FC Eintracht Bamberg

Full name	Fußball Club Eintracht Bamberg 2010
Founded	2006 2010 (refounded)
Ground	Fuchs-Park-Stadion
Capacity	5,200
Chairman	Wolfgang Schauer
Manager	Jan Gernlein
League	Bayernliga Nord (V)
2021–22	Bayernliga Nord, 4th of 18
Home colours Away colours

FC Eintracht Bamberg is a German association football club from the city of Bamberg, Bavaria. The footballers are part of a sports club formed on 1 April 2006 out of the union of 1. FC Bamberg and TSV Eintracht Bamberg. With over 1,500 members it is one of the largest sports associations in the Upper Franconia region of the state and has departments for bowling, karate, gymnastics, table tennis, tennis, and volleyball.

History

The two founding clubs initially held discussions around the possibility of a merger in the summer of 2005, but the talks failed when the proposal did not receive the necessary three-quarters majority support of the membership of TSV Eintracht. In January 2006, after another half-year of discussion and lobbying, Eintracht's membership overwhelmingly agreed to the merger, while the membership of FC Bamberg followed suit in March.

The newly merged side took up the place of FC in the Bayernliga (IV) and earned an unexpectedly good 5th place result. In the following season, the club stayed on course for a top-four finish, which would have meant Regionalliga Süd qualification, for most of the season but failed in the end, finishing fifth again. However, the insolvency of the Sportfreunde Siegen and the fact that the SpVgg Bayreuth was refused a licence meant, Bamberg did still move up to the Regionalliga.^[1][2][3]

The club finished in mid-table in the 2008–09 Regionalliga season. The club had to declare insolvency at the end of the 2009–10 season and folded. However, a new club was formed immediately under the name of FC Eintracht Bamberg 2010 and entered the Bayernliga for 2010–11.^[4]

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.^[5] In this league the club finished 13th and 10th in its first two seasons there.^[6] The team came last in the league in 2014–15 and was relegated from the Regionalliga to the Bayernliga where it came last once more in the following season and was relegated to the Landesliga. The club had to declare insolvency once more in March 2016.^[7]

Stadium

1. FC Eintracht Bamberg plays in the Fuchs-Park-Stadion (previously Hauptkampfbahn im Volkspark) which served as the home ground of FC prior to the merger. The stadium was opened in 1926 and expanded in 1938 to accommodate 22,600 spectators. The record attendance of 27,000 was established in an amateur contest between Germany and France (1:1) on 2 May 1964.

Honours

The club's honours:

Youth

• Bavarian Under 19 championship
  • Runners-up: 2006
• Bavarian Under 17 championship
  • Runners-up: 2004
• ^‡ Reserve team

Players

As of 31 August 2023^[8]

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 Fabian Dellermann 3 DF  GER Felix Popp 5 MF  GER Luca Auer 6 MF  GER Simon Kollmer 7 MF  GER Philipp Hack 8 DF  GER Marco Schmitt 9 FW  GER Tim Strasser 10 FW  GER Johannes Gebhart 11 DF  GER Tobias Linz 12 DF  GER Sebastian Valdez 13 MF  GER Andreas Mahr 14 FW  GER Luis Schneider

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF  GER Fabio Reck 16 MF  GER Luca Leistner 17 FW  GER Björn Schönwiesner 18 DF  GER Marc Reischmann 19 FW  GER David Lang 21 GK  GER Ben Olschewski 23 MF  GER Julian Sperling 24 DF  GER Christopher Kettler 27 FW  GER Patrick Görtler 29 MF  GER Luca Ljevsic 30 MF  GER Nico Baumgartl 35 DF  GER Jonas Hartwig

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:^[9]

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[10][11]

1. FC Bamberg

The final placings of 1. FC Bamberg:

• 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.