The Bayern Munich Frauen’s 2025/26 season ended last weekend with a late 1-0 win over Hamburger SV, courtesy of a late penalty from Georgia Stanway. With that final whistle, the Frauen celebrated the end of their most successful season yet.
Their first achievement is obviously the Bundesliga, but this was not just any title win – Bayern won the title with 24 wins and 2 draws in 26 games, going invincible in the first season that the Frauen Bundesliga was expanded to 14 teams. This is not Bayern’s
first invincible Bundesliga season, they also achieved the feat in 2014/15 and 2023/24. Bayern thus became the first ever team to win three invincible league titles in the Bundesliga. The win also makes them the joint-record champions of the Bundesliga, tied at seven titles with Eintracht Frankfurt (formerly 1. FFC Frankfurt) and VfL Wolfsburg.
Bayern also defended the DFB-Pokal title for the first time in the history of the women’s team. A 2-0 win over Borussia Dortmund in the first round was followed by two 3-0 wins over FC Ingolstadt and Hamburg, which were in turn followed by 4-0 wins over SGS Essen and Wolfsburg. Bayern completed their Pokal campaign without conceding a single goal, a feat that had been achieved seven times before in the competition’s 45-year long history.
Not only were Bayern’s domestic endeavors impressive, but they also shone in Europe as well. Despite a 1-7 defeat to FC Barcelona in their first game, Bayern recovered to win four out of their remaining five games (drawing the remaining one) and secure direct passage to the quarterfinals. There, they dispatched Manchester United before succumbing to a hard-fought defeat to Barcelona in a much improved performance than in the league phase.
Of course, the season would not be complete without mentioning the DFB-Supercup, which Bayern also won comfortably at the start of the season. Bayern thus finished the season with only two defeats in all competitions, and a whopping 132 goals scored across 42 games. Pernille Harder was the team’s top scorer with 27 goals, while Klara Bühl was the top assister with 24.
What makes this achievement even better is the large crowds that the team kept bringing in on every occasion possible. The team kicked off the Bundesliga season by selling out 57,762 seats out of the 75,000 available in the Allianz Arena, setting the record for the most attended game in Frauen Bundesliga history, and continued to get a steady, sizable stream of fans in the other games they played there.
All in all, the sky seems the limit for the Bayern Frauen. Here’s to many more seasons of success!
