TuS Mechtersheim


TuS Mechtersheim are a German association football club based in Mechtersheim.

History

TuS Mechtersheim was founded on 1 March 1914 as Viktoria Mechtersheim. Following the conclusion of World War I the club was remade as Sportverein Mechtersheim. With the formation of an athletics department in 1930 came the adoption of the name Turn- und Sportverein Mechtersheim. In the aftermath of World War II organizations across the country, including sports and football clubs, were ordered dissolved by occupying Allied authorities. The club was re-established as ASV Mechtersheim in 1946, before resuming its old identity as Tus Mechtersheim in March 1950.
TuS played through most of its history at the amateur level. The team won promotion to the Landesliga Südwest-Ost in 2001 before advancing through the Verbandsliga Südwest to the Oberliga Südwest in 2004.
For the next eleven seasons the club played in the Oberliga, with a seventh place in 2013 as its best result. A fourteenth place in 2014–15 however meant relegation to the Verbandsliga for Mechtersheim where it won another league title in 2015–16 and returned to the Oberliga.

Honours

The club's honours:
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
SeasonDivisionTierPosition
2000–01Landesliga Südwest-OstVI1st ↑
2001–02Verbandsliga SüdwestV5th
2002–03Verbandsliga SüdwestV4th
2003–04Verbandsliga SüdwestV1st ↑
2004–05Oberliga SüdwestIV13th
2005–06Oberliga SüdwestIV13th
2006–07Oberliga SüdwestIV14th
2007–08Oberliga SüdwestIV14th
2008–09Oberliga SüdwestV9th
2009–10Oberliga SüdwestV8th
2010–11Oberliga SüdwestV8th
2011–12Oberliga SüdwestV11th
2012–13Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/SaarV7th
2013–14Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/SaarV13th
2014–15Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/SaarV15th ↓
2015–16Verbandsliga SüdwestVI1st ↑
2016–17Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/SaarV

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