FC Memmingen

FC Memmingen

Full name	FC Memmingen 07 Verein für Leibesübungen
Founded	1907
Ground	Memminger Arena
Capacity	5,100
Chairman	Dieter Degenhart
Manager	Thomas Rheinhardt
League	Regionalliga Bayern (IV)
2014–15	7th
Home colours Away colours

FC Memmingen is a German association football club based in Memmingen, Bavaria.

Overview

The team was formed on 30 May 1907 as the football department of the gymnastics club Memminger Turnvereins 1859 and became independent in the fall of that year. They re-joined TV on 14 February 1919 before regaining their independence in March 1924 as FC Memmingen 07 Verein für Rasensport und Leibesübungen. The association later adopted its current name, FC Memmingen 07 Verein für Leibesübungen.

Prior to World War II the team captured seven local titles at various levels of play. In 1933 it took part in qualification play for the Gauliga Bayern, one of sixteen new top-flight divisions formed in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich, but dropped a 2:3 decision to BC Augsburg.

FCM made a first appearance in the top-league of Bavaria in 1953, when, after finishing second in the 2nd Amateurliga Schwaben, the club was admitted to the new Amateurliga Südbayern (III).^[1] Its first season there was not very successful and the team found itself relegated after finishing last. It bounced back with a 2nd Amateurliga title in 1955 and a finish at the top of its promotion group.^[2] Two good seasons followed with top-five finishes but in 1958, the club was relegated once again.^[3] It finished on top of the 2nd Amateurliga once again in 1958, after having to play a decider against TSV Göggingen, which it won.

The two following seasons in the Bayernliga were difficult and the club was relegated once more in 1961. The team remained in the 2nd Amateurliga and qualified for the new tier-four Landesliga Bayern-Süd in 1963.^[4]

After a brief drop to the tier-five Bezirksliga from 1966 to 1968, the club recovered and, by winning the Landesliga in 1970, returned to the now single-division Amateurliga Bayern. The team was to remain at this level for the following seventeen years, quite an achievement, but, except for 1980, when it came third, it never finished in the top half of the table.^[5] The 1987–88 and 1988–89 seasosn were spend in the Landesliga but then the club returned to the Bayernliga once more for the next thirteen seasons.

The club's most successful season came in 1996–97, when they came within a hairsbreadth of advancing to the Regionalliga Süd (III). Memmingen held a 3:2 lead in a promotion playoff versus Kickers Offenbach when the stadium floodlights failed, bringing the match to a premature halt. Offenbach won the subsequent re-play and advanced to the Regionalliga.

After another relegation in 2002 and a one-year stint in the Landesliga, the club returned to the Bayernliga, achieving some good results.

In 2007, FC Memmingen celebrated its centennial and inaugurated its refurbished Stadion an der Bodenseestraße with an Allgäu derby match against FC Kempten in front of 6,650 spectators.^[6] The club had the best support in the Bayernliga the 2007–08 season with over 1600 spectators per game.^[7]

The FC Memmingen holds the record for Oberliga Bayern seasons with its 37th in 2009–10 and also leads the overall table of this league. The club won the Bayernliga title in 2009–10 and thereby earned promotion to the Regionalliga Süd for the first time. In 2012 the club became part of the new Regionalliga Bayern where it plays today, finishing 7th in 2015.^[8]

Reserve team

The club's reserve team, FC Memmingen II, played in the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben (VI) in the 2007–08 season, coming second at the end of season. This finish qualified them for the promotion round, where they lost both games and therefore would have remained in the Bezirksoberliga but due to the third placed team from the Landesliga gaining promotion, too, the FCM II was also promoted. Outclassed in the Landesliga, the team had to return to the Bezirksoberliga immediately.

At the end of the 2011–12 season the team qualified for the newly expanded Landesliga after finishing eighth in the Bezirksoberliga and defeating TSV Neusäß in the promotion round.^[9]

Honours

The club's honours:

League Bayernliga (V) Champions: 2010 Landesliga Bayern-Süd (IV-V) Champions: (2) 1970, 2003 Runners-up: 1989 2nd Amateurliga Schwaben (IV) Champions: (2) 1955, 1958 Bezirksoberliga Schwaben (VI) Runners-up: 2008^‡

Cup Schwaben Cup Winners: (3) 1958, 1967, 1976 Runners-up: (5) 1972, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2006

Youth

• Bavarian Under 19 championship
  • Runners-up: 2003
• Bavarian Under 15 championship
  • Runners-up: 1998
• ^‡ Reserve team

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:^[10]

Manager	Start	Finish
Esad Kahric	1 July 2005	15 September 2013
Thomas Rheinhardt	16 September 2013	Present

FC Memmingen seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[11][12]

