SC Eltersdorf


The SC Eltersdorf is a German :Category:German football clubs|association football club from the Eltersdorf district of Erlangen, Bavaria.
An amateur club who has mostly played in the lower leagues of Bavaria, the club achieved its greatest success in 2010–11 when it earned promotion to the highest football league in the state, the Fußball-Bayernliga.

History

While football was played in Eltersdorf as early as 1909, in the form of the Franken Eltersdorf, the current club dates back to 1926. With support from another local working maes club, the ATSV Erlangen, ATSV Eltersdorf was formed in 1926.
The new club only lasted for a decade before the Nazis outlawed it because of its working-class background. A new club was formed instead, the DTV 1936 Eltersdorf. This club, in turned only lasted for another decade before it disappeared with the end of the Second World War. On 3 March 1946, the current Sportklub Eltersdorf was formed, which nevertheless saw its roots in the old 1926 club, which it claims as its formation year. Most likely, the current name, Sport-Club 1926 e.V. Eltersdorf, was adopted in 1963.
SCE spend the better part of its existence as a non-descript amateur side in the lower league of Bavarian football until 1999, when a championship in the Bezirksliga Mittelfranken-Nord gained it promotion to the Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken. At this level, the club spent only two seasons before another title moved the team up to the tier-five Landesliga Bayern-Mitte.
SC Eltersdorf spend the next ten seasons at this level without looking like a promotion contender. In 2007–08 the club came close to relegation, finishing 15th in the league. Gradual improvement saw the team finish fifth in 2010 before taking the out the league title in the following year and gaining entry to Bavaria's highest football league.
In 2009, the club was also able to take out the Middle Franconian Cup, a competition since replaced by the enlarged Bavarian Cup, making SCE the last winners. After the promotion of Eltersdorf to the Bayernliga in 2011 the club began to hold merger talks with FSV Erlangen-Bruck in November 2011.
At the end of the 2011–12 season the club managed to finish in the top nine of the Bayernliga and thereby directly qualified for the new tier four Regionalliga Bayern. In the 2012–13 season the club struggled in the bottom region of the table all season and was eventually relegated back to the Bayernliga.

Honours

The club's honours:

League

Recent managers of the club:
ManagerStartFinish
Andreas SpeerNovember 20023 September 2010
Ludwig Preis4 September 201031 December 2012
Dieter Lieberwirth1 January 201331 May 2013
Hendrik Baumgart6 June 2013Present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
SeasonDivisionTierPosition
1999–2000Bezirksoberliga MittelfrankenVI5th
2000–01Bezirksoberliga MittelfrankenVI1st ↑
2001–02Landesliga Bayern-MitteV12th
2002–03Landesliga Bayern-MitteV8th
2003–04Landesliga Bayern-MitteV7th
2004–05Landesliga Bayern-MitteV8th
2005–06Landesliga Bayern-MitteV5th
2006–07Landesliga Bayern-MitteV11th
2007–08Landesliga Bayern-MitteV15th
2008–09Landesliga Bayern-MitteVI13th
2009–10Landesliga Bayern-MitteVI5th
2010–11Landesliga Bayern-MitteVI1st ↑
2011–12BayernligaV3rd ↑
2012–13Regionalliga BayernIV18th ↓
2013–14BayernligaV8th
2014–15Bayernliga NordV7th
2015–16Bayernliga NordV7th
2016–17Bayernliga NordV

↑ Promoted↓ Relegated