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Spielvereinigung Unterhaching () is a German
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in
Unterhaching Unterhaching (; Central Bavarian: ''Haching'') is the second largest municipality in the district of Munich in Bavaria, Germany, located to the south of Munich city centre and easily accessible via two federal motorways, Bundesautobahn 8 and Bunde ...
, a semi-rural municipality on the southern outskirts of the Bavarian capital
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. The club is widely known for playing in the first-division
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league
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alongside its more famous cousins,
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and 1860 Munich, for two seasons between 1999 and 2001, while the club's
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department has captured several world and Olympic titles. The football team plays in the
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(fourth tier).


History


Early history

Originally part of the gymnastics and sports club TSV Hachinger, SpVgg Unterhaching was established as an independent football club on 1 January 1925. Their first promotion to a higher division came in 1931 and they went on to be promoted to the A-Klasse a year later. However, the club was dissolved in 1933 as it was regarded as "politically unreliable" by the
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and was not re-established until after the end of World War II in 1945 to resume play in the amateur fourth division B-Klasse.


A rise through the ranks

Unterhaching's football team was only an anonymous local amateur team with no significant successes until a climb through league ranks that began in 1976 with promotion from B-Klasse to A-Klasse play. A first-place finished earned the club quick promotion to the Bezirksliga in 1977. Continued good play put the team into the fourth-division
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in 1979 and then the
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(III), the highest amateur division at the time, by 1981. Unterhaching finished first there in 1983 to earn an appearance in the playoff round for the 2. Bundesliga, but failed to advance. They suffered a similar fate in 1988 when they next appeared in the promotion round. The club finally emerged from the Oberliga to play in the 2. Bundesliga in 1989, but were quickly relegated after a 20th-place finish. Promoted a second time in 1992, they were once again sent down after a marginally better 18th-place result. Unterhaching next appeared in the second division in 1995 after a first-place finish in the new Regionalliga Süd (III).


Unterhaching in Bundesliga

With their return to the 2. Bundesliga in the 1995–96 season the club would begin a period that would see them earn their best ever results. They finished 4th that season, then slipped to 6th and 11th-place results in their next two campaigns before securing promotion to the top-flight
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after a 2nd-place finish in 1999 season. They went on to surprise everyone with a respectable 10th-place result in their inaugural Bundesliga season and also famously played the spoiler's role in deciding who would win the championship that year. Their first Bundesliga win came in just their second match of the season, with a 2–0 victory over
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at home. While struggling in away matches, Unterhaching remained undefeated at home in nine games before losing 0–2 to their stronger neighbours,
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. Prior to this loss, they had earned wins at home in matches against highly favoured teams like
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and
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, beating them 2–0 and 1–0 respectively. They earned their first away win in the Bundesliga by beating VfB Stuttgart 2–0 once again. On the final matchday of the season, visiting
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needed only a draw in Unterhaching to secure their first national title, but instead went down to defeat to the determined home side. Things took a sinister turn for Leverkusen when
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scored an
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that put home side ahead in the 20th minute. Their title hopes ended when Haching midfielder
Markus Oberleitner Markus Oberleitner (born 16 August 1973) is a German former professional football who played as a midfielder for SpVgg Unterhaching, Fortuna Düsseldorf and Greuther Fürth in Germany and finished his career with FC Kärnten in Austria. Care ...
made the score 2–0 in the 72nd minute. Meanwhile, Bayern Munich beat
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3–1 at home and were able to overtake Leverkusen on goal difference to snatch away the title. With a 10th-place result, Unterhaching finished ahead of long-established sides Borussia Dortmund and
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. They ended the season with the league's fifth best home record with 10 wins and 5 draws in 17 matches having lost only to Bayern Munich and 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Goalkeeper
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, defenders
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and
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, midfielders
Markus Oberleitner Markus Oberleitner (born 16 August 1973) is a German former professional football who played as a midfielder for SpVgg Unterhaching, Fortuna Düsseldorf and Greuther Fürth in Germany and finished his career with FC Kärnten in Austria. Care ...
and André Breitenreiter and striker
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were among the most memorable players of a team that impressed by its discipline. Breitenreiter and Rraklli scored 13 Bundesliga goals between them that season. However, the start of the 2000–01 season was a nightmare for Unterhaching as they would win only one and draw two of their first eight matches. While the team went undefeated in its next six matches, they were unable to maintain that form and at the mid-season break were only out of the relegation zone on goal difference. The second half of the season was just as dismal, and although they earned wins over local rivals
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and 1860 Munich, their campaign would end with a 16th-place result and relegation. As the season drew to a close Unterhaching was once again in a position to help Bayern Munich win another title. Needing only to hold second-place
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to a draw in their final match to ensure Bayern's win, Unterhaching held 2–0 and 3–2 advantages before finally succumbing 3–5 to Schalke. Bayern then had to make their own way to the championship with at least a draw against
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which they only narrowly managed on a
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equalizer (1–1) deep into stoppage time. Ironically, in the middle of their poor season, SpVgg Unterhaching would emerge as winners of the last
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, an indoor football tournament staged during the winter break of the Bundesliga season from 1987 to 2001.


