SpVgg Bayreuth

Full name

Spielvereinigung Oberfranken Bayreuth 1921 e.V.

Nickname(s)

Die Altstädter (the Oldtowners)

Founded

1921

Ground

Hans-Walter-Wild-Stadion

Capacity

21,500

Manager

Christoph Starke

League

Regionalliga Bayern (IV)

2014–15

6th

Home colours

Away colours

SpVgg Bayreuth is a German football club based in Bayreuth, Bavaria. Apart from coming within two games of earning promotion to the Fußball-Bundesliga in 1979, the club also reached the quarter finals of the DFB-Pokal twice, in 1977 and 1980.

History

1921 to 1945

Founded in 1921 when the side left gymnastics oriented sport club TuSpo Bayreuth, SpVgg Bayreuth was one of many clubs banned and replaced with a state-sanctioned organization in 1933 during the Nazi campaign against existing sports and other social organizations. A handful of club members reformed a rump side called FSV Bayreuth to carry on the activities of the original association. This team was made up largely of soldiers stationed locally, which resulted in a constantly changing lineup as they were transferred in and out of the area. The old club was quickly resurrected after World War II.

1945 to 1963

The club initially stood in the shadow of two local rivals, FC Bayreuth and VfB Bayreuth, with the later taking out the Amateurliga Nordbayern (III) title in 1956. SpVgg had earned promotion to this league in 1954, having won the 2nd Amateurliga Oberfranken-West title that year and then dominated its promotion round.^[1]

The club achieved good results in the Bayernliga and managed to win its division in 1959. The team then went on to beat southern champions Schwaben Augsburg in the finals for the Bavarian title.^[2] As the Bavarian champions, the club was entitled to enter the promotion round to the 2nd Oberliga Süd, where it had to overcome VfR Pforzheim 2–1 after extra time in a narrow decider for promotion to the second division.^[3]

The club spent three seasons in the second tier of Southern German football, achieving a remarkable fifth place in its first year. The second season was a struggle against relegation and, in the third and last one, it was sent down back to the Bayernliga again.^[4]

A fourth place in the last season before the league reform in 1963 saw the club qualify for the new single-division Amateurliga Bayern from 1963.

1963 to present

After the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963, Bayreuth played as a third division team until 1969. Another Amateurliga championship meant promotion to the second tier once more, now the Regionalliga Süd. It proved a short stay and SpVgg was narrowly relegated, losing a decider to ESV Ingolstadt 5–2 after finishing on equal points.^[5]

Back in the Bayernliga, the club won an undisputed championship, losing only two out of their 34 games, 15 points clear of the second-placed Wacker München.^[6] After another difficult first year in the second division, the club established itself in the league, coming fourth in 1973 and fifth in 1974, results that proved enough to qualify for the new 2nd Bundesliga Süd.

The club did quite well in the new league and they came close to moving up to the Bundesliga in 1979 after a second-place finish in 2nd Bundesliga Süd (the southern division of 2.Bundesliga), but lost in the promotion round 1:1 and 1:2 to Bayer Uerdingen. It managed to qualify for the new single-division 2nd Bundesliga in 1981, too, but the first season in this league was very disappointing and the team was relegated to the Oberliga in 1982, having come last.

The team became a top-side in the Oberliga but took until 1985 to take out the league title again and returmn to the second division.

Although relegated to Amateur Oberliga Bayern (III) in 1988 and 1989, the team was spared further demotion when clubs that had finished ahead of them were denied licences due to their financial problems. Bayreuth could not evade relegation after a third consecutive poor finish in 1990, and in 1994 slipped further still to the Bayernliga (IV). A strong campaign returned the side to the Regionalliga Süd (III) for 2005–06. The club was denied a license for the Regionalliga in the 2006/07 season and forcibly relegated to the 4th division Bayernliga. The club won the Bayernliga title for a seventh time, building up a convincing margin to the second placed team, and fulfilling the on-the-field qualification to the Regionalliga. On 11 June 2008, the club was refused a licence for this league and has to remain in the Bayernliga.^[7]^[8] The clubs financial trouble however continued, having to declare insolvency on 22 October 2008, despite sitting second in the league.^[9]

In the 2010–11 Bayernliga season, the club unsuccessfully struggled against relegation, dropping down to the Landesliga after a 1–2 extra-time loss to Bayern Hof in a relegation decider.

