FC Pipinsried

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

FC Pipinsried

Full name	Fußballclub Pipinsried e. V.
Founded	1967
Ground	Stadion an der Reichertshausener Straße
Capacity	2,500
Chairman	Benny Rauch
Manager	Josef Steinberger
League	Bayernliga Süd (V)
2023–24	Bayernliga Süd, 8th of 18
Home colours Away colours

The club's greatest success came in 2013 when it qualified for the southern division of the Bayernliga, the fifth tier of the German football league system, on the strength of a championship in the Landesliga Bayern-Südwest.^[1]

History

FC Pipinsried was formed in 1967 and, for most of its early history the club has been a non-descript amateur side in local Bavarian football. While based in Upper Bavaria the club opted to enter the leagues of neighboring Bavarian Swabia and started competitive football in the C-Klasse, the lowest tier of Bavarian football at the time, earning promotion to the B-Klasse in 1975. In 1978 it climber another level, now to the A-Klasse, where it immediately won another championship and earned another promotion, now to the Bezirksliga in 1979.^[2] It first rose above the leagues of Swabia in 1989 when it finished runners-up of the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben in the league's inaugural season.^[3] Pipinsried entered the Landesliga Bayern-Süd for four seasons from 1989 to 1993 but never finished higher than eleventh in that time and, at the end of it, was relegated back to the Bezirksoberliga.^[4]

The club spent the next six season back in the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben, coming close to promotion again in 1996 and 1998, when the side came third. It took out the league championship in the following season, 1998–99, and moved up to the Landesliga once more.^[3] The next thirteen seasons were spent in Landesliga Süd with Pipinsried, for the most part, being a struggler against relegation once more. From 2000 to 2003 the club had a reasonable run in the league, finishing as high as fifth in 2002, but declining once more after this. Nevertheless, FC Pipinsried survived in the Landesliga Süd until 2012 when the league was disbanded.^[4]

With the number of Landesligas expanded from three to five and the Bayernliga doubled in size, the club qualified for the promotion round to the new southern division of the Bayernliga but was knocked out by FC Gundelfingen in the first round.^[5] Instead, Pipinsried was grouped in the new Landesliga Bayern-Südwest. In this league, with a large number of former Landesliga Süd top-teams now promoted to the Bayernliga, FC Pipinsried performed rather well, narrowly taking out the inaugural league title in 2012–13. On the strength of this the club earned promotion to the southern division of the Bayernliga for 2013–14.^[6] Another strong performance the following season saw the club finish third in the Bayernliga and qualify for the Regionalliga promotion round, where it however was knocked out in the first round by TSV 1860 Rosenheim.

The club came third in the league again in 2014–15 and once more benefitted by a club above it deciding not to apply for a Regionalliga licence, thereby qualifying for the promotion round to the latter once again. Pipinsried was defeated on aggregate by VfR Garching in the first round and thereby remained at Bayernliga level.^[7]

During the 2016–17 season, FC Pipinsried achieved its first-ever promotion to the Regionalliga, the fourth tier of German football. The club secured its place in the league by defeating the reserve team of Greuther Fürth in the promotion play-offs, winning 3–2 in extra time after a 1–1 draw in the first leg.^[8]

However, after two seasons in the fourth tier, FC Pipinsried were relegated back to the fifth-tier Bayernliga. Ahead of the 2021–22 season, the club returned to the Regionalliga Bayern.^[9]

Current squad

As of 17 April 2024^[10]

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 Daniel Witetschek 2 MF  GER Benjamin Gärtner 3 DF  GER Sebastian Keßler 4 DF  GER Fabian Willibald 5 DF  GER Simon Rauscheder 6 DF  TUR Arif Ekin 7 FW  GER Kevin Gutia 8 DF  GER Tim Greifenegger 9 FW  GER Daniel Gerstmaier 11 MF  GER Giulio Conti 13 FW  ITA Yomi Scintu 17 FW  GER Nenad Petkovic

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  USA Pablo Rodriguez-Benitez 19 MF  GER Kevin Kozica 20 MF  GER Fabian Benko 21 MF  KOS Bleron Pirku 22 GK  GER Julian Kirr 23 MF  GER Simon Kampmann 25 DF  GER Benedikt Lobenhofer 26 DF  GER Fabien Ngounou Djayo 28 FW  GER Benedikt Wiegert 33 GK  GER Maximilian Retzer 39 DF  GER Angelo Mayer 42 MF  GER Ludwig Räuber

Honours

The club's honours:

League

• Bayernliga Süd (V)
  • Champions: 2021
• Landesliga Bayern-Südwest (VI)
  • Champions: 2013
• Bezirksoberliga Schwaben (V)
  • Champions: 1999
  • Runners-up: 1989

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:^[11]

