TSG Augsburg

Football club infobox
clubname = TSG Augsburg


fullname = Turn und Sportgemeinschaft 1885 Augsburg e. V.
founded = 1885
ground = TSG sports ground at Schillstarße
chairman = Volker Bopp
league = Kreisklasse Augsburg (X)
season = 2007-08 | position = A-Klasse Augsburg 2, 1st

The TSG Augsburg is a German football and sports club from Augsburg, Schwaben, formed in 1885. It consists of over 2500 members in 13 different departments ranging from football to alpine skiing.

Overview

The club was formed on 12 March 1885 [ [http://www.tsg-augsburg.de/chronik.htm History of TSG Augsburg] , by: TSG Augsburg, author: Hubert Wiekof accessed: 06/12/2007] at the "Gasthaus Paradiesgarten", a restaurant and pub in the north of Augsburg, as "TV Lechhausen". The club originally was focused on gymnastics. The club build a sports hall in the Augsburg suburb of "Hammerschmiede" in 1892. In 1918, the club formed a football team together with the players of the "FC Lechhausen" (formed 1911) which returned from the First World War. The football department within the club named itself "FC Union" and started to take part in the Bavarian leagues. In 1923, the club archived the championship in the A-Klasse and gained promotion to the second division. In 1924, the football department separated from the "TV Lechhausen" due to a change in the laws gouverning sports associations in Germany.

In August 1933, a group of local sports- and football-clubs merged to form the "Turn- und Sportgemeinde Eintracht Augsburg", among them the "TVL" and the "FC Union". This union however didn't last long and the varying clubs became independent again.

In 1934, the "TVL" and the "FC Union" merged again, this time for good, and formed the "Turn- und Sport-Union 1885 Augsburg".

In April 1941, with the effects of the 2nd World War showing, the local clubs in the "Lechhausen" area had to finally merge and the TSG Augsburg was born.

In 1942, the new club managed to win promotion to the "Gauliga Südbayern", the highest league in southern Bavaria at the time. In 1944, the ground of TSG was heavily damaged in one of many air-raids on the industrially important city of Augsburg.

After the war, the "TSG" spent two seasons in the Landesliga Bayern-South, then the second tier of football, from 1946 to 1948. In 1950, the club gained promotion again, this time to the Amateurliga Bayern (III) were it stayed till 1956 with a third place in 1955 being the highlight. The rest of its time were spent in the 2nd Amateurliga Schwaben.

In 1964, the club won promotion to the Amateurliga Bayern, winning the Landesliga Bayern-Süd. This success however only lasted for a year, the club finishing last in the Bayernliga and being relegated. In the coming years, "TSG" finished in the upper half of the Landesliga table, coming second in 1970 and 1975. In 1977, the club was relegated from the league to the Bezirksliga Schwaben-Nord.

In 1972, the club finished building a new sports hall at it's old homeground at "Schillstraße". The club continued to build new facilities, accumulating a large dept in the process which it found hard to pay off. In the process, the club nearly went broke. The only solution in the end was to sell the "TSG" sports ground and hall to the Augsburg city council and then lease it back.

"TSG" won the championship in the Bezirksliga in 1983 and returned to the Landesliga again. A third place in 1986 was a last highlight before the club went down again in 1988 to the new Bezirksoberliga Schwaben.After some initial success, further relegation couldn't be avoided. The club fell to an all-time low, to the point were they are now playing in the A-Klasse Augsburg 2, the lowest possible league level in Bavaria. It is a deep fall for a club that once was the number three in Augsburg football, behind FC Augsburg and TSV Schwaben. In the 2007-08 seson, the TSG's fortunes improved and the club managed to dominate and win its division, gaining promotion.

Notes

* The club should not be confused with the TSG Augsburg-Hochzoll, which is a separate club in the south of Augsburg, formed in 1889 [ [http://www.tsghochzoll.de/ TSG Augsburg-Hochzoll website] , Author: TSG A.-Hochzoll, accessed 07/12/2007] .
* In the registry of Bavarian football clubs it carries the number 3037.

Honours

*Landesliga Bayern-Süd (IV) champions: 1964
*Bezirksliga Schwaben-Nord (V) champions: 1983
*A-Klasse Augsburg 2 (X) champions: 2008

Overall tables

In the overall tables of the Bayernliga (1963-2007), Landesliga Süd (1963-2007) and Bezirksoberliga Schwaben (1988-2007) the TSG Augsburg ranks as follows:

Source: "Das Fussball-Jahresjournal", an annual publication on football in Schwaben, author: [http://www.bfv-schwaben.de/ Schwäbischer Fussball Verband (Schwaben FA)]

In the early 2000s, the leagues in Bavaria below and including what is now the Kreisklasse changed their names:
*the A-Klasse became the Kreisliga
*the B-Klasse became the Kreisklasse
*the C-Klasse became the A-Klasse

This was done to bring the system in line with the other German leagues. Only the new names were used in this list.

External links

* [http://www.tsg-augsburg.de/ Offical TSG Augsburg website]
* [http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fussballarchiv]
* [http://www.fussball.de/fussball/servlet/content/62 Bavarian amateure leagues: Tables and results]

References