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Bayern are succeeding where all of Europe’s greats have failed
When Harry Kane and his team-mates walked into the home tunnel for the final game of the season against Cologne on Saturday, no one at the Allianz Arena knew that Bayern Munich’s sought-after victory would slightly change the map of European football history.
The match ended five goals to one for the Bavarians, and at the final whistle they lost a record that has been engraved in the records of five European championships for thirteen years.
A unique throne
In the 2011-2012 season, Real Madrid under Jose Mourinho produced one of the most important seasons in the history of La Liga, and the merengue managed to score against their Spanish league rivals at the end of that season with 121 goals, with which they sat on the unique throne for a long time, surpassing all teams in Europe.
Today, “Bavaria” under the leadership of its Belgian coach Vincent Kompany managed to close the season with 122 goals. The quiet Belgian, who has not completed three years on the training bench of “Bayern”, has set a record that no football legend has been able to approach for years.
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Bayern Munich have become the record holders for the most goals scored by a team in one season in the five major leagues of the current millennium, after surpassing Real Madrid’s record (121 goals) in the 2011-2012 season.
Mourinho’s fingerprint. When “Real” surprised the world
To understand the greatness that Bayern have achieved today, we have to go back to the summer of 2011 and a Santiago Bernabeu stadium that was buzzing with the momentum of a team that Mourinho wanted to make the strongest in the history of Spanish football. The battle between Ronaldo and Messi was at its hottest and Barcelona were at the height of their tactical prowess under Pep Guardiola, so Real turned the table in a completely different way: speed, deadly transformations and a storm in the name of Cristiano Ronaldo.
Ronaldo scored 46 goals in La Liga that season, while Messi surpassed him to win the top scorer award with 50 goals.
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Despite Ronaldo’s number of goals, “Real Mourinho” was not a star phenomenon. Karim Benzema scored 21 goals and Higuain scored 22 goals, while Mesut Ozil was the brains of the team and Angel Di Maria drained the opponent’s defense on the edges of the field.
Real Madrid won the La Liga title with 100 points at the time, a number that no one had previously achieved in the competition’s history, and nine points clear of Barcelona, who had an exceptional team by any standards.
It was the only La Liga title Mourinho won in three light years with Real Madrid.
Season of company. dead calm.
When Vincent Kompany took over at Bayern Munich, nobody expected the team’s play, especially in attack, to reach this level.
The man who made his name in defense with Manchester City, and who had an up-and-down season at Burnley before arriving at Bayern, initially seemed an odd choice to lead the Bayern machine.
But he found his perfect weapon in Harry Kane, who won the top goalscorer award today with a hat-trick that took him to 36 goals. a striker who understands how to create a deadly sting for opponents in every detail in the front line, receiving balls with his back to goal and turning half chances into amazing goals.
Bayern’s squad numbers for 2025-26 paint a picture of a team that is hitting everywhere. 122 goals in 34 rounds, which is an average of 3.5 goals per game, which means that the Bayern team not only won most of their matches, but completely destroyed their opponents.
The fundamental difference between Kompany’s approach and Mourinho’s is not just the number of goals, but the nature of their distribution; Mourinho’s Real relied remarkably on one system and method, while Bayern built their attack on collective cooperation, making stopping him a perplexing task for any manager in Europe.
La Liga and Bundesliga. behind the numbers
When comparing two seasons of this magnitude (Kompany/Mourinho), there are legitimate questions to ask objectively. The Bundesliga and La Liga are not identical competitions in terms of the level of defensive resistance and ferocity of competition, and what is allowed in Germany may differ from what La Liga imposes in terms of two-way tactical combat, especially in crucial stages.
However, history is now written by Bayern Munich with decent numbers, with Harry Kane’s team-mates now on 122 goals as of this Saturday night, the most in the history of the big five leagues since the turn of the third millennium.
Mourinho, whose luster had been fading for years before his name suddenly came to the fore thanks to the memories of Real Madrid’s current clean sheet and historic 121-goal season, described the season as “the closest to perfection I have ever experienced in my life as a manager”.
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The number of Real Mourinho stood for thirteen years in the form of Barcelona’s golden generation, Guardiola’s generation at City and Bayern, and Real’s next generation with Zidane and Ancelotti in their brightest days, until the silent Belgian brought it down, with an English goalscorer who decided to do in Munich what his name could not do in London this season. unparalleled place.
