AS Strasbourg
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| Full name | Fussball Verein 1890 Straßburg Association Sportive de Strasbourg |
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| Founded | 1890 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ground | Stade Tivoli (de la Rotonde) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 400 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Ligue Alsace/Bas-Rhin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FV Straßburg was a German football club from Straßburg, Elsaß-Lothringen. Today the club plays as the French club Association Sportive de Strasbourg in what is now Strasbourg, Alsace.
[edit] History
Fussball Verein Straßburg was founded in 1890 and played in the VSFV (Verband Suddeutscher Fussball Verein or Federation of South German Football Teams). The club won the league title in 1899 with a 4:3 victory over Karlsruher FV and defeated Karlsruhe again in a re-match in the following season's final. That same year FV became one of the founding members of the DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) at Leipzig. In 1902 the club's second team captured the VSFV second division title.
The team's performance fell off over the next decade, but by 1917 Straßburg had resurfaced in the league playoff rounds, losing the 1917 final to Stuttgarter Kickers and going out in the semi-finals in 1918. After World War I Strasbourg was ceded to France as part of the territory of Alsace-Lorraine and FV Straßburg was removed from the German football scene to play in the French leagues.
The region was conquered and held briefly by Germany during World War II and FV Straßburg re-emerged as Sportverein Straßburg 1890 to play a single season in the top flight Gauliga Elsaß in 1940-41. They won promotion back to the weakened Gauliga in 1944 but the division collapsed as conflict overtook the area.
After the war the club resumed play as the Association Sportive de Strasbourg and enjoyed some success as a French amateur side through the 60s. Their latest honours, nearly a quarter century old, are a fourth division title and a Coupe d'Alsace win in the early 80s.
[edit] Honours
- South German champions: 1899, 1900
- South German vice-champions: 1917
- South German II division champions: 1902
- French IV division champions: 1982
- Alsace champions: 1961, 1966, 1970
- Coupe d'Alsace (Alsace Cup): 1954, 1965, 1966, 1983
- Bas-Rhin champions: 1956
