FC Kronach

FC Kronach
Full name 1. Fußball-Club Kronach 08 e.V.
Founded 5 April 1908
Ground Hammermühl-Stadion
Ground Capacity 5,000
Chairman Alfred Sommer
Manager Heiko Melzer
League Kreisliga Coburg-Kronach (VIII)
2014–15 4th

The FC Kronach is a German association football club from the town of Kronach, Bavaria.

The club's greatest success have been its three seasons spend in the Fußball-Bayernliga, in 1971–72 and again from 1987 to 1989.

History

The club was formed on 5 April 1908. The club initially joined the leagues in neighboring Thuringia due to the close proximity of Kronach to the border. After the First World War, the club started playing football in the Bavarian league system. In this era, the club managed a league championship in the A-Klasse Frankenwaldgau, which entitled it to enter the promotion round, where it was outplayed by clubs like FC Schweinfurt 05. After that, the club stagnated and was not particularly successful up until the mid-1960s.[1]

The club first entered the tier-four Landesliga Bayern-Nord in 1967, a league formed four years earlier, and was immediately competitive, finishing third in its first season there. After three seasons of upper table finishes, the side won the league in 1971 and earned promotion to the third division Bayernliga.[2]

In the Bayernliga for the first time, in 1971–72, Kronach was struggling against relegation, eventually finishing 16th and three points behind a non-relegation rank.[3] Back in the Landesliga, FCK was not able to repeat past performances, coming eighth in its first year back and, after that, only achieving lower table finishes. Eventually, at the end of the 1977–78 season, the side was relegated back to the Bezirksliga.[2]

Kronach spend the next six seasons at Bezirksliga level before once more making a return to the Landesliga. Again the club performed well as a new comer, finishing fourth in its first two seasons back before it earned another league championship in 1987 and once more was promoted to the Bayernliga.[2]

Back in Bavaria's highest league for a second stint, the club narrowly avoided relegation in its first year there, coming 13th and just a point clear of a relegation rank.[4] The following season, 1988–89, Kronach was only able to win three games and finished a distant last, 13 points clear of salvation.[5]

In the Landesliga, the club achieved two good seasons after relegation, finishing fifth and sixth, but then declined and was relegated to the Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken in 1994.[2] A league championship at this level however took the side straight back to the Landesliga.[6] But overall, the club now entered an era of financial struggle, culminating in the necessity of having to sell its stadium to survive, which it since has been able to purchase back.[7]

The team played three more seasons in the Landesliga from 1995 to 1998, followed by a permanent relegation from the league at the end of the 1997–98 season.[2] It spend just as many seasons in the Bezirksoberliga from 1998 to 2001 before another relegation meant a permanent departure from this league, too.[6] The club was handed straight through the Bezirksliga Oberfranken-West (VII) the following season and dropped down to the Kreisliga for the 2002–03 season.[8]

The club played in the Bezirksliga once more in 2008–09 but came only 14th and was promptly relegated again. It made another return to the Bezirksliga in 2010 and was able to maintain the league this time round, playing in the league until 2014, when it was relegated again.[8]

Honours

The club's honours:

League

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:

Manager Start Finish
Heiko Melzer ? Present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[9][10]

Season Division Tier Position
1999–2000 Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken VI 8th
2000–01 Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken 17th ↓
2001–02 Bezirksliga Oberfranken-West VII 17th ↓
2002–03 Kreisliga Kronach VIII
2003–04 Kreisliga Kronach 8th
2004–05 Kreisliga Kronach 6th
2005–06 Kreisliga Kronach 4th
2006–07 Kreisliga Kronach 2nd
2007–08 Kreisliga Coburg-Kronach 1st↑
2008–09 Bezirksliga Oberfranken-West 14th ↓
2009–10 Kreisliga Coburg-Kronach IX 1st ↑
2010–11 Bezirksliga Oberfranken-West VIII 8th
2011–12 Bezirksliga Oberfranken-West 8th
2012–13 Bezirksliga Oberfranken West VII 7th
2013–14 Bezirksliga Oberfranken West 19th ↓
2014–15 Kreisliga Coburg-Kronach VIII 4th
2015–16 Kreisliga Coburg-Kronach

References

  1. ↑ Chronik (German) FC Kronach website - History, accessed: 2 December 2011
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv: Landesliga Bayern-Nord (German) historical German domestic league tables, accessed: 1 December 2011
  3. ↑ Die Bayernliga, page: 107
  4. ↑ Die Bayernliga, page: 123
  5. ↑ Die Bayernliga, page: 124
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Tables and results of the BOL Oberfranken (German) Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 2 December 2011
  7. ↑ Verein (German) FC Kronach website - Club, accessed: 2 December 2011
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Tables and results of the BL Oberfranken-West (German) Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 2 December 2011
  9. ↑ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (German) Historical German domestic league tables
  10. ↑ Fussball.de - Ergebnisse (German) Tables and results of all German football leagues

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