| Founded | 1917 | ||
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| Ground | Stadion an der Flutbrücke | ||
| League | Bezirksliga Unterfranken 2 (VIII) | ||
| 2010–11 | 5th | ||
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The 1. FC Haßfurt is a German association football club from the city of Haßfurt, Bavaria.
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The club was formed in 1917 under its current name, 1. FC Haßfurt.
The 1. FC Haßfurt first appeared above the local football level in 1957, when it archived promotion to the Amateurliga Bayern-Nord (III), the northern division of the highest state league. It could not manage to hold this level in its first season 1957–58 and was relegated straight back to the 2nd Amateurliga Unterfranken.
Bouncing straight back in 1959, Haßfurt had a much better second try in the Amateurliga, coming sixth in 1959–60. A strong performance the season after saw the club winning its league and earning promotion to the 2nd Oberliga Süd, then the second tier of league football in Southern Germany. While the club easily won its promotion round, unbeaten in six games versus Offenburger FV, TSV Heusenstamm and Salamander Kornwestheim, it could only obtain a licence for the second division on appeal.[1]
In a the same league with some well-known football clubs from the south of Germany, like Hessen Kassel, FSV Frankfurt and Stuttgarter Kickers, the team performed well, earning a tenth place in its first season. Its second year in the league was to be the last edition of the competition due to the formation of the Fußball-Bundesliga. A fourteenth place was not enough for the 1. FC Haßfurt to earn a place in the new tier two Regionalliga Süd and it had to return to the now single-division Amateurliga Bayern.
Upon return to the third tier, the club continued to perform well, earning a third place in its first year. After a some mixed results, the team repeated this performance in 1968–69. From there, however, the club went downhill, resulting in relegation from the Amateurliga to the Landesliga Bayern-Nord (IV) in 1972. After three unimpressive seasons in this league, Haßfurt took out the title in 1975–76 and returned to the third division.
Settling in in its first season, the second, 1977–78, proved to be a highlight in the clubs history. Winning the division, one point ahead of MTV Ingolstadt, the 1. FC Haßfurt was directly promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga Süd. Financial reasons however forced the club to not accept this offer and Ingolstadt found itself promoted instead. The club had one more outstanding season after this, in 1979–80, when it finished second in the league to FC Augsburg. The season after, it slipped to seventeenth place, and was relegated from what was now the Amateur-Oberliga Bayern.
The 1. FC Haßfurt didn't manage to return to its successful past after this, fluctuating between the Landesliga Bayern-Nord and the league below, the Bezirksliga Unterfranken and later the Bezirksoberliga Unterfranken. The club found itself relegated from the Landesliga five times in the next two decades, in 1985, 1989, 1993, 1999 and 2005, only to return each time.
Having returned to the Landesliga in 2007, the club played in this league until 2009, when a 17th place finish meant another relegation.[2] The club continued its descend through the leagues, playing in the tier-eight Bezirksliga in 2010–11.
The club's honours:
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[3][4]
| Season | Division | Tier | Position |
| 1999–2000 | Bezirksoberliga Unterfranken | VI | 3rd |
| 2000–01 | Bezirksoberliga Unterfranken | 1st ↑ | |
| 2001–02 | Landesliga Bayern-Nord | V | 4th |
| 2002–03 | Landesliga Bayern-Nord | 11th | |
| 2003–04 | Landesliga Bayern-Nord | 11th | |
| 2004–05 | Landesliga Bayern-Nord | 17th ↓ | |
| 2005–06 | Bezirksoberliga Unterfranken | VI | 4th |
| 2006–07 | Bezirksoberliga Unterfranken | 2nd ↑ | |
| 2007–08 | Landesliga Bayern-Nord | V | 16th |
| 2008–09 | Landesliga Bayern-Nord | VI | 17th ↓ |
| 2009–10 | Bezirksoberliga Unterfranken | VII | |
| 2010–11 | Bezirksliga Unterfranken 2 | VIII | 5th |
| 2011–12 | Bezirksliga Unterfranken 2 |
The club has qualified for the first round of the German Cup only once:
| Season | Round | Date | Home | Away | Result | Attendance |
| 1981–82 DFB-Pokal | First round[5] | 28 August 1981 | 1. FC Haßfurt | 1. FC Nuremberg | 0–2 |
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