The FC Affing is a

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from the town of

Affing Affing is a municipality near () Augsburg in Aichach-Friedberg district, in Swabia - Bavaria, southern Germany. The municipality covers an area of . Of the total population of 5,140, 2,591 are male, 2,248 are female, and 301 are of indeterminat ...

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

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, the fifth tier of the

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History

For most of its history the club has been a non-describt amateur side in local Bavarian football. The club won promotion to the

Bezirksliga Schwaben-Nord The ''Bezirksliga Schwaben-Nord'' is currently the seventh tier of the German football league system in the northern half of the Bavarian ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Swabia (German: ''Schwaben''). Until the disbanding of the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben ...

for the first time in 1995, for just two seasons before being relegated again. Affing returned to the Bezirksliga in 1998 and finished just above the relegation ranks in its first season back. After two more seasons where the side narrowly escaped relegation Affing improved, culminating in a league championship in 2002–03 and promotion to the

Bezirksoberliga Schwaben The Bezirksoberliga Schwaben was the seventh tier of the German football league system in the Bavarian ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Swabia (german: Schwaben). Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the sixth tier of the league system, unt ...

. FC Affing quickly adapted to the new league, coming fourth in its first year there and second the following season, thereby earning promotion to the

Landesliga Bayern-Süd The Landesliga Bayern-Süd ( en, State League Bavaria-South) was the sixth tier of the German football league system in southern Bavaria. Until the introduction of the 3. Liga (Third League) in 2008, it was the fifth tier of the league system, un ...

.Tables and results of the BOL Schwaben
Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 25 June 2013 The club spent the next six seasons in the Landesliga, initially with mid-table finishes but, in 2008–09, FC Affing finished second.Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv: Landesliga Bayern-Süd
historical German domestic league tables, accessed: 25 June 2013 This performance qualified the club for the promotion round to the Bayernliga but it was knocked out by SV Seligenporten, losing 3–0. Affing stayed in the Landesliga and came fourth the following year but had adifficult 2010–11 season, finishing 16th and being relegated. Back in the Bezirksoberliga the team took out the league championship in its first season back. Changes to the league system in Bavaria at the end of the 2011–12 season meant the unique opportunity for the Bezirksoberliga champions to earn promotion to the

and Affing was successful at that, overcoming

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and

FC Gundelfingen The FC Gundelfingen is a German association football club from Gundelfingen an der Donau, Bavaria. A longtime fourth and fifth division side, the club is one of the top sides from Schwaben and has six Schwäbischer-Pokal (Schwaben Cup) wins to ...

in the process. The club thereby moved from the seventh to the fifth tier in a season, bypassing the level in between. In its inaugural season in the new southern division of the Bayernliga FC Affing finished eleventh. In October 2013 the club announced that it had to cut the salary of its players by up to 70 percent because of financial difficulties caused by an outstanding tax dept. Despite this the club was able to retain most of its players. Affing finished second-last in the league and was relegated after losing in the relegation round to DJK Vilzing. In the 2014–15 season, in the Landesliga, the club came second-last once more and dropped another level, now back to the Bezirksliga. The following season Affing was relegated again, now to the

Kreisliga Schwaben-Ost The Kreisliga Schwaben-Ost is currently the eighth tier of the German football league system in the eastern region of the Bavarian ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Swabia (Bavaria), Swabia (German: ''Schwaben''). Until the disbanding of the Bezirksoberliga ...

Honours

The club's honours:

League

** Runners-up: 2009 *

** Champions: 2012 ** Runners-up: 2005 *

** Champions: 2003 *

** Champions: 1995

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

2. Bundesliga The 2. Bundesliga ( ) is the second division of professional football in Germany. It was implemented 11 years after the founding of the Fußball-Bundesliga as the new second division for professional football. The 2. Bundesliga is ranked below ...

, 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.

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

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