"The derby was once the thing we care about most every season. No matter at any time, we must win the game against Munich 1860!" said Pizarro, a legendary player of Bayern .
Bayern and Munich 1860 are one of the most famous city derbys in German football. As Munich 1860 bid farewell to the top stadium, the Munich derby is now drifting away. However, this Sunday evening, the legendary match commemorating the 50th anniversary of the stadium will be held. Bayern Club also specially designed a 50th anniversary jersey, and a derby memory that has surpassed a century has been reignited.
Munich, Bavaria capital, the largest city in southern Germany, and the earliest region in Europe to come into contact with modern sports. The first sports club was established in 1848, but it was involved in the revolutionary movement after half a year of its opening and was shut down by the authorities. The original team rebuilt the club in 1860 and named it Munich 1860. In the early years, Munich 1860 was the leader in the sports world. After football became popular, the club established a football team in March 1899 and became one of the pioneers of Munich football.
At that time, the self-built football teams of various sports clubs were very popular, but a gymnastics club called Munich 1879 rejected the idea of members playing football. 11 furious gymnasts announced their own team in February 1900, and they shouted a loud name - Bayern Munich . I'm afraid no one would have thought that this hastily established team would be the overlord of Munich and even German football in the future.
Munich 1860 has become the most popular team in the local area with its preconceived advantages. They performed well in regional friendly matches. In 1911, the club built its own stadium, Green Forest Stadium as its home court. However, in the Bavarian League held in the same year, Bayern, who was unknown, came from behind to win the first championship, and Bayern received support from many fans, and the trend of challenging Munich's 1860 status began to emerge.
After the first battle with , Munich grew and grew stronger in 1860, becoming a national championship contender in the 1920s, and won the national runner-up three times. During the same period, Bayern's performance also began to improve. He won the German Southern League championship in 1926 and directly won the national championship in 1932. His reputation surpassed Munich in 1860. However, Bayern's chairman at that time, Randall was Jewish . After the Nazis came to power, the team was suppressed, and Munich won the city's dominance in 1860.
After World War II , the United States aided Western Europe , Munich 1860 and Bayern became the only two local football teams to receive sponsorship, which made them a veritable Munich double hero, and the derby confrontation pattern was officially established. At first, Munich 1860 had an absolute advantage. They suppressed Bayern in the Southern League for many years. In 1963, Federal Republic of Germany formed the national Bundesliga . In the first year of Bundesliga , the regional access system was adopted, and each city had only one place. Munich 1860 was naturally shortlisted, and Bayern could only go to the low-level arena.
After two years of hard work, Bayern advanced to the Bundesliga in the 1965-66 season. At this time, Munich was in the peak form in 1860. Bayern's Bundesliga debut lost 0-1 in the same city derby. When Munich won the Bundesliga championship in 1860 in the season. However, Bayern's momentum is also fierce. A year later, he grabbed the European Winners Cup championship and competed. The two Munich champions did not let each other shine for a while. Bayern won the Bundesliga championship for the first time in the 1968-69 season, but Munich declined across the board and suffered its first Bundesliga relegation in 1970.
Munich Olympic Stadium has become a witness to the rise and fall of the two heroes. This stadium is the main venue of in the 1972 Munich Olympics, and can accommodate 69,000 spectators. Bayern announced the change of home stadium at the first time and entered the brand new Olympic Stadium. Before that, the Bayern club had been "living under someone else's roof". They have been using the Green Forest Stadium in Munich 1860 since 1926, but it can only accommodate 15,000 spectators there.
is subject to financial problems, and Munich 1860 stays behind its own stadium. It is reported that supporters of 1860 are mostly lower-level workers, who prefer to watch the game and cheer at close range rather than heading to the solemn and grand stadium.However, the Olympic Stadium greatly improved Bayern's reputation and income. When the 1860 realized the benefits of the big stadium, the gap between the two teams was huge. Munich 1860 was also relocated to the Olympic Stadium in 1990, and the two teams shared the stadium until the completion of Allianz Stadium in 2005.
Allianz Stadium is a professional football stadium built for the 2006 World Cup. Bayern and Munich 1860 each account for half of the equity of . At this time, 1860 was in a financial crisis. Bayern invested 11 million euros to buy the opponent's shares in 2006, but still retained their right to use it. However, with Munich 1860 going bankrupt again in 2017 and relegated to the amateur league, the team was no longer able to retain the stadium, and was eventually kicked out of the Allianz Stadium by Bayern and returned to the original Green Forest Stadium in circles.
time has passed, Bayern is the king of the Bundesliga, but Munich 1860 can only play in the third-level German Bundesliga this season. The two teams have no official matches since 2008, and the Munich derby is no longer glorious. Now in this Olympic Stadium, which witnesses the rise and fall of the two heroes in the same city, a derby legend is about to be staged, and the memory of the derby belonging to Munich seems like the next day.
