SV Wacker Burghausen is a German football club based in Burghausen,

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and is part of one of the nation's largest sports clubs with some 6,000 members participating in two dozen different sports.

History

The club was founded on 13 November 1930 and was made up largely of employees from the local chemical factory

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, which was established in 1914, and still sponsors the club today. The first football side in the city was part of the gymnastics club Turnverein Burghausen. In 1922, the footballers left TV to form 1. FC Burghausen which became part of SV at the time of its founding. Besides football, the new club had departments for shooting, athletics, and youth. SV won the East Bavarian championship just three years later in 1933, but then afterwards toiled in anonymity in the local lower-level leagues until 1993 when they won the

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(V) title, followed by the

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(IV) championship two years later, which advanced the club to the Regionalliga Süd (III). In 2002–03, the team played its way into the 2. Bundesliga where they competed until being relegated at the end of the 2006–07 campaign. Wacker earned a seventh-place finish in the Regionalliga in 2007–08, which qualified the team for the new

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the following season. It finished the 2008–09 season in 18th place, on a relegation rank but was saved from having to step down to the Regionalliga by the withdrawal from the league of

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for financial reasons. The club finished in 18th place, on a relegation rank but was saved from having step down to the Regionalliga for a second time by the insolvency of

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. After good results in 2011–12 and 2012–13 the club finished 19th in the league in 2013–14 and was relegated to the

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Reserve team

The SV Wacker Burghausen II team played in the Bayernliga (IV) from 2005 to 2007, making Burghausen one of the few clubs to have had both first and second teams play at this level. The reserve team finished 15th in the

(VI) in the 2010–11 season, narrowly avoiding relegation. At the end of the 2011–12 season the team qualified directly for the newly expanded Bayernliga after winning the league championship in the Landesliga. It played in the Bayernliga until 2014 when the club decided to withdraw the team from competition at the end of the season.

Honours

The club's honours:

League

* Regionalliga Süd (III) ** Champions: 2002 *

(IV) ** Champions: 1995 *

(IV) ** Champions: 1993 ** Runners-up: 1973, 1984 * 2. Amateurliga Oberbayern A (IV) ** Champions: 1962 *

Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Ost The Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Ost () is currently the seventh tier of the German football league system in the eastern part of the Bavarian ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Upper Bavaria (). Until the disbanding of the Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern in 2012 it wa ...

(V) ** Champions: 1965, 1983

Cup

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** Runners-up: 2009, 2010, 2011,

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Reserve team

(V) ** Champions: 2005, 2012 *

Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern The Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern was the seventh tier of the German football league system in the Bavarian ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Upper Bavaria (). Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the sixth tier of the league system, until t ...

(VI) ** Runners-up: 2001 *

(VII) ** Runners-up: 1999

Youth

Bavarian Under 19 championship The Under 19 Bayernliga (German: A-Jugend Bayernliga) is the second tier of under 19 youth football in Bavaria, set below the Under 19 Bundesliga South/Southwest. Until 1996, the league was the highest tier of under 19 football, containing the ...

** Champions: 2006, 2013 ** Runners-up: 2011 * Bavarian Under 17 championship ** Champions: 2009 ** Runners-up: 2005

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:

Recent seasons

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

SV Wacker Burghausen

SV Wacker Burghausen II

* 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

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s in 1994 and the

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

Key

Retired numbers

11 –

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(2004–07) – ''posthumous honour.''

Current squad

References

External links

Official team website (football)

Official team website (youth football)

Official team website (general)
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