SpVgg Bayreuth

The SpVgg Bayreuth Upper Franconia ( officially: Spielvereinigung Upper Franconia Bayreuth 1921 eV ) is a football club from Bayreuth.

History

On July 23, 1921, the football department of TSV Bayreuth became independent as Tuspo Bayreuth Altstadt. By re- splitting it was 1925 Free SpVgg Bayreuth - old town, the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association ( ATSB ) joined. Like all members of this organization, the club was banned in 1933 and disbanded by the Nazis. His lineage took after the Second World War, the SpVgg Bayreuth 1921 eV again leading the nickname Oldschdod ( in the local dialect for " Old Town "), popularly further.

Sporty is the first success of the promotion to 2nd League South recorded in 1959, in which the team played for three years. In 1969 again made ​​the jump into the second tier (then the Regionalliga Süd ), and after direct discounts and resurgence began in 1971, the most successful years of SpVgg. The highlight was a second place in the 2nd Bundesliga Süd in 1979, of entitled to participate in the rise playing for Bundesliga. Here you failed with 1:1 and 1:2 at Bayer 05 Uerdingen.

Another highlight in the club's history remains January 12, 1980 in memory, as in the DFB - Pokal, a 1-0 victory over Bayern Munich managed to win the German Championship at the end of that season. Only in the quarterfinals ( which had been already achieved in 1977 ) retired from the team against FC Schalke 04.

After the first year of single-track Second Bundesliga 1981/82, had to descend SpVgg as Table in the Bavarian League. Twice, in 1985 and ( after immediately relegated again ) in 1987, after the return to the Second Division could be celebrated. From 1988 to 1990, although they finished three times in a row into the relegation zone, but was allowed to remain in the class twice due to the non licenses issued for Rot-Weiss Oberhausen and Kickers Offenbach, before it came out of the professional football goodbye.

Since then, the SpVgg Bayreuth rose even twice into the fifth rate division. From 2001 it was however again Bayern league team. As table first succeeded at the end of the 2004/ 05 promotion to the Regionalliga Süd. There, the club finished 10th; However, the DFB refused the club due to the poor financial position, the license for the season 2006/07. President Heinz Wicklein was wanting despite its made ​​in autumn 2006 statement, withdraw, confirmed at the AGM in March 2007 for two more years in office.

After all, it succeeded SpVgg to qualify for the first time in 15 years for participation in the DFB Cup. In the first round but lost the Bayreuth under new coach Norbert Schlegel against second division side Kickers Offenbach 0-2.

In the 2007 /08 season the Bayreuthern already succeeded in three games before the end of the seventh series Bavarian Amateur Championship, making them the same subject with the FC Augsburg as record champion. In addition, this qualification for the new three-pronged Regional was done. The license for the Regional did not receive the Old Town, however. The Admission Appeals Committee of the German Football Association has the Bayern league champions SpVgg Bayreuth denied a license for the new season in the regional league on 11 June 2008. The tribunal of the DFB has checked this and confirmed on 3 July 2008. At the end of the 2010/11 season, the club of the Bavarian League has descended in the national league north and played with it sechstklassig. 2011/12 succeeded SpVgg - favored by the Regional reform - as fourth in its class to return to the fifth rate, but now two-pronged Bavarian League.

On 8 May 2013, the members of SpVgg Bayreuth in general meeting approved the spin-off of the first men's team in the game -GmbH SpVgg Bayreuth Upper Franconia and the renaming of the association. 104 Of the 116 members present voted in favor. The SpVgg Bayreuth holds 60 percent of shares in the GmbH. The remaining 40 percent share of the family Weismainer contractor Alois Dechant and the tubular steel chair producer Franz Stegner.

Stadium

The home games of SpVgg Bayreuth Upper Franconia are mainly held in the Hans Walter Wild Stadium. Some games take place in the forest Stadium Weis Main.

Construction of the urban Hans -Walter Wild Stadium in 1967, on 23 May 1974, inaugurated with a friendly match against SpVgg Kickers Offenbach the grandstand. Since it serves the club as a regular venue, which was last renovated in 1992. It is a multi-purpose stadium with athletics facilities, previously it was three times a sold out: 1979 with Bundesliga promotion match against Bayer 05 Uerdingen, 1980 at the mentioned cup match against FC Bayern Munich and 1987 in the Bavarian League match against TSV 1860 Munich. Abandoned his favor, and now the stadium was demolished Jakobshöhe that offered as a pure football stadium 10,000 visitors.

The stadium bears his name since 2002 and was named after the longtime mayor of Bayreuth ( 1958-1988 ) Hans Walter Wild, who played a key role as a major promoter of sports in the stadium.

Well-known former players

  • Rudolf " Rudi " Hannakampf
  • Frank Türr
  • Jörg Dittwar
  • Rüdiger Scheler
  • Michael Tönnies
  • Herbert Heidenreich
  • Manfred Größler
  • Wolfgang " Bobby" Breuer
  • John " Jumbo" Zeitler
  • Wolfgang April
  • Uwe Schreml
  • Heinz Schneider
  • Jörg Wolff
  • Walter Laubinger
  • Ingo Walther

Well-known former coach

  • Manfred Schlebusch
  • Norbert Schlegel
  • Jenő Vincze
  • Ingo Walther

Fans

The SpVgg Bayreuth has a distinctive fan base. There are currently three fan: The faithful, Old Town and cult scene 1921 The Bayreuth fans are considered to be creative and resourceful. . So the fans end of 2008 even auctioned off due to the threat of insolvency on the Internet and organized a "ghost game". The most distinct rivalry is available with the followers of SpVgg Bayern Hof, moreover, maintain individual supporters Fan friendships with fans of SpVgg Unterhaching from Tennis Borussia Berlin and SpVgg Greuther Fürth.

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