FC Amberg

Full name

Fußball Club Amberg e.V.

Founded

Original: 1921

Reformed: 1995

Ground

Stadion am Schanzl

Capacity

9,000

Manager

Bernd Scheibel

League

Regionalliga Bayern (IV)

2014–15

Bayernliga Nord (V), 2nd ↑

Website

Club home page

Home colours

Away colours

FC Amberg is a German football club from the city of Amberg, Bavaria. The team was established on 6 April 1921 as Amberg Fußballverein and on 17 January 1939 adopted the name Verein für Leibesübungen Amberg.^[1]

History

Following World War II on 9 November 1945 the club merged with Turnverein 1861 Amberg to form Turn- und Spielverein Amberg. The union was short-lived and the two clubs went their separate ways on 15 July 1949 with the former VfL reorganizing as 1. FC Amberg. The club won the local Oberpfalz championship in 1948 and originally qualified for the new Amateurliga, but, because it used an inelegible player, it was denied promotion.

The Amberger side first came to note in the 1951–52 season, capturing the Amateurliga Bayern (III) title, but failing in their attempt to advance through a promotion playoff to the 2nd Oberliga Süd. The club lost the 1956 title to ESV Ingolstadt, losing a decider 1–0. A sixteenth place finish in 1963 spelled the end to their twelve-year membership to the league and Ttey did not appear in third tier play again for more than two decades until they returned to the Amateurliga in 1975, where they would compete until sent down in 1982, a second place in 1979 being their best finish.

They again made their way back in 1986 to what in 1978 had become the Amateuroberliga Bayern (III) and played there as a middling side until 1991. The club made its only appearance in DFB-Pokal (German Cup) in the opening round of the 1987 tournament, going out 0:7 to Bundesliga side Borussia Mönchengladbach. In 1994–95 Amberg made its last appearance in upper tier regional play, in the Oberliga Bayern (IV). The club folded after this, being DM1.7 million in debt.^[2]

A new club was formed within the TV Amberg, the FC Amberg. This new club started to make a recovery from the lower reaches of Bavarian amateur football in the early 2000s, reaching the level below the Oberliga, the Landesliga, in 2003 once more. For a number of years Amberg played as a mid-table side in the Landesliga Bayern Mitte (VI) before a loss in the relegation round in 2011 caused the club to drop back to the Bezirksoberliga.

Changes in the league system in 2012 meant that the club, after a championship in the Bezirksoberliga, qualified for the promotion round to the newly expanded Bayernliga and managed to return to this level after victories over 1. FC Bad Kötzting and Dergah Spor Nürnberg.^[3] Amberg finished fourth in the Bayernliga in each of its first two seasons back. In the 2014–15 season the club finished runners-up and thereby qualified for the promotion round to the Regionalliga Bayern where it won promotion after two victories over VfR Garching.

Current squad

As of 31 July 2015

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Matthias Götz
22	GK	Max Bleisteiner
5	DF	Oliver Gorgiev
	MF	Ibrahim Devrilen

No.		Position	Player
		FW	Junior Torunarigha
		FW	Sven Seitz
		DF	Sebastian Hauck

Honors

The club's honours:

League

Amateurliga Bayern (III)
- Champions: 1952
Bayernliga Nord
- Runners-up: 2015
Landesliga Bayern-Mitte (IV)
- Champions: (2) 1975, 1986
- Runners-up: (3) 1965, 1969, 1994
Bezirksoberliga Oberpfalz (VI)
- Champions: (3) 2003, 2005, 2012
Bezirksliga Oberpfalz-Nord (VII)
- Champions: 2002
Oberpfalz championship
- Winners: (2) 1948, 1951

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[4]^[5]

Year	Division	Tier	Position
2000–01	Kreisliga	VIII	↑
2001–02	Bezirksliga Oberpfalz-Nord	VII	1st ↑
2002–03	Bezirksoberliga Oberpfalz	VI	1st ↑
2003–04	Landesliga Bayern-Mitte	V	16th ↓
2004–05	Bezirksoberliga Oberpfalz	VI	1st ↑
2005–06	Landesliga Bayern-Mitte	V	7th
2006–07	Landesliga Bayern-Mitte		15th
2007–08	Landesliga Bayern-Mitte		13th
2008–09	Landesliga Bayern-Mitte	VI	8th
2009–10	Landesliga Bayern-Mitte		10th
2010–11	Landesliga Bayern-Mitte		15th ↓
2011–12	Bezirksoberliga Oberpfalz	VII	1st ↑
2012–13	Bayernliga Nord	V	4th
2013–14	Bayernliga Nord		4th
2014–15	Bayernliga Nord		2nd ↑
2015–16	Regionalliga Bayern	IV

