Rot-Weiß Frankfurt

Football club infobox
clubname = Rot-Weiß Frankfurt


fullname = Sportgemeinschaft Rot-Weiss 01 Frankfurt e.V.
nickname = Die Roten
founded = November 11, 1901
ground = Stadion am Brentanobad
capacity = 5,200
chairman = Gaetano Patella
manager = Holger Trimhold
league = Hessenliga (V)
season = 2007-08
position = 15th
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SG Rot-Weiß Frankfurt 01 is a German football club from Frankfurt am Main, Hesse. The association was founded on November 11, 1901 as "FV Amicitia 1901 Bockenheim" in what is today the city district of Bockenheim.

History

Early years

in 1930 and 1931.

In 1933, German football was re-organized into sixteen top-flight divisions and "Rot-Weiß" appeared in the "Gauliga Südwest" for three seasons between 1938 and 1941. In 1941 the division was split into the "Gauliga Westmark" and the "Gauliga Hessen-Nassau" where the club played another three years as "Reichsbahn TSV Rot-Weiß Frankfurt". Their best result was a divisional vice-championship in '41.

Postwar

After the war occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in Germany, including sports and football associations. In late 1945 the club was re-constituted as "SG Bockenheim" and in 1947, once again named "Rot-Weiß", played a single season in the first division Oberliga Süd before being relegated. The club set an attendance record that still stands to this day when they played "1. FC Nuremberg" before 27,000 fans.

"Rot-Weiß" competed as a third tier side in the Amateurliga Hessen through most of the 60s and 70s with a single season cameo in the Regionalliga Süd (II) in 1968-69. The club then slipped to the Landesliga Hessen-Süd in 1979 where they played for five of the next seven seasons. From the late 80s to the mid-90s they were once again a third division side and captured the Oberliga Hessen championship in 1990. Participation in the subsequent promotion round for the 2. Bundesliga ended in failure. Under mounting financial pressure the team's performance slipped and by the mid-90s they were playing fourth and fifth division football. "Rot-Weiß" currently play in the Hessenliga (V) and the primary focus of the club has shifted to its youth sides.

tadium

The club plays its home matches in the Stadion am Brentanobad (capacity 6,000) built in 1940 and re-furbished in 1998.

Honours

*Oberliga Hessen champions: 1947, 1968, 1990
*Landesliga Hessen-Süd champions: 1966, 1983, 1986
*Hessen Cup: 1971, 1974, 1989, 1992

External links

* [http://www.rot-weiss-frankfurt.de/ Official team site]
* [http://www.abseits-soccer.com/clubs/rwfrankfurt.html Abseits Guide to German Soccer]