| Club: | Bayern Munich |
| Season: | 1980–81 |
| Manager: | Pál Csernai |
| Stadium: | Olympiastadion |
| League: | Bundesliga |
| League Result: | 1st |
| Cup1: | DFB-Pokal |
| Cup1 Result: | Third round |
| Cup2: | European Cup |
| Cup2 Result: | Semi-finals |
| League Topscorer: | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (29) |
| Season Topscorer: | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (39) |
| Highest Attendance: | 78,000 (vs. Hamburger SV) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 5,000 (vs. Waldhof Mannheim) |
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| Prevseason: | 1979–80 |
| Nextseason: | 1981–82 |
The 1980–81 season of Bayern Munich started with a 3–0 win against Karlsruher SC and finished up as German champions while being eliminated in the third round of the DFB-Pokal and semi-finals of the European Cup.
Bayern Munich won the German championship after finishing the season with 22 wins, 9 draws and 3 losses from 34 matches.[1]
The first and second rounds were part of the qualifying section.[2]
| Squad Season 1980–81 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Nat. | Birthday | at FCB since | BL matches | BL goals | Cup matches | Cup goals | EC matches | EC goals | Total matches | Total goals | |
| Goalkeepers | ||||||||||||
| Walter Junghans | 1977 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 0 | |||
| Manfred Müller | 1979 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 0 | |||
| Defenders | ||||||||||||
| Udo Horsmann | 1975 | 34 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 45 | 5 | |||
| Klaus Augenthaler | 1976 | 33 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 43 | 6 | |||
| Wolfgang Dremmler | 1979 | 33 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 44 | 2 | |||
| Hans Weiner | 1979 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 38 | 1 | |||
| Jan-Einar Aas | 1979 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Georg Schwarzenbeck | 1966 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Midfielders | ||||||||||||
| Bernd Dürnberger | 1972 | 33 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 44 | 4 | |||
| Kurt Niedermayer | 1977 | 32 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 42 | 9 | |||
| Paul Breitner | 1978 | 30 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 40 | 18 | |||
| Wolfgang Kraus | 1979 | 30 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 41 | 8 | |||
| Jürgen Röber | 1980 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 1 | |||
| Günter Güttler | 1980 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Pasi Rautiainen | 1980 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Forwards | ||||||||||||
| Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | 1974 | 34 | 29 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 45 | 39 | |||
| Dieter Hoeneß | 1979 | 27 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 36 | 14 | |||
| Norbert Janzon | 1977 | 24 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 31 | 3 | |||
| Karl Del'Haye | 1980 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 21 | 2 | |||
| Reinhold Mathy | 1980 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | |||