BC Aichach

The BC Aichach is a German association football club from the town of Aichach, Bavaria.

The club has been a consistent member of the Landesliga Bayern-Süd, which it belonged to for 29 of a possible 49 seasons since 1963, with only TSV 1860 Rosenheim (36) and FC Gundelfingen (31) having spent more time in the league. It also won the Schwaben Cup once, in 1998, a qualifying competition for the German Cup, but failed to advance to the first round.

BCA should not be confused with the now defunct BC Augsburg, also from Bavarian Swabia, which historically has also been referred to as BCA and whose logo is very similar to the one of the Aichach club.

History

The club was formed on 17 October 1917. Because of its connection to the catholic church, the club was forced to merge with the gymnastics club TSV Aichach in 1933, when the Nazis came to power, but regained its independence in 1945.^[1]

BCA became a founding member of the new Landesliga Bayern-Süd (IV) in 1963 but was immediately relegated from the league. It took the club three seasons to return to this level, which it did in 1967. Aichach managed to stay for nine season in the Landesliga, coming fourth twice as its best result. It briefly dropped to Bezirksliga level again in 1977 but returned immediately to the Landesliga for another four seasons.^[2]

After relegation in 1981 it took the side four seasons to return to the Landesliga which it did in 1985, briefly dropping to A-Klasse level (VI). A ten year stint at this level followed in which BCA earned another three fourth place finishes as its top results. The club briefly dropped to the league below, now the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben, in 1995, but once more made a straight come back to the Landesliga.^[2][3] In 1998, the club won its only Schwaben Cup title, against FC Memmingen, in a drawn final. The rules of the competition, later changed, made BCA the winner nevertheless as it was the lower division team of the two and therefore only needed a draw to win the competition. In the year 2000, the clubs era in the Landesliga came to a more permanent halt when it was relegated once more and entered an era of decline.^[2]

Three consecutive relegations saw the club drop from the fifth tier, the Landesliga, to the eight, the Kreisliga, passing through the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben (VI) and the Bezirksliga Schwaben-Nord (VII) to the Kreisliga Schwaben-Ost (VIII).^[3][4] The club reached a low in the Kreisliga in 2002–03, even having to deregister its reserve team, but began climbing the ranks again in the following season. Two consecutive league championships took it back to the Bezirksoberliga, but it struggled there, suffered another relegation in 2007 and had to spent another season in the Bezirksliga before returning to the Bezirksoberliga.^[4] After three seasons there, the club won the league in 2011 and earned another promotion.^[3]

BCA returned to the Landesliga Bayern-Süd, now a tier six league, for the final season before its disbanding in 2012, with the aim of qualifying for the new southern division of the Fußball-Bayernliga. The club planned to built a new stadium at the cost of Euro 2,2 million but this project encountered financial trouble in March 2011 and may not be going ahead.^[5] The clubs recent rise has been made possible through the sponsorship of Volker Weingartner, the current chairman of the club.^[6]

Honours

The club's honours:

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[7][8]

• With the introduction of the Bezirksoberligas in 1988 as the new fifth tier, below the Landesligas, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3rd Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2nd Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.

References

External links

• (German) Official club website
• (German) Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables
• (German) Manfreds Fussball Archiv Tables and results from the Bavarian amateur leagues