page_title: ESV Ingolstadt
section_title: VfB Ingolstadt-Ringsee
hierarchical_section_title: ESV Ingolstadt / History / Origins / VfB Ingolstadt-Ringsee
caption_attribution_description: English: Historical logo of VfB Ingolstadt-Ringsee, German football team
context_page_description: The ESV Ingolstadt is a general sports club in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, formed on 15 February 1919.
  Until 2004, the club operated a football department but after a merger with local rival MTV Ingolstadt to form FC Ingolstadt 04 the footballers left for the new club.
  The club has over 1,600 members in 21 sports departments. The club is associated with the German railways, as evident by the term railway sports club in its name, and is a member of the Association of German railway sports clubs, the VDES.
context_section_description: As far as sport, and therefore football is concerned, the ESV's foundation date results from the formation of the FC Viktoria Ingolstadt in 1919. Another sports club, the VfR Ingolstadt, was formed in 1921. These two clubs merged in 1925 to form the VfB Ingolstadt-Ringsee. It is also this club who had by far the most success on the football field in the pre-Second World War years.
caption: Historical logo of VfB Ingolstadt-Ringsee ca. 1930.
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