1. FC Bamberg
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The 1. FC Bamberg was a German
association football club from the town of Bamberg
, Bavaria
.
In 2006, the club merged with TSV Eintracht Bamberg to form 1. FC Eintracht Bamberg
. 1. FC Eintracht went bankrupt in 2010 and a new club was formed, FC Eintracht Bamberg 2010.
1. FC had spent a number of seasons at top level in German football but, by the time of the merger, had fallen to an existence in the fifth and sixth division of German football. The new club briefly rose to tier-four Regionalliga Süd
, but now plays in the Fußball-Bayernliga.
, a state-wide football league in Bavaria, where it played against the strongest Bavarian clubs at the time, 1. FC Nuremberg, FC Bayern Munich
and SpVgg Fürth. 1. FC lasted for two seasons at this level, coming ninth in the league on both occasions and being relegated in 1912.
The club returned to the Bavarian first division, now renamed the Kreisliga Bayern
and divided into a northern and a southern division, after the First World War, in 1919. After struggling for the first two seasons, it profited after 1921 from a further split of the league, now into four regional divisions, and came fourth in 1922 and 1923. Nevertheless, in 1923, when the league was renamed to Bezirksliga Bayern
and regorganised into a single division once more, 1. FC did not qualify and was unable to return to top level football for almost 20 years.
It was not until the Second World War that the club made a return to top-flight football, when it earned promotion to the northern division of the Gauliga Bayern
, which had replaced the Bezirksliga in 1933. Bamberg had its greatest season in 1943-44, when it finished runners-up in its division, three points behind 1. FC Nuremberg. The following season was never completed because of the effects of the war.
in 1945, a league the club won, earning promotion to the Oberliga Süd. The following season marked the teams last-ever in top-flight, coming 18th out of 20 clubs and being relegated once more in 1947. In the Landesliga, now sub-divided into two regional divisions, 1. FC won another championship but missed out on promotion when it lost to southern champions BC Augsburg
, drawing at home and losing 1-4 in Augsburg
. Bamberg won another title in the Landesliga in 1950, now in a single division again, but failed to gain promotion, missing out to Hesse champions
SV Darmstadt 98
. Instead, the side, along with four other Bavarian clubs, gained entry to the newly-formed second division, the 2nd Oberliga Süd
.
In the new league, Bamberg never performed particularly well, with the exception of 1952-53, when the side came third, four points behind a promotion rank. While it narrowly avoided relegation in 1955, the season after the side went down after coming last in the league. The club took out two division titles in the northern group of the Amateurliga Bayern in 1957 and 1958, followed up by Bavarian championship wins over southern division winners FC Penzberg
and FC Wacker München. It remained winless in the promotion round to the 2nd Oberliga in 1957, when Amicitia Viernheim and Borussia Fulda
were promoted instead, but was luckier the following year and earned promotion alongside VfB Friedberg from Hesse
. The team lasted for two seasons in the second division and made a permanent farewell from the league in 1960, when it once more came last.
Bamberg remained a strong side in the Amateurliga, coming second and fifth in the years after relegation, with a final league title in 1963. It was unable however to crown the season with the Bavarian championship, missing out to TSV Straubing
in three games. Additionally, because of the reorganisation of the German league system with the introduction of the Bundesliga
, no promotion was available. For the club, it was the end of an era, it was never again able to repet past performances.
In the era from 1961 to 1967, Bamberg's Dieter Zettelmaier was capped twenty times for the German amateur team, scoring 13 goals for the team. Zettelmaier, an outstanding goal scorer, was also top scorer of the Bayernliga from 1961 to 1963 and once more in 1966.
, and it took until 1975 to make a return to Bavarias highest league. The club became a predominantly mid-table side in the Landesliga from then on. A brief stint in the Bayernliga in 1975-76 was followed by another five Landesliga seasons. Another title in this league, in 1981, however returned the side to the Bayernliga. It spend five seasons at this level, with a seventh place in the first one as its best result, but another relegation followed in 1986. The club was not to return to this level either after that.
Bambergs return to the Landesliga was an unlucky one, the club finished 15th and was relegated even further down, now to the Bezirksliga. Difficult years followed for the club, playing for a season in the Bezirksliga, gaining entry to the new Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken
in 1988, and making a brief return for two seasons to the Landesliga from 1992 to 1994.
In 1997, the side finally made a permanent return to the Landesliga, which it would play in for the next nine seasons, until the merger. In this era, two second places, in 2004 and 2006, were its best result, the later allowing the club to earn promotion back to the Bayernliga through the promotion round, but then under a new name. The club's promotion-clinching 2-0 victory against Freier TuS Regensburg
in Schwabach
on 13 June was to become the sides last competitive game under the old name and identity.