With the introduction of the Bezirksoberligas in 1988 as the new fifth tier, below the Landesligas, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the establishment of the Regionalliga Bayern as the new fourth tier in Bavaria in 2012 the Bayernliga was split into a northern and a southern division, the number of Landesligas expanded from three to five and the Bezirksoberligas abolished. All leagues from the Bezirksligas onwards were elevated one tier.

↑ Promoted	↓ Relegated

DFB Cup appearances

The club has qualified for the first round of the German Cup only once:

Season	Round	Date	Home	Away	Result	Attendance
DFB-Pokal 1986–87	First round	27 August 1986	1. FC Amberg	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–7

Source:"DFB-Pokal" (in German). Weltfussball.de. Retrieved 29 May 2009.

References

↑ Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9
↑ Historie des FC Amberg (German) FC Amberg website, accessed: 3 May 2011
↑ Das war die Relegation 2012 auf Verbandsebene (German) fupa.net, published: 7 June 2012, accessed 8 June 2012
↑ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (German) Historical German domestic league tables
↑ Fussball.de – Ergebnisse (German) Tables and results of all German football leagues

External links

(German) Official team site
(German) 1. FC Amberg profile at Weltfussball.de
(German) Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables

Regionalliga Bayern (IV) 2015–16 clubs

FC Amberg Viktoria Aschaffenburg FC Augsburg II SpVgg Bayreuth TSV Buchbach SV Wacker Burghausen SpVgg Greuther Fürth II FV Illertissen FC Ingolstadt 04 II FC Memmingen FC Bayern Munich II TSV 1860 Munich II 1. FC Nürnberg II TSV Rain am Lech SSV Jahn Regensburg SV Schalding-Heining 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 SpVgg Unterhaching

Bayernliga

League seasons

Tier–II	1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50

Tier–III	1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94

Tier–IV	1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08

Tier–V	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

League champions

8 titles	SpVgg Bayreuth

6 titles	1. FC Bamberg FC Wacker München

5 titles	FC Augsburg SSV Jahn Regensburg

4 titles	SpVgg Unterhaching ESV Ingolstadt

3 titles	TSV 1860 Munich SpVgg Weiden TSV 1860 Munich II 1. FC Schweinfurt 05

2 titles	BC Augsburg VfL Neustadt FC Penzberg TSV Schwaben Augsburg 1. FC Haßfurt

1 title	FC Bayern Hof 1. FC Amberg ATS Kulmbach VfB Helmbrechts VfB Bayreuth 1. FC Lichtenfels SpVgg Büchenbach TSV Straubing ASV Herzogenaurach Würzburger Kickers MTV Ingolstadt SpVgg Landshut SV Wacker Burghausen SC Weismain SV Lohhof SpVgg Ansbach 1. SC Feucht FC Ingolstadt 04 FC Memmingen FC Ismaning TSV 1860 Rosenheim SV Schalding-Heining BC Aichach Viktoria Aschaffenburg TSV Rain am Lech

Landesliga Mitte champions 1963–2012

4 titles	SpVgg Weiden SSV Jahn Regensburg

3 titles	1. FC Nürnberg II FC Herzogenaurach ASV Neumarkt SpVgg Plattling

2 titles	1. FC Passau 1. FC Amberg FC Vilshofen SG Quelle Fürth SG Post/Süd Regensburg SpVgg Landshut

1 title	ESV Nürnberg-West SpVgg Vohenstrauß ASV Herzogenaurach TSV Roth TSV Straubing TSV Vestenbergsgreuth SpVgg Fürth Jahn Forchheim 1. SC Feucht SC 04 Schwabach SpVgg Greuther Fürth II 1. FC Bad Kötzting SpVgg Ansbach FSV Erlangen-Bruck SV Schalding-Heining Freier TuS Regensburg SC Eltersdorf

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