- SpVgg Emsdetten
Football club infobox
clubname = SpVgg Emsdetten
fullname = Spielvereinigung Emsdetten 05 e.V.
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founded = 1905
ground = Salvus-Stadion am Grevener Damm
capacity = 5,000
chairman = Jan Gatterdam
manager = Bernd Kipp
league =Verbandsliga Westfalen 1 (VI)
season = 2007-08
position = 7th
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leftarm2=000000|body2=000000|rightarm2=000000|shorts2=ffffff|socks2=ffffffSpVgg Emsdetten is a German football club from the city of
Emsdetten ,North Rhine-Westphalia .History
The association was created in 1905 as the gymnastics club "Turnverein Jahn Emsdetten" and formed a football department in 1907. The footballers left to form a separate club called "Spielverein Emsdetten" in 1924 and adopted the name "Spielvereinigung Emsdetten" in 1935.
The club has played amateur football throughout its history and came close to advancing into the third division Landesliga Westfalen, then the highest amateur class in German football, when they met "TSV Hüls" in a 1949 playoff before 10,00 spectators. "Emsdetten" did later find its way into the Landesliga, playing two seasons there from 1954 to 1956.
Re-structuring of German football leagues helped push the club down to lower levels of competition. In 1970 they rose to play in the Verbandsliga Westfalen (IV) and would move up to become a third division side after league re-organization in 1978, playing in the Oberliga Westfalen (III). A next-to-last place finish in 1980 would drive the club back down to the Verbandsliga, but success in regional cup play earned "Emsdetten" a place in the 1980-81
German Cup competition where they went out 0:6 in the first round to "1. FC Köln ".Several years spent in fifth division competition ended in 1991 when the club was relegated to the Landesliga Westfalen (VI). "SpVgg" began to climb its way back up in 2000, returning to the now fifth tier Verbandsliga before a second-place result there in 2002 quailified the team to play in the Oberliga Westfalen (IV) where they compete as a lower-to-mid table side.
"SpVgg Emsdetten" delivers its home matches in the Salvus-Stadion am Grevener Damm which has a capacity of 5,000 (~200 seats). The club currently has a membership of 1,000.
External links
* [http://www.emsdetten05.de/ 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
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