Born in the Belle Mead section of Mont ...

–

, Regular Season, Round 17 *

Nick Weiler-Babb Nick Weiler-Babb (born December 12, 1995) is an American-born naturalized German professional basketball player for Bayern Munich of the German Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for Iowa State. Early li ...

–

, Regular Season, Round 22–23 *

Jalen Reynolds Jalen Reynolds (born December 30, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for UNICS Kazan of the VTB United League. He played college basketball for Xavier University before playing professionally in Italy, Spain, Russia, China and I ...

–

, Regular Season, Round 24 All-EuroCup First Team *

– 2017–18 All-EuroCup Second Team *

– 2016–17 EuroCup Basketball MVP of the Week *

– 2015–16, Quarterfinals, Game 1 *

– 2017–18, Regular Season, Round 8 *

– 2017–18, Top 16, Round 3 *

– 2017–18, Top 16, Round 5 NBA G League International Challenge Finals MVP *

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– 2019

Season by season

International record

Sponsorships

Esports

Bayern Munich was featured in the NBA 2K15, 2K16 & 2K17 video games. The official FC Bayern Basketball NBA 2K19

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team "Bayern Ballers Gaming" was founded in April 2018. The Ballers quickly became one of the best virtual basketball teams in the world: together with their coach Swen Müller, the team continued to climb the NBA 2K ProAM world ranking, making them one of the Top 5 European teams.

References

External links

Official website

Bayern Munich
at easycredit-bbl.de
Bayern Munich
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