The new club retained most the old clubs logo which depicts the Bamberg Horseman
.
in football and BBC Bayreuth
in basketball.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
association football club from the town of Bamberg
Bamberg
Bamberg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz, close to its confluence with the river Main. Bamberg is one of the few cities in Germany that was not destroyed by World War II bombings because of a nearby Artillery Factory that prevented planes from...
, Bavaria
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
.
In 2006, the club merged with TSV Eintracht Bamberg to form 1. FC Eintracht Bamberg
1. FC Eintracht Bamberg
FC Eintracht Bamberg is a German association football club from the city of Bamberg, Bavaria. The footballers are part of a sports club formed on 1 April 2006 out of the union of 1. FC Bamberg and TSV Eintracht Bamberg...
. 1. FC Eintracht went bankrupt in 2010 and a new club was formed, FC Eintracht Bamberg 2010.
1. FC had spent a number of seasons at top level in German football but, by the time of the merger, had fallen to an existence in the fifth and sixth division of German football. The new club briefly rose to tier-four Regionalliga Süd
Regionalliga Süd
The Regionalliga Süd is currently the fourth tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga in 2008, it was the third tier. It currently is the highest regional league for the southern part of Germany...
, but now plays in the Fußball-Bayernliga.
1901-45
1. FC Bamberg, formed in 1901, made its first division debut in 1910, when it earned promotion to the OstkreisligaKreisliga Bayern
The Kreisliga Bayern was the highest association football league in the German Kingdom of Bavaria and, later, the state of Bavaria from 1909 to 1923...
, a state-wide football league in Bavaria, where it played against the strongest Bavarian clubs at the time, 1. FC Nuremberg, FC Bayern Munich
FC Bayern Munich
FC Bayern Munich , is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which is the most successful football club in Germany, having won 22 national titles and 15 cups....
and SpVgg Fürth. 1. FC lasted for two seasons at this level, coming ninth in the league on both occasions and being relegated in 1912.
The club returned to the Bavarian first division, now renamed the Kreisliga Bayern
Kreisliga Bayern
The Kreisliga Bayern was the highest association football league in the German Kingdom of Bavaria and, later, the state of Bavaria from 1909 to 1923...
and divided into a northern and a southern division, after the First World War, in 1919. After struggling for the first two seasons, it profited after 1921 from a further split of the league, now into four regional divisions, and came fourth in 1922 and 1923. Nevertheless, in 1923, when the league was renamed to Bezirksliga Bayern
Bezirksliga Bayern
The Bezirksliga Bayern was the highest association football league in the German state of Bavaria from 1923 to 1933. The league was disbanded with the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933.-Overview:...
and regorganised into a single division once more, 1. FC did not qualify and was unable to return to top level football for almost 20 years.
It was not until the Second World War that the club made a return to top-flight football, when it earned promotion to the northern division of the Gauliga Bayern
Gauliga Bayern
The Gauliga Bayern was the highest football league in the German state of Bavaria from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reorganised the administrative regions in Germany, and the five Gaue Bayreuth, Munich-Upper Bavaria, Swabia, Main Franconia and Franconia de...
, which had replaced the Bezirksliga in 1933. Bamberg had its greatest season in 1943-44, when it finished runners-up in its division, three points behind 1. FC Nuremberg. The following season was never completed because of the effects of the war.
1945-63
Post-war football saw the club being grouped in the second division Landesliga BayernLandesliga Bayern
In the Bavarian football league system, the Landesliga Bayern is the second hightest level, below the Fußball-Bayernliga and organised in three regional divisions. The current Landesligas were formed in 1963, when the Fußball-Bundesliga was established...
in 1945, a league the club won, earning promotion to the Oberliga Süd. The following season marked the teams last-ever in top-flight, coming 18th out of 20 clubs and being relegated once more in 1947. In the Landesliga, now sub-divided into two regional divisions, 1. FC won another championship but missed out on promotion when it lost to southern champions BC Augsburg
BC Augsburg
BC Augsburg was a German football club based in Augsburg, Bavaria. The team was founded as Fußball-Club Allemannia Augsburg in 1907 and played as Ballspiel-Club Augsburg from 1921 to 1969. Facing imminent financial collapse, BC merged with the football side of TSV Schwaben Augsburg in July 1969 to...
, drawing at home and losing 1-4 in Augsburg
Augsburg
Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...
. Bamberg won another title in the Landesliga in 1950, now in a single division again, but failed to gain promotion, missing out to Hesse champions
Hessenliga
The Hessenliga is the highest football league in the state of Hesse and the Hessian football league system. It is one of eleven Oberligas in German football, the 5th tier of the German football league system. It was, until the introduction of the 3...
