Torgelower SV Greif

Football club infobox
clubname = Torgelower SV Greif


fullname = Torgelower Sportverein Greif e.V.
nickname =
founded = 1919
ground = Spartakusstadion
capacity = 10,000
chairman =
manager = Eckart Märzke
league = NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V)
season = 2007-08
position = 9th
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Torgelower SV Greif is a German football club from the city of Torgelow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The football team is part of a sports club which also has departments for women's sport, table tennis, and handball.

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History

The club was established in 1919 as "Greif Torgelow" and after World War II resumed play in East Germany as "BSG Motor Torgelow" in the third tier Birzirksliga Neubrandenburg. Through the 50s they would play as "Motor" or as "Stahl Torgelow" and generally earn upper table finishes. Their performance began to slip in the early 60s and they delivered only mid-table results. In 1963 they were re-named "Nord Max Matern Torgelow" and would play as "NMM" or simply "Nord Torgelow" until after German re-unification in 1990.

In 1971 the team won its first promotion to the second division DDR-Liga and spent most of the decade as an elevator side moving up and down between second and third tier play. They were eligible for promotion again in 1984 but failed to advance through a playoff.

"Nord Torgelow" gave up its communist-era name in 1990 to again take on the historical club name "Torgelower SV Greif". After the merger of the football leagues of the two Germany's in the early 90s, "Greif" played as a lower division side until moving up to the Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (V) in 1994. They played there as a middling side until an exciting 2003-04 campaign saw the club come close to breaking through to the Oberliga Nordost-Nord (IV). The next season the club captured the division title to earn promotion to the country's highest amateur class.

Honours

* Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (V) champions: 2005

tadium

"Torgelower SV Greif" play their home matches in the Spartakusstadion, built in 1958, which has a capacity of 10,000.

Team trivia

*Heroes of the DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik or German Democratic Republic, commonly East Germany) were often celebrated by attaching their names to sports clubs. Max Matern was a German Communist and anti-fascist who was arrested in June 1933 for his alleged involvement in the 1931 murders of two policemen and was executed by the Nazis in May 1935. Decades later, on October 26, 1993, Erich Mielke former head of the Stasi – East Germany's notorious state police – was convicted of the murders and a further attempted murder.

External links

* [http://www.inventmedia.de/tsv/ Official team site]
* [http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv] historical German football league tables (in German)
* [http://www.eufo.de/ eufo.de] European football club profiles