DJK Vilzing is a

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from the village of Vilzing, located near

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. ''DJK'' stands for '' Deutsche Jugendkraft'', a sports organisation associated with the

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. The club's greatest success came in 2022 when it qualified for the

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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.Bezirksliga Oberpfalz-Süd
Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 5 August 2014 Playing in the

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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 The Landesliga Bayern-Mitte () was the sixth tier of the German football league system in southern Bavaria. Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008, it was the fifth tier of the league system, until the introduction of the Regionalligas in ...

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.Bezirksoberliga Oberpfalz tables and results
Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 5 August 2014
Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 5 August 2014 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. ''DJK'' entered the

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

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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. The club remained in the Bayernliga until it won promotion to the

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as champions in 2022.

Honours

The club's honours:

League

* Bayernliga Nord ** Champions: 2022 ** Runners-up: 2020, 2021 *

** Runners-up: 2013, 2014 *

** Champions: 2000, 2007 * Bezirksliga Oberpfalz-Süd ** Champions: 1998

Cup

* Oberpfalz Cup ** Runners-up: 2007

Players

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:Fussball.de – Ergebnisse
Tables and results of all German football leagues *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

s in 1994 and the

3. Liga The 3. Liga is a professional association football league and the third division in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2. Bundesliga and the fourth-tier Regionalliga. The modern 3. Liga was formed for t ...

in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the establishment of the

as the new fourth tier in Bavaria in 2012 the

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

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 Vilzing at Weltfussball.de
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