Ground Capacity 1,000 Manager Rainer Summerer Founded 1921 | Chairman Uli Münchmeier Location Vohenstrauß, Germany | |
Full name Spielvereinigung Vohenstrauß e.V. Ground Sportzentrum Vohenstrauß League Bezirksliga Oberpfalz-Nord (VII) | ||
The SpVgg Vohenstrauß is a German association football club from the town of Vohenstrauß, Bavaria.
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The club's most successful era was in the early 1970s when it spent five season in the tier three Bayernliga.
History
The club was formed on 14 November 1922 but initially became a semi independent department of TV Vohenstrauß. Only in 1928 did the club become fully independent and join the Southern German Football Federation. In 1931 it changed its name to the current one. After falling inactive during the Second World War the club received permission to reform in January 1946.
SpVgg came close to Bayernliga qualification for the first when it won the Upper Palatinate division of the 2. Amateurliga Bayern in 1958 but lost a three-game series peromotion round to 1. FC Passau.
Promoted to the Landesliga Bayern-Mitte in 1966 the club instantly became a strong side in the league, finishing fourth in its first season there and third in its second. In the 1968–69 season the club won the league and thereby earned promotion to the tier three Bayernliga.
In the Bayernliga for five seasons from 1969 to 1974 SpVgg Vohenstrauß achieved its best result in its first season there, coming seventh. Gerhard Pankotsch who later played in the second division for SpVgg Fürth and FC Homburg was also the leagues top scorer that season with 28 goals. SpVgg declined a little after this but came eighth in 1973. The 1973–74 season however saw the club relegated after coming fifteenth, never to return to the Bayernliga again.
SpVgg Vohenstrauß remained a strong Landesliga sides in the years to come, culminating in a second place in 1976, but from 1978 onwards the clubs results declined. Eventually, in 1980 the side was relegated from this league, too, after a seventeenth-place finish. The club did not return to the Landesliga Mitte again, with the league eventually being disbanded in 2012. It played in the Bezirksliga Oberpfalz-Nord for the next three seasons but was relegated from this league, too in 1983. Back in the Bezirksliga SpVgg finished sixth in 1987–88, strong enough to qualify for the new Bezirksoberliga.
The club became a founding member of the Bezirksoberliga Oberpfalz in 1988 but lasted for only one season in this league before being relegated. It made a return to this level in 1995 and this time lasted for four seasons. Initially results were good with two fifth-place finishes in 1996 and 1997. A fifteenth place in 1998–99 meant that the club was relegated again from the Bezirksoberliga and now permanently dropped into local football.
The club after this fluctuated between the Bezirksliga and the Kreisliga below and currently plays in the Bezirksliga Oberpfalz-Nord, the seventh tier of the league system, coming eighth in 2013–14.
Honours
The club's honours:
Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club: