DJK Vilzing

The DJK Vilzing is a German association football club from the village of Vilzing, located near Cham, Bavaria. DJK stands for Deutsche Jugendkraft, a sports organisation associated with the Catholic Church.

DJK Vilzing
Full nameDeutsche Jugendkraft Vilzing 1967 e. V.
Founded1967
GroundManfred-Zollner-Stadion
Capacity3,480
ChairmanKlaus Kernbichl
ManagerBeppo Eibl
LeagueRegionalliga Bayern (IV)
2022–2313th

The club's greatest success came in 2022 when it qualified for the Regionalliga, the fourth tier of the German football league system.

History

For much of the first 30 years of its history the club had been a non-descript amateur side in local Bavarian football until a championship in the Bezirksliga Oberpfalz-Süd in 1998, a league which the club had played in since 1995, earned it promotion to the Bezirksoberliga.[1]

Playing in the Bezirksoberliga Oberpfalz for two seasons from 1998 to 2000 DJK came fourth in its first season there, followed by a league championship and promotion the year after. A six-year stint in the Landesliga Bayern-Mitte followed in which the club, after three difficult first seasons finished in the top four in 2004 and 2005. However, in the 2005–06 season Vilzing came sixteenth and was relegated back to the Bezirksoberliga.[2][3]

Another league championship the following year saw the club move back up to the Landesliga and come third in its first season back. Vilzings results gradually worsened season after season, resulting in another relegation from the league in 2011. The club played the 2011–12 season in the Bezirksoberliga once more, which was also going to be the last for this league. The Bezirksoberligas were disbanded in 2012 and the Landesligas expanded from three to five divisions, allowing the club to move up to the Landesliga once more despite finishing only fourth.[2][3]

DJK entered the Landesliga Bayern-Mitte once more but this league now covered a much smaller area then the previous league which had existed from 1963 to 2012. In its inaugural season the club came second but failed to achieve Bayernliga qualification in the promotion round. The second season saw Vilzing repeat this result but this time it succeeded in the promotion round and qualified for the southern division of the Bayernliga for 2014–15.[4] The club finished in fifth place in its first-ever Bayernliga season.

Honours

The club's honours:

Players

As of 2 February 2024[5]

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

No.Pos. NationPlayer
17DF  GERFabian Trettenbach
19FW  GERFelix Brunner
20MF  GERChristian Kufner
21MF  GERTobias Hoch
22FW  GERMartin Kauschinger
23MF  GERFranz Xaver Wendl
26FW  GERLucas Chrubasik
27FW  GERLukas Dotzler
30DF  GERLukas Schröder
33GK  GERSandro Weber
36DF  GERJakob Zitzelsberger
40DF  GERMartin Tiefenbrunner

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[6][7]

SeasonDivisionTierPosition
1999–2000Bezirksoberliga OberpfalzVI1st ↑
2000–01Landesliga Bayern-MitteV11th
2001–02Landesliga Bayern-Mitte14th
2002–03Landesliga Bayern-Mitte14th
2003–04Landesliga Bayern-Mitte3rd
2004–05Landesliga Bayern-Mitte4th
2005–06Landesliga Bayern-Mitte16th ↓
2006–07Bezirksoberliga OberpfalzVI1st ↑
2007–08Landesliga Bayern-MitteV3rd
2008–09Landesliga Bayern-MitteVI5th
2009–10Landesliga Bayern-Mitte8th
2010–11Landesliga Bayern-Mitte17th ↓
2011–12Bezirksoberliga OberpfalzVII4th ↑
2012–13Landesliga Bayern-MitteVI2nd
2013–14Landesliga Bayern-Mitte2nd ↑
2014–15Bayernliga SüdV5th
2015–16Bayernliga Süd12th
2016–17Bayernliga Süd6th
2017–18Bayernliga Süd7th
2018–19Bayernliga Süd5th
2019–20Bayernliga Nord2nd
2020–21Bayernliga Nord2nd
2021–22Bayernliga Nord1st ↑
2022–23Regionalliga BayernIV13th
  • With the introduction of the Bezirksoberligas in 1988 as the new fifth tier, below the Landesligas, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the establishment of the Regionalliga Bayern as the new fourth tier in Bavaria in 2012 the Bayernliga was split into a northern and a southern division, the number of Landesligas expanded from three to five and the Bezirksoberligas abolished. All leagues from the Bezirksligas onwards were elevated one tier.

Key

PromotedRelegated

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