DJK Vilzing

DJK Vilzing

Full name	Deutsche Jugendkraft Vilzing 1967 e. V.
Founded	1967
Ground	Manfred-Zollner-Stadion
Capacity	3,480
Chairman	Klaus Kernbichl
Manager	Beppo Eibl
League	Regionalliga Bayern (IV)
2023–24	2nd
Home colours

DJK Vilzing is a German association football club from the village of Vilzing, located near Cham, Bavaria. DJK stands for Deutsche Jugendkraft, a sports organisation associated with the Catholic Church.

The club's greatest success came in 2022 when it qualified for the Regionalliga, the fourth tier of the German football league system.

For much of the first 30 years of its history the club had been a non-descript amateur side in local Bavarian football until a championship in the Bezirksliga Oberpfalz-Süd in 1998, a league which the club had played in since 1995, earned it promotion to the Bezirksoberliga.^[1]

Playing in the Bezirksoberliga Oberpfalz for two seasons from 1998 to 2000 DJK came fourth in its first season there, followed by a league championship and promotion the year after. A six-year stint in the Landesliga Bayern-Mitte followed in which the club, after three difficult first seasons finished in the top four in 2004 and 2005. However, in the 2005–06 season Vilzing came sixteenth and was relegated back to the Bezirksoberliga.^[2][3]

Another league championship the following year saw the club move back up to the Landesliga and come third in its first season back. Vilzings results gradually worsened season after season, resulting in another relegation from the league in 2011. The club played the 2011–12 season in the Bezirksoberliga once more, which was also going to be the last for this league. The Bezirksoberligas were disbanded in 2012 and the Landesligas expanded from three to five divisions, allowing the club to move up to the Landesliga once more despite finishing only fourth.^[2][3]

DJK entered the Landesliga Bayern-Mitte once more but this league now covered a much smaller area then the previous league which had existed from 1963 to 2012. In its inaugural season the club came second but failed to achieve Bayernliga qualification in the promotion round. The second season saw Vilzing repeat this result but this time it succeeded in the promotion round and qualified for the southern division of the Bayernliga for 2014–15.^[4] The club remained in the Bayernliga until it won promotion to the Regionalliga Bayern as champions in 2022.

The club's honours:

As of 15 September 2024^[5]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Max Putz 2 DF  HUN Levente Raki 3 DF  GER Stephan Wagner 5 DF  GER Paul Grauschopf 6 DF  GER Nico Dantscher 7 FW  GER Benedikt Fisher 8 MF  GER Simon Sedlaczek 9 FW  GER Andreas Jünger 10 MF  GER Jim-Patrick Müller 11 FW  GER Tobias Kordick 14 MF  GER Josef Gottmeier 16 DF  GER Mario Kufner

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF  GER Jonas Blümel 19 MF  GER Jonas Goß 21 MF  GER Tobias Hoch 22 DF  GER Luis Bezjak 23 FW  GER Vincent Kretzer 24 DF  GER Felix Weber 27 FW  GER Lukas Dotzler 28 FW  TUR Erol Özbay 30 DF  GER Lukas Schröder 33 GK  GER Sandro Weber 36 DF  GER Jakob Zitzelsberger 40 DF  GER Martin Tiefenbrunner

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 onwards were elevated one tier.

• 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
• DJK Vilzing at Weltfussball.de (in German)