TSV Schwaben Augsburg

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TSV Schwaben Augsburg

Full name

Turn- und Sportverein 1847 Schwaben Augsburg

Founded

1847, 1903 (football)

Ground

Ernst-Lehner-Stadion

Capacity

6,000

League

Landesliga Bayern Süd (V)

2005-06





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Away colours

TSV Schwaben Augsburg is a German football club which is part of a larger sports association whose origins go back to the 1847 formation of the gymnastics club Turnverein Augsburg. The association's football department was formed in 1903 and after March 29, 1919 played as Schwaben Augsburg.

1 History
2 Stadium
3 Other sports departments
4 Team trivia
5 External links

[edit] History

In 1853 TV was banned for political reasons by authorities fearful of democratic leanings, but managed to carry on as a physical fitness group until being re-established in 1860. Some members left the club in 1863 to form MTV Augsburg, the first of several clubs spawned by the departure of TV including TSV 1871 Augsburg, TSV 1875 Göggingen, MTV 1889 Augsburg, and TSG 1890 Thannhausen. In 1907 former TV members also established FC Augsburg.

MTV 1863 Augsburg had re-united with its parent club in 1868 and in 1919, after the end of World War I, MTV 1889 also returned to the fold. That same year the club was also joined by the members of SV Augsburg which had been established in 1905 as FC Pfersee.

[edit] Interwar period

The comings and goings of TV club members continued in the interwar period. The women of Turnclub Augsburg and Damenschwimmverein Augsburg joined in 1919 and 1920 respectively. SV Schwaben was formed in 1924 by footballers, hockey players, and track and field athletes out of TV, while the fencers left in 1925 to form Fechtclub Augsburg. That same year TV partnered up with TSV 1925 Meitingen. TV offshoots SV Schwaben and SSV Augsburg (originally FC Augsburg) merged to become Sport- und Spielvereine (SSV) Schwaben Augsburg. And in 1933 FC Viktoria and Schwimmverein Delphi joined TV. Throughout this period the club's football side made frequent appearances in the Bezirksliga Bayern, but without producing any significant result.

[edit] Play during World War II

In 1933 German football was re-organized under the Third Reich into sixteen top-flight divisions. Schwaben Augsburg joined the Gauliga Bayern, but was relegated after just two seasons. The club returned to first division play in 1937, but again only stayed up for two years. Schwaben was promoted once more in 1940, while the team's parent club TV Augsburg was forced by Nazi sports authorities into a merger with SSV Schwaben Augsburg to form TSV Schwaben Augsburg in 1941. The football team remained in a weakened Gauliga until the end of World War II playing as a lower to mid-table side.

[edit] Postwar

After the war occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in Germany, including sports and football associations. Former TSV footballers formed FC Viktoria Augsburg (later 1948 TG Viktoria) in late 1945. TSV itself was re-constituted in 1946 and its own football department continued to compete in first division football in the Oberliga Süd in 15 of the next 20 years with their best result coming as a 5th place finish in 1946. After the formation of the Bundesliga – Germany's first professional league – in 1963, the club played in the second division Regionalliga until being relegated in 1969.

[edit] Out of professional football

That same year Schwaben's professional footballers left to join forces with their fellows at BC Augsburg to form FC Augsburg, while parent association TSV agreed to exclude themselves from participation in professional football in the future. Nonetheless Schwaben continued to operate a football department, being joined by the footballers of Eintracht Augsburg in 1970. The team went on to advance to the highest amateur class, the Oberliga Bayern (IV), by 1981 and has since played as an elevator side moving between the Oberliga and the fifth division Landesliga Bayern Süd where they have been since 2002.

[edit] Stadium

From 1951 to 1965 Schwaben shared the Rosenaustadion with BC Augsburg until moving to the Sportanlage Süd. A new Ernst-Lehner-Stadion was built there in 1996 and named Ernst-Lehner-Stadion to honour the former player who was capped 65 times (55 while with Schwaben). He played in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups and was the second-most capped player for Germany in the first half of the century after Paul Janes.

[edit] Other sports departments

In addition to its football side Turn- und Sportverein Schwaben Augsburg participates in a large number of other sports including badminton, basketball, boxing, figure skating, fistball, fencing, ice hockey, canoeing and kayaking, athletics, tennis, table tennis, gymnastics, and winter sports. The club has enjoyed successes that include an gold medal in fencing for Heidi Schmid at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. Their most outstanding results have come in kayaking and include a silver medal at the 1972 Munich games and gold medals by club members Elisabeth Micheler (1992, Barcelona) and Oliver Fix (1996, Atlanta).