🎥 OTD 2001: Bayern Munich won their fourth UCL trophy in dramatic fashion

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23-05-2025

Only Real Madrid and Milan have won more Champions League/European Cups than Bayern Munich, but the gap between their third and fourth title was an agonising and pain-riddled 25 years.
On this day in 2001, Oliver Kahn's heroics saw them end that wait in a dramatic all-penalty final.
Bayern's first three European Cups came in successive seasons, as Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller and co. ruled with both club and country in the mid-to-late 1970s.
1982 saw a final loss to Aston Villa, before Porto stunned them five years later with a late comeback. Things got worse in 1999 when Manchester United famously won with even later goals in Barcelona, and the scars had yet to heal by 2001.
That appeared obvious when Gaizka Mendieta opened the scoring from the spot inside three minutes, and even more so when Mehmet Scholl missed another penalty minutes later.
Stefan Effenberg would level things up with the third penalty of normal time, before Kahn became immortalised in the shootout.
Bayern have since been crowned kings of Europe in 2013 and 2020, but for many, the 2001 win remains the most important in the club's recent history.
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