Early Career
Egon Loy spent the first years of his senior career in Schwabach near Nuremberg. From local side TSV 04 Schwabach he was promoted to the first Bavarian amateur league. Until 1954 he played with his home club in the highest amateur tier of Bavaria. Loy was the backing of the Bavarian association selection and won the Länderpokal of the amateurs three times from 1952 until 1954. Erich Bäumler, Ludwig Hinterstocker and Johann Zeitler were the strikers, scoring many goals. On 30 May 1954 Loy played for the Germany national amateur football team in Longwy against France. It was the only amateur international match in 1954, ending 0–0. In the 1954–55 season he moved to Eintracht Frankfurt. His team mate from the Bavaria selection, Erich Bäumler, also signed with the Hessian club.
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