1. FC Schwandorf
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| Full name | 1. Fussball Club Schwandorf e.V. Eisenbahner Sportverein |
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| Founded | 20 December 1913 |
| Ground | Hindenburgkampfbahn |
| Capacity | 3,000 |
| Chairman | Reinhard Mieschala |
| Manager | Robert Arnold |
| League | A-Klasse (X) |
| 2015–16 | Kreisklasse Cham-Schwandorf West (IX), 13th ↓ |
The 1. FC Schwandorf is a German association football club from the town of Schwandorf, Bavaria.
The club's most successful era was in the late 1950s and 1960s when it spent thirteen season in the tier three Bayernliga. The club has a strong association with the German railways, as evident by the term railway sports club in its name (German: Eisenbahner Sportverein), and is a member of the Association of German railway sports clubs, the VDES.
1. FC Schwandorf was formed on 20 December 1913. In the years up to the Second World War the clubs history was strongly intertwined with another local club, TV Schwandorf, which it often cooperated with, and the Deutsche Reichsbahn, the German state railway. The later lead to the club carrying the term Reichsbahn in its name for the most part during that time, a tradition continuing today with the club still having the German word for railway, Eisenbahn, in its name. The later connection however proved an obstacle after the war with the allied occupation authorities initially not allowing clubs with a pre-war government connection to reestablish themselves.
The club earned promotion to the southern division of the Bayernliga in 1956 after a title in the 2. Amateurliga Oberpfalz, followed by a first place in the subsequent promotion round, with second place and another promotion spot going to FC Bayern Munich Amateure.
Schwandorf spend the next thirteen seasons in the Bayernliga, the first seven in the southern division of the league. In this era, from 1956 to 1963, the club finished in the top ten each season with a fourth place in 1958–59 as its best result. In 1962–63 1. FC came seventh, the lowest possible finish to still qualify for the now unified Bayernliga. Schwandorf spend another six seasons at this level with a ninth place in its first season there as it's best result. The club gradually declined until 1969 when an eighteenth-place finish meant relegation from the league.
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