The DJK Don Bosco Bamberg is a German association football club from the town of Bamberg, Bavaria. DJK stands for Deutsche Jugendkraft, a sports organisation associated with the Catholic Church while John Bosco, popularly known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Roman Catholic priest of the Latin Church, educator and writer of the 19th century.
The club's greatest success came in 2012 when it qualified for the new northern division of the expanded Bayernliga, the fifth tier of the German football league system but lasted for only one season there. It made a return to this league in 2015 after a Landesliga championship.
History DJK Don Bosco Bamberg was formed in 1950 by local catholic priest Richard Feuerlein. Its primary focus was to be towards providing sporting opportunities for the local youth, inspired by the work of Don Bosco who engaged in work with impoverished youth. Wir über uns DJK Don Bosco website, accessed: 19 August 2014
For most of its history the club has been a non-descript amateur side in local Bavarian football. The team rose as far as the Bezirksliga Oberfranken-West in 1996, but was soon relegated. Promoted in 2000 and relegated from this league again in 2002 it once more returned in 2006. After two more Bezirksliga seasons the club won the league in 2008 and earned promotion to the Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken.Bezirksliga Oberfranken-West tabels & results Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 19 August 2014 The club spent two seasons there before earning another promotion, now to the Landesliga.Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken tabels & results Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 19 August 2014
The club played for two seasons in the Landesliga Bayern-Nord, until the league was disbanded in 2012. Don Bosco came seventh in its first season there but finished only twelfth in its second year. Through the promotion round, however, the club managed to qualify for the new northern division of the Bayernliga.Landesliga Bayern-Nord tabels & results Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 19 August 2014
DJK Don Bosco lasted for only one season in the Bayernliga before being relegated again, now to the Landesliga Bayern-Nordwest, where it plays today.Bayernliga Nord tables & results Weltfussball.de, accessed: 19 August 2014Landesliga Bayern-Nordwest tables & results kicker.de, accessed: 19 August 2014 The club broke a Landesliga record when it won all of its first twelve games in the league at the start of the 2014–15 season,DJK Bamberg bricht Landesliga-Startrekord fupa.net, published: 22 September 2014, accessed: 9 October 2014 and eventually won the league and earned promotion back to the Bayernliga.
Honours The club's honours: Landesliga Bayern-Nordwest Champions: 2015 Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken Champions: 2010 Bezirksliga Oberfranken-West Champions: 2008 Kreisliga Bamberg Runners-up: 2006
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 Kreisliga VIII ↑ 2000–01 Bezirksliga Oberfranken-West VII 10th 2001–02 Bezirksliga Oberfranken-West 15th ↓ 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 Kreisliga Bamberg VIII 8th 2005–06 Kreisliga Bamberg 2nd ↑ 2006–07 Bezirksliga Oberfranken-West VII 5th 2007–08 Bezirksliga Oberfranken-West 1st ↑ 2008–09 Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken 4th 2009–10 Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken 1st ↑ 2010–11 Landesliga Bayern-Nord VI 7th 2011–12 Landesliga Bayern-Nord 12th ↑ 2012–13 Bayernliga Nord V 16th ↓ 2013–14 Landesliga Bayern-Nordwest VI 6th 2014–15 Landesliga Bayern-Nordwest 1st ↑ 2015–16 Bayernliga NordV 11th 2016–17 Bayernliga Nord 11th 2017–18 Bayernliga Nord 13th 2018–19 Bayernliga Nord 8th 2019–21 Bayernliga Nord 13th 2021–22 Bayernliga Nord 6th 2022–23 Bayernliga Nord 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 Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables Manfreds Fussball Archiv Tables and results from the Bavarian amateur leagues DJK Don Bosco Bamberg at Weltfussball.de