In the first leg of the blockbuster Champions League quarter-final against Real Madrid, FC Bayern ended a long dry spell. The last away win for the Munich side in Madrid feels like an eternity ago.
A look at the world back then shows just how long ago it really was. One thing in advance: Back to the Future star Marty McFly would have needed to make quite a quantum leap in his DeLorean DMC-12 to witness it live once again.
- At the time, Manchester City were deeply embroiled in a relegation battle and ended up suffering the painful drop to England’s second division at the end of the season
- A Portugal legend held the transfer record back then and won the World Player of the Year award in the same year
- Schalke 04 finished a Bundesliga season with more goals scored and fewer conceded than Bayern Munich
- In that season’s winter transfer window, BVB paid a hefty €14.5 million for a certain Tomas Rosicky
- Even back then, Manuel Neuer was driving opposition attackers to despair – though in Schalke 04’s U17 team
- The Bundesliga teams relegated that season were VfL Bochum, Eintracht Frankfurt and SpVgg Unterhaching
- Sergej Barbarez and Ebbe Sand shared the Bundesliga top scorer award with 22 goals each
- Lothar Matthäus was on the cover of EA Sports’ latest FIFA hit
- BMW launched the new MINI as a retro-inspired model
- The online encyclopedia Wikipedia was launched
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was the box office hit of the year
- The big topic in schoolyards was the gold and silver editions of Pokémon
- The first Popstars band, No Angels, brought daylight into our eyes with their biggest chart hit
📸 Martin Rose – Bongarts
If you’re still in the dark, we’ll put you out of your misery. It was the 2000/2001 season. At the start of May 2001, Bayern Munich celebrated a hard-fought win in Madrid thanks to a goal from Giovane Elber, and three weeks later they even went on to win the Champions League against Valencia CF. Maybe history will repeat itself 25 years after Bayern’s last triumph at the Bernabéu.
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