The following season however, when it needed to finish in the top seven to qualify for the new single division Bayernliga the club came only ninth and missed out.

In the 1966–67 season ESV managed to win the league and earn promotion to the Bayernliga for the second time.

[3] Back in the Bayernliga for a single season in 1967–68 the club managed only fourteen points in thirty four games and was promptly relegated again.

At the same time another local club, FSV Gostenhof 1883, who themselves had played three seasons in the Bayernliga from 1948 to 1952, was financially healthy but lacked a sufficiently sized home ground.

[4] The club played its home games at the Sportgelände in der Regelsbacher Straße, holding 10,000 spectators.