Nürnberg's amateur team first won promotion to Bavarias highest football league, then the tier-three Amateurliga Nordbayern, in 1955, when it took out the title in the 2.

[5] The team remained at this level until 1963, when, in the reorganisation of the German football league system, it became part of the new tier-four Landesliga Bayern-Mitte.

[6] After coming fifth in the Landesliga in 1963–64, the team won the league the season after and earned promotion to the Amateurliga Bayern, now operating as a single division and statewide.

[7] In this league, commonly referred to as the Bayernliga, it managed a second place in its first year there, two points behind champions BC Augsburg.

[9] Nuremberg continued to struggle against relegation and, in 1973, finished last in the league, fourteen points clear of salvation.

The 1977–78 season was a step backwards however, with the side finishing eleventh and only one point clear of a relegation rank.

[12] In a repeat of 1965–66, the team once more finished runners-up in the league in its first year back, this time to MTV Ingolstadt.

In 1990–91, it finished on top of the table, on equal points with SpVgg Fürth, losing the following championship decider.

FC Nürnberg II,[18] since the first team was not playing in a fully professional league anymore and was therefore considered Amateure themselves.

In the 2007–08 season, the team finished third, becoming one of six Bayernliga clubs to be promoted to the Regionalliga Süd in the league reform that went alongside the creation of the 3.

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