FC Memmingen

Season Division Tier Position 1963–64 Landesliga Bayern-Süd IV 6th 1964–65 Landesliga Bayern-Süd 11th 1965–66 Landesliga Bayern-Süd 14th ↓ 1966–67 Bezirksliga Schwaben V 1967–68 Bezirksliga Schwaben 2nd ↑ 1968–69 Landesliga Bayern-Süd IV 3rd 1969–70 Landesliga Bayern-Süd 1st ↑ 1970–71 Bayernliga III 9th 1971–72 Bayernliga 9th 1972–73 Bayernliga 11th 1973–74 Bayernliga 12th 1974–75 Bayernliga 14th 1975–76 Bayernliga 12th 1976–77 Bayernliga 10th 1977–78 Bayernliga 10th 1978–79 Bayernliga 15th 1979–80 Bayernliga 3rd 1980–81 Bayernliga 11th 1981–82 Bayernliga III 10th 1982–83 Bayernliga 14th 1983–84 Bayernliga 14th 1984–85 Bayernliga 13th 1985–86 Bayernliga 14th 1986–87 Bayernliga 15th ↓ 1987–88 Landesliga Bayern-Süd IV 5th 1988–89 Landesliga Bayern-Süd 2nd ↑ 1989–90 Bayernliga III 9th

Season Division Tier Position 1990–91 Bayernliga III 7th 1991–92 Bayernliga 11th 1992–93 Bayernliga 7th 1993–94 Bayernliga 13th 1994–95 Bayernliga IV 12th 1995–96 Bayernliga 11th 1996–97 Bayernliga 2nd 1997–98 Bayernliga 15th 1998–99 Bayernliga 8th 1999–2000 Bayernliga IV 12th 2000–01 Bayernliga 10th 2001–02 Bayernliga 18th ↓ 2002–03 Landesliga Bayern-Süd V 1st ↑ 2003–04 Bayernliga IV 10th 2004–05 Bayernliga 9th 2005–06 Bayernliga 12th 2006–07 Bayernliga 4th 2007–08 Bayernliga 6th 2008–09 Bayernliga V 3rd 2009–10 Bayernliga 1st ↑ 2010–11 Regionalliga Süd IV 13th 2011–12 Regionalliga Süd 15th 2012–13 Regionalliga Bayern 9th 2013–14 Regionalliga Bayern 13th 2014–15 Regionalliga Bayern 7th 2015–16 Regionalliga Bayern 2016–17

• The Bayernliga was officially called Amateurliga Bayern until 1978, then Amateur Oberliga Bayern till 1994 and Oberliga Bayern after that.

FC Memmingen II

Season	Division	Tier	Position
1999–2000	Bezirksoberliga Schwaben	VI	15th ↓
2000–01	Bezirksliga Schwaben-Süd	VII	3rd
2001–02	Bezirksliga Schwaben-Süd		4th
2002–03	Bezirksliga Schwaben-Süd		9th
2003–04	Bezirksliga Schwaben-Süd		1st ↑
2004–05	Bezirksoberliga Schwaben	VI	5th
2005–06	Bezirksoberliga Schwaben		4th
2006–07	Bezirksoberliga Schwaben		3rd
2007–08	Bezirksoberliga Schwaben		2nd ↑
2008–09	Landesliga Bayern-Süd		18th ↓
2009–10	Bezirksoberliga Schwaben	VII	4th
2010–11	Bezirksoberliga Schwaben		6th
2011–12	Bezirksoberliga Schwaben		8th ↑
2012–13	Landesliga Bayern-Südwest	VI	14th
2013–14	Landesliga Bayern-Südwest		6th
2014–15	Landesliga Bayern-Südwest		10th
2015–16	Landesliga Bayern-Südwest

• 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.

Key

↑ Promoted

↓ Relegated

References

1. (German) Die Bayernliga 1945–1997, publisher: DSFS, published: 1997, page: 26, accessed: 14 June 2009
2. Die Bayernliga 1945–1997 (German) publisher: DSFS, published: 1997, page: 32, accessed: 14 June 2009
3. Die Bayernliga 1945–1997 (German) publisher: DSFS, published: 1997, page: 40, accessed: 14 June 2009
4. (German) Die Bayernliga 1945–1997, publisher: DSFS, published: 1997, page: 56, accessed: 14 June 2009
5. Die Bayernliga 1945–1997 (German) publisher: DSFS, published: 1997, page: 158, accessed: 14 June 2009
6. "FC Memmingen centennial" (in German). FC Memmingen. Retrieved 13 December 2007.
7. Bayernliga 2007/08 – Zuschauertabelle Bayliga.de, accessed: 11 June 2008
8. Regionalliga Bayern table 2013–14 kicker.de, accessed: 16 June 2014
9. Das war die Relegation 2012 auf Verbandsebene (German) fupa.net, published: 7 June 2012, accessed 8 June 2012
10. FC Memmingen .:. Trainer von A-Z (German) weltfussball.de, accessed: 30 April 2011
11. Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (German) Historical German domestic league tables
12. Fussball.de – Ergebnisse (German) Tables and results of all German football leagues

Sources

• Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9

External links

• Official team site (German)
• FC Memmingen at Weltfussball.de
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (in German)
• eufo.de European football club profiles and current team rosters