Manager	Start	Finish
Tobias Strobl	1 July 2012	30 June 2015
Ömer Kanca	1 July 2015	26 August 2015
Bernd Weiß	26 August 2015	30 June 2016
Fabian Hürzeler (player-coach)	1 July 2016	30 June 2020
Andreas Thomas	1 July 2020	7 November 2021
Andreas Pummer	7 November 2021	30 June 2022
Miljan Prijovic	1 July 2022	10 October 2022
Nikola Jelišić	11 October 2022[12]	31 October 2022[13]
Frank Peuker	1 November 2022[14]	6 November 2022[15]
Atdhedon Lushi (caretaker)	7 November 2022[16]	21 December 2022[17]
Herbert Paul (player-coach)	22 December 2022[18]	30 June 2023
Martin Weng	1 July 2023[19]	14 April 2024
Josef Steinberger	15 April 2024	Present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[20][21]

Season	Division	Tier	Position
1999–2000	Landesliga Bayern-Süd	V	15th
2000–01	Landesliga Bayern-Süd		9th
2001–02	Landesliga Bayern-Süd		5th
2002–03	Landesliga Bayern-Süd		9th
2003–04	Landesliga Bayern-Süd		16th
2004–05	Landesliga Bayern-Süd		11th
2005–06	Landesliga Bayern-Süd		8th
2006–07	Landesliga Bayern-Süd		12th
2007–08	Landesliga Bayern-Süd		12th
2008–09	Landesliga Bayern-Süd	VI	14th
2009–10	Landesliga Bayern-Süd		15th
2010–11	Landesliga Bayern-Süd		11th
2011–12	Landesliga Bayern-Süd		11th
2012–13	Landesliga Bayern-Südwest		1st ↑
2013–14	Bayernliga Süd	V	3rd
2014–15	Bayernliga Süd		3rd
2015–16	Bayernliga Süd		10th
2016–17	Bayernliga Süd		3rd ↑
2017–18	Regionalliga Bayern	IV	14th
2018–19	Regionalliga Bayern		17th ↓
2019–21	Bayernliga Süd	V	1st ↑
2021–22	Regionalliga Bayern	IV	13th
2022–23	Regionalliga Bayern		20th ↓
2023–24	Bayernliga Süd	V	8th

• 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 onwards were elevated one tier.

↑ Promoted

↓ Relegated

References

1. Meisterfeier trotz Niederlage (in German) fupa.net, published: 27 May 2013, accessed: 24 June 2013
2. Chronik (in German) FC Pipinsried website, accessed: 24 June 2013
3. Tables and results of the BOL Schwaben Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 24 June 2013
4. Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv: Landesliga Bayern-Süd (in German) historical German domestic league tables, accessed: 24 June 2013
5. Das war die Relegation 2012 auf Verbandsebene (in German) fupa.net, published: 7 June 2012, accessed 24 June 2013
6. Landesliga Südwest 2012/13 (in German) fupa.net, accessed: 24 June 2013
7. "Lorant: Klassenerhalt in letzter Sekunde". OVB Online (in German). 5 June 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
8. Emonts, Benjamin (4 July 2017). "FC Pipinsried steigt in die Regionalliga auf". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Archived from the original on 5 January 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
9. Haelke, Bruno (31 May 2021). "FC Pipinsried: Bereit für das Abenteuer Regionalliga 2.0". tz (in German). Archived from the original on 20 June 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
10. "1. Mannschaft". FC Pipinsried (in German). Retrieved 7 April 2023.
11. FC Pipinsried Chronik Archived 2013-08-02 at the Wayback Machine (in German) fupa.net, accessed: 24 June 2013
12. "Pipinsried: Prijovic hört auf, Jelisic macht weiter". kicker (in German). 11 October 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
13. "Auch Jelisic schmeißt beim FC Pipinsried hin". kicker (in German). 31 October 2022. Archived from the original on 31 October 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
14. "Nach Jelisic-Abgang: Pipinsried holt Peuker ins Trainerteam". kicker (in German). 1 November 2022. Archived from the original on 12 November 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
15. "Trainer-Chaos in Pipinsried: Neu-Coach Peuker nach fünf Tagen zurückgetreten". kicker (in German). 6 November 2022. Archived from the original on 29 May 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
16. Leichsenring, Thomas (7 November 2022). "Nach Chaos-Tagen: Athedon Lushi und Ex-Löwe Herbert Paul übernehmen FC Pipinsried". Merkur (in German). Archived from the original on 29 July 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
17. "Pipinsrieds Interimslösung Lushi: "Das geht auf Dauer nicht"". kicker (in German). 28 November 2022. Archived from the original on 29 May 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
18. "Pipinsried geht mit Paul und Maltas in die Restrunde". kicker (in German). 22 December 2022. Archived from the original on 29 May 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
19. "Lockerer Aufgalopp: FC Pipinsried startet mit neuem Trainer in die Saisonvorbereitung". Merkur (in German). 20 June 2023. Archived from the original on 26 June 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
20. Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
21. Fussball.de – Ergebnisse Archived 18 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues

External links

• Official team site (in German)
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) historical German domestic league tables
• Manfreds Fussball Archiv Archived 1 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Tables and results from the Bavarian amateur leagues
• FC Pipinsried at fupa.net Archived 2013-07-03 at the Wayback Machine (in German)