SpVgg Bayreuth is a
German football club based in
Bayreuth
Bayreuth (, ; bar, Bareid) is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains. The town's roots date back to 1194. In the 21st century, it is the capital of U ...
, Bavaria. Apart from coming within two games of earning promotion to the
Bundesliga
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in 1979, the club also reached the quarter finals of the
DFB-Pokal
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twice, in 1977 and 1980.
History
![Bayreuth League Performance](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Bayreuth_League_Performance.png)
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
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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
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.
1945 to 1963
The club initially stood in the shadow of two local rivals,
FC Bayreuth
The FSV Bayreuth is a German association football club from the city of Bayreuth, Bavaria.
The club was formed in a merger of the football departments of 1. FC Bayreuth and BSV 98 Bayreuth in May 2003. BSV was the product an earlier merger bet ...
and
VfB Bayreuth
The FSV Bayreuth is a Football in Germany, German association football club from the city of Bayreuth, Bavaria.
The club was formed in a merger of the football departments of 1. FC Bayreuth and BSV 98 Bayreuth in May 2003. BSV was the product an ...
, with the later taking out the
Amateurliga Nordbayern
The Bayernliga (English: Bavarian league) is the highest amateur football league and the second highest football league (under the Regionalliga Bayern) in the state of Bavaria (german: Bayern) and the Bavarian football league system. It is one o ...
(III) title in 1956. SpVgg had earned promotion to this league in 1954, having won the 2. Amateurliga Oberfranken-West title that year and then dominated its promotion round.
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. As the Bavarian champions, the club was entitled to enter the promotion round to the
2. Oberliga Süd
The 2. Oberliga Süd was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the south of Germany from 1950 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. It covered the three states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Hesse.
Overvi ...
, where it had to overcome
VfR Pforzheim
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2–1 after extra time in a narrow decider for promotion to the second division.
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.
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
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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
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Until 2004, the club operated a football department but after a merger with local rival MTV Ingolstadt to form FC Ingolstadt 04 the footballers left ...
5–2 after finishing on equal points.
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
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. 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
2. 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 2. Bundesliga Süd (the southern division of 2. Bundesliga), but lost in the promotion round 1–1 and 1–2 to
Bayer Uerdingen
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History
The ...
. It managed to qualify for the new single-division 2. 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 returned 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. The club's financial trouble however continued, having to declare insolvency on 22 October 2008, despite sitting second in the league.
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. Two seasons later the club won the league and earned promotion to the
Regionalliga Bayern
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. The club, by then had added the title ''Oberfranken'' (
Upper Franconia
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) to its name, relocated some of its home games to nearby
Weismain
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and split from the main club with the help of two regional investors.
Stadium
The club's stadium was originally built in 1967. In 2002 it was renamed the
Hans-Walter-Wild-Stadion
The Hans-Walter-Wild-Stadion is a multi-purpose stadium in Bayreuth, Germany. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of SpVgg Bayreuth. The stadium is able to hold 21,500 people.
The stadium opened in 1967 and ...
. Hans Walter Wild is the former mayor of Bayreuth.
Current squad
Honours
League
*
2. Bundesliga Süd (II)
** ''Runners-up'': 1979
*
Regionalliga Bayern
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(IV)
** Champions: 2022
*
Bayernliga
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(V)
** Champions: (8) 1959 (north), 1969, 1971, 1985, 1987, 2005, 2008, 2014 (north)
** ''Runners-up'': (2) 1958 (north), 1995
*
Landesliga Bayern-Nord
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(VI)
** Champions: (2) 1998, 2001
** ''Runners-up'': 2000
*
2. Amateurliga Oberfranken Ost (IV)
** Champions: 1954
Youth
*
Bavarian Under 19 championship
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** ''Runners-up'': 1997
*
Bavarian Under 15 championship
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History
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** Champions: 1977
** ''Runners-up'': 1978
Cup
*
DFB-Pokal
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** ''Quarter finals'': (2)
1976–77,
1979–80
*
Bavarian Cup
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** ''Runners-up'': (2)
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* Bavarian League Cup
** Winners: 2019–21
* Oberfranken Cup
** Winners: (2) 2001, 2006
Recent managers
Recent managers of the club:
Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
Fussball.de – Ergebnisse
Tables and results of all German football leagues
SpVgg Bayreuth
SpVgg Bayreuth II
*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 Regionalliga
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s 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
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as the new fourth tier in Bavaria in 2012 the Bayernliga
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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.
* The 2020–21 Regionalliga Bayern season has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
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, and the original 2019–20 season was extended until spring 2021. In July 2020, the current league leader Türkgücü München
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was promoted to the 3. Liga and thus suspended from 2019–21 Regionalliga Bayern, and the club's league results have all been annulled. The 2019–21 Regionalliga Bayern champion and participant in the promotion play-offs
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against the champions of the 2020–21 Regionalliga Nord was determined end of the discontinued season in a double round-robin play-off series with the top three eligible teams Viktoria Aschaffenburg
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, SpVgg Bayreuth, and 1. FC Schweinfurt 05.
Key
DFB-Pokal appearances
The club has qualified for the first round of the DFB-Pokal
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one quite a number of occasions, reaching the quarter finals in 1979–80 as its best result:
Source:
References
External links
*
The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
SpVgg Bayreuth at Weltfussball.de
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Football clubs in Germany
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Association football clubs established in 1921
Football in Upper Franconia
1921 establishments in Germany
Sports clubs banned by the Nazis
2. Bundesliga clubs