SpVgg Weiden

Football club infobox
clubname = SpVgg Weiden


fullname = Spielvereinigung Weiden e.V.
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founded = January 19, 1924
ground = Stadion am Wasserwerk
capacity = 10,000
chairman = Michael Fritsch
manager = Norbert Schlegel
league = Oberliga Bayern
season = 2007-08
position = 8th
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SpVgg Weiden is a German football club from the city of Weiden, Bavaria.

History

The side originated with the 1912 establishment of a football department in the gymnastics club "Turnerbund Weiden". The footballers became independent on January 19, 1924 and enjoyed some early success in capturing local titles in 1924 and 1931, gaining promotion to the "Bezirksliga Bayern" for one season. Between 1929 and 1934 they were united with "Fußball Club Windischeschenbach" to play as "SpVgg Weiden-Windischeschenbach". In 1934, the team qualified to play in the Gauliga Bayern, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the 1933 re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. They were relegated to lower level play after just one season, but returned to the Gauliga in 1941 in a union with "Reichsbahn SV Weiden" as part of the combined wartime side "Reichsbahn Sport- und Spielvereinigung Weiden". This club remained in the top flight until the end of World War II.

Following the war the side resumed play as "SpVgg Weiden" and slipped to lower tier football, making a fleeting single season appearance in second division play in 1954-55. In 1964, "Weiden" advanced through the Amateurliga Bayern (III) to spend a season in the Regionalliga Süd (II) before returning to third tier competition until the mid-70s.

From the mid-80s on into the mid-90s the club played as a third division side in the Amateuroberliga Bayern and, following league re-structuring, carried on in what became the fourth tier Oberliga Bayern. Early in the 90s the team made first round appearances in German Cup play (1991 and 1992). After faltering briefly "Weiden" returned to Oberliga play on the strength of a Landesliga Bayern-Mitte (V) title in 2006. In the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons, the club finished eight in this league in both years.

tadium

"SpVgg Weiden" plays in the Stadion am Wasserwerk, opened in 1928 (capacity 10.000, 926 seats). A record 15,000 fans took in a 1967 match against "Jahn Regensburg" (0:3).

Recent seasons

Honours

*Upper Palatinate/Lower Bavaria champions: 1934, 1940, 1941
*Amateurliga Bayern champions (III): 1954 (south), 1965
*Landesliga Bayern-Mitte champions (V): 1954, 1964, 1985, 1988, 2006

External links

* [http://www.spvgg-weiden.de Official team site]

References

*Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9
* [http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv] historical German domestic league tables (in German)
* [http://www.eufo.de/football/ger/spvgiden.htm eufo.de] European football club profiles and current team rosters