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SpVgg Bayern Hof is a German association football club based in Hof, Bavaria. The club was founded on 1 June 1910 as ''Ballspielclub Hof'', but within a year was renamed ''Britannia Hof''. In 1913, they merged with ''FC Roland Hof'' and ''FC Phoenix Hof'' to become ''FC Bayern Hof''. ==History== ''FC Bayern Hof'' was a decent, but unremarkable, local side through its early decades. It spent five seasons in the rier-one ''Bezirksliga Bayern'' from 1927. In 1944, the team won promotion to the ''Gauliga Bayern'', Staffel Oberfranken, one of sixteen top flight division that had been created in 1933 in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. However, by that time World War II had overtaken that part of the country and Gauliga play was ended there in the fall. After the war ''Bayern Hof'' advanced to the Landesliga Bayern (II) in 1946 where they came out on top of the Staffel Nordbayern only to lose the divisional playoff to ''Wacker München'' (3:4, 0:4). League re-structuring saw the club in the 2nd Oberliga Süd (II) to open the 1951–52 season. They remained competitive throughout the decade, generally finishing in the top half of the table. A second place result in 1959 put the club into Oberliga Süd (I) to play first division football for the first time. They managed only middling results against the stronger, better established teams there and so did not qualify for play in the Bundesliga – Germany's new professional league – when it was established in 1963. ''BH'' played in the Regionalliga Süd (II) and through the late 60's and into the early 70's, the team played good football and earned some solid finishes – including a division title in 1968 – but failed in three tries to make it through the promotion rounds to the new top division in 1967, 1968 and 1972. In 1978, they slipped to the tier-three Bayernliga and began a descent that would land them in Landesliga Bayern-Nord (IV) by 1980. In the next fourteen seasons until 1994, the club existed as an elevator side between the Landesliga and Oberliga, playing in the later in 1983–84 and 1988–90 while generally finishing in the top-three in the Landesliga in the other seasons. It made a more permanent return to the Oberliga Bayern in 1994, when the new Regionalliga Süd was formed and the best teams from the Bayernliga entered the new league. A decade in the Bayernliga saw the club finish fourth three times, in 1996, 2000 and 2002, but, in 2004, it was relegated again. In 2005 ''FC Bayern Hof'' merged with ''SpVgg Hof'' to form ''SpVgg Bayern Hof''. ''SpVgg Hof'' had been formed in 1898 as the football department of the gymnastics club ''TV Hof'', itself founded in 1893. The footballers became independent in 1924 and were distinguished only by single season appearances in the top flight in 1921 and 1929, and an advance to the Amateurliga Bayern for the 1966–67 season. In 2006 the newly unified club captured the division title in the Landesliga Bayern-Nord (V) and were promoted to the fourth division Bayernliga. A difficult 2007–08 season saw the club in deep relegation trouble all season but eventually they managed to climb one rank above the relegation zone and survive. After two better seasons, the club once more played against relegation in 2010–11, having to face SpVgg Bayreuth in a decider, which Hof won 2–1 in extra time to qualify for the Bayernliga promotion round against the Landesliga runners-up. In this game, a 1–0 victory over Jahn Regensburg II proved enough to maintain its league status. The following season, Hof was a strong contender for the league title, eventually coming second to TSV 1860 Rosenheim and earning promotion to the new Regionalliga Bayern.〔(Das war die Relegation 2012 auf Verbandsebene ) fupa.net, published: 7 June 2012, accessed 8 June 2012〕 The club was however criticised by the ''BFV'' for its desolate second team who, uniquely for a Regionalliga team, was relegated from the ninth tier in 2011–12 and completely withdrawn for 2012–13. Hof answered this with an open letter to the association, pointing out the club's excellent and extensive youth program and the fact that fielding a second team would still cost it € 60,000 to 80,000 per season in the Bezirksliga, an amount the club was unwilling to spend.〔(Offener Brief an Jürgen Faltenbacher ) Bayern Hof website, published: 22 June 2012, accessed: 25 July 2012〕 In the 2012–13 season the club had to struggle against relegation all season and beyond, having to defend its league place in the relegation round with the Bayernliga runners-up. In a two-leg play-off against TSV Großbardorf Hof defended its league place with an aggregate score of 8–4.〔(So läuft die Relegation 2013 auf Verbandsebene ) fupa.net, accessed: 2 June 2013〕 the following season the club finished 17th once more but this time was directly relegated back to the Bayernliga.〔(Regionalliga Bayern table 2013–14 ) ''kicker.de'', accessed: 16 June 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SpVgg Bayern Hof」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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