TSV Schwaben Augsburg

Football club infobox
clubname = TSV Schwaben Augsburg


fullname = Turn- und Sportverein 1847 Schwaben Augsburg
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founded = 1847, 1903 (football)
ground = Ernst-Lehner-Stadion
capacity = 6,000
chairman =
manager =
league = Bezirksliga Schwaben-Süd (VIII)
season = 2007-08
position = Bezirksoberliga Schwaben (VI) 14th
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TSV Schwaben Augsburg is a German football club which is part of a larger sports association whose origins go back to the 1847 formation of the gymnastics club "Turnverein Augsburg". The association's football department was formed in 1903 and after March 29, 1919 played as "Schwaben Augsburg".

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History

Local bylaws required the formation of a fire brigade and in 1848 the members of "TV" also formed the "Augsburger Freiwillige Feuerwehr". In 1853 "TV" was banned for political reasons by authorities fearful of democratic leanings, but managed to carry on as a physical fitness group until being re-established in 1860. Some members left the club in 1863 to form "MTV Augsburg", the first of several clubs spawned by the departure of "TV" including "TSV 1871 Augsburg", "TSV 1875 Göggingen", "MTV 1889 Augsburg", and "TSG 1890 Thannhausen". In 1907 former "TV" members also established "FC Augsburg".

"MTV 1863 Augsburg" had re-united with its parent club in 1868 and in 1919, after the end of World War I, "MTV 1889" also returned to the fold. That same year the club was also joined by the members of "SV Augsburg" which had been established in 1905 as "FC Pfersee".

Interwar period

The comings and goings of "TV" club members continued in the interwar period. The women of "Turnclub Augsburg" and "Damenschwimmverein Augsburg" joined in 1919 and 1920 respectively. "SV Schwaben" was formed in 1924 by footballers, hockey players, and track and field athletes out of "TV", while the fencers left in 1925 to form "Fechtclub Augsburg". That same year "TV" partnered up with "TSV 1925 Meitingen". "TV" offshoots "SV Schwaben" and "SSV Augsburg" (originally "FC Augsburg") merged to become "Sport- und Spielvereine (SSV) Schwaben Augsburg". And in 1933 "FC Viktoria" and "Schwimmverein Delphi" joined "TV". Throughout this period the club's football side made frequent appearances in the Bezirksliga Bayern, but without producing any significant result.

Play during World War II

In 1933 German football was re-organized under the Third Reich into sixteen top-flight divisions. "Schwaben Augsburg" joined the Gauliga Bayern, but was relegated after just two seasons. The club returned to first division play in 1937, but again only stayed up for two years. "Schwaben" was promoted once more in 1940, while the team's parent club "TV Augsburg" was forced by Nazi sports authorities into a merger with "SSV Schwaben Augsburg" to form "TSV Schwaben Augsburg" in 1941. The football team remained in a weakened Gauliga until the end of World War II playing as a lower to mid-table side.

Postwar

After the war occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in Germany, including sports and football associations. Former "TSV" footballers formed "FC Viktoria Augsburg" (later "1948 TG Viktoria") in late 1945. "TSV" itself was re-constituted in 1946 and its own football department continued to compete in first division football in the Oberliga Süd in 15 of the next 20 years with their best result coming as a 5th place finish in 1946. In this period, the club managed to march from the Oberliga straight down to the Amateurliga Bayern (III), and back, in consecutive seasons, an unusual archivemend. After the formation of the Bundesliga – Germany's first professional league – in 1963, the club played in the second division Regionalliga Süd until being relegated in 1969.

Out of professional football

That same year "Schwaben"'s professional footballers left to join forces with their fellows at "BC Augsburg" to form "FC Augsburg", while parent association "TSV" agreed to exclude themselves from participation in professional football in the future. Nonetheless "Schwaben" continued to operate a football department, being joined by the footballers of "Eintracht Augsburg" in 1970. The team went on to advance to the highest amateur class, the Oberliga Bayern (IV), by 1981 and has since played as an elevator side moving between the Oberliga and the fifth division Landesliga Bayern Süd where they have been since 2002, until their relegation in 2007. In the 2007/08 season they find themselves back in the highest league of the Schwaben FA, the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben, for the first time since 1975. There the club found itself struggeling too and could not avoid further relegation, to the "Bezirksliga", where they will meet the BC Augsburg-Oberhausen, a club named and based on the old BC Augsburg in 2008-09.

TSV Schwaben Augsburg seasons (from 1945)

|Source:Cite web
url = http://www.f-archiv.de/
title = Tables and results of the Oberliga and Regionalliga Süd
accessdate = 2007-12-23
publisher = Deutsches Fussball-Archiv

External links

* [http://www.tsv-schwaben-augsburg.de/start.htm Official team site - general]
* [http://www.kanu-schwaben-augsburg.de/ Official team site - canoeing and kayaking]
* [http://www.fechten-schwaben-augsburg.de/ Official team site - fencing]
* [http://www.f-archiv.de Historical German domestic league results] Das Deutsche Fussball-Archiv de icon