- FC Memmingen
Football club infobox
clubname = FC Memmingen
fullname = FC Memmingen 07 Verein für Leibesübungen
nickname =
founded = 1907
ground = Stadion an der Bodenseestraße
capacity = 15,000
chairman = Dieter Degenhart
manager = Esad Kahric
league =Oberliga Bayern (V)
season = 2007-08
position = 6th
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leftarm2=ffffff|body2=ffffff|rightarm2=ffffff|shorts2=ffffff|socks2=ffffffFC Memmingen is a German football club based in
Memmingen ,Bavaria .Overview
The team was formed on May 30, 1907 as the football department of the gymnastics club "Memminger Turnvereins 1859" and became independent in the fall of that year. They re-joined "TV" on February 14, 1919 before regaining their independence in March 1924 as "FC Memmingen 07 Verein für Rasensport und Leibesübungen". The association later adopted its current name, "FC Memmingen 07 Verein für Leibesübungen".
Prior to
World War II the team captured seven local titles at various levels of play. In 1933 it took part in qualification play for the Gauliga Bayern, one of sixteen new top-flight divisions formed in the re-organization of German football under theThird Reich , but dropped a 2:3 decision to "BC Augsburg". Following the war "FC" spent more than 30 years in theOberliga Bayern (IV) as a mid-to-lower table side. The club's most successful season was 1996-97 when they came within a hairsbreadth of advancing to theRegionalliga Süd (III). "Memmingen" held a 3:2 lead in a promotion playoff versus "Kickers Offenbach " when the stadium floodlights failed, bringing the match to a premature halt. "Offenbach" won the subsequent re-play and advanced to the Regionalliga.In 2007, "FC Memmingen" celebrated its centennary and has inaugurate its refurbished Stadion an der Bodenseestraße with an Allgäu derby match against "
FC Kempten " in front of 6,650 spectators [cite web|url=http://www.fc-memmingen.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=26|title=FC Memmingen centennary|accessdate=2007-12-13|author=|publisher=FC Memmingen] . The club had the best support in the "Bayernliga" the 2007-08 season with over 1600 spectators per game [ [http://www.bayliga.de/statistik/bayernliga/attendance.html Bayernliga 2007/08 - Zuschauertabelle] Bayliga.de, accessed:11 June 2008 ] .The "FC Memmingen" holds the record for "Oberliga Bayern" seasons with its 35th in 2007-08 and also leads the overall table of this league when adding up all 45 seasons so far.
Reserve team
The clubs reserve team, FC Memmingen II, played in the
Bezirksoberliga Schwaben (VI) in the 2007-08 season, coming second at the end of season. This finish qualified them for the promotion round, where they lost both games and therefore would have remained in the "Bezirksoberliga" but due to the third placed team from the Landesliga gaining promotion, too, the "FCM II" was also promoted.Honours
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Landesliga Bayern-Süd champions: 1970, 2003
*Schwaben Cup winners: 1958, 1967, 1976Overall tables
In the overall tables of the Bayernliga (1963-2007) and Landesliga Süd (1963-2007) the FC Memmingen ranks as follows:
|:Source: [http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv] Tables of the Bayernliga and Landesliga
*The "Oberliga Bayern" was called "Amateurliga Bayern" until 1978, then "Amateur Oberliga Bayern" till 1994.
FC Memmingen II
External links
* [http://www.fc-memmingen.de Official team site]
References
ources
*Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9
* [http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv] historical German domestic league tables (in German)
* [http://eufo.de/football/ger/fc_mngen.htm eufo.de] European football club profiles and current team rosters
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