field a side through the help of their over-40 team and a number of local Turkish players. Financially, the club came close to having to declare insolvency at the time. After three successive drops, the club managed to break the fall in the tier-seven Bezirksliga Niederbayern-West in 1996–97, finishing ninth. At this level, it competed for a number of seasons against local rival Kickers Plattling until 2001, when SpVgg won promotion back to the Bezirksoberliga while Kickers were relegated. Plattling spent three seasons at Bezirksoberliga level before dropping down once more in 2004, after losing almost a complete team once again, and once again having to rely on the club's "oldies". It took the club seven seasons, in which mostly mid-table finishes were achieved, before it returned once again to the Bezirksoberliga in 2011. At the end of the 2011–12 season the club qualified directly for the newly expanded Landesliga after finishing fifth in the Bezirksoberliga. The club lasted for only one season in the Landesliga, being relegated straight back to the Bezirksliga. Honours The club's honours: League Amateurliga Bayern South Runners-up: 1962 2nd Amateurliga Lower Bavaria Champions: 1952 Landesliga Bayern-Mitte Champions: (3) 1976, 1989, 1993 Runners-up: (2) 1974, 1985 Bezirksliga Niederbayern-West Runners-up: (2) 2001, 2011 Recent seasons The recent season-by-season performance of the club: With the introduction of the Bezirksoberligas in 1988 as the new fifth tier, below the Landesligas, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the establishment of the Regionalliga Bayern as the new fourth tier in Bavaria in 2012 the Bayernliga was split into a northern and a southern division, the number of Landesligas expanded from three to five and the Bezirksoberligas abolished. All leagues from the Bezirksligas onwards were elevated one tier. DFB Cup appearances The club has qualified for the first round of the German Cup on three occasions: References Sources Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag Die Bayernliga 1945–97 DSFS, published: 1998 External links Official team site SpVgg Plattling on Weltfussball.de Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables Manfreds Fussball Archiv Tables and results from the Bavarian amateur leagues Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in Bavaria Association football clubs established in 1919 Football in Lower Bavaria 1919 establishments in Germany Deggendorf