VfB Coburg The club was formed in 1907 as
Coburger FC before becoming
VfB sometime before 1920. They were joined by
FC Germania Coburg in 1923 and by
FC Viktoria Coburg in 1933. As
FC they took part in the playoff round of the regional central German league (Verbands Mitteldeutscher Ballspiel-Vereine, VMVB) in 1914, making it through the qualification round to an eighth-final match before going out. Historically part of the state of
Thuringia, Coburg voted in a plebiscite in 1920 to join the neighbouring state of Bavaria. However,
VfB continued to compete as part of central region football and again in 1929 took part in the VMVB playoffs, advancing to the semi-finals where they lost to
Dresdner SC. Germany's historical regional leagues were replaced by 16 new regional top-flight divisions in 1933 and
Coburg finally became part of Bavarian competition. The team won promotion to the
Gauliga Bayern for a single season in 1936–37 and made one more appearance there in 1938–39. They failed in qualification attempts in 1938 and 1941. Early in 1942, during
World War II, they were merged with the military club
Wehrmacht SV Coburg to play as the wartime side
Kriegspielgemeinschaft Coburg. As the war progressed play in the Gauliga Bayern was broken up into a number of small local divisions before being abandoned in late 1944 as the conflict overtook the area. The club became a member of the Amateurliga Nordayern, the northern division of the Bayernliga, in 1952, playing the next ten seasons in the league until 1962, when it was relegated. In this era, the club achieved two fourth-place finishes as its best result, in 1957–58 and 1958–59. Back in the Bayernliga in 1967–68, which was now played as a single division league, the club played three successful seasons, with a fifth place as its best result, but came 18th in its fourth year and was relegated again.
DJK/Viktoria Coburg DJK/Viktoria Coburg was established in 1974 in a merger of FC Viktoria 09 Coburg, formed 1909, and DJK Rot-Weiß Coburg, formed 1931. Both clubs, unlike
VfB, had been banned by the Nazis and were reformed after the
Second World War. The club played its final season in the Bezirksoberliga in 2011–12 as both
DVV and the league were disbanded at the end of the season. At the end the club dropped back to the Bezirksliga after finishing tenth in the Bezirksoberliga and losing to
TBVfL Neustadt in the promotion round but remained at the same tier as the Bezirksoberliga was disbanded. The new club,
FC Coburg, was eventually given permission to take over the league places of
DVV in senior and youth football. ==Honours==