Most recently they appeared in the 2013 final, in which they won 2 1 against fellow German club Borussia Dortmund for their fifth title. In their prior finals, Bayern Munich won on four other occasions in 1974, 1975, 1976 and 2001, and lost in 1982, 1987, 1999, 2010 and 2012.

The Champions League final generally averages around 400 million viewers  the estimate for the 2024 final can probably be attributed in part to the coronavirus pandemic  around four times as many as the Super Bowl on an annual basis and is watched in an estimated 200 countries worldwide.