Eimsbütteler TV

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Eimsbütteler TV
Full name Eimsbütteler Turnverband
Founded 12 June 1889
Ground ETV-Sportcenter Hoheluft
Chairman Stefan Thoren
Manager Holger Podein
League Bezirksliga Hamburg-Nord (VII)
2007-08 2nd
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Eimsbütteler Turnverband is a German sports club based in Eimsbüttel, Hamburg. Apart from football, the club also offers a variety of other sports, like Basketball, Volleyball and Fencing.

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[edit] History

[edit] The beginings

The club was formed on 12 June 1889 as the Eimsbütteler Männerturnverein, a short-lived gymnastics association. Within one month, the club broke up and the Eimsbütteler Turnerschaft became one of its two successors. The two separate sides remerged, split up again and finally, in 1898, formed the Eimsbütteler Turnverband, to be able to built a common sports hall.

In 1910, under the direction of the clubs chairman, Julius Sparbier, a sports hall was finally completed.

The football department was of the ETV formed in 1906, when the club joined the A-Klasse Hamburg, the highest league in the city. In 1915, it managed to win its first title, finishing on top of this league.

[edit] The clubs golden years

The most successful era of the club however came during the Third Reich, in the newly formed Gauliga. The club belonged to the Gauliga Nordmark from its interception in 1933 and managed to win the league in 1934, 1935, 1936, 1940 and 1942, often it tight contest with the far more famous Hamburger SV. Titles in the Gauliga qualified the club for the German championship final round, where the ETV competed respectabley but ultimatly unsuccessful. Despite victories over the FC Schalke 04, the later champion, in 1934[1] and 1935[2], the club did not advance from the group stage.

With the Gauliga Nordmark being split in three separate leagues in 1942, the club became part of the new Gauliga Hamburg and its fortunes somewhat declined.

The clubs sport installations were, like most of Hamburg, heavily destroyed during the air raids in the 2nd World War. From 1948, under the leadership of Robert Finn, the ETV started to rebuilt its facilities.

[edit] Post-Second World war

Post-war play in 1945 in the Stadtliga Hamburg saw the ETV continue as a mid-table team. In the 1946-47 season, a fifth-place finish was not quite enough to qualify for the new Oberliga Nord, one of the five new highest leagues in Germany, when only the top-four clubs from Hamburg could join. The season after however, the team won its division with seventeen wins and one draw out of eighteen games and gained admittance to the Oberliga.

The ETV spent the next eight seasons, until 1956, in this league, mostly earning respectable mid-table finishes. A sixteens place in the 1955-56 season however meant relegation to what was now the Amateurliga Hamburg, then the second tier of football in the region.

In this league, the following two seasons, the club very narrowly avoided relegation to the third division. The ETV managed to recover and win the Amateurliga in 1958-59 but failed to gain promotion back to the Oberliga and slipt back to lower-table results in the coming seasons.

With the establishment of the Fussball-Bundesliga in 1963, the Amateurliga slipt to third tier and the club continued to struggle against relegation. A last place finish in 1965-66 meant a further drop, now to the fourth tier Verbandsliga Hamburg - Germania-Staffel.

The club generally finished in the upper half of the table in this league in the coming seasons, away from relegation or promotion. The second half of the 1970s saw the club decline to the lower end of the league table but in the early 1980s it recovered somewhat, finishing second in the league in 1980-81.

The club fell further however when, at the end of the 1984-85 season, a fifteens place meant another relegation, now to the Bezirksliga. It took until 1989 for the ETV to recover and regain its Landesliga Hamburg status, which was now the fifth tier of the league system.

The club had a further revival in the 1997-98 season when promotion to the Verbandsliga Hamburg was archived. The first season in this league, the club managed to finish second and gain another promotion, now to the Oberliga Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein.

In this league, the club struggled against relegation for four seasons, only saved by other teams voluntarily withdrawing and therefore reducing the number of relegated teams. This came to an end in 2003, when the ETV was finally relegated back to the Verbandsliga.

Two seasons in this league meant a further decline and, in 2005, the ETV was relegated again, back to the tier-six Landsliga Hamburg.

[edit] Current

The clubs decline continued in 2005-06, with relegation to the Bezirksliga Hamburg-Nord, the seventh tier of the league system. However, the club had a good 2007-08 season, when it finished second in the league, on equal points with the league winner. This finish entitles the ETV to part-take in the promotion round to the Landesliga, a four-team competition where they came last and missed out on promotion[3].

The club has a large youth section in its football department, both for girls and boys with nearly fourty teams in all age-groups[4].

[edit] German championship

The most successful time in the clubs history was most certainly the Gauliga years when the ETV qualified for the German championship finals five times:

  • 1934: Finished last in its group out of four teams, but managed to defeat FC Schalke 04 3-2 in Hamburg after Schalke lead 2-0, Schalke went on to win the championship.
  • 1935: Finished third in its group out of four teams, again defeated FC Schalke 04 in Hamburg, who won the championship again.
  • 1936: Finished third again in its group out of four teams.
  • 1940: Finished second in its group out of four teams, missing out on the semi-finals to Dresdner SC who went on to lose the final.
  • 1942: Lost to Werder Bremen in the first round of the knock-out finals, losing 2-4 in Bremen.

[edit] Departments

The club consists of various sports departments, these being:

[edit] Honors

[edit] External links

[edit] Sources

[edit] References

  1. ^ Germany - National play-offs 1934 RSSSF.com, accessed: 31 May 2008
  2. ^ Germany - National play-offs 1935 RSSSF.com, accessed: 31 May 2008
  3. ^ Relegation BL in LL Fusball.de, accessed: 10 June 2008
  4. ^ Eimsbütteler TV football teams Fussball.de. accessed: 10 June 2008