TSV Schwieberdingen

Football club infobox
clubname = TSV Schwieberdingen


fullname = Turn- und Sportverein Schwieberdingen
1906 e.V.
nickname = "The Schwiebies"
founded = 1906
ground = Felsenberg-Arena
capacity = 5,000
chairman = Erich Wild
manager = Gianni Coveli
league = Bezirksliga Enz-Murr (VIII)
season = 2007-08
position = Oberliga Baden-Württemberg, 17th
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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.

History

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, where they remained for a season befor being relegated again. The club decided to withdraw its tem to the tier-VIII "Bezirksliga Enz-Murr" after this.

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.

Honours

*Verbandsliga Württemberg Runner-Up: 2007

Recent seasons

tadium

TSV Schwieberdingen plays its home matches in the "Felsenberg-Arena" (capacity 5,000).

External links

* [http://www.fussball.tsv-schwieberdingen.de/ Official team site]

References