TSV Schwieberdingen

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TSV Schwieberdingen

Full name

Turn- und Sportverein Schwieberdingen
1906 e.V.

Nickname(s)

The Schwiebies

Founded

1906

Ground

Felsenberg-Arena
(Capacity 5,000)

Chairman

Erich Wild

Manager

Gianni Coveli

League

Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (IV)

2006-07

Verbandsliga Württemberg, 2rd





Home colours





Away colours

TSV Schwieberdingen is a German football club that plays in Schwieberdingen, Baden-Württemberg. The club was founded as a gymnastics club on August 1, 1906 with a strong labour union background and for the first forty years its primary interest remained in gymnastics. An attempt to form a football team in 1919 failed after a short time, but a second try in 1937 was successful.

The club was dissolved after World War II like most organizations in Germany including sports and football associations. It was re-established as Sport und Kulturverein Schwieberdingen in July of 1946 and returned to its old name in late 1947. The club's focus in the two decades following the war was on gymnastics and football, with a growing emphasis on the latter. In the late 60's and early 70's TSV experienced considerable growth and added ten new departments including table tennis, hand ball, volleyball, swimming and judo.

Through the late 70's the club's football team advanced steadily from the A-Klasse Enz-Murr, to the 2. Amateurliga Württemberg, and then on to the Landesliga Württemberg (IV). Weak performances there saw the team demoted but it returned to fourth tier play in the mid-90's and advanced as far as the round of 16 in the 2002 Württemberg Cup. In 2004 Schwieberdingen earned a promotion to the Verbandsliga Württemberg (V) where it played until 2007, when a second place finish and wins in the promotion play-off lifted the club into the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg.

The club's youth division has also enjoyed a fair measure of success winning the Württemberg championship twice, the South German championship twice, as well as earning third and fourth place finishes in the national youth finals.