SV Göppingen


SV Göppingen is a German association football club from the city of Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg. The team was established on 13 October 1905 as 1. Göppingener Fuβballverein and lays claim to being the oldest football club in the city. On 24 April 1920, soon after World War I the club merged with Athletiksportverein 1895 Göppingen and took on its current identity. The origins of predecessor side ASV go back to 11 August 1895 formation of 1. Athletik Klub Göppingen. This club merged with Kraftsportverein Fortuna Göppingen in 1901 to become Athleten-Klub Foruna Göppingen. They adopted the name Athletiksportverein Göppingen early in 1907, and in 1911 merged with Sportclub Göppingen.

History

SV first came to notice in 1934 when they became part of the Gauliga Württemberg, one of 16 top-flight divisions created in the reorganization of German football under the Third Reich a year earlier. The club only spent the 1934–35 and 1936–37 seasons in first division play, being sent down on both occasions after 10th-place finishes. They returned to the Gauliga in 1943, captured the division title, and then went out in the opening round of the national playoffs to KSG Saarbrücken. The following season was that last before World War II interrupted play across the country.
After the war, Göppingen took up play in the Landesliga Württemberg, but was sent down in 1948 after just three seasons. It was not until 1968 that they returned to third tier competition in the Amateurliga Nordwürttemberg. They finished second and the next year took the division title, which led to their participation in the national amateur championship playoffs. SV moved on to the semifinals where they were eliminated 1:0, 2:1 by SC Jülich 1910.
In league play, a successful promotion playoff advanced SV to the Regionalliga Süd where they found themselves overmatched. They returned to the Amateurliga Nordwürttemberg which later became the Amateuroberliga Baden-Württemberg. They enjoyed a string of strong finishes through the late 70s before slipping away to lower tier local play in the mid-80s. It was during this period that they made appearances in the opening rounds of the German Cup tournament. SV played first in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg until 1985, then in the Verbandsliga Württemberg until 1991 and then descended through the Landesliga Württemberg to the Bezirksliga in 1994. Since 2007, SV have played in the Landesliga Württemberg, from where they earned promotion back to the Verbandsliga in 2009. In 2013–14 and 2014–15 the club finished runners-up in the league and thereby earned the right to compete in the promotion round to the Oberliga. In 2014 it missed out to FC Germania Friedrichstal and, in 2015, to 1. CfR Pforzheim, thereby remaining in the Verbandsliga. Finishing runners-up in the league for a third consecutive time in 2015–16 the club took part in the promotion round once more, this time defeating TSG Weinheim on aggregate and moving up to the Oberliga, ending a 31-year absence for the club.

Honours

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
SeasonDivisionTierPosition
2003–04Bezirksliga Neckar/FilsVII11th
2004–05Bezirksliga Neckar/FilsVII6th
2005–06Bezirksliga Neckar/FilsVII3rd
2006–07Bezirksliga Neckar/FilsVII1st ↑
2007–08Landesliga Württemberg IIVI5th
2008–09Landesliga Württemberg IIVII2nd ↑
2009–10Verbandsliga WürttembergVI8th
2010–11Verbandsliga WürttembergVI4th
2011–12Verbandsliga WürttembergVI3rd
2012–13Verbandsliga WürttembergVI3rd
2013–14Verbandsliga WürttembergVI2nd
2014–15Verbandsliga WürttembergVI2nd
2015–16Verbandsliga WürttembergVI2nd ↑
2016–17Oberliga Baden-WürttembergV

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