FC Unterföhring

FC Unterföhring

Full name	Fussball Club Unterföhring 1927 e.V.
Nickname(s)	FC Unterfoehring FCU
Founded	6 March 1927
Ground	Sportpark Isarau
Capacity	The Village
Chairman	Faber Franz
Manager	Zlatan Simikic
League	Bayernliga Süd (V)
2017–18	Regionalliga Bayern (IV), 19th (relegated)
Home colours Away colours

The FC Unterföhring is a German association football club from the town of Unterföhring, Bavaria.

The club's greatest success came in 2017 when it qualified for the Regionalliga Bayern, the fourth tier of the German football league system.

History

FC Unterföhring was formed on 6 March 1927.^[1]

For most of its history the club has been a non-descript amateur side in local Bavarian football. The club rose to the highest level of football in Upper Bavaria for the first time in 2004, when it won promotion to the tier six Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern by winning the Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord.^[2] Unterföhring spend the next six seasons in this league, generally achieving good results. In 2009–10 the club was able to win the league and earn promotion to the Landesliga Bayern-Süd.^[3]

In the Landesliga Unterföhring achieved an excellent fourth place in its first season there but came only 12th in 2011–12, the last season of the league's existence.^[4] This finish was however enough to advance to the promotion round to the expanded Bayernliga. The club managed to defeat TSV Bad Abbach and FC Ergolding in the knock-out rounds and earned the right to compete in the Bayernliga for the first time in 2012–13.

In the new league Unterföhring finished seventh in its first season there and tenth the season after.

The club finished second in the 2016–17 season and was promoted to the Regionalliga Bayern after champions, SV Pullach, were declined promotion. However, it finished in last place in its first season in the Regionalliga and was relegated straight back to the Bayernliga.

Current squad

As of 22 February 2021^[5]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Marko Negic 3 DF  JPN Taiki Fujita 4 FW  GER Matthias Katerna 6 DF  CRO Luka Coporda 7 DF  GER Moritz Wolf-Weisbrod 9 FW  GER Simon Kürbs 10 MF  GER Tayfun Arkadas 11 MF  CRO Nikola Negic 12 MF  AFG Nasrullah Mirza 13 DF  GER Moritz Erbs 14 DF  GER Janosch Bárhó 15 DF  GER Pascal Putta 16 DF  GRE Nikolaos Mangasaros

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  CRO Marko Tomicic 19 MF  GER Ajlan Arifovic 20 DF  PHI Patrick Hinrichsen 21 FW  FRA Lassana Boubacar 22 MF  GER David Küttner 23 GK  GER Daniel Shorunkeh-Sawyerr 25 MF  GER Vincent Heller 26 FW  GER Andreas Faber (captain) 29 MF  GER Michael Marinkovic 30 DF  GER Michael Eder 31 DF  GER Georg Hertl — GK  BIH Andrej Popravak — DF  GER Janosch Bárhó

Honours

The club's honours:

• Bayernliga Süd
  • Runners-up: 2017
• Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern
  • Champions: 2010
  • Runners-up: 2008
• Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord
  • Champions: 2004

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[6][7]

• 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 onward were elevated one tier.

References

External links

• Official team site (in German)
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) historical German domestic league tables
• Manfreds Fussball Archiv Archived 2015-08-01 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Tables and results from the Bavarian amateur leagues
• FC Unterföhring at Weltfussball.de (in German)