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.
[edit] History
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Honours
The club's honours:
[edit] Recent managers
Recent managers of the club:[10]
| 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 |
31 December 2011 |
| Klaus Scheer |
1 January 2012 |
Present |
[edit] Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[11][12]
[edit] SpVgg Bayreuth
| Year |
Division |
Tier |
Position |
| 1999–2000 |
Landesliga Bayern-Nord |
V |
2nd |
| 2000–01 |
Landesliga Bayern-Nord |
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 |
1st |
| 2008–09 |
Bayernliga |
V |
4th |
| 2009–10 |
Bayernliga |
9th |
| 2010-11 |
Bayernliga |
16th ↓ |
| 2011–12 |
Landesliga Bayern-Nord |
VI |
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[edit] SpVgg Bayreuth II
| Season |
Division |
Tier |
Position |
| 1999–2000 |
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| 2000–01 |
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| 2001–02 |
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| 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 |
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[edit] DFB Cup appearances
The club has qualified for the first round of the German Cup one quite a number of occasions:
Source:"DFB-Pokal" (in German). Weltfussball.de. http://www.weltfussball.de/wettbewerb/dfb-pokal/. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
[edit] 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
- ^ 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
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