1. FC Schweinfurt 05
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| Full name | 1.Fußball-Club Schweinfurt 05 e.V. - Verein für Leibesübungen |
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| Nickname(s) | Die Schnüdel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1905 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Willy-Sachs-Stadion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 15,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Oberliga Bayern (IV), annulled | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004-05 | Landesliga Bayern Nord (V) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1.FC Schweinfurt 05 is a German football club that plays in Schweinfurt, Bavaria.
The club was founded on May 5, 1905 and played in the local leagues. The team attempted a merger with Turngemeinde Schweinfurt von 1848 which lasted from 1928 to 1930 before the two groups parted ways again and the football division became 1. Fussball-Club Schweinfurt 1905 VfL. While the club did not reap the expected benefits from the brief union, it improved dramatically after re-establishing itself as an independent club. Membership grew significantly and a number of new sports departments were formed within the organization.
Schweinfurt finally gained first class status with its entry into the Oberliga Süd in 1931. It would remain a top tier club over the next thirty years until the Bundesliga, Germany's new professional league, was foundedin 1963. One year later it found itself playing in the second tier Regionalliga Süd. In 1966 the club made it to the Bundesliga advancement games but was unable to ascend to the top tier. It earned a second opportunity in 1974 but again failed in this attempt by losing to Bayer Uerdingen.
After the 1976 season the club began to falter: poor results and financial problems saw the it descend first to the Amateurliga Bayern (III) and then, for the first time in 1984, to the Landesliga Bayern (IV). Schweinfurt became an "elevator club" ascending and descending between tiers III and IV, with just a pair of brief 2.Bundesliga appearances in 1990-91 and in 2001-02, the latter when the team's third place finish allowed it to pass the amateur division of VfB Stuttgart because that club was not eligible to advance a second team into the professional ranks.
Disaster happened in 2005 when the club went bankrupt and the team's results in the Oberliga Bayern (IV) were annulled. Today, a re-structured club is playing in the Landesliga Bayern Nord (V).
