SV 08 Steinach

Football club infobox
clubname = SV 08 Steinach


fullname = Sportverein 1908 Steinach e.V.
nickname =
founded = 1908
ground = Stadion am Fellberg
capacity = 6,000
chairman =
manager =
league = Landesliga Thüringen (VI)
season = 2007-08
position = 5th
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SV Steinach is a German football club that plays in Steinach, a town 75 km south of Erfurt in Thuringia.

History

This small local club was founded on November 4, 1908 as "FC Steinach". Play was suspended through World War I and after the war, in 1919, they merged with another football side, "FC Teutonia". The following year, the winter sports club "Wintersportverein Steinach" also joined and remained part of the club until 1926. From 1933 to 1936, "Steinach" played in the Gauliga Mitte, one of sixteen regional leagues formed through the reorganization of German football under the Third Reich. They finished second in this league in 1933-34, were relegated in 1937 and returned for a season in 1939 before sitting out for the duration of World War II. The club resumed play in East Germany's Bezirksliga Suhl in 1952 as "BSG Motor Steinach". Through the late 50's and early 60's the team bounced up and down between the second and third division Liga and 2.Liga. They earned promotion to the top-flight DDR Oberliga where they played the 1964 and 1965 seasons before falling back. With German re-unification in 1990 the club took on the name "SV 08 Steinach" and plays today in the Landesliga Thüringen (V).

"Steinach" has a number of other sports departments and offers its members winter sports, bowling, table tennis, volleyball, gymnastics aund Tae Kwon Do.

External links

* [http://www.sv08-steinach.de/ Official team site]