Recent history

The club's struggles continued after their relegation to the 2. Bundesliga. Needing an away win in their final match of the season in order to avoid being sent down to the Regionalliga Süd (III), they instead went down to a 0–3 defeat to
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and finished in 15th place. They re-bounded the following season, taking the Regionalliga title, and making their way back to second division competition. Subsequently, Haching has delivered poor results in the 2. Bundesliga, narrowly avoiding being relegated again in both 2004 and 2006 before finally dropping into the Regionalliga in 2007, finishing 16th in the table due to
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's 2–1 win against
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. In the 2007–08 season, the club was never really in contention for a 2. Bundesliga return but did qualify for the new 3. Liga. In its first season in the new, nationwide 3. Liga, the club was close to promotion, but a loss 3–4-loss against Carl Zeiss Jena on the 37th matchday earned them a fall from second to fourth place, and a prolonged stay in the third league. In 2009–10 the club started well, but went down the table during winter. 2008–09's successful coach
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got replaced by the 1990-world champion
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, who led the team to a finish on a secure 11th place. The club finished one place above the relegation zone in the 3. Liga in 2013–14, coming 17th but was relegated to the tier four
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at the end of the 2014–15 season. It qualified for the
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where it knocked-out
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and
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before losing to
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in the third round.


Honours

The club's honours:


League

* 2. Bundesliga (II) ** Runners-up: 1999 * Regionalliga Süd (III) ** Champions: 1995, 2003 *
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(III) ** Champions: 1983, 1988, 1989, 1992 ** Runners-up: 1991 *
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 ...
(IV) ** Champions: 2017 *
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 ...
(IV) ** Champions: 1981 ** Runners-up: 2001 *
Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern The Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern was the seventh tier of the German football league system in the Bavarian ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Upper Bavaria (german: Oberbayern). Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the sixth tier of the league ...
(VI) ** Champions: 1999


Cup

*
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** Winners:
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, 2012,
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** Runners-up:
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* Oberbayern Cup ** Winners: 2004, 2008, 2009


Youth

*
Bavarian Under 19 championship The Under 19 Bayernliga (German: A-Jugend Bayernliga) is the second tier of under 19 youth football in Bavaria, set below the Under 19 Bundesliga South/Southwest. Until 1996, the league was the highest tier of under 19 football, containing the ...
** Champions: 2004, 2008, 2011 ** Runners-up: 2007, 2015, 2016 * Bavarian Under 17 championship ** Champions: 2002, 2004, 2011, 2016 ** Runners-up: 2007, 2009 *
Bavarian Under 15 championship The Under 15 Bayernliga (German: ''C-Jugend Bayernliga'') is the highest level of competition for under 15 football teams in Bavaria and the second tier of the Southern German league system, set below the '' Under 15 Regionalliga Süd''. History ...
** Champions: 2011 ** Runners-up: 1993, 2004, 2006, 2013, 2015, 2016 * Reserve team


Players


First-team squad


Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:


Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
Historical German domestic league tables. Retrieved 20 September 2014
Fussball.de – Ergebnisse
Tables and results of all German football leagues. Retrieved 20 September 2014
*With the introduction of the
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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. ;Key


Reserve team

SpVgg Unterhaching II (or ''SpVgg Unterhaching Amateure'') belong to the Bayernliga since 2001, coming ninth in the 2007–08 season of this league. Due to a number of clubs in the league not receiving a licence for the Regionalliga, the team gained entry to the Regionalliga Süd for the 2008–09 season. The team returned to the Bayernliga again after being relegated in 2009. In March 2015, the club announced that it would withdraw its reserve team at the end of the 2014–15 season after a rule change that allowed 3. Liga Clubs to do so. SpVgg Unterhaching stated financial reasons for this step. Unterhaching meldet U23 aus Bayernliga ab
fupa.net, published: 10 March 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015


Stadium

SpVgg Unterhaching's home stadium is the municipal Stadion am Sportpark (capacity 15,053), now known as Alpenbauer Sportpark under a sponsorship arrangement with the club. The club's fan base is local in character, although it has developed a small following as one of Germany's "Kult" teams. Until 1960, Haching played their home matches at the Jahnstraße football field and moved then to the Grünauer Allee stadium, which has about 4,000 standing places and where they played before the Sportpark stadium opened in April 1992. The Grünauer Allee stadium is now home ground of the club's reserve squad, Haching II, which is currently playing in the fourth-division Oberliga Bayern. The Grünauer Allee stadium is also the home ground of Fortuna Unterhaching, established in 1992 and playing close to the bottom end of the German league system. During winter, Fortuna Unterhaching shares the artificial football pitch owned by SpVgg Unterhaching.


Bobsleigh

In 1975, local entrepreneur and club sponsor Anton Schrobenhauser († 1982) founded the bobsleigh department, which he presided over until 1979. The club's bobsledders have since achieved a number of excellent results on the national and international level. Numerous Olympic medals and world championship titles make
Christoph Langen Christoph Langen (born 27 March 1962, in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German bobsledder who competed for the West German and German national team from 1985 to 2005 (as a pilot from 1991). Competing in four Winter Olympics, he won four me ...
Unterhaching's outstanding bobsledder. His honours include: *Olympics 2-man crew: 2002 (Gold); 1992, 1998 (Bronze) *Olympics 4-man crew: 1998 (Gold) *World champion 2-man crew: 1993, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001 *World champion 4-man crew: 1996, 2001 *World Cup 2-man crew: 1996, 1999, 2004 *World Cup 4-man crew: 1996, 1999 *European champion 2-man crew: 1994, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2004 *European champion 4-man crew: 1996, 1999


References


External links

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The Abseits Guide to German SoccerSpVgg Unterhaching profile at Weltfussball.de
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