The VfR Garching is a German association football club from the city of Garching, Bavaria.
The club's greatest success has been promotion to the Regionalliga Bayern in 2014, the fourth tier of the German football league system.
History For most of its history the club has been a non-descript amateur side in local Bavarian football. The club was formed in 1921, purely as a football club. VfR struggled in the era before the Second World War to find a suitable home ground, moving frequently and eventually having to cease playing football altogether in 1937 when their home ground had to make way for the new Autobahn 9 from Munich to Berlin. The club reformed after the war, on 1 March 1946, seeing itself as a continuation of the old VfR Garching but now being named FC Garching. In 1949 the club reverted to its old name VfR. in 1973 the club opened itself to become a multi-sports club rather than only offering football, adding other departments over the years.Vereinschronik VfR Garching website – Club history, accessed: 14 July 2014
VfR Garching rose above local football for the first time in 1986 when it won promotion to the Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord, then the fifth tier of the league system. The club failed to qualify for the new Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern in 1988 but gradually improved in the Bezirksliga below, finishing third in 1989, second in 1990 and won the league in 1991.Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord tables & results Manfreds Fussballarchiv, accessed: 14 July 2014
The later result allowed the club to move up to the Bezirksoberliga, where it would play the next four seasons. After a fourth place in its first season there the team gradually declined and, in 1995, was relegated back to the Bezirksliga.Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern tables & results Manfreds Fussballarchiv, accessed: 14 July 2014 Two seasons later the club dropped down from this level, too, back into local amateur football. Garching made a brief return to the Bezirksliga in the 2003–04 season but was promptly relegated again.
The club's rise through the league system began in 2005 when it won another promotion to the Bezirksliga and was, this time, able to establish itself there again. In 2009 a runners-up finish in the Bezirksliga took the team back up to the Bezirksoberliga. This league was disbanded in 2012 and VfR qualified for the new Landesliga Bayern-Südost on the strength of a second-place finish. The next two seasons the club would also come second in its league each time and, in turn, earn promotion, first in the Landesliga, then in the southern division of the Bayernliga.Landesliga Süd-Ost tables & results kicker.de, accessed: 14 July 2014 Because of the withdrawal of league champions BC Aichach, Garching received the direct promotion spot to the Regionalliga, thereby entering the Regionalliga Bayern for the first time in 2014–15.Bayernliga Süd tables & results kicker.de, accessed: 14 July 2014Regionalliga Bayern tables & results kicker.de, accessed: 14 July 2014 The club finished sixteenth in the Regionalliga and was forced to enter the relegation round against the Bayernliga runners-up where it lost to FC Amberg and was relegated. The club won the Bayernliga Süd in 2016 and was promoted back to the Regionalliga.
Honours The club's honours: Bayernliga Süd (V) Champions: 2016 Runners-up: 2014 Landesliga Bayern-Südost (VI) Runners-up: 2013 Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern (VII) Runners-up: 2012 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord (VI-VIII) Champions: 1991, 2009 Runners-up: 1990 Kreisliga München 4 (VIII) Champions: 2005
Recent seasons The recent season-by-season performance of the club:Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv Historical German domestic league tablesFussball.de – Ergebnisse Tables and results of all German football leagues Season Division Tier Position 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 Kreisliga München VIII ↑ 2003–04 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord VII 13th ↓ 2004–05 Kreisliga München 4 VIII 1st ↑ 2005–06 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord VII 9th 2006–07 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord 8th 2007–08 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord 4th 2008–09 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord VIII 2nd ↑ 2009–10 Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern VII 4th 2010–11 Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern 3rd 2011–12 Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern 2nd ↑ 2012–13 Landesliga Bayern-Südost VI 2nd ↑ 2013–14 Bayernliga Süd V 2nd ↑ 2014–15 Regionalliga Bayern IV 16th ↓ 2015–16 Bayernliga Süd V 1st ↑ 2016–17 Regionalliga Bayern IV 11th 2017–18 Regionalliga Bayern 4th 2018–19 Regionalliga Bayern 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.
Key ↑ Promoted ↓ Relegated
References
External links Official team site Official site of the football department Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables Manfreds Fussball Archiv Tables and results from the Bavarian amateur leagues VfR Garching at Weltfussball.de