SC 04 Schwabach
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The SC 04 Schwabach is a German
association football club from the town of Schwabach
, Bavaria
.
The club was established in 1996, when TSV 04 Schwabach merged with 1. SC Schwabach to form SC 04 Schwabach. Of those two clubs, TSV has been the more successful side, having spent 13 seasons in the Fußball-Bayernliga between 1946 and 1963. After the merger, the new club managed to reach this league level again in 1998 and spent another seven seasons there until 2005.
Apart from football, the club also offers other sports like boxing
and tennis
.
The club was admitted to the northern division of the Landesliga Bayern
in 1946 and played there for two seasons, until a league restructering forced it to drop a tier.
Schwabach returned to Bavarias highest league in 1951, now the Amateruliga Bayern, finishing third in its first year there. After two seasons, the league was split once more in a southern and a northern division, with TSV entering the later. The club lasted for another two seasons but than suffered relegation in 1955.
The side made an immediate return to the Bayernliga from the 2nd Amateurliga
in 1956, spending another seven seasons at this level. A fifth place in its first season back was the clubs best result in this period and it generally out of relegation trouble.
In 1963, with the establishment of the Bundesliga
, the Bayernliga was reduced to a single division once more and Schwabach missed the cut in eleventh place to enter the new league.
The club was grupped in the new tier four Landesliga Bayern-Mitte
instead, but lasted for only two seasons at this level. It made a return to the Landesliga in 1968 and spent another four seasons in the league but was relegated again in 1972, this time more permanently. It took the side until 1984 to make a return to the league and then for only three seasons.
TSV became a founding member of the new tier six Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken
in 1988, where it was soon joined by local rival DJK Schwabach. After four seasons at this level, the club won the league championship in 1992 and earned promotion.
The club returned to the Landesliga in 1992, now as a much stronger side. It came close to returning to the Bayernliga when it finished second in the league in 1995–96, the clubs last season, but lost 0–4 to TSV Aindling
in the promotion round.
In February 1996, the members of TSV and 1. SC decided to proced with a merger, which was formally decided upon on 19 April 1996.
For the most part living in the shadow of TSV and DJK, 1. SC did not reach the Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken until the final year of the clubs existence, and then only to finish on a relegation rank in 1996.
in the necessary decider. It made up for this loss in the following year, when it won the league championship and earned promotion.
Sticking with TSV's tradition of delievering its best performance in its first year in the Bayernliga, SC 04 finished third in the league in 1998–99. The club gradually declined from there, coming 14th in 2002–03, recovering in the following season to come ninth but falling to relegation in 2005, when it came 16th.
Back in the Landesliga Bayern-Mitte, the club finished 19th the following year and suffered relegation to the Bezirksoberliga, where it still plays today.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
association football club from the town of Schwabach
Schwabach
Schwabach is a German town of about 40,000 inhabitants near Nuremberg, in the center of the region of Franconia in the North of Bavaria. The city is an autonomous administrative district . Schwabach is also the name of a river which runs through the city prior joining the Rednitz.Schwabach is...
, Bavaria
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
.
The club was established in 1996, when TSV 04 Schwabach merged with 1. SC Schwabach to form SC 04 Schwabach. Of those two clubs, TSV has been the more successful side, having spent 13 seasons in the Fußball-Bayernliga between 1946 and 1963. After the merger, the new club managed to reach this league level again in 1998 and spent another seven seasons there until 2005.
Apart from football, the club also offers other sports like boxing
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
and tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
.
TSV 04 Schwabach
TSV 04 Schwabach was formed in 1904 as ATV 04 Schwabach, as a working class gymnastics club and renamed to TSV 04 in 1927. Its working class affiliation caused it to be outlawed in 1933, when the Nazis came to power. It was however reformed in 1946. It absorbed three other clubs during its existence, in 1927, 1946 and 1985.The club was admitted to the northern division of the Landesliga Bayern
Landesliga Bayern
In the Bavarian football league system, the Landesliga Bayern is the second hightest level, below the Fußball-Bayernliga and organised in three regional divisions. The current Landesligas were formed in 1963, when the Fußball-Bundesliga was established...
in 1946 and played there for two seasons, until a league restructering forced it to drop a tier.
Schwabach returned to Bavarias highest league in 1951, now the Amateruliga Bayern, finishing third in its first year there. After two seasons, the league was split once more in a southern and a northern division, with TSV entering the later. The club lasted for another two seasons but than suffered relegation in 1955.
The side made an immediate return to the Bayernliga from the 2nd Amateurliga
2nd Amateurliga Bayern
The 2nd Amateurliga Bayern was a set of eleven regional leagues in Bavaria existing from 1951 to 1963 as the fourth tier of football in the state....
in 1956, spending another seven seasons at this level. A fifth place in its first season back was the clubs best result in this period and it generally out of relegation trouble.
In 1963, with the establishment of the Bundesliga
Introduction of the Fußball-Bundesliga
The Introduction of the Fußball-Bundesliga was the long-debated step of establishing a top-level association football league in Germany in 1963. The new league, the Fußball-Bundesliga, played its first season in 1963–64 and continues to be the higest league in the country...
, the Bayernliga was reduced to a single division once more and Schwabach missed the cut in eleventh place to enter the new league.