SV Darmstadt 98
SV Darmstadt 98
SV Darmstadt 98 is a German association football club based in Darmstadt, Hesse. The club was founded on 22 May 1898 as FC Olympia Darmstadt. Early in 1919 the association was briefly known as Rasen-Sportverein Olympia before merging with Darmstädter Sport Club 1905 on 11 November that year to...
. Instead, the side, along with four other Bavarian clubs, gained entry to the newly-formed second division, the 2nd Oberliga Süd
2nd Oberliga Süd
The 2nd Oberliga Süd was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the south of Germany from 1950 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. It covered the three states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Hessen.-Overview:...
.
In the new league, Bamberg never performed particularly well, with the exception of 1952-53, when the side came third, four points behind a promotion rank. While it narrowly avoided relegation in 1955, the season after the side went down after coming last in the league. The club took out two division titles in the northern group of the Amateurliga Bayern in 1957 and 1958, followed up by Bavarian championship wins over southern division winners FC Penzberg
FC Penzberg
The FC Penzberg is a German association football club from the city of Penzberg, Bavaria.The club briefly managed to reach the second division of German league football, spending the 1955–56 season in the 2nd Oberliga Süd.-1920 to 1945:...
and FC Wacker München. It remained winless in the promotion round to the 2nd Oberliga in 1957, when Amicitia Viernheim and Borussia Fulda
Borussia Fulda
Borussia Fulda is a German association football club from Fulda, Hesse. The club was founded 4 July 1904 as FC Borussia 1904 Fulda and underwent a number of changes in 1923 when they were first joined by Radsportclub 1907 Fulda in July, and then by Kraftsportklub Germania Fulda in September. On 6...
were promoted instead, but was luckier the following year and earned promotion alongside VfB Friedberg from Hesse
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
. The team lasted for two seasons in the second division and made a permanent farewell from the league in 1960, when it once more came last.
Bamberg remained a strong side in the Amateurliga, coming second and fifth in the years after relegation, with a final league title in 1963. It was unable however to crown the season with the Bavarian championship, missing out to TSV Straubing
TSV Straubing
The TSV Straubing is a German association football club from the city of Straubing, Bavaria. The club achieved notability by playing in the second division from 1950 to 1961....
in three games. Additionally, because of the reorganisation of the German league system with the introduction of the Bundesliga
Introduction of the Fußball-Bundesliga
The Introduction of the Fußball-Bundesliga was the long-debated step of establishing a top-level association football league in Germany in 1963. The new league, the Fußball-Bundesliga, played its first season in 1963–64 and continues to be the higest league in the country...
, no promotion was available. For the club, it was the end of an era, it was never again able to repet past performances.
In the era from 1961 to 1967, Bamberg's Dieter Zettelmaier was capped twenty times for the German amateur team, scoring 13 goals for the team. Zettelmaier, an outstanding goal scorer, was also top scorer of the Bayernliga from 1961 to 1963 and once more in 1966.
1963-2006
1. FC qualified to play in the new single division third tier Fußball-Bayernliga, which was established in 1963, but results from now on were poor. In 1967, the club suffered relegation to the fourth division the Landesliga Bayern-NordLandesliga Bayern-Nord
The Landesliga Bayern-Nord is currently the 6th tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga it was the 5th tier of the league system....
, and it took until 1975 to make a return to Bavarias highest league. The club became a predominantly mid-table side in the Landesliga from then on. A brief stint in the Bayernliga in 1975-76 was followed by another five Landesliga seasons. Another title in this league, in 1981, however returned the side to the Bayernliga. It spend five seasons at this level, with a seventh place in the first one as its best result, but another relegation followed in 1986. The club was not to return to this level either after that.
Bambergs return to the Landesliga was an unlucky one, the club finished 15th and was relegated even further down, now to the Bezirksliga. Difficult years followed for the club, playing for a season in the Bezirksliga, gaining entry to the new Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken
Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken
The Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken is currently the 7th tier of the German football league system in the Bavarian Regierungsbezirk of Upper Franconia...
in 1988, and making a brief return for two seasons to the Landesliga from 1992 to 1994.
In 1997, the side finally made a permanent return to the Landesliga, which it would play in for the next nine seasons, until the merger. In this era, two second places, in 2004 and 2006, were its best result, the later allowing the club to earn promotion back to the Bayernliga through the promotion round, but then under a new name. The club's promotion-clinching 2-0 victory against Freier TuS Regensburg
Freier TuS Regensburg
The Freier TuS Regensburg is a German association football club from the city of Regensburg, Bavaria.The clubs greatest success came in 2009-10, when it earned promotion to Bavaria's highest state league, the Fußball-Bayernliga, which the club played in for just one season.-History:The club was...
in Schwabach
Schwabach
Schwabach is a German town of about 40,000 inhabitants near Nuremberg, in the center of the region of Franconia in the North of Bavaria. The city is an autonomous administrative district . Schwabach is also the name of a river which runs through the city prior joining the Rednitz.Schwabach is...
on 13 June was to become the sides last competitive game under the old name and identity.