At the end of the 2011–12 season the club qualified directly for the newly expanded Bayernliga after finishing fourth in the Landesliga.^[10] Two seasons later the club won the league and earned promotion to the Regionalliga Bayern. The club, by then had added the title Oberfranken (Upper Franconia) to its name, relocated some of its home games to near-by Weismain and split from the main club with the help of two regional investors.^[11]

Honours

The club's honours:

League

2nd Bundesliga Süd
- Runners-up: 1979
Bayernliga
- Champions: 1959 (north), 1969, 1971, 1985, 1987, 2005, 2008, 2014 (north)
- Runners-up: 1958 (north), 1995
Landesliga Bayern-Nord
- Champions: 1998, 2001
- Runners-up: 2000
2nd Amateurliga Oberfranken Ost (IV)
- Champions: 1954

Cup

Bavarian Cup
- Runners-up: 2006
Oberfranken Cup
- Winners: 2001, 2006

Youth

Bavarian Under 19 championship
- Runners-up: 1997
Bavarian Under 15 championship
- Champions: 1977
- Runners-up: 1978

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:^[12]

Manager	Start	Finish
Marco Schmidt	1 July 2000	30 June 2003
Gino Lettieri	11 September 2003	30 June 2006
Norbert Schlegel	1 July 2006	30 June 2007
Klaus Scheer	1 July 2007	30 June 2010
Ingo Walther	1 July 2010	30 June 2011
Wolfgang Mahr	1 July 2011	12 November 2011
Klaus Rodler	12 November 2012	31 December 2011
Klaus Scheer	1 January 2012	16 April 2012
Jürgen Dörfler	16 April 2012	June 2012
Heiko Gröger	July 2012	June 2014
Dieter Kurth	June 2014	28 September 2014
Christoph Starke	29 September 2014	Present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[13]^[14]

SpVgg Bayreuth

Year	Division	Tier	Position
1999–2000	Landesliga Bayern-Nord	V	2nd
2000–01	Landesliga Bayern-Nord	V	1st ↑
2001–02	Bayernliga	IV	7th
2002–03	Bayernliga		4th
2003–04	Bayernliga		7th
2004–05	Bayernliga		1st ↑
2005–06	Regionalliga Süd	III	10th ↓
2006–07	Bayernliga	IV	3rd
2007–08	Bayernliga	IV	1st
2008–09	Bayernliga	V	4th
2009–10	Bayernliga		9th
2010–11	Bayernliga		16th ↓
2011–12	Landesliga Bayern-Nord	VI	4th ↑
2012–13	Bayernliga Nord	V	6th
2013–14	Bayernliga Nord	V	1st ↑
2014–15	Regionalliga Bayern	IV	6th
2015–16	Regionalliga Bayern	IV

SpVgg Bayreuth II

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

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

DFB Cup appearances

The club has qualified for the first round of the German Cup one quite a number of occasions, reaching the quarter finals in 1979–80 as its best result:

