1979–80 Bayernliga

Football league season

Bayernliga
Season	1979–80
Champions	FC Augsburg
Promoted	FC Augsburg
Relegated	FC Wacker München FC Vilshofen VfR Neuburg FC Bayern Hof
Amateur championship	FC Augsburg
Matches played	306
Goals scored	837 (2.74 per match)
Top goalscorer	Wolfgang Ruhdorfer (27 goals)
← 1978–79 1980–81 →

The 1979–80 season of the Bayernliga, the third tier of the German football league system in the state of Bavaria at the time, was the 35th season of the league.

Overview

The league champions FC Augsburg, winning their second Bayernliga title after 1972–73,^[1] were promoted to the 2. Bundesliga Süd and also qualified for the German amateur championship, where the club lost 2–1 in the final to VfB Stuttgart Amateure.^[2]

The bottom four clubs were directly relegated, 1979–80 being the last season before the introduction of the relegation/promotion play-off. Of the four clubs VfR Neuburg would never return to the Bayernliga again while FC Vilshofen made a direct return the following season. FC Wacker München, one of the most successful Bayernliga clubs until than, returned to the league in 1982 and FC Bayern Hof, having dropped out of professional football two years earlier, returned in 1983.^[3]

Wolfgang Ruhdorfer of FC Augsburg was the top scorer of the league with 27 goals.^[4] The 2.735 goals scored per match marked the lowest average in the history of the league and only the second time, after the previous season, that less than three goals were scored per game in a season.^[5]

Table

The 1979–80 season saw four new clubs in the league, FC Herzogenaurach, VfB Helmbrechts and TSV Ampfing, all promoted from the Landesliga Bayern, while FC Augsburg had been relegated from the 2. Bundesliga Süd to the league.^[6]

Of the promoted teams FC Herzogenaurach had last played in the Bayernliga in 1977 and VfB Helmbrechts in 1971 while TSV Ampfing made its first appearance. FC Augsburg had last played in the Bayernliga in 1972–73, when the club won the league and earned promotion to the Regionalliga Süd.^[3]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	FC Augsburg (C, P)	34	20	7	7	70	29	+41	47	Promotion to 2. Bundesliga Süd
2	1. FC Haßfurt	34	17	7	10	49	43	+6	41
3	FC Memmingen	34	17	5	12	42	41	+1	39
4	FC Schweinfurt 05	34	16	4	14	50	44	+6	36
5	ATS Kulmbach	34	15	6	13	53	54	−1	36
6	ASV Neumarkt	34	11	13	10	43	37	+6	35
7	FC Herzogenaurach	34	13	9	12	55	51	+4	35
8	1. FC Amberg	34	11	13	10	38	35	+3	35
9	Bayern Munich Amateure	34	13	8	13	47	55	−8	34
10	VfB Helmbrechts	34	12	8	14	48	50	−2	32
11	TSV Trebgast	34	14	4	16	43	45	−2	32
12	TSV Ampfing	34	11	10	13	52	56	−4	32
13	TSV 1860 Rosenheim	34	9	14	11	31	37	−6	32
14	Kickers Würzburg	34	10	11	13	55	55	0	31
15	FC Wacker München (R)	34	11	8	15	48	52	−4	30	Relegation to Landesliga Bayern
16	FC Vilshofen (R)	34	9	12	13	33	49	−16	30
17	VfR Neuburg (R)	34	10	9	15	46	58	−12	29
18	FC Bayern Hof (R)	34	9	8	17	34	46	−12	26

Source: manfredsfussballarchiv.de, f-archiv.de
Rules for classification: 1) Points;
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

References

^ kicker Almanach 1990, p. 261
^ "Germany - Amateur Championship 1950-1995". RSSSF. Recreational Sport Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
^ ^a ^b Die Bayernliga, p. 67 & 140–141
^ Die Bayernliga, p. 142
^ Die Bayernliga, p. 68 & 143
^ "Historic German football tables". f-archiv.de (in German). Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv. Retrieved 24 April 2016.

Sources

kicker-Almanach 1990 [Yearbook of German football] (in German). Kicker (sports magazine). 1990. ISBN 3-7679-0297-4.
100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fußball-Verband [100 Years of the Southern German Football Association] (in German). Munich: Southern German Football Association. 1997.
50 Jahre Bayerischer Fussball-Verband - BFV [50 Years of the Bavarian Football Association] (in German). Munich: Bavarian Football Association. 1995.
Die Bayernliga 1945–1997 [The Bayernliga 1945–1997] (in German). Oldenburg: DSFS. 1998.
Ludolf Hyll (1988). Süddeutschlands Fussballgeschichte in Tabellenform 1897-1988 [Southern Germany's football history in tables] (in German).
Eckert, Horst; Klinger, Werner (2001). Augsburger Fußball-Geschichte (in German). ISBN 3-938332-08-5.

External links

Official website Archived 26 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine of the Bavarian Football Association (in German)

Bayernliga

League seasons

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League champions

8 titles	SpVgg Bayreuth
6 titles	1. FC Bamberg FC Wacker München
5 titles	FC Augsburg SSV Jahn Regensburg
4 titles	SpVgg Unterhaching ESV Ingolstadt
3 titles	TSV 1860 Munich SpVgg Weiden TSV 1860 Munich II 1. FC Schweinfurt 05
2 titles	BC Augsburg VfL Neustadt FC Penzberg TSV Schwaben Augsburg 1. FC Haßfurt Viktoria Aschaffenburg
1 title	FC Bayern Hof 1. FC Amberg ATS Kulmbach VfB Helmbrechts VfB Bayreuth 1. FC Lichtenfels SpVgg Büchenbach TSV Straubing ASV Herzogenaurach Würzburger Kickers MTV Ingolstadt SpVgg Landshut SV Wacker Burghausen SC Weismain SV Lohhof SpVgg Ansbach 1. SC Feucht FC Ingolstadt 04 FC Memmingen FC Ismaning TSV 1860 Rosenheim SV Schalding-Heining BC Aichach TSV Rain am Lech VfR Garching SV Seligenporten SV Pullach VfB Eichstätt SV Heimstetten