Viktoria Aschaffenburg

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Viktoria Aschaffenburg

Full name

SV Viktoria 01 Aschaffenburg

Founded

1901

Ground

Schönbusch

Capacity

9,000

Chairman

Herbert Euler

League

Oberliga-Hessen (IV)





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SV Viktoria 01 Aschaffenburg is a German football club based in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria playing in the IV tier Oberliga-Hessen.

1 History
2 Team trivia
3 External links
4 References

[edit] History

The team was formed on June 24, 1904 out of the merger of FC Aschaffenburg (August 6, 1901) and FC Viktoria Aschaffenburg (April 12, 1902). The united side played in the Bezirksliga Main/Hessen (Gruppe Main) for a couple of seasons in the late 20's.

They made a late, short-lived appearance in top flight football in 1942, playing a single season in the Gauliga Bayern (Nord), one of sixteen premier divisions established in the 1933 re-organization of German football under the Third Reich.

Aschaffenburg made a re-appearance in the top flight after World War II playing in the Oberliga Süd for two seasons in the late 40's and then through most of the 50's. They competed against sides that would later go on to play in the Bundesliga, Germany's first top tier professional league, such as Bayern Munich, 1. FC Nürnberg, and VfB Stuttgart, in front of crowds of 16,000 to 19,000. Generally a lower table side whose best result was a fifth place finish in 1956, a series of poor performances saw Aschaffenburg drop to tier III play in the Amateurliga Hessen and Amateur Oberliga-Hessen well before the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963.

The team's best performances came in the 1980's when they twice won the Oberliga-Hessen title and promotion to 2.Bundesliga, where they played the 1985-86, 1986-87 and 1988-89 seasons.

A poor finish led to a move down to the IV division in the 1993-94 season. The side was relegated to Landesliga Hessen-Sud (V) for a single season in 2003-04 and have since returned to play in Oberliga-Hessen (IV).

[edit] Team trivia

Even though the city is located in Bavaria, Aschaffenburg plays its football in the league of the state of Hessen against clubs from closer, neighbouring cities. This also reflects in part the history of the region, not traditionally part of Bavaria.