FC Bayern Munich was founded in 2000.
FC Bayern Munich . FC Bayern was founded in 1900 by 11 football players , led by Franz John . Although Bayern won its first national championship in 1932 , the club was not selected for the Bundesliga at its inception in 1963 . The club had its period of greatest success in the middle of the 1970s when , under the captaincy of Franz Beckenbauer , it won the European Cup three times in a row ( 1974 -- 1976 ) . FC Nürnberg , as well as with Borussia Dortmund since the mid-1990s .