FC Pipinsried


The FC Pipinsried is a German association football club from the town of Pipinsried, Bavaria.
The club's greatest success came in 2013 when it qualified for the southern division of the Bayernliga, the fifth tier of the German football league system, on the strength of a championship in the Landesliga Bayern-Südwest.

History

FC Pipinsried was formed in 1967 and, for most of its early history the club has been a non-descript amateur side in local Bavarian football. While based in Upper Bavaria the club opted to enter the leagues of neighboring Bavarian Swabia and started competitive football in the C-Klasse, the lowest tier of Bavarian football at the time, earning promotion to the B-Klasse in 1975. In 1978 it climber another level, now to the A-Klasse, where it immediately won another championship and earned another promotion, now to the Bezirksliga in 1979. It first rose above the leagues of Swabia in 1989 when it finished runners-up of the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben in the leagues inaugural season. Pipinsried entered the Landesliga Bayern-Süd for four seasons from 1989 to 1993 but never finished higher than eleventh in that time and, at the end of it, was relegated back to the Bezirksoberliga.
The club spent the next six season back in the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben, coming close to promotion again in 1996 and 1998, when the side came third. It took out the league championship in the following season, 1998–99, and moved up to the Landesliga once more. The next thirteen seasons were spent in Landesliga Süd with Pipinsried, for the most part, being a struggler against relegation once more. From 2000 to 2003 the club had a reasonable run in the league, finishing as high as fifth in 2002, but declining once more after this. Nevertheless, FC Pipinsried survived in the Landesliga Süd until 2012 when the league was disbanded.
With the number of Landesligas expanded from three to five and the Bayernliga doubled in size, the club qualified for the promotion round to the new southern division of the Bayernliga but was knocked out by FC Gundelfingen in the first round. Instead, Pipinsried was grouped in the new Landesliga Bayern-Südwest. In this league, with a large number of former Landesliga Süd top-teams now promoted to the Bayernliga, FC Pipinsried performed rather well, narrowly taking out the inaugural league title in 2012–13. On the strength of this the club earned promotion to the southern division of the Bayernliga for 2013–14. Another strong performance the following season saw the club finish third in the Bayernliga and qualify for the Regionalliga promotion round, where it however was knocked out in the first round by TSV 1860 Rosenheim.
The club came third in the league again in 2014–15 and once more benefitted by a club above it deciding not to apply for a Regionalliga licence, thereby qualifying for the promotion round to the latter once again. Pipinsried was defeated on aggregate by VfR Garching in the first round and thereby remained at Bayernliga level.

Current squad

Honours

The club's honours:

League

Recent managers of the club:
ManagerStartFinish
Tobias Strobl1 July 201230 June 2015
Ömer Kanca1 July 201526 August 2015
Bernd Weiß26 August 201530 June 2016
Fabian Hürzeler1 July 2016Present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
SeasonDivisionTierPosition
1999–2000Landesliga Bayern-SüdV15th
2000–01Landesliga Bayern-SüdV9th
2001–02Landesliga Bayern-SüdV5th
2002–03Landesliga Bayern-SüdV9th
2003–04Landesliga Bayern-SüdV16th
2004–05Landesliga Bayern-SüdV11th
2005–06Landesliga Bayern-SüdV8th
2006–07Landesliga Bayern-SüdV12th
2007–08Landesliga Bayern-SüdV12th
2008–09Landesliga Bayern-SüdVI14th
2009–10Landesliga Bayern-SüdVI15th
2010–11Landesliga Bayern-SüdVI11th
2011–12Landesliga Bayern-SüdVI11th
2012–13Landesliga Bayern-SüdwestVI1st ↑
2013–14Bayernliga SüdV3rd
2014–15Bayernliga SüdV3rd
2015–16Bayernliga SüdV10th
2016–17Bayernliga SüdV3rd ↑
2017–18Regionalliga BayernIV14th
2018–19Regionalliga BayernIV

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