FC Nöttingen

Football club infobox
clubname = FC Nöttingen


fullname = Fußball Club Nöttingen 1957 e. V.
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founded = 2 July, 1957
ground = Panoramastadion
capacity = 3,800
chairman = Dirk Steidl
manager = Michael Fuchs
league = Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (V)
season = 2007-08
position = 11th
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FC Nöttingen is a German football club from the Nöttingen district of Remchingen, Baden-Württemberg. The footballers are part of a sports club of more than 500 members that also has departments for table tennis and an unusual sport popular locally known as Schnürles or Fussballtennis (en:football-tennis), played with a soccer ball on a tennis court. The game was introduced to the area from Czechoslovakia in the 1920s by coach Fritz Schnürle.

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History

Founded on 2 July, 1957, "FC" acknowledges "TSV Germania Nöttingen", established prior to World War I, as a predecessor side. "Germania" folded in 1927.

The modern day successor rose slowly and steadily, out of B-class football into A-class in 1969, on into the Bezirksliga Pforzheim in 1972, the Landesliga Mittelbaden in 1996, the Verbandsliga Nordbaden (V) in 1997, and the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (IV) in 2002. On reaching the Regionalliga Süd (III) in 2004 "FC" stumbled and was relegated after finishing in last place. The club currently plays in the fourth tier Oberliga Baden-Württemberg as a lower table side.

Honours

* B-Klass Nord champions: 1969
* A-Klass Süd champions: 1972
* Bezirksliga Pforzheim champions: 1979, 1982, 1986, 1996
* Landesliga Mittelbaden (VI) champions: 1997
* Verbandsliga Nordbaden (V) champions: 2002
* Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (IV) champions: 2004

The club's second team captured the Berzirksliga title in 2004.

Recent seasons

External links

* [http://www.fc-noettingen.de Official team site]

References

* [http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv] historical German domestic league tables (in German)
* [http://eufo.de/football/ger/fc_nngen.htm eufo.de] European club profiles and team current rosters