1972–73 Bayernliga

Bayernliga 1972–73 FC Augsburg FC Augsburg ASV Neumarkt1. FC Lichtenfels1. FC Nürnberg Amateure Amateur championship ESV Ingolstadt 306 1098 Norbert Knopf (30 goals) 1971–72 1973–74 The 1972–73 season of the Bayernliga, the third tier of the German football league system in the state of Bavaria at the time, was the 28th season of the league. Overview The league champions FC Augsburg, winning their first Bayernliga title,kicker Almanach 1990, p. 261 were promoted to the Regionalliga Süd. FC Augsburg formed four years earlier in a merger of BC Augsburg and the football department of TSV Schwaben Augsburg, would go on to win the Regionalliga Süd in the following season and narrowly miss out on Bundesliga promotion.Eckert, Klinger, p. 116–117 Runners-up ESV Ingolstadt qualified for the German amateur championship, where the club was eliminated by eventual winners SpVgg Bad Homburg in the semi-finals.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesd/duitamachampfull.html Germany - Amateur Championship 1950-1995 RSSSF Recreational Sport Soccer Statistics Foundation 24 April 2016 The bottom three teams in the league were directly relegated. For FC Lichtenfels it marked the end of 27 consecutive seasons in the league, having been promoted to the Bayernliga in 1946. Lichtenfels would never return to the Bayernliga again while of the other two clubs, ASV Neumarkt would win direct promotion back to the league the following season and 1. FC Nürnberg Amateure would return in 1980. Norbert Knopf of FC Herzogenaurach was the top scorer of the league with 30 goals, the second time he finished as the best scorer of the league after 1970–71.Die Bayernliga, p. 142 Table The 1972–73 season saw four new clubs in the league, ASV Herzogenaurach, BSC Sendling and 1. FC Bayreuth, all promoted from the Landesliga Bayern, while ESV Ingolstadt had been relegated from the Regionalliga Süd to the league.http://www.f-archiv.de Historic German football tables f-archiv.de Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv 24 April 2016 de Ingolstadt had been playing in the Regionalliga for the previous four seasons after a Bayernliga championship in 1968,kicker Almanach 1990, p. 253 while Bayreuth returned after having been relegated from the league in 1970. Sending had last played in the Bayernliga in 1958 while Herzogenaurach was promoted to the league for the first time.Die Bayernliga, p. 67 & 140–141 main football manfredsfussballarchiv.de, f-archiv.de complete 5 ONE TWO THR FOR FIV SIX SEV EIG NIN TEN ELE TWE AAA AAB AAC AAD AAE AAF P PO R R R 19 10 5 79 36 18 11 5 75 38 19 6 9 77 72 19 5 10 79 51 15 11 8 60 50 14 9 11 88 65 15 7 12 72 56 13 10 11 73 63 14 8 12 56 57 11 9 14 56 58 12 7 15 48 56 11 8 15 73 71 10 9 15 36 42 10 9 15 40 71 9 10 15 43 59 9 8 17 43 71 7 9 18 49 79 6 4 24 51 103 FC Augsburg ESV Ingolstadt ASV Herzogenaurach FV Würzburg 04 SpVgg Büchenbach MTV Ingolstadt 1. FC Bayreuth SpVgg Vohenstrauß SC Fürstenfeldbruck 1. FC Passau FC Memmingen FC Herzogenaurach SpVgg Weiden BSC Sendling Kickers Würzburg ASV Neumarkt 1. FC Lichtenfels 1. FC Nürnberg Amateure C, P Q R R R 1) Points; PQR green1 Promotion to Regionalliga yellow1 Qualification to German amateur championship red1 Relegation to Landesliga Bayern 2 1 0 References Sources kicker-Almanach 1990 Kicker (sports magazine) 1990 de Yearbook of German football 3-7679-0297-4 100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fußball-Verband Munich Southern German Football Association 1997 de 100 Years of the Southern German Football Association 50 Jahre Bayerischer Fussball-Verband - BFV Munich Bavarian Football Association 1995 de 50 Years of the Bavarian Football Association Die Bayernliga 1945–1997 Oldenburg DSFS 1998 de The Bayernliga 1945–1997 Ludolf Hyll Süddeutschlands Fussballgeschichte in Tabellenform 1897-1988 1988 de Southern Germany's football history in tables Horst Eckert Werner Klinger 2001 de Augsburger Fußball-Geschichte 3-938332-08-5 External links http://www.bfv.de/cms/seiten/index.html of the Bavarian Football Association de April 2016 1972-73 3 Category:1972–73 in European third-tier association football leagues Category:1972–73 in West German football