By 1920, it had over 700 members, making it the largest football club in Munich. Bayern Munich was founded by members of a Munich gymnastics club (MTV 1879). When a congregation of members of MTV 1879 decided on 27 February 1900 that the footballers of the club would not be allowed to join the German Football Association (DFB), retro scotland top eleven members of the football division left the congregation and on the same evening founded Fußball-Club Bayern München. The club won this league in its first year, but did not win it again until the beginning of the First World War in 1914, which halted all football activities in Germany.
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