Even by Bayern’s high standards, the club’s twin charge toward trophies this season is striking. The women’s team wrapped up the Frauen-Bundesliga with a 3-2 win at Union Berlin, finishing the campaign with 21 wins and one draw from 22 matches to claim their fifth league title in six seasons. Hours later the men’s side reached the DFB-Pokal final with a 2-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen, having already stretched their domestic supremacy to 12 Bundesliga titles in 13 seasons.
Women’s captain Giulia Gwinn — who scored the decisive goal — described the evening as one that underlined the team’s dominance and the season-long work behind it. Both Bayern teams now sit in domestic cup finals and have reached the semifinals of their respective Champions League competitions, putting the club on course for an unprecedented “double treble”: winning the domestic league, domestic cup and the Champions League in both the men’s and women’s competitions in the same season.
Sporting director Max Eberl called the possibility extraordinary, crediting close cooperation across the club. He highlighted ongoing contact with Bianca Rech, the director of the women’s side, as evidence of how integrated and strong the club is becoming. Men’s coach Vincent Kompany has publicly backed the women’s team and welcomed steps toward greater inclusion in coaching, noting his long-standing interest in the women’s game.
There are still sizeable hurdles. Bayern’s women have historically lifted the German Cup only twice, while the men have managed the trophy just twice in the last decade, so the domestic cup is by no means a certainty. The Champions League represents an even bigger challenge: although Chelsea reached both the men’s and women’s finals in 2020–21, no club has ever claimed Europe’s top prize in both categories in the same season.
For the women, the toughest test awaits in the semifinals against Barcelona, with the first leg at the Allianz Arena on April 25 and the return in Spain on May 3. Barcelona — winners of three of the last five Champions League titles and victors over Bayern by 7-1 in this season’s group stage — remain the favorites. Forward Klara Bühl said the heavy group-stage defeat taught the team what to expect and highlighted areas for improvement, giving them a clearer path into the two-leg tie.
Playing the first leg at the Allianz Arena will help: the club reported 20,000 tickets sold for the match. Veteran defender Magdalena Eriksson, who has experience in Champions League finals, underlined the lift a large, passionate crowd can provide on nights like these.
Bayern’s rise in the women’s game follows years of relative underinvestment that left them trailing Europe’s elite. That trend appears to be changing as the club increases its commitment, a shift that could widen Bayern’s gap over traditional domestic rivals such as Wolfsburg, who have recently struggled. National team forward Alexandra Popp has urged greater professionalization from men’s clubs running women’s teams; Popp is set to move from Wolfsburg to Borussia Dortmund after the cup final on May 14, joining a project that is rapidly progressing.
On the men’s side, Bayern have also adapted to stay competitive in Europe since their last Champions League win in 2019–20. New additions and Kompany’s managerial influence have helped forge a potent attack — featuring Harry Kane, Michael Olise, Luis Díaz and Jamal Musiala — and the side will face holders Paris Saint-Germain in the semifinals. The winner would likely go into the May 30 final in Budapest as favorites, where they would await either Arsenal or Atlético Madrid.
Whether Bayern completes a truly historic double treble or simply adds more conventional silverware, the club’s simultaneous success in men’s and women’s football marks a major moment for Bayern and for German football as a whole.