This Day in History: 2023-08-24

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BAYERN MOVE TO NEW STADIUM (1972)

Stars such as Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Muller had played internationals at such a magnificent venue, but might have needed to pinch themselves in 1972 because this was now ‘home’. Their club Bayern Munich had taken over Munich’s 80,000-seat Olympiastadion with its lightweight, tensile roofs. Built for the 1972 Olympic Games, the stadium was associated with horror and bloodshed when 11 lsraeli athletes were murdered there during a terrorist attack. However, the Olympic Stadium move, doubling the capacity of the club’s former ground, was to be auspicious for Bayern as it heralded a period of unprecedented supremacy that culminated in three European Cup wins.

A view from an airship flying over the Olympiastadion.