The 1972–73 season of the Bayernliga, the third tier of the
German football league system
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in the state of Bavaria at the time, was the 28th season of the league.
Overview
The league champions FC Augsburg, winning their first Bayernliga title, were promoted to the Regionalliga Süd. FC Augsburg formed four years earlier in a merger of BC Augsburg and the football department of
TSV Schwaben Augsburg
TSV Schwaben Augsburg is a German football club which is part of a larger sports association whose origins go back to the 1847 formation of the gymnastics club Turnverein Augsburg. The association's football department was formed in 1907 and af ...
, would go on to win the Regionalliga Süd in the following season and narrowly miss out on Bundesliga promotion.
Runners-up
ESV Ingolstadt
The ESV Ingolstadt is a general sports club in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, formed on 15 February 1919.
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 ...
qualified for the German amateur championship, where the club was eliminated by eventual winners SpVgg Bad Homburg in the semi-finals.
The bottom three teams in the league were directly relegated. For FC Lichtenfels it marked the end of 27 consecutive seasons in the league, having been promoted to the Bayernliga in 1946. Lichtenfels would never return to the Bayernliga again while of the other two clubs,
ASV Neumarkt
The ASV Neumarkt is a German association football club from the town of Neumarkt, Bavaria.
The club has spent a number of seasons in the Bayernliga, the highest football league in Bavaria, the last occasion being the 2000–01 season. The clu ...
would win direct promotion back to the league the following season and 1. FC Nürnberg Amateure would return in 1980.
Norbert Knopf of
FC Herzogenaurach
1. FC Herzogenaurach is a German association football club from Herzogenaurach, a suburb of the city of Nuremberg, Bavaria.
The history of the club is strongly intertwined with the local sports equipment manufacturer Puma, then just a local co ...
was the top scorer of the league with 30 goals, the second time he finished as the best scorer of the league after 1970–71.
1. 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 betw ...
ESV Ingolstadt
The ESV Ingolstadt is a general sports club in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, formed on 15 February 1919.
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 ...
had been relegated from the Regionalliga Süd to the league.
Ingolstadt had been playing in the Regionalliga for the previous four seasons after a Bayernliga championship in 1968,''kicker Almanach 1990'', p. 253 while Bayreuth returned after having been relegated from the league in 1970. Sending had last played in the Bayernliga in 1958 while Herzogenaurach was promoted to the league for the first time.''Die Bayernliga'', p. 67 & 140–141