FC Bayern Munich (women)

This article is about the women's football club. For the men's football club, see FC Bayern Munich.

FC Bayern Munich is a German professional women's football team based in Munich, Germany. The club was founded in 1970 and plays in the Frauen-Bundesliga, the top women's league in Germany. Bayern Munich Women were a founding member of the Frauen-Bundesliga in 1990. They have won seven German league titles and were twice DFB-Pokal winners.

Bayern Munich

Full name	FC Bayern München
Founded	7 June 1970; 55 years ago (1970-06-07)
Ground	FC Bayern Campus
Capacity	2,500
President	Herbert Hainer
General manager	Bianca Rech[1]
Head coach	José Barcala
League	Bundesliga
2024–25	Bundesliga, 1st of 12 (champions)
Website	fcbayern.com/women
Home colours Away colours
Current season

History

Bayern's women's football team was officially founded in 1970 although women had been playing at the club since 1967. However, because the DFB had outlawed women's football from 1955 to 1970 Bayern could only officially register the team in 1970. They won their first national championship in 1976. In 1990 Bayern were founding members of the Frauen-Bundesliga, but they were relegated after next season.

The club returned to the Bundesliga in 2000. In 2009, Bayern were runners-up in the Bundesliga, trailing champion Turbine Potsdam by a single goal. In the 2011–12 season on 12 May 2012, FC Bayern Munich dethroned the German Cup title holders 1. FFC Frankfurt with a 2–0 in the 2011–12 final in Cologne and celebrated the biggest success of the club's history since winning the championship in 1976.^[2] In 2015 they won the Bundesliga for the first time, without any defeat.^[3] They won the 2015–16 Bundesliga, for the second time in a row.^[4]

In May 2023, Bayern Munich celebrated a double championship when both the women's team and the men's team won the top national football leagues within 2 days.^[5] An 11–1 win over Turbine Potsdam on the final day of the season secured the FCB women their fourth Bundesliga championship and their fifth national championship overall, marking the club's biggest win in history.^[6]

Historical league performance of Bayern Munich

Players

First-team squad

As of 22 July 2025^[7]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Maria Luisa Grohs 2 DF  CAN Vanessa Gilles 3 DF  DEN Stine Ballisager 4 DF  ISL Glódís Perla Viggósdóttir (captain) 5 DF  SWE Magdalena Eriksson 6 DF  NOR Tuva Hansen 7 DF  GER Giulia Gwinn 8 MF  GER Lena Oberdorf 9 FW  SRB Jovana Damnjanović 10 MF  GER Linda Dallmann 11 FW  GER Lea Schüller 14 MF  GER Alara Şehitler

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 FW  GER Klara Bühl 18 MF  JPN Momoko Tanikawa 19 DF  AUT Katharina Naschenweng 20 FW  GER Franziska Kett 21 FW  DEN Pernille Harder 23 FW  POL Natalia Padilla 25 MF  AUT Sarah Zadrazil (vice-captain) 27 MF  ITA Arianna Caruso 28 MF  AUT Barbara Dunst 30 DF  GER Carolin Simon 31 MF  ENG Georgia Stanway (vice-captain) 32 GK  GER Ena Mahmutovic 38 GK  GER Anna Klink

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  COL Ana María Guzmán (on loan at Palmeiras until 30 June 2026) — FW  NGA Edna Imade (on loan at Real Sociedad until 30 June 2026)

Reserves

Bayern II, the women's reserves team, have played in the newly formed 2. Frauen-Bundesliga since 2018. They are managed by Nathalie Bischof.^[8]

Bayern II won the 2008–09 Regionalliga (Süd) and the 2001–02 Bavarian Cup. The team played in the Second Bundesliga (Süd) from 2009 to 2010 to 2018.^[9]

Former players

For notable current and former players, see Category:FC Bayern Munich (women) players.

