VfR Neuburg
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| Full name | Verein für Rasenpiele Neuburg 1926 e. V. |
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| Founded | 1926 |
| Ground | VfR-Gelände |
| Chairman | Peter Claus |
| Manager | Christian Krzyzanowski |
| League | Bezirksliga Schwaben-Nord (VII) |
| 2015–16 | Kreisliga Schwaben-Ost (VIII), 1st (promoted) |
The VfR Neuburg is a German association football club from the town of Neuburg an der Donau, Bavaria.
The club's greatest success was its five seasons spend in the Fußball-Bayernliga from 1975 to 1980, with a seventh-place finish in 1976–77 as its best result.
The club was formed on 11 May 1926. The club did not achieve any notable successes in the era before the Second World War but became a force in local football in the time after. It fluctuated between the tier four A-Klasse, now the Kreisliga, and the 2nd Amateurliga Oberbayern-Nord above until the later league was abolished in 1963.
VfR was a founding member of the Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord in 1963 and spend its days as a mid-table side until 1971, when it won the league and earned promotion to the tier four Landesliga Bayern-Süd. The club did well from the start in its new league, coming eighth in its first season and third in the next two, followed by a league championship and promotion in 1970–71.
VfR entered the Bayernliga in 1975, coming 15th in its first year there. It avoided relegation by only two points. The next season was much better, the side coming seventh, but 1977–78 saw the team struggle once more. Neuburg finished equal 13th with FC Herzogenaurach and SpVgg Büchenbach and had to play a series of deciders to determine the 15th place team, which would be relegated. VfR made a bad start, losing 1–0 to Herzogenaurach. Herzogenaurach then lost 2–0 to Büchenbach, which thereby earned the 13th place. This also meant VfR and Herzogenaurach had to play each other one more time to determine who would be relegated and this time VfR won 1–0, thereby remaining in the league while FCH went down.
VfR's form was marginally better in 1978–79, when it came 12th and was four points clear of a relegation rank. In 1979–80 however the team finished second-last and was one of four teams relegated, having finished two points short of a non-relegation spot.
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