The VfB Eichstätt is a

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from the town of

Eichstätt Eichstätt () is a town in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the district of Eichstätt. It is located on the Altmühl river and has a population of around 13,000. Eichstätt is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Dioce ...

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. From 2017 to 2023 it played in the

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, the fourth tier of the

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and the highest league in Bavaria, before being relegated to the fifth-level

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. The club's greatest success came in 2019 when it was runners-up in the Regionalliga Bayern and the Bavarian amateur champion, which qualified the club for the

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History

VfB Eichstätt was formed on 1 August 1920 with an initial membership of 90 people.Geschichte des VfB
VfB Eichstätt website – Club history, accessed: 30 January 2014 For most of its history the club has been a non-descript amateur side in local Bavarian football. The club spent considerable time in the local ''A-Klasse'', briefly moving up to the Bezirksliga above in the late 1970s. However, by 1991 ''VfB'' dropped to the lowest level of play in the region, the ''C-Klasse'', and remained there for seven seasons. The club began to rise through the league system in the early 2000s, winning the tier seven Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord and earning promotion to the

Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern The Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern was the seventh tier of the German football league system in the Bavarian ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Upper Bavaria (). Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the sixth tier of the league system, until t ...

in 2006.Tables and results of the Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord
Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 30 January 2014 After two second-place finishes in 2007 and 2008 ''VfB'' won this league in 2009 and earned another promotion, now to the

Landesliga Bayern-Süd The Landesliga Bayern-Süd () 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, until the introduction of the Reg ...

.Tables and results of the BOL Oberbayern
Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 30 January 2014 In its first Landesliga season the club was a strong contender for another promotion but, after finishing first on equal points with

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, lost a championship decider and then also failed in the promotion round. The second year in the league proved much harder with ''VfB'' struggling against relegation and coming only 14th. The third year in the Landesliga, the final season of the Landesliga Süd before it was disbanded, the club came fourth.Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv: Landesliga Bayern-Süd
historical German domestic league tables, accessed: 30 January 2014 The fourth place in the Landesliga in 2011–12 allowed VfB Eichstätt direct qualification for the Bayernliga, where it came ninth in its first year and fourth the season after. After a less successful 2014–15 season the club was moved to the northern division of the Bayernliga for the following one. In 2016–17 VfB Eichstätt was champion of the northern division of the Bayernliga. Following that the club was promoted to Regionalliga Bayern. At the end of its first season in Regionalliga Bayern the club reached the seventh place. The following season, they were second behind Bayern Munich II, and qualified for the

, in which they lost 5–1 in the first round to Hertha Berlin.

Current squad

Honours

The club's honours: * Champions of C-Klasse: 1999 * Champions of B-Klasse: 2000 * Champions of A-Klasse: 1936, 1948 * Champions of Kreisliga: 1974, 2002 * Champions of Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord: 2006 * Champions of

: 2009 * Champions of Bayernliga Nord: 2017 * Bavarian amateur champions: 2019

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

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s 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 t ...

in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, 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.

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
VfB Eichstätt at Weltfussball.de
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