Falke Markt Schwaben


Falke Markt Schwaben is a German association football club from the city of Markt Schwaben, Bavaria. Falke is the German word for falcon, with the animal being depicted in the Coats of arms of Markt Schwaben.

History

The club was formed in 1930 through the merger of predecessor sides Ballspiel-Club Markt Schwaben and Deutsche Jugendkraft Markt Schwaben. In the aftermath of World War II the club briefly disappeared when occupying Allied authorities banned organizations across the country, including sports and football clubs, as part of the process of denazification, before being reestablished on 4 November 1945. In 1967, team won its first title and gained promotion to the Landesliga Bayern-Süd where they played for seven seasons before being sent down.
Falke reappeared in Landesliga play in 2001, having spent the previous nine seasons in the Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern, and immediately captured the championship there. They moved up to the Oberliga Bayern where they played two seasons.
After a 17th place Landesliga finish in 2011, the team slipped to play in the Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern. At the end of the 2011–12 season the club qualified directly for the newly expanded Landesliga after finishing fourth in the Bezirksoberliga. After two seasons in the Landesliga the club was relegated in 2014, opting to withdraw to the tier nine Kreisklasse where its reserve team played rather than to play in the Bezirksliga.
After two seasons at Kreisklasse level a league championship in 2015–16 took the club back up to the Kreisliga.

Honours

The club's honours:

League

Recent managers of the club:
ManagerStartFinish
Anton Bobenstetter?30 June 2010
Robert Lexa1 July 2010April 2011
Vitomir MoskovicApril 201130 June 2014
Alexander Schmidbauer1 July 2014Present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
SeasonDivisionTierPosition
1999–2000Bezirksoberliga OberbayernVI2nd ↑
2000–01Landesliga Bayern-SüdV1st ↑
2001–02BayernligaIV13th
2002–03BayernligaIV17th ↓
2003–04Landesliga Bayern-SüdV4th
2004–05Landesliga Bayern-SüdV6th
2005–06Landesliga Bayern-SüdV13th
2006–07Landesliga Bayern-SüdV10th
2007–08Landesliga Bayern-SüdV16th
2008–09Landesliga Bayern-SüdVI13th
2009–10Landesliga Bayern-SüdVI10th
2010–11Landesliga Bayern-SüdVI17th ↓
2011–12Bezirksoberliga OberbayernVII4th ↑
2012–13Landesliga Bayern-SüdostVI10th
2013–14Landesliga Bayern-SüdostVI18th ↓
2014–15Kreisklasse München 6IX7th
2015–16Kreisklasse München 6IX1st ↑
2016–17Kreisliga München 3VIII

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Stadium

The team plays its matches in the Parkstadion, which has a capacity of 5,000.