BC Aichach
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| Full name | Ballspiel-Club Aichach 1917 e.V. |
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| Founded | 1917 |
| Ground | BCA-Platz an der Schrobenhauser Straße |
| Capacity | 3,000 |
| Chairman | Johannes Neumann |
| Manager | Christian Seidel |
| League | Kreisliga Schwaben-Ost (VIII) |
| 2015–16 | 11th |
The BC Aichach is a German association football club from the town of Aichach, Bavaria.
The club has been part of the Landesliga Bayern-Süd over most of the past five decades, playing 29 seasons there since 1963. Only TSV 1860 Rosenheim (36 seasons) and FC Gundelfingen (31 seasons) have spent more time in the league. In 1988, BCA won the Schwaben Cup, a qualifying competition for the German Cup, but failed to advance out of the preliminary rounds.
Aichach should not be confused another club out of Bavarian Swabia also commonly referred to as BCA, the now defunct side BC Augsburg, whose logo was very similar in appearance.
The club was formed on 17 October 1917. Because of its connection to the Catholic church, BC was forced to merge with the gymnastics club TSV Aichach in 1933 by the Nazis who opposed faith-based and left-leaning workers' clubs. It regained its independence in 1945 following World War II.
BCA became a founding member of the new Landesliga Bayern-Süd (IV) in 1963 but was immediately relegated to the Bezirksliga. It took the club three seasons to return to this level, and they remained part of Landesliga play for nine seasons with their best results being a pair of fourth-place finishes. They dropped to the Bezirksliga again in 1977, but returned immediately to the Landesliga for another four seasons.
After being relegated in 1981, and dropping briefly to the A-Klasse level (VI), it took the side four seasons to return to the Landesliga for the 1985-85 campaign. A ten-year stint at this level followed in which BCA earned another three fourth-place finishes as its top results. The club dropped to the league below, now the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben (V), in 1995, but once more made an immediate return to the Landesliga. In 1998, the club won its only Schwaben Cup title, against FC Memmingen, in a drawn final. The rules of the competition, since changed, awarded BCA the cup as it played in a lower division than Memmingen and therefore only needed a draw to claim the win. In the 2000, the club slipped from Landesliga play and entered a period of decline.
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