FC Bayern bought the Hachinger Sportpark to create a “real home” for the women’s team. FCB CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen also sees the purchase as an important sign for the future of German women’s football.
It has been official since Tuesday evening that FC Bayern has bought the Unterhaching sports park. In the long term, the main location of the women’s department will be built there. From 2029, the club plans to relocate all games and all training operations to Unterhaching.
Starting next season, the Munich team will be playing their Champions League games in the sports park. For CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen, the Hachinger Stadium is the perfect solution “to show attractive and emotionally charged women’s football.”
Bavaria campus too small
So far, the sporting home of the Munich team has been the FC Bayern Campus. The capacity of the stadium there is only 2,500 spectators. Last season, ten of the eleven league games played there were sold out. Only the women’s team in Leipzig had a higher capacity utilization, but their stadium only has a capacity of 1,000 spectators. So the Munich women are pushing for the bigger stage.
The only alternative so far, the Allianz Arena, is currently still a bit too big for the FCB women. At the start of the 2025/26 league, the players set a new attendance record with almost 60,000 fans in the stadium, but this number could probably not be maintained in the long term. After all, each club only attracted an average of 30,000 spectators in the previous season – mind you, based on the entire season. The value is likely to rise this season because more and more clubs are moving to men’s stadiums for highlight games.
Sportpark Unterhaching: the perfect compromise?
Therefore, the people of Munich are now presenting the perfect interim solution for them: the Unterhaching sports park with a spectator capacity of around 15,000. For the club, the purchase for 7.25 million euros plus renovation and conversion work represents a major investment in the women’s department. In the 2024/25 financial year, the Munich women accounted for just four million euros of the entire club’s total turnover of 978 million euros.
So why the big investment? “At the beginning we will have negative numbers, but if we didn’t believe in the future of women’s football, that we would generate better coverage, then we wouldn’t do it,” explained Dreesen at a press conference on Wednesday.
He believes that FC Bayern women and women’s football in general will take a big step forward in the coming years through more attractive broadcast slots, better marketing and the newly founded league association. The stadium purchase is also “a clear signal to German women’s football.”
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Source: BR24 December 17, 2025 – 3:00 p.m
