Uli Hoeneß

• Honorary Award Recipient of the DFL
• Winner FIFA World Cup in 1974 and UEFA European Championship in 1972
• Honorary President FC Bayern München

Uli Hoeneß, born in 1952, was distinguished as a DFL Ehrenpreisträger (Honorary Award Recipient) in 2025. He is closely linked to half a century of FC Bayern München’s history during the club’s most successful era. Uli Hoeneß shaped FC Bayern not only as a player, but also as team manager, board member, president, and chairman of the club’s supervisory board. 

During his career as a FC Bayern player from 1970 to 1979, he won the Intercontinental Cup, (the predecessor of the FIFA Club World Cup), three times he lifted the European Cup (the UEFA Champions League today), won the Bundesliga title on three occasions, and also won the DFB Pokal once. With West Germany, he was part of the national team which won the FIFA World Cup in 1974 and the UEFA European Championship in 1972, the same year he took part in the Olympic Games in Munich. 

After 250 Bundesliga games and 86 goals, a knee injury ended his playing career and in 1979, at the age of 27, Hoeneß became team manager of FC Bayern München. Even in those early years, Uli Hoeneß was considered a visionary and driving force in his new role. He celebrated numerous national and international titles with FC Bayern, and the club established itself as a global brand. Today, he is Honorary President of his club.