DJK Ammerthal


The DJK Ammerthal is a German association football club from the town of Ammerthal, Bavaria. DJK stands for Deutsche Jugendkraft, a sports organisation associated with the Catholic Church.
The club's greatest success came in 2012 when it qualified for the new northern division of the expanded Bayernliga, the fifth tier of the German football league system.
WWW djkammerthal.de

History

For most of its history the club has been a non-descript amateur side in local Bavarian football. The club played in the Bezirksliga Oberpfalz-Nord from 1993 onwards, earning promotion to the Bezirksoberliga in 1997 courtesy to a runners-up finish.
DJK made its first appearance in the Bezirksoberliga Oberpfalz, the highest league in Upper Palatinate and the sixth tier of the league system in 1997–98 but lasted for only one season before being relegated back to the Bezirksliga. It returned to the Bezirksoberliga in 2001 as a much stronger side and would play at this level for the next eight season. It finished in the top four on six occasions but missed out on promotion in the promotion round in 2007 and 2008 when it came runners-up in the league. In 2009 however promotion to the Landesliga finally came when it won the league.
The next three seasons the club spent in the Landesliga Bayern-Mitte which would also be the last three seasons the league existed in this format. DJK finished in the upper half of the table in each of those three seasons and a fourth place in 2012 was enough to qualify for the new northern division of the Bayernliga.
In the Bayernliga the club came seventh in its first season and twelfth in its second. After a fourteenth place in 2014–15 the club had to enter the relegation round where it lost to ASV Burglengenfeld and was relegated. Ammerthal bounced back immediately, winning its Landesliga division and earning promotion back to the Bayernliga.

Honours

The club's honours:Landesliga Bayern-Mitte
  • * Champions: 2016Bezirksoberliga Oberpfalz
  • * Champions: 2009
  • * Runners-up: 2007, 2008Bezirksliga Oberpfalz-Nord
  • * Champions: 2001
  • * Runners-up: 1997

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
SeasonDivisionTierPosition
1999–2000Bezirksliga Oberpfalz-NordVII4th
2000–01Bezirksliga Oberpfalz-NordVII1st ↑
2001–02Bezirksoberliga OberpfalzVI4th
2002–03Bezirksoberliga OberpfalzVI8th
2003–04Bezirksoberliga OberpfalzVI4th
2004–05Bezirksoberliga OberpfalzVI12th
2005–06Bezirksoberliga OberpfalzVI4th
2006–07Bezirksoberliga OberpfalzVI2nd
2007–08Bezirksoberliga OberpfalzVI2nd
2008–09Bezirksoberliga OberpfalzVII1st ↑
2009–10Landesliga Bayern-MitteVI7th
2010–11Landesliga Bayern-MitteVI7th
2011–12Landesliga Bayern-MitteVI4th ↑
2012–13Bayernliga NordV7th
2013–14Bayernliga NordV12th
2014–15Bayernliga NordV14th ↓
2015–16Landesliga Bayern-MitteVI1st ↑
2016–17Bayernliga NordV12th
2017–18Bayernliga NordV12th
2018–19Bayernliga NordV5th
2019–21Bayernliga NordV8th
2021–22Bayernliga NordV6th
2022/23Bayernliga NordV-