The VfR Garching is a

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from the city of

Garching Garching bei München (''Garching near Munich'') or Garching is a town in Bavaria, Germany, near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments on its campus. It became a city on 14 September 1990. Location The ...

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. The club's greatest success has been promotion to the

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in 2014, the fourth tier of the

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History

For most of its history the club has been a non-descript amateur side in local Bavarian football. The club was formed in 1921, purely as a football club. ''VfR'' struggled in the era before the

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to find a suitable home ground, moving frequently and eventually having to cease playing football altogether in 1937 when their home ground had to make way for the new Autobahn 9 from

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. The club reformed after the war, on 1 March 1946, seeing itself as a continuation of the old VfR Garching but now being named FC Garching. In 1949 the club reverted to its old name ''VfR''. in 1973 the club opened itself to become a multi-sports club rather than only offering football, adding other departments over the years. VfR Garching rose above local football for the first time in 1986 when it won promotion to the

Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord The Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord ( en, District league Upper Bavaria-North) is currently the seventh tier of the German football league system in the northern part of the Bavarian ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Upper Bavaria (german: Oberbayern). Until t ...

, then the fifth tier of the league system. The club failed to qualify for the new

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 ...

in 1988 but gradually improved in the Bezirksliga below, finishing third in 1989, second in 1990 and won the league in 1991.Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord tables & results
Manfreds Fussballarchiv, accessed: 14 July 2014 The later result allowed the club to move up to the Bezirksoberliga, where it would play the next four seasons. After a fourth place in its first season there the team gradually declined and, in 1995, was relegated back to the Bezirksliga.
Manfreds Fussballarchiv, accessed: 14 July 2014 Two seasons later the club dropped down from this level, too, back into local amateur football. Garching made a brief return to the Bezirksliga in the 2003–04 season but was promptly relegated again. The club's rise through the league system began in 2005 when it won another promotion to the Bezirksliga and was, this time, able to establish itself there again. In 2009 a runners-up finish in the Bezirksliga took the team back up to the Bezirksoberliga. This league was disbanded in 2012 and ''VfR'' qualified for the new Landesliga Bayern-Südost on the strength of a second-place finish. The next two seasons the club would also come second in its league each time and, in turn, earn promotion, first in the Landesliga, then in the southern division of the

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. Because of the withdrawal of league champions

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, Garching received the direct promotion spot to the

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, thereby entering the

for the first time in 2014–15. The club finished sixteenth in the Regionalliga and was forced to enter the relegation round against the Bayernliga runners-up where it lost to

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and was relegated. The club won the Bayernliga Süd in 2016 and was promoted back to the Regionalliga.

Honours

The club's honours: *

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(V) ** Champions:

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** Runners-up:

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* Landesliga Bayern-Südost (VI) ** Runners-up: 2013 *

(VII) ** Runners-up: 2012 *

(VI-VIII) ** Champions: 1991, 2009 ** Runners-up: 1990 * Kreisliga München 4 (VIII) ** Champions: 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

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in 2008 as the new third tier, below the

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

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

Official site of the football department

Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables
Manfreds Fussball Archiv
Tables and results from the Bavarian amateur leagues
VfR Garching at Weltfussball.de
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