- Arminia Hannover
Football club infobox
clubname = SV Arminia Hannover
fullname = Sport-Verein Arminia Hannover e.V.
nickname = Die Blauen (The Blues)
founded = 1910
ground = Rudolf-Kalweit-Stadion
capacity = 15,000
chairman = Juergen Scholz
manager = Hilger Wirtz
league =Oberliga Niedersachsen-West (V)
season = 2007-08
position =Verbandsliga Niedersachsen-West (V), 7th
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leftarm2=FFFFFF|body2=FFFFFF|rightarm2=FFFFFF|shorts2=FFFFFF|socks2=FFFFFFArminia Hannover is a German football club based in
Hanover ,Lower Saxony .History
The club was founded in 1910 as "FC Arminia Hannover" and merged with "Rugby-Verein Merkur" in 1918, becoming "SV Arminia-Merkur". Two years later they re-named themselves "SV Arminia Hannover" and captured the North German title. Through the 20s and 30s the club grew to include a number of other sports, but the football side did not earn any significant result, apart from the 1932-33 season when the club, under the English coach
William Townley , advanced as far as the quarterfinals of the German Championship, where they were ousted by the eventual winnersFortuna Düsseldorf .For the most part, the club played second tier ball through the 50s and 60s with their best performances a pair of first place finishes in the Regionalliga Nord in 1966 and 1967. An amateur championship in 1975 led "Arminia" to four seasons in the 2.Bundesliga Nord. They barely managed to hang on each year until finally slipping to the Amateur Oberliga Nord (III) in 1980. The side faded away over the next two decades, playing a roughly even number of seasons in tiers III and IV, until they were relegated from the now-defunct Oberliga Nord (IV) in 2007. In 2008-09 they play in the Niedersachsenliga (West, V).
References
Horst Voigt: "SV Arminia Hannover". Sutton Verlag, March 2003, ISBN 3-89702-524-8
External links
* [http://www.arminiahannover.de Official team site]
* [http://www.bischofshol.de Fan site]
* [http://www.abseits-soccer.com/clubs/arhannover.html Abseits Guide to German Soccer]
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