SpVgg Weiden - last updated on 18 September 2008
(Courtesy of Johnny Beaufays)
Club name: Spielvereinigung Weiden e.V.
Foundation: January 19th 1924
City: Weiden
Colours: Blue and black
Website: www.spvgg-weiden.de
Honours:
Landesliga Bayern-Mitte - 5 (1954, 1964, 1985, 1988, 2006)
Amateurliga Bayern - 2 (1954, 1965)
Upper Palatinate/Lower Bavaria - 3 (1934, 1940, 1941)
A bit of 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.
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SpVgg Weiden
