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from the town of

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. Apart from football the club also offers handball as a second sport. The club's greatest success has been to earn promotion to the tier four

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in 2014 but they were relegated after just one season.

History

FC Hennef 05 was formed in 2005 in a merger of two local clubs, TuRa Hennef and FC Geistingen, two local amateur clubs of which TuRa had been the more successful. The new club took up TuRa's place in the Landesliga Mittelrhein 1 from 2005, a tier six league while Geistingen, playing in the same league that season and relegated gave its place to the new club's reserve team. Hennef won the