Honours

Domestic

• German Championship: 1976
• Frauen-Bundesliga:
  • Winners (6): 2014–15, 2015–16, 2020–21, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25
• DFB-Pokal:
  • Winners: 2011–2012, 2024–2025
• DFB-Supercup:
  • Winners: 2024
• Bundesliga Cup: 2003, 2011

Regional

• Bavarian women's football championship (21):^[10] 1972–1990 (19 consecutive), 2000, 2004
• Bavarian cup:^[11] 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990

Invitational

• Valais Cup: 2015
• World Sevens Football Tournament: 2025

Record in UEFA Women's Champions League

Bayern Munich have set a few international records in their campaign to qualify for the 2009–10 UEFA Women's Champions League:

• Most goals scored throughout an UEFA Women's Champions League group stage: 32 (2009–10)
• Best goal difference throughout an UEFA Women's Champions League group stage: [phone])

All results (away, home and aggregate) list Bayern Munich's goal tally first.

Season	Round	Opponents	Away	Home	Aggregate
2009–10	Qualifying round	Glasgow City	5–2	–	–
		Norchi Dinamoeli Tbilisi	19–0	–	–
		Gintra Universitetas (Host)	8–0	–	–
	Round of 32	Viktória Szombathely	5–0 f	4–2	9–2
	Round of 16	Montpellier	0–0 f	0–1 (a.e.t.)	0–1
2015–16	Round of 32	Twente	1–1 f	2–2	3–3 (a)
2016–17	Round of 32	Hibernian	6–0 f	4–1	10–1
	Round of 16	Rossiyanka	4–0	4–0 f	8–0
	Quarter-finals	Paris Saint-Germain	0–4	1–0 f	1–4
2017–18	Round of 32	Chelsea	0–1 f	2–1	2–2 (a)
2018–19	Round of 32	Spartak Subotica	7–0 f	4–0	11–0
	Round of 16	FC Zürich	2–0 f	3–0	5–0
	Quarter-finals	Slavia Prague	1–1 f	5–1	6–2
	Semi-finals	Barcelona	0–1	0–1 f	0–2
2019–20	Round of 32	Kopparbergs/Göteborg	2–1 f	0–1	2–2 (a)
	Round of 16	BIIK Kazygurt	5–0 f	2–0	7–0
	Quarter-finals	Lyon	1–2
2020–21	Round of 32	Ajax	3–1 f	3–0	6–1
	Round of 16	BIIK Kazygurt	6–1 f	3–0	9–1
	Quarter-finals	FC Rosengård	1–0	3–0 f	4–0
	Semi-finals	Chelsea	1–4	2–1 f	3–5
2021–22	Group stage	Benfica	0–0 f	4–0	2nd
		BK Häcken	4–0 f	5–1
		Lyon	1–2 f	1–0
	Quarter-finals	Paris Saint-Germain	1–2 f	2–2	3–4
2022–23	Qualifying round 2	Real Sociedad	1–0 f	3–1	4–1
	Group stage	Barcelona	0–3 f	3–1	2nd
		Benfica	3–2 f	2–0
		Rosengård	4–0	2–1 f
	Quarter-finals	Arsenal	0–2	1–0 f	1–2
2023–24	Group stage	Ajax	0–1	1–1 f	3rd
		Paris Saint-Germain	1–0 f	2–2
		Roma	2–2	2–2 f
2024–25	Group stage	Arsenal	2–3	5–2 f	2nd
		Juventus	2–0 f	4–0
		Vålerenga	1–1	3–0 f
	Quarter-finals	Lyon	1–4	0–2 f	1–6

^f First leg.

Coaching staff

As of 30 August 2024^[12][13]

Position	Name
Head coach	Alexander Straus
Assistant coach	Clara Schöne Kjetil Lone
Goalkeeping coach	Michael Netolitzky
Fitness coach	Hamid Masoum Beygi Moritz Lemmle
General manager	Bianca Rech
Technical director	Francisco De Sá Fardilha
Team manager	Nicole Rolser
Team supervisor	Alexandra Milchgießer
Team doctors	Jan-Philipp Müller Vanessa Pfetsch
Physiotherapists	Johannes Schöttl Franziska Bachmaier Larissa Hauenstein
Kit man	Thomas Fräßdorf
Match analyst	Finn Arnold-Brogan