VfB Eichstätt

VfB Eichstätt
Full name Verein für Bewegungsspiele Eichstätt e.V.
Founded 1 August 1920
Ground Westparkstadion
Ground Capacity 3,000
Chairman Thomas Hein
Manager Jürgen Steib
League Bayernliga Nord (V)
2015–16 2nd

The VfB Eichstätt is a German association football club from the town of Eichstätt, Bavaria.

The club's greatest success came in 2012 when it qualified for the new southern division of the expanded Bayernliga, the fifth tier of the German football league system.

History

VfB Eichstätt was formed on 1 August 1920 with an initial membership of 90 people.[1]

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.[1] 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 in 2006.[2] 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.[3]

In its first Landesliga season the club was a strong contender for another promotion but, after finishing first on equal points with SV Heimstetten, 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.[4]

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.

Honours

The club's honours:

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[5][6]

Season Division Tier Position
1999–2000 Kreisklasse 1 Ingolstadt IX 1st ↑
2000–01 Kreisliga Donau-Isar VIII 6th
2001–02 Kreisliga Donau-Isar 1st ↑
2002–03 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord VII 10th
2003–04 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord 8th
2004–05 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord 5th
2005–06 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord 1st ↑
2006–07 Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern 3rd
2007–08 Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern 3rd
2008–09 Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern 1st ↑
2009–10 Landesliga Bayern-Süd VI 2nd
2010–11 Landesliga Bayern-Süd 14th
2011–12 Landesliga Bayern-Süd 4th ↑
2012–13 Bayernliga Süd V 9th
2013–14 Bayernliga Süd 4th
2014–15 Bayernliga Süd 13th
2015–16 Bayernliga Nord 2nd
2016–17 Bayernliga Nord
Promoted Relegated

References

  1. 1 2 Geschichte des VfB (German) VfB Eichstätt website – Club history, accessed: 30 January 2014
  2. Tables and results of the Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 30 January 2014
  3. Tables and results of the BOL Oberbayern (German) Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 30 January 2014
  4. Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv: Landesliga Bayern-Süd (German) historical German domestic league tables, accessed: 30 January 2014
  5. Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (German) Historical German domestic league tables
  6. Fussball.de – Ergebnisse Archived December 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. (German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
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