FC Bayreuth
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| Founded | 14 May 2003 |
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| Ground | BSV-Stadion |
| Capacity | 7,000 |
| Chairman | Heinrich Friedlein |
| Manager | Bernhard Solter |
| League | Landesliga Bayern-Nordost (VI) |
| 2015–16 | Bezirksliga Oberfranken-Ost (VII), 1st (promoted) |
The FSV Bayreuth is a German association football club from the city of Bayreuth, Bavaria.
The club was formed in a merger of the football departments of 1. FC Bayreuth and BSV 98 Bayreuth in May 2003. BSV was the product an earlier merger between VfB Bayreuth and TuSpo Bayreuth.
The club was formed on 14 May 2003, when the football departments of 1. FC and BSV 98 Bayreuth merged. The two original clubs still exist and as non-football clubs.
The new club started out in the tier-eight Kreisliga Bayreuth in 2003–04, where it finished in mid-table. In its second season, the club improved but it was not enough to earn promotion. The club took until its fourth season in the league win promotion by finishing first in the league. In its first season in the Bezirksliga Oberfranken-Ost, FSV finished in secure mid-field. The following year, the club took out the championship in this league and earned promotion to the Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken for 2009–10.
At the end of the 2011–12 season the team qualified for the newly expanded Landesliga after finishing seventh in the Bezirksoberliga and defeating 1. FC Redwitz in the promotion round.
The 2012–13 season saw the club finish seventeenth in the Landesliga, requiring it to enter a play-of round with the Bezirksliga runners-up. In the first round of these Bayreuth lost to TuS 1861 Feuchtwangen and was consequently relegated back to the Bezirksliga. In 2014 and 2015 the team finished runners-up in the Bezirksliga but on each occasion failed to win promotion. It won the league in 2016 and was promoted to the Landesliga.
TuSpo was formed on 4 December 1898 under the name of Freie Turner Bayreuth as a working class gymnastics club. In 1910, the club changed its name to Freie Turnerschaft Bayreuth and after World War I adopted the name Turn- und Sport 1898 Bayreuth.
Like other workers' and faith-based clubs, TuSpo was outlawed by the Nazis as politically undesirable in 1933. It was reestablished in 1947 after the end of the war. As a football club, it never reached above the local A-Klasse, living in the shadow of the other, more powerful football clubs in town.
In April 1967, the club members voted in favor of taking part in merger negotiations with a number of other Bayreuth sport clubs. Most of these turned away from the idea of a merger, but continued negotiations with VfB Bayreuth led to the formation of BSV 98 Bayreuth out of TuSpo and VfB on 14 March 1969.
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