DJK Vilzing

Full name	Deutsche Jugendkraft Vilzing 1967 e. V.
Founded	1967
Ground	Manfred-Zollner-Stadion
Capacity	3,480
Chairman	Klaus Kernbichl
Manager	Beppo Eibl
League	Regionalliga Bayern (IV)
2022–23	13th
Home colours

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.

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 30 August 2023^[5]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Max Putz 3 DF  GER Stephan Wagner 4 DF  GER Elija Härtl 5 DF  GER Paul Grauschopf 6 DF  GER Nico Dantscher 7 FW  GER Benedikt Fisher 9 FW  GER Andreas Jünger 10 MF  GER Jim-Patrick Müller 11 FW  GER Tobias Kordick 12 GK  GER Lucas Nemmer 13 FW  GER Fabian Spichtinger 16 DF  GER Mario Kufner

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF  GER Fabian Trettenbach 18 MF  GER Marco Pledl 19 FW  GER Felix Brunner 20 MF  GER Christian Kufner 21 MF  GER Tobias Hoch 22 FW  GER Martin Kauschinger 23 MF  GER Franz Xaver Wendl 26 FW  GER Lucas Chrubasik 30 DF  GER Lukas Schröder 33 GK  GER Sandro Weber 36 DF  GER Jakob Zitzelsberger 40 DF  GER Martin Tiefenbrunner

Recent seasons

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

• 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.

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