Women’s Bundesliga
Munich double party: Bayern women are German champions
Celebrating the championship after their 11-1 triumph on the last day of the game: the women of FC Bayern Munich. photo
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11:1 in the season finale! The footballers of FC Bayern get the fifth German championship title in a peat festival, Wolfsburg is at a disadvantage. Musiala, Sané and Co. cheer in traditional costume.
The beaming soccer players from FC Bayern walked through the line of champions with Thomas Tuchel to be honored with the trophy. With a grand gesture on a memorable weekend, Munich’s star ensemble celebrated winning the women’s title.
The team of head coach Alexander Straus secured the fifth German championship with a peat festival and gave the starting signal for the double red and white party.
One day after the eleventh men’s title in a row, outstanding Munich women confidently maintained their lead in front of cup winners and last year’s title winners VfL Wolfsburg with an 11:1 (7:0) home win against relegated Turbine Potsdam on the last Bundesliga matchday. Lower Saxony, who played 2-1 against Freiburg, are now fully focused on Saturday’s Champions League final against FC Barcelona.
“An incredible appreciation from the club,” said national player Klara Bühl in the BR interview, even before the two teams gathered for a photo together behind the two championship trophies. “It’s been a year of hard work. It’s indescribable. The game went great for us with the early goal. It was unbelievable what was happening here.”
Full house at the Schützenfest
Munich’s Saki Kumagai (4th minute) opened the scoring in front of the Munich men’s team and national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg. Lea Schüller (12′), Potsdam’s Anna Gerhardt with an own goal (21′), Jovana Damnjanović (24’/30′), Georgia Stanway (32′) and Lina Magull (37′) followed suit in the first half. After the break, Carolin Simon (49′), Kumagai again (52′), Glódís Viggósdóttir (75′) and Schüller (89′) increased. The Brandenburgers got a consolation goal through Viktoria Schwalm (64th). The Munich fans taunted completely overwhelmed guests with chants of “one more goes in”.
The spectators on the Bayern campus, which was sold out with 2,500 supporters, started their title party immediately after the kick-off. “German football champions” echoed from the stands, where the FCB professionals dressed in traditional costume around Jamal Musiala and club patron Uli Hoeneß followed the game. On the sidelines, FCB coach Alexander Straus risked a glimpse of the sparkling championship trophy early on. On the pitch, his team dominated at will.
The women from Potsdam were present – nothing more. In the meantime, the women of Munich even had enough time and space for magic football. Damjanovic prepared one of her goals with a remarkable hack trick himself. “It means everything to me,” said Norway coach Straus. “Let’s keep our fingers crossed for Wolfsburg that they win the Champions League final, that would be good for German football.”
Next destination: Henkelpott
For the Bayern women it is the fifth championship title in the club’s history after 1976, 2015, 2016 and 2021. In the DFB Cup, however, they had to accept a bitter 0:5 in the semifinals against eventual cup winner Wolfsburg. In the Champions League, the end came again in the quarter-finals against Arsenal WFC – the Munich women are still waiting for their first title in the premier class.
Nevertheless: With the 47-year-old Norwegian Straus and the English European champion Stanway, the team has made a step forward. Although the German runners-up Giulia Gwinn and Linda Dallmann were out injured for months, FC Bayern finished ahead of Wolfsburg.
And for the new season, two top international players are to come from Chelsea – even if Bayern have not yet confirmed this: Swedish defender Magdalena Eriksson and Danish attacking force Pernille Harder, 2018 and 2020 “Europe’s Footballer of the Year”. But nobody thought of that. Munich’s concentrated attention was focused on the planned championship celebration on the town hall balcony.