VfB Eichstätt


The VfB Eichstätt is a German association football club from the town of Eichstätt, Bavaria. Since 2017 it plays in the Regionalliga Bayern, the fourth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in Bavaria.
The club's greatest success came in 2019 when it was vice champion of the Regionalliga Bayern and Bavarian amateur champion, which qualified the club for the DFB-Pokal.

History

VfB Eichstätt was formed on 1 August 1920 with an initial membership of 90 people.
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 in 2006. 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.
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.
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 second season, they were second after Bayern Munich II and qualified for the DFB-Pokal.

Current squad

Honours

The club's honours:
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
SeasonDivisionTierPosition
1999–2000Kreisklasse 1 IngolstadtIX1st ↑
2000–01Kreisliga Donau-IsarVIII6th
2001–02Kreisliga Donau-IsarVIII1st ↑
2002–03Bezirksliga Oberbayern-NordVII10th
2003–04Bezirksliga Oberbayern-NordVII8th
2004–05Bezirksliga Oberbayern-NordVII5th
2005–06Bezirksliga Oberbayern-NordVII1st ↑
2006–07Bezirksoberliga OberbayernVI3rd
2007–08Bezirksoberliga OberbayernVI3rd
2008–09Bezirksoberliga OberbayernVII1st ↑
2009–10Landesliga Bayern-SüdVI2nd
2010–11Landesliga Bayern-SüdVI14th
2011–12Landesliga Bayern-SüdVI4th ↑
2012–13Bayernliga SüdV9th
2013–14Bayernliga SüdV4th
2014–15Bayernliga SüdV13th
2015–16Bayernliga NordV2nd
2016–17Bayernliga NordV1st ↑
2017–18Regionalliga BayernIV7th
2018–19Regionalliga BayernIV2nd
2019–20Regionalliga BayernIV

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