🔮 Bayern's last win at the Bernabéu: what the world was like then

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·8 April 2026

🔮 Bayern's last win at the Bernabéu: what the world was like then

In the first leg of their 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 (after 90 minutes) feels like an eternity ago.

A look at the world back then shows just how long ago it really was. Here’s one spoiler 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.

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At that point, 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 at the time and won the World Player of the Year award that same year
Schalke 04 finished a Bundesliga season with more goals scored and fewer conceded than Bayern Munich
during that season’s winter transfer window, BVB shelled out a hefty €14.5 million for a certain Tomas Rosicky
even back then, Manuel Neuer was already driving opposing attackers to despair — though in Schalke 04’s U17 team
the teams relegated from the Bundesliga 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
the new MINI was launched by BMW as a retro-inspired model
the online encyclopedia Wikipedia went live
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was the box-office hit of the year
the big thing in schoolyards was the Pokémon Gold and Silver editions
the first Popstars band, No Angels, brought daylight to our eyes with their biggest chart hit

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If you’re still in the dark, we’ll put you out of your misery. It was the 2000/2001 season. In early May 2001, Bayern Munich claimed 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.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.

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