SpVgg Bayern Hof

SpVgg Bayern Hof
Full name SpVgg Bayern Hof
Founded 1910
Ground Stadion Grüne Au
(Capacity: 20,000)
Chairman Reiner Denzler
Manager Norbert Schlegel
League Bayernliga (V)
2010–11 15th
Home colours
Away colours

SpVgg Bayern Hof is a German association football club based in Hof, Bavaria. The club was founded on 1 June 1910 as Ballspielclub Hof, but within a year was re-named Britannia Hof. In 1913, they merged with FC Roland Hof and FC Phoenix Hof to become FC Bayern Hof.

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History

FC Bayern Hof was a decent, but unremarkable, local side through its early decades. It spent five seasons in the rier-one Bezirksliga Bayern from 1927. In 1944, the team won promotion to the Gauliga Bayern, Staffel Oberfranken, one of sixteen top flight division that had been created in 1933 in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. However, by that time World War II had overtaken that part of the country and Gauliga play was ended there in the fall.

After the war Bayern Hof advanced to the Landesliga Bayern (II) in 1946 where they came out on top of the Staffel Nordbayern only to lose the divisional playoff to Wacker München (3:4, 0:4). League re-structuring saw the club in the 2nd Oberliga Süd (II) to open the 1951–52 season. They remained competitive throughout the decade, generally finishing in the top half of the table.

A second place result in 1959 put the club into Oberliga Süd (I) to play first division football for the first time. They managed only middling results against the stronger, better established teams there and so did not qualify for play in the Bundesliga – Germany's new professional league – when it was established in 1963. BH played in the Regionalliga Süd (II) and through the late 60's and into the early 70's, the team played good football and earned some solid finishes – including a division title in 1968 – but failed in three tries to make it through the promotion rounds to the new top division in 1967, 1968 and 1972.

In 1978, they slipped to the tier-three Bayernliga and began a descent that would land them in Landesliga Bayern-Nord (IV) by 1980. In the next fourteen seasons until 1994, the club existed as an elevator side between the Landesliga and Oberliga, playing in the later in 1983–84 and 1988–90 while generally finishing in the top-three in the Landesliga in the other seasons. It made a more permanent return to the Oberliga Bayern in 1994, when the new Regionalliga Süd was formed and the best teams from the Bayernliga entered the new league.

A decade in the Bayernliga saw the club finish fourth three times, in 1996, 2000 and 2002, but, in 2004, it was relegated again. In 2005 FC Bayern Hof merged with SpVgg Hof to form SpVgg Bayern Hof. SpVgg Hof had been formed in 1898 as the football department of the gymnastics club TV Hof, itself founded in 1893. The footballers became independent in 1924 and were distinguished only by single season appearances in the top flight in 1921 and 1929, and an advance to the Amateurliga Bayern for the 1966–67 season.

In 2006 the newly unified club captured the division title in the Landesliga Bayern-Nord (V) and were promoted to the fourth division Bayernliga. A difficult 2007–08 season saw the club in deep relegation trouble all season but eventually they managed to climb one rank above the relegation zone and survive.

After two better seasons, the club once more played against relegation in 2010-11, having to face SpVgg Bayreuth in a decider, which Hof won 2-1 in extra time to qualify for the Bayernliga promotion round against the Landesliga runners-up. In this game, a 1-0 victory over Jahn Regensburg II proved enough to maintain its league status.

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 GK Matthias Karnitzschky
2 DF Cosmin-Adrian Ichim
3 DF Daniel Gareis
4 DF Riccardo Redondo
5 MF Matthias Deumelandt
6 MF Florian Ascherl
7 MF Matthias Jörg
8 DF Giorgio Arancino
9 FW Markus Bächer
10 MF Okcan Tekdemir
11 FW Daniel Sam
12 MF Christian Schraps
13 DF Rico Raithel
No. Position Player
14 MF Sebastian Hermann
15 MF Marcel Busch
16 DF Tobias Müller
17 MF Christian Karl
18 FW Tobias Bukowski
19 MF Aydin Atak
20 MF Fernando Redondo
21 MF Daniel Schäffler
22 FW Tim Guthke
23 GK František Malers
26 MF Dennis Pajonk
27 DF Marcel Findeiß
28 MF Waldemar Schneider