The new club retained most the old clubs logo which depicts the Bamberg Horseman
Bamberg Horseman
The Bamberg Horseman is a life-size stone equestrian statue by an anonymous medieval sculptor in the cathedral of Bamberg, Germany.Dating probably from the time before the consecration of the cathedral's new building in 1237, but after 1225, it is located on a console at the north pillar of the St...
.
League
- Amateurliga BayernOberliga BayernThe Fußball-Bayernliga, commonly referred to as the Bayernliga, is the highest football league in the state of Bavaria and the Bavarian Football League System. It is one of eleven Oberligas in German football, the fifth tier of the German football league system...
(III)- Champions: 1946, 1948 (N), 1950, 1957 (N), 1958 (N), 1963 (N)
- Runners-up: 1961 (N)
- Landesliga Bayern-NordLandesliga Bayern-NordThe Landesliga Bayern-Nord is currently the 6th tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga it was the 5th tier of the league system....
(IV)- Champions: 1975, 1981
- Runners-up: 2004, 2006
- Bezirksoberliga OberfrankenBezirksoberliga OberfrankenThe Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken is currently the 7th tier of the German football league system in the Bavarian Regierungsbezirk of Upper Franconia...
(V-VI)- Runners-up: 1992, 1995, 1997
- (N) = Northern division
Youth
- Bavarian Under 19 championship
- Runners-up: 2006
- Bavarian Under 17 championship
- Runners-up: 2004
Recent seasons
The final seasons performance of the club:| Year | Division | Tier Bavarian football league system The Bavarian football league system of the Bavarian Football Association ranks within the German football league system. Its highest division, the Fussball-Bayernliga, is currently the 5th tier of German football. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga in 2008 it was the 4th tier of the league system... |
Position |
| 1999–2000 | Landesliga Bayern-Nord Landesliga Bayern-Nord The Landesliga Bayern-Nord is currently the 6th tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga it was the 5th tier of the league system.... |
V | 4th |
| 2000–01 | Landesliga Bayern-Nord | 6th | |
| 2001–02 | Landesliga Bayern-Nord | 6th | |
| 2002–03 | Landesliga Bayern-Nord | 4th | |
| 2003–04 | Landesliga Bayern-Nord | 2nd | |
| 2004–05 | Landesliga Bayern-Nord | 4th | |
| 2005–06 | Landesliga Bayern-Nord | 2nd ↑ |
- With the introduction of the Bezirksoberligas in 1988 as the new fifth tier, below the LandesligasLandesliga BayernIn the Bavarian football league system, the Landesliga Bayern is the second hightest level, below the Fußball-Bayernliga and organised in three regional divisions. The current Landesligas were formed in 1963, when the Fußball-Bundesliga was established...
, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3rd Liga3rd LigaThe 3rd Liga is the third division of football in Germany. The league started with the beginning of the 2008–09 season, when it replaced the Regionalliga as the third tier football league in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2...
in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2nd Bundesliga2. Fußball-Bundesliga- Changes in division set-up :* Number of clubs: currently 18. From 1974 to 1981 there were two conferences, each of 20 teams. In 1981–91 it had 20...
, all leagues below dropped one tier.
Basketball
The club operated a successful basketball department for many years before it became independent as what is now the Brose Baskets Bamberg. The team shared the football departments rivalry to local neighbour Bayreuth, in the form of SpVgg BayreuthSpVgg Bayreuth
SpVgg Bayreuth is a German football club based in Bayreuth, Bavaria. Apart from coming within two games of earning promotion to the Fußball-Bundesliga in 1979, the club also reached the quarter finals of the DFB-Pokal twice, in 1977 and 1980.- 1921 to 1945 :...
in football and BBC Bayreuth
BBC Bayreuth
BBC Bayreuth is a German basketball club based in Bayreuth, Bavaria..The club won the 2009-10 Pro A Championship and will play Basketball Bundesliga in the 2010-11 season.- Season by season :...
in basketball.
Sources
- Die Bayernliga 1945-97 DSFS, published: 1998
- Süddeutschlands Fussball in Tabellenform 1897 - 1988, by Ludolf Hyll
- Die Deutsche Liga-Chronik 1945-2005 History of German football from 1945 to 2005 in tables, publisher: DSFS, published: 2006