FSV Wacker 90 Nordhausen
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FSV Wacker 90 Nordhausen is a German association football club
from Nordhausen
, Thuringia
.
The football team FC Wacker 05 Nordhausen was founded on 1 November 1905 as an offshoot of a Protestant youth club in the city. By 14 June 1906 the team had broadened its scope to become the sports club SV Wacker 05 Nordhausen and in 1908 merged with local side Ballsport-Club Mars Nordhausen which had been formed in 1906. Until 1918 the club played as SV Wacker-Mars Nordhausen when it was re-named 1. SV Wacker 05 Nordhausen. Playing in the VMBV (Verband Mitteldeutscher Ballspiel Vereine or Federation of Middle German Ball Playing Teams), Wacker participated in the early rounds of the league championships in the mid- to late 20s, but without any success.
After the end of World War II occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in Germany, including sports and football clubs. The former membership of Wacker reorganized as SG Nordhausen in 1946 and this team went on to became the football department of the sports club BSG Motor Nordhausen in 1949. The club played briefly as KWU/Lok Nordhausen after a merger with an industrial club. From 1951 on the team played as BSG Motor Nordhausen-West in second tier East German football. Motor enjoyed some modest success in the early 80s but then slipped and was relegated to the third division Bezirkliga Erfurt in 1989.
After German reunification
in 1990 the football department separated from the sports club to form FSV Wacker 90. The newly independent team took up play in the Amateur Oberliga Nordost/Sud (III) in the 1991–92 season and played at that level for seven years. The late 90s saw the team descent of the team beginning with relegation from the Regionalliga Nordost (III) to the Oberliga Nordost/Sud (IV) in 1998. Financial problems drove the club further down to the Landesliga Thuringen (V) in 2000–01 before they finally landed in the Landesklasse Thuringen-Ost (VI) in 2002 where they currently play as an upper table side.
Football in Germany
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from Nordhausen
Nordhausen
Nordhausen is a town at the southern edge of the Harz Mountains, in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Nordhausen...
, Thuringia
Thuringia
The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....
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History
After the end of World War II occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in Germany, including sports and football clubs. The former membership of Wacker reorganized as SG Nordhausen in 1946 and this team went on to became the football department of the sports club BSG Motor Nordhausen in 1949. The club played briefly as KWU/Lok Nordhausen after a merger with an industrial club. From 1951 on the team played as BSG Motor Nordhausen-West in second tier East German football. Motor enjoyed some modest success in the early 80s but then slipped and was relegated to the third division Bezirkliga Erfurt in 1989.
After German reunification
German reunification
German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany , and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. The start of this process is commonly referred by Germans as die...
in 1990 the football department separated from the sports club to form FSV Wacker 90. The newly independent team took up play in the Amateur Oberliga Nordost/Sud (III) in the 1991–92 season and played at that level for seven years. The late 90s saw the team descent of the team beginning with relegation from the Regionalliga Nordost (III) to the Oberliga Nordost/Sud (IV) in 1998. Financial problems drove the club further down to the Landesliga Thuringen (V) in 2000–01 before they finally landed in the Landesklasse Thuringen-Ost (VI) in 2002 where they currently play as an upper table side.