OSV Hannover
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| Full name | Oststädter Sportverein Hannover 1923 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1923 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ground | Langenforther Straße | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 4,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Kreisliga Hannover-Stadt (IX) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004-05 | Kreisliga Hannover-Stadt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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OSV Hannover is a German football club based in the Oststadt district of Hanover, Lower Saxony, founded in 1923 as Freie Sportvereinigung Hannover Ost. The club was dissolved in 1933 in the course of the Nazi regime's politically motivated reorganization of sport and football clubs throughout the country and re-constituted as Oststädter Sportverein Hannover. In 1937, the club merged with the older side MTV Groß Buchholz, which had been founded in 1923.
After World War II the football side was associated with TuS Bothfeld 04 until re-establishing themselves as an independent club in 1953. The club has an unremarkable history, noted only for three seasons spent in Regionalliga Nord from 1972 to 1974, and another two in the 2.Bundesliga Nord in 1979 and 1980. OSV re-established a facility sharing partnership with TuS Bothfeld 04 in the mid-70s, and had a close brush with bankruptcy in the early 80s. Today the club is an anonymous side playing in ninth division Kreisliga Hannover-Stadt and is focused on its youth sides.