The club was grupped in the new tier four Landesliga Bayern-Mitte
Landesliga Bayern-Mitte
The Landesliga Bayern-Mitte is currently the 6th tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga it was the 5th tier of the league system....
instead, but lasted for only two seasons at this level. It made a return to the Landesliga in 1968 and spent another four seasons in the league but was relegated again in 1972, this time more permanently. It took the side until 1984 to make a return to the league and then for only three seasons.
TSV became a founding member of the new tier six Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken
Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken
The Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken is currently the 7th tier of the German football league system in the Bavarian Regierungsbezirk of Middle Franconia...
in 1988, where it was soon joined by local rival DJK Schwabach. After four seasons at this level, the club won the league championship in 1992 and earned promotion.
The club returned to the Landesliga in 1992, now as a much stronger side. It came close to returning to the Bayernliga when it finished second in the league in 1995–96, the clubs last season, but lost 0–4 to TSV Aindling
TSV Aindling
TSV Aindling is a German football club from the city of Aindling, Bavaria. It is part of a larger sports club that also has departments for women's and children's gymnastics, ice stock, skiing, tennis, and volleyball.-History:...
in the promotion round.
In February 1996, the members of TSV and 1. SC decided to proced with a merger, which was formally decided upon on 19 April 1996.
1. SC Schwabach
The origins of 1. SC Schwabach date back to 1897, when it was formed as Athletenclub Germannia. After a merger with the Athletenclub Attila in 1898 and a renaming to Athletenclub Schwabach the club received the name it carried up until the merger in 1908.For the most part living in the shadow of TSV and DJK, 1. SC did not reach the Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken until the final year of the clubs existence, and then only to finish on a relegation rank in 1996.
SC 04 Schwabach
The new club, taking up TSV 04's place in the Landesliga came an equal second in the league in its first year, but lost to Jahn RegensburgJahn Regensburg
SSV Jahn Regensburg is a German association football club based in Regensburg, Bavaria. The team was part of a larger sports club founded in 1889 as Turnerbund Jahn Regensburg which took its name from Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, whose ideas of gymnastics greatly influenced German sport in the 19th...
in the necessary decider. It made up for this loss in the following year, when it won the league championship and earned promotion.
Sticking with TSV's tradition of delievering its best performance in its first year in the Bayernliga, SC 04 finished third in the league in 1998–99. The club gradually declined from there, coming 14th in 2002–03, recovering in the following season to come ninth but falling to relegation in 2005, when it came 16th.
Back in the Landesliga Bayern-Mitte, the club finished 19th the following year and suffered relegation to the Bezirksoberliga, where it still plays today.
League
- 2nd Amateurliga Mittelfranken Süd2nd Amateurliga BayernThe 2nd Amateurliga Bayern was a set of eleven regional leagues in Bavaria existing from 1951 to 1963 as the fourth tier of football in the state....
- Champions: 1956
- Landesliga Bayern-MitteLandesliga Bayern-MitteThe Landesliga Bayern-Mitte is currently the 6th tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga it was the 5th tier of the league system....
- Champions: 1998
- Runners-up: 1996
- Bezirksoberliga MittelfrankenBezirksoberliga MittelfrankenThe Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken is currently the 7th tier of the German football league system in the Bavarian Regierungsbezirk of Middle Franconia...
- Champions: 1992
Recent managers
Recent managers of the club:| Manager | Start | Finish |
| Ahmet Koc | ? | Present |
Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:| Season | Division | Tier Bavarian football league system The Bavarian football league system of the Bavarian Football Association ranks within the German football league system. Its highest division, the Fussball-Bayernliga, is currently the 5th tier of German football. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga in 2008 it was the 4th tier of the league system... |
Position |
| 1999–2000 | Bayernliga | IV | 9th |
| 2000–01 | Bayernliga | 12th | |
| 2001–02 | Bayernliga | 10th | |
| 2002–03 | Bayernliga | 14th | |
| 2003–04 | Bayernliga | 9th | |
| 2004–05 | Bayernliga | 16th ↓ | |
| 2005–06 | Landesliga Bayern-Mitte Landesliga Bayern-Mitte The Landesliga Bayern-Mitte is currently the 6th tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga it was the 5th tier of the league system.... |
V | 19th ↓ |
| 2006–07 | Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken The Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken is currently the 7th tier of the German football league system in the Bavarian Regierungsbezirk of Middle Franconia... |
VI | 3rd |
| 2007–08 | Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken | 6th | |
| 2008–09 | Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken | VII | 6th |
| 2009–10 | Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken | 2nd | |
| 2010–11 | Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken | 11th | |
| 2011–12 | Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken |
- With the introduction of the BezirksoberligasBezirksoberligen BayernThe seven Bezirksoberligas Bayern are the third highest level of the Bavarian football league system, below Oberliga and Landesliga. They are the 7th tier of the German football league system.-Overview:...
in 1988 as the new fifth tier, below the LandesligasLandesliga BayernIn the Bavarian football league system, the Landesliga Bayern is the second hightest level, below the Fußball-Bayernliga and organised in three regional divisions. The current Landesligas were formed in 1963, when the Fußball-Bundesliga was established...
, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3rd Liga3rd LigaThe 3rd Liga is the third division of football in Germany. The league started with the beginning of the 2008–09 season, when it replaced the Regionalliga as the third tier football league in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2...
in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2nd Bundesliga2. Fußball-Bundesliga- Changes in division set-up :* Number of clubs: currently 18. From 1974 to 1981 there were two conferences, each of 20 teams. In 1981–91 it had 20...
, all leagues below dropped one tier.