TuS Koblenz
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| Full name | Turn und Spielvereinigung Koblenz 1911 e.V. |
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| Founded | 1 August 1911 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ground | Stadion Oberwerth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 17,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Walter Degen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Milan Šašić | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | 2nd Bundesliga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | Regionalliga Süd, 2nd (promoted) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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TuS Koblenz is a German football club, located in Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate. FC Deutschland, which was formed in Neuendorf in 1911 is viewed as the foundation of the modern club.
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[edit] History
[edit] Play under the Third Reich
By 1919, FC Deutschland had become FV Neuendorf and it was as FV that the club joined the Gauliga Mittlerhein, one of sixteen top flight divisions established in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich in 1933 – only to be immediately relegated. A year later FV Neuendorf merged with several other clubs in the area to form TuS Neuendorf, and the following season the team returned to the Gauliga, but were then in and out of first division play over the following several seasons.
In 1942 the Gauliga Mittlerhein was divided into two new divisions: the Gauliga Köln-Aachen and the Gauliga Moselland. TuS again returned to first division football in the Gauliga Moselland (Gruppe Ost) and this time earned much better results, finishing second in 1942 and then winning their group in 1943 and 1944 before decisively taking the division in single game playoffs in each of these seasons. That put the club into the national playoffs, where they were eliminated in the early going in both appearances. As World War II progressed and Allied armies advanced into Germany, the Gauliga Moselland played progressively shorter schedules until the league finally collapsed and did not play the 1944-45 season.
[edit] Postwar
In the immediate post-war period, TuS Neuendorf returned to tier I football in the Oberliga Südwest (Gruppe Nord) in 1946. They made their first re-appearance in the national playoffs in 1948 even though they had only managed a third place finish in their division. 1. FC Saarbrücken had taken second place by finishing three points ahead of TuS and so were entitled to a playoff spot. However, Saarbrücken was one of several teams in the French-occupied Saarland and the French were actively working to establish the state as independent or have it join France. This led to Saarland-based German teams being refused permission to play the national playoffs, and even the participation of a Saarland national side in the 1954 World Cup preliminaries. TuS earned its place that season through politics and advanced as far as the semi-finals before being put out 1:5 by 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
The club continued to play well through the early and mid-50's, earning additional turns in the national playoffs in 1950 and 1956, but were once again eliminated in both appearances in the early going. By the end of the decade their performance began to slip and in 1959 they were relegated. They returned to the Oberliga Südwest (I) in 1961 but could not now escape the lower half of the table.
[edit] Formation of the Bundesliga
With the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963, TuS found itself placed in the second division Regionalliga Südwest. In both 1968 and 1969, the club played well enough to participate in the playoff for a Bundesliga spot, but failed on both occasions. By the 1970s, the club found itself in the third division, missing opportunities to rise to the Second Bundesliga via playoff in both 1977 and 1978. By 1981, the club had crashed below the third division where they were mired for nearly a decade-and-a-half.
[edit] Tus Koblenz
In 1982, the club adopted the name TuS Koblenz, but the name change did little to help the club's bleak performance. The first step in the right direction was a rise to the fourth division Oberliga Südwest in 1994 where the club toiled for a decade. The fortunes of TuS Koblenz have taken a positive turn rather quickly in recent years. An Oberliga Südwest championship in 2004 led to a quick ascent through the Regionalliga Süd (II). Their meteoric rise continued with a second place finish in 2005-06, earning the club a spot in the 2nd Bundesliga for the 2006-07 season, the definitive high point in the modern history of the club.
[edit] Current squad
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[edit] Famous Players
[edit] External links
| German 2. Bundesliga Football Clubs (2006-07) |
| 1860 Munich | FC Augsburg | Carl Zeiss Jena | MSV Duisburg | Eintracht Braunschweig Erzgebirge Aue | Freiburg | Greuther Fürth | Hansa Rostock | Kaiserslautern | Karlsruhe Kickers Offenbach | Koblenz | FC Köln | Paderborn 07 | Rot-Weiss Essen | Unterhaching Wacker Burghausen |