Season	Round	Date	Home	Away	Result	Attendance
DFB-Pokal 1972–73	First round – first leg	10 December 1972	SpVgg Bayreuth	1. FC Kaiserslautern	4–2
DFB-Pokal 1972–73	First round – second leg	20 December 1972	1. FC Kaiserslautern	SpVgg Bayreuth	4–0
DFB-Pokal 1974–75	First round	7 September 1974	SpVgg Bayreuth	FC Schalke 04	1–2
DFB-Pokal 1975–76	First round	1 August 1975	Karlsruher SC	SpVgg Bayreuth	4–2
DFB-Pokal 1976–77	First round	6 August 1976	Kickers Offenbach	SpVgg Bayreuth	4–4 aet
	First round – replay	1 September 1976	SpVgg Bayreuth	Kickers Offenbach	4–1
	Second round	16 October 1976	SpVgg Bayreuth	SSV Reutlingen	2–1
	Third round	18 December 1976	SpVgg Bayreuth	FV Hassia Bingen	2–1
	Fourth round	8 January 1977	SpVgg Bayreuth	FC Augsburg	2–0
	Quarterfinals	9 February 1977	SpVgg Bayreuth	Rot-Weiß Essen	1–2
DFB-Pokal 1977–78	First round	29 July 1977	FC 08 Villingen	SpVgg Bayreuth	0–1
	Second round	20 August 1977	Itzehoer SV	SpVgg Bayreuth	1–6
	Third round	14 October 1977	Karlsruher SC	SpVgg Bayreuth	2–0
DFB-Pokal 1978–79	First round	4 August 1978	SV Haidlfing	SpVgg Bayreuth	0–5
	Second round	24 September 1978	SpVgg Bayreuth	Melsunger FV	6–0
	Third round	2 December 1978	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	SpVgg Bayreuth	1–0
DFB-Pokal 1979–80	First round	25 August 1979	SpVgg Bayreuth	Preußen 07 Hameln	5–0
	Second round	29 September 1979	SpVgg Bayreuth	SpVgg Au/Iller	6–0
	Third round	12 January 1980	SpVgg Bayreuth	FC Bayern Munich	1–0
	Fourth round	16 February 1980	SpVgg Bayreuth	TuS Langerwehe	5–2 aet
	Quarterfinals	6 April 1980	FC Schalke 04	SpVgg Bayreuth	3–1
DFB-Pokal 1980–81	First round	29 August 1980	Borussia Neunkirchen	SpVgg Bayreuth	1–1 aet
	First round – replay	17 September 1980	SpVgg Bayreuth	Borussia Neunkirchen	2–1
	Second round	29 August 1980	SpVgg Bayreuth	VfB Stuttgart	1–3
DFB-Pokal 1981–82	First round	28 August 1981	SpVgg Bayreuth	Bayer Uerdingen	3–1
	Second round	11 October 1981	VfB Stuttgart II	SpVgg Bayreuth	1–2
	Third round	30 December 1981	SpVgg Bayreuth	VfB Oldenburg	2–0
	Fourth round	9 January 1982	SV Werder Bremen	SpVgg Bayreuth	2–0
DFB-Pokal 1982–83	First round	27 August 1982	SpVgg Bayreuth	SpVgg Fürth	3–1
DFB-Pokal 1982–83	Second round	15 October 1982	SpVgg Bayreuth	Hertha BSC Berlin	0–1
DFB-Pokal 1983–84	First round	28 August 1983	FC Augsburg	SpVgg Bayreuth	2–1 aet
DFB-Pokal 1984–85	First round	1 September 1984	SpVgg Bayreuth	SV Mettlach	7–0
DFB-Pokal 1984–85	Second round	13 October 1984	SpVgg Bayreuth	SG Union Solingen	1–2
DFB-Pokal 1986–87	First round	27 August 1986	SpVgg Bayreuth	SG Wattenscheid 09	0–3
DFB-Pokal 1988–89	First round	6 August 1988	Germania Dörnigheim	SpVgg Bayreuth	0–5
DFB-Pokal 1988–89	Second round	24 September 1988	SV Werder Bremen	SpVgg Bayreuth	6–1
DFB-Pokal 1989–90	First round	20 August 1989	1. FC Pforzheim	SpVgg Bayreuth	4–1
DFB-Pokal 1990–91	First round	4 August 1990	SpVgg Bayreuth	Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin	0–3
DFB-Pokal 2006–07	First round	8 September 2006	SpVgg Bayreuth	Kickers Offenbach	0–2

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

References

↑ Die Bayernliga 1945–1997 (German) publisher: DSFS, published: 1997, page: 29, accessed: 14 June 2009
↑ Die Bayernliga 1945–1997 (German) publisher: DSFS, published: 1997, page: 42, accessed: 14 June 2009
↑ Die Deutsche Liga-Chronik seit 1945 (German), publisher: DSFS, page: I 141, published: 2006, accessed: 14 June 2009
↑ Süddeutschlands Fussballgeschichte in Tabellenform (German) author: Ludolf Hyll, page: 201 + 205 + 209, published: 1988, accessed: 14 June 2009
↑ Die Deutsche Liga-Chronik seit 1945 (German), publisher: DSFS, page: I 49, published: 2006, accessed: 14 June 2009
↑ Die Bayernliga 1945–1997 (German) publisher: DSFS, published: 1997, page: 106, accessed: 14 June 2009
↑ Aufstieg Regionalliga Süd (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 13 June 2008
↑ Keine Lizenz für die SpVgg (in German) SpVgg Bayreuth website, accessed: 13 June 2008
↑ Insolvenzverwalter hat das Sagen SpVgg Bayreuth website (German), accessed: 29 October 2008
↑ Das war die Relegation 2012 auf Verbandsebene (German) fupa.net, published: 7 June 2012, accessed 8 June 2012
↑ Bayreuth gründet SpVgg Oberfranken GmbH (German) Frankenpost, published: 10 May 2013, accessed: 10 June 2014
↑ SpVgg Bayreuth .:. Trainer von A-Z (German) weltfussball.de, accessed: 5 April 2011
↑ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (German) Historical German domestic league tables
↑ Fussball.de – Ergebnisse (German) Tables and results of all German football leagues

External links

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 Nord champions 1963–2012

6 titles	Würzburger FV

5 titles	VfL Frohnlach

4 titles	SpVgg Bayern Hof

3 titles	1. FC Bayreuth VfB Coburg VfB Helmbrechts FC Schweinfurt 05 Würzburger Kickers

2 titles	FC Kronach 1. FC Bamberg SpVgg Bayreuth

1 title	SpVgg Hof FC Münchberg ATS Kulmbach 1. FC Haßfurt TSV Trebgast TSV Hirschaid SV Heidingsfeld SC 08 Bamberg SC Weismain SpVgg Stegaurach 1. FC Sand TSV Gerbrunn SV Memmelsdorf

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