FC Bayern Munich (ice hockey)

FC Bayern Munich
Greatest successes
Promotion to the Bundesliga in 1967 DEV cup winner 1967
Club information
history	MEV 1883 Munich (1909–1966) FC Bayern Munich (1966–1969)
Location	Munich
Club colors	Red White
league	Ice hockey Bundesliga
Season  1968/69 1969/70 season	3rd place Relegation / South game operations stopped

The ice hockey team of FC Bayern Munich existed from 1966 to 1969 and completed two seasons in the Bundesliga during this time .

prehistory

As early as January 1901, FC Bayern Munich introduced the ice hockey game, just as MTV Munich had done a year earlier , from which Bayern had split off. The activities seem to have fizzled out quickly.

history

After negotiations about joining MEV 1883 Munich as the ice sports department of FC Bayern in the summer of 1965 finally failed due to the negative vote at an extraordinary MEV general meeting, the ice hockey department of MEV 1883 Munich joined the newly founded ice hockey department of FC on the night of January 7, 1966 Bavaria on.

season	league	Main round	Relegation
1965/66	Oberliga	3rd place	-
1966/67	Oberliga Süd	2nd place	1st place ↑
1967/68	Bundesliga South	4th Place	3rd place ↓
1968/69	Bundesliga South	6th place	3rd place ↓

^{↑ ↓} Promotion / Relegation Round

The first team, previously called MEV , continued to play in the 1965/66 major league season under the name of FC Bayern Munich and ended up in third place.

At the end of the first two-pronged league season 1966/67 , the team took second place after the main round of the group south, which entitled to participate in the relegation round , the promotion round to the Bundesliga. With the first place in the table, FC Bayern Munich rose to the Bundesliga and also won the DEV Cup , which was played between the two winners of the relegation rounds South and West.

FC Bayern Munich belonged to the Bundesliga for two seasons until its ice hockey department was dissolved in 1969. There he missed the championship round with a 4th and a 6th place in the group south (6 teams), but secured relegation in the relegation round.

In May 1968, FC Bayern bought the team from the regional division ESV Herrsching , which played Bayern's 1b in the 1968/69 season.

In 1969, the ice hockey department was dissolved by the president Wilhelm Neudecker on the intervention of Bayern manager Robert Schwan . According to Schwan, the department had made a loss of 100,000 DM . The Augsburg EV - represented by Curt Frenzel - bought the entire team, including equipment, from FC Bayern Munich - represented by Robert Schwan - for the amount of 135,000 DM. The players not required by the AEV were sold to other clubs.

Player (selection)

1966/67

• Attacker: Hans Huber

1967/68

• Goalkeepers: Robert Merkle , Theo Groß
• Defender: Leonhard Waitl
• Attackers: Michael Mauer , Peter Maus , Hans Huber , Axel von Thun

1968/69

• Goalkeepers: Theo Groß , Werner Hager
• Defender: Leonhard Waitl
• Attackers: Hans Holnburger , Hans Huber , Ludwig Kellner , Georg Kink , Michael Mauer , Peter Maus , Georg Aschbichler , Karl Frütel , Günther Ginhard , Axel von Thun

Trainer

• 1966–1968: Ján " Jano " Starší

Web links

• sjo: The triumph was always followed by total losses - until the millions poured out of Austria. In: sueddeutsche.de . February 5, 2019, accessed June 27, 2019 . 
• When FC Bayern was still playing ice hockey. In: merkur.de. January 16, 2017, accessed June 27, 2019 . 
• Ice Hockey Munich - The history of ice hockey in Munich. In: eishockey-muenchen.com. Retrieved June 27, 2019 . 
• RODI-DB - FC Bayern Munich. In: rodi-db.de. Retrieved June 27, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bayerische Staatsbibliothek , digiPress: [1] Allgemeine Zeitung of January 12, 1901
2. ↑ Bayern on the smooth ice on the homepage of FC Bayern Munich
3. ↑ ^{a b} 50 years ago today: FC Bayern Munich bought ESV Herrsching. May 4, 2018, accessed December 7, 2019 .