FSV Fernwald is a German association football club

Football in Germany

Association football is the most popular sport in Germany. The German Football Association is the sport's national governing body, with 6.6 million members organized in over 26,000 football clubs. There is a league system, with the 1. and 2. Bundesliga on top, and the winner of the first...

 from the town of Fernwald

Fernwald

Fernwald is a town in the German state of Hesse, located 40 miles north of Frankfurt am Main and 4.4 miles east of Gießen...

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Hesse

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History

The club was established as FSV Steinbach on 30 March 1926. In 1935 the club disappeared when it was folded into the Turn- und Sport-Gemeinde Steinbach alongside several other Steinbach-area associations under the politically motivated policies of the Nazis which saw the dissolution of clubs which were considered by the regime to be ideologically undesirable. FSV re-emerged as an independent club after World War II in May 1949.

After decades as a local side the club was promoted to the Landesliga Hessen – Mitte (V) in 1992 where they would compete until being sent down at the end of the 2000–01 season. Steinbach bounced back to enjoy its greatest success in 2005 with a Landesliga championship through a 2:1 victory over TSV Eintracht Stadtallendorf in the final match of the season to earn promotion to the Oberliga Hessen (IV), the state's highest amateur class.

On 8 December 2006 the membership voted to re-name the club FSV 1926 Fernwald effective 1 July 2007. Steinbach is one of three municipalities, the others being Albach and Annerod, that make up Fernwald.

Recent seasons

Year	Division	Position
1999–2000	Landesliga Hessen-Mitte (V)	4th
2000–01	Landesliga Hessen-Mitte	14th ↓
2001–02	Bezirksoberliga Gießen-Marburg Süd (VI)	8th
2002–03	Bezirksoberliga Gießen-Marburg Süd	1st ↑
2003–04	Landesliga Hessen-Mitte (V)	5th
2004–05	Landesliga Hessen-Mitte	1st ↑
2005–06	Oberliga Hessen (IV)	15th
2006–07	Oberliga Hessen	7th
2007–08	Oberliga Hessen	11th
2008–09	Oberliga Hessen (V)	12th
2009–10	Oberliga Hessen

Stadium

FSV play their home matches at the Sportplatz Fernwald-Steinbach which has a capacity of 2,500 spectators. In addition to a natural grass pitch the facility includes an artificial turf field which serves several area sports associations as a training site and is used for Oberliga matches if the main field cannot be used.