The ASV Hollfeld is a

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from the town of

Hollfeld Hollfeld is a town in the district of Bayreuth, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 20 km west of Bayreuth, and 30 km east of Bamberg. Sport The towns association football club, ASV Hollfeld, experienced its greatest success in 2012 ...

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. The club's greatest success came in 2012 when it qualified for the new northern division of the expanded

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, the fifth tier of the

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, where it played for two seasons until 2014.

History

For most of its history the club has been a non-descript amateur side in local Bavarian football, on occasion rising as far as the Bezirksliga. The club was originally formed as the gymnastics club TV Hollfeld in June 1900 but changed to its current name in 1929 when a football department was established. The club's rise through the divisions began in the mid-2000s. In 2006 it earned promotion to the tier seven Bezirksliga Oberfranken-Ost where it finished champions in its first season there and won promotion to the Bezirksoberliga. Playing in the

Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken The Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken was the seventh tier of the German football league system in the Bavarian ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Upper Franconia (German: ''Oberfranken''). Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the sixth tier of the ...

in 2007–08 the club finished runners-up in the league was promoted to the Landesliga. ASV Hollfeld played for the next four seasons in the

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until this league was disbanded in 2012. In the Landesliga the club finished on all occasions in the lower half of the table. However, a fourteenth place was enough to qualify the club for the new northern division of the Bayernliga after success in the promotion round, overcoming SV Friesen and

TSV Neudrossenfeld The TSV Neudrossenfeld is a German association football club from the town of Neudrossenfeld, Bavaria. The club's greatest success came in 2014 when it qualified for the northern division of the Bayernliga, the fifth tier of the German football ...

in the process. Hollfeld played for two seasons in the Bayernliga Nord, coming fourteenth in its first year. An eighteenth place in the second season meant the club was relegated and forced to step down to the

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. In the Landesliga, in 2014–15, the club finished last in the league and was relegated once more, now to the Bezirksliga. A last-place finish in the Bezirksliga in 2015–16 meant another drop for the club, now to the A-Klasse, which Bayreuth won for the first time in 2019, climbing them up to the Bezirksliga once more.

Honours

The club's honours: *

** Runners-up: 2008 * Bezirksliga Oberfranken-Ost ** Champions: 2007 * A-Klasse Bayreuth ** Champions: 2019 ** Runners-up: 2006 * Kreisklasse Bayreuth 1 ** Runners-up: 2005

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:Fussball.de – Ergebnisse
Tables and results of all German football leagues *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 The 3. Liga is a professional association football league and the third division in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2. Bundesliga and the fourth-tier Regionalliga. The modern 3. Liga was formed for th ...

in 2008 as the new third tier, below the

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, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the establishment of the

Regionalliga Bayern The Regionalliga Bayern, ( en, Regional league Bavaria), is the highest association football league in the state of Bavaria (german: Bayern) and the Bavarian football league system. It is one of five Regionalligas in German football, the fourth tie ...

as the new fourth tier in Bavaria in 2012 the

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

References

External links

Official team site

Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables
Manfreds Fussball Archiv
Tables and results from the Bavarian amateur leagues {{DEFAULTSORT:Hollfeld, Asv Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in Bavaria Football in Upper Franconia Association football clubs established in 1929 Sports clubs established in 1900 1900 establishments in Germany