Honours

The club's honours:

League

Cup

  • Oberfranken Cup
    • Winner: (3) 1996, 2000, 2004

Youth

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:[1]

Manager Start Finish
Henrik Schödel 1 July 2005 27 October 2006
Armin Eck 30 October 2006 14 September 2007
Andy Singer 18 September 2007 10 March 2008
Michael Voigt 1 July 2007 12 November 2009
Thomas Kost 17 November 2009 30 June 2010
Daniel Felgenhauer 1 July 2010 24 September 2010
Norbert Schlegel 24 September 2010 Present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[2][3]

SpVgg Bayern Hof

Season Division Tier Position
1999–2000 Bayernliga IV 4th
2000–01 Bayernliga 14th
2001–02 Bayernliga 4th
2002–03 Bayernliga 12th
2003–04 Bayernliga 17th ↓
2004–05 Landesliga Bayern-Nord V 2nd
2005–06 Landesliga Bayern-Nord 1st ↑
2006–07 Bayernliga IV 12th
2007–08 Bayernliga 15th
2008–09 Bayernliga V 10th
2009–10 Bayernliga 10th
2010-11 Bayernliga 15th
2011–12 Bayernliga

SpVgg Bayern Hof II

Season Division Tier Position
1999–2000 Bezirksliga Oberfranken-Ost VII 7th
2000–01 Bezirksliga Oberfranken-Ost 4th
2001–02 Bezirksliga Oberfranken-Ost 1st ↑
2002–03 Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken VI 3rd ↑
2003–04 Landesliga Bayern-Nord V 15th ↓
2004–05 Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken VI 12th
2005-06 Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken 12th
2006–07 Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken 15th ↓
2007–08 Bezirksliga Oberfranken-Ost VII 3rd
2008–09 Bezirksliga Oberfranken-Ost VIII 3rd
2009–10 Bezirksliga Oberfranken-Ost 9th
2010–11 Bezirksliga Oberfranken-Ost 16th ↓
2011–12

DFB Cup appearances

The club has qualified for the first round of the German Cup a number of times:

Season Round Date Home Away Result Attendance
DFB-Pokal 1962–63 First round 1 June 1963 FC Bayern Hof Hamburger SV 2–5
DFB-Pokal 1967–68 First round 27 January 1968 FC Bayern Hof Borussia M'gladbach 0–1
DFB-Pokal 1974–75 First round 7 September 1974 Karlsruher SC FC Bayern Hof 0–1
Second round 25 October 1974 FC Bayern Hof VfL Bochum 2–2 aet
Second round replay 21 December 1974 VfL Bochum FC Bayern Hof 5–0
DFB-Pokal 1975–76 First round 1 August 1975 VfR Bürstadt FC Bayern Hof 1–2
Second round 18 October 1975 1. FC Mülheim FC Bayern Hof 1–3 aet
Third round 13 December 1975 SG Wattenscheid 09 FC Bayern Hof 2–3
Fourth round 31 January 1976 FC Bayern Hof Hamburger SV 0–2
DFB-Pokal 1976–77 First round 6 August 1976 FC Bayern Hof VfB Oldenburg 3–2
Second round 16 October 1976 Hertha BSC Berlin FC Bayern Hof 3–1
DFB-Pokal 1977–78 First round 29 July 1977 Concordia Hamburg FC Bayern Hof 2–0
DFB-Pokal 1978–79 First round 5 August 1978 FC St. Pauli FC Bayern Hof 3–0 aet
DFB-Pokal 1981–82 First round 28 August 1981 FC Bayern Hof Waldhof Mannheim 0–2
DFB-Pokal 1982–83 First round 27 August 1982 FC Bayern Hof Arminia Bielefeld 0–5

Source:"DFB-Pokal (German)". Weltfussball.de. http://www.weltfussball.de/wettbewerb/dfb-pokal/. Retrieved 14 June 2009. 

References

  1. ^ SpVgg Bayern Hof .:. Trainer von A-Z (German) weltfussball.de, accessed: 28 April 2011
  2. ^ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (German) Historical German domestic league tables
  3. ^ Fussball.de - Ergebnisse (German) Tables and results of all German football leagues

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