Arminia Hannover
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| SV Arminia Hannover | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Sport-Verein Arminia Hannover e.V. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Die Blauen (The Blues) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1910 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Rudolf-Kalweit-Stadion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 15,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Juergen Scholz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Hilger Wirtz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Oberliga Nord | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004-05 | Oberliga Nord, 9th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Arminia Hannover is a German football club based in Hanover, Lower Saxony. The club was founded in 1910 as FC Arminia Hannover and merged with Rugby-Verein Merkur in 1918, becoming SV Arminia-Merkur. Two years later they re-named themselves SV Arminia Hannover and captured the North German title. Through the 20s and 30s the club grew to include a number of other sports, but the football side did not earn any significant result, apart from the 1932-33 season when the club, under the English coach William Townley, advanced as far as the quarterfinals of the German Championship, where they were ousted by the eventual winners Fortuna Düsseldorf.
For the most part, the club played second tier ball through the 50s and 60s with their best performances a pair of first place finishes in the Regionalliga Nord in 1966 and 1967. An amateur championship in 1975 led Arminia to four seasons in the 2.Bundesliga Nord. They barely managed to hang on each year until finally slipping to the Amateur Oberliga Nord (III) in 1980. The side faded away over the next two decades, playing a roughly even number of seasons in tiers III and IV, and today play in the Oberliga Nord (IV).
[edit] References
Horst Voigt: SV Arminia Hannover. Sutton Verlag, March 2003, ISBN 3-89702-524-8
