Club president Herbert Hainer said that after a member vote, Beckenbauer's No. 5 would be retired permanently to express "the club's deep attachment" following his death in January 2024 at age 78.

The top-selling shirt is the replica of Franz Beckenbauer's iconic No. 5, celebrating the three-time Champions League winner and two-time world champion. Bayern announced plans to honor Beckenbauer ...

England's World Cup 1966 heroes Geoff Hurst and Bobby Moore played for the Seattle Sounders in the late 1970s — their impact still resonates today.

Bayern Munich might just win the UEFA Champions League. Anyone who's followed their season knows just how wild the notion ...

As always, the LOI never fails to deliver talking points and in the first few weeks of the fledgling season, we have already seen Shamrock Rovers come agonisingly close to qualifying for the last-16 ...

The FAI have a league that is on the up. How much of that is down to the FAI? Precious little. And that is me being generous.

They'll face Inter in the quarterfinals ... even though theirs is not exactly a Schwarzenbeck-Beckenbauer partnership, and when they screw up, they look especially bad? Do the absurdly high ...

Outgoing International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has said that "I enjoyed every day" although his 12 ...

Now they face an alliance with the SPD ... previously spoke against AfD at a memorial service for Bayern great Franz Beckenbauer, arguing for the continuation of club projects that fight racism ...