1. FC Passau
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| Full name | 1. Fussball-Club Passau 1911 e.V. |
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| Founded | 1911 |
| Ground | Drei Flüsse Stadion |
| Capacity | 19,800 |
| Chairman | Franz Guppenberger |
| Manager | Thomas Fuchs |
| League | Bezirksliga Niederbayern-Ost (VII) |
| 2015–16 | 2nd |
The 1. FC Passau is a German association football club from the city of Passau, Bavaria.
Throughout its existence, the club played on a number of occasions in the tier-three Bayernliga. It also reached the first round of the national German Cup once.
The club was formed in 1911, under the name of FC Passau. It came into existence when the football department of local TV Passau, formed in 1862, left the club to go its own way. In its early days, the football club, like so many others in Germany at the time, suffered under the lack of a playing field. FCP was lucky enough to convince the commander of the Bavarian 16th Infantry Regiment, based in the city, to let them use their training ground. The club became virtually defunct during and after the First World War, becoming nothing more than the football department of TV Passau once more again after the war. It only resurfaced in 1924. In 1951, the club changed its name to 1. FC Passau.
Passau did not enter the higher Bavarian football scene till well after the Second World War when, in 1958, the team won the tier-four 2nd Amateurliga Niederbayern. It took three games against Upper Palatinate champions SpVgg Vohenstrauß to secure promotion to the Amateurliga Südbayern for the first time. Previously, in 1956 and 1957, the club had already won this league but failed in the promotion round. In this league, 1. FCP escaped relegation by only one point in the first season there, 1958–59. The year after, the club was not so lucky and dropped down to the fourth division again.
Passau once more won the local 2nd Amateurliga, defeated TV Wackersdorf in two games and returned to the third division in 1961. It could however not sustain this level and returned once more to the 2nd Amateruliga the year after.
The club was not one of the lucky three to qualify for the new Landesliga Bayern-Mitte in 1963 and instead was grouped in the tier-five Bezirksliga that year. It earned promotion back to the fourth tier in its first season there and entered the Landesliga for 1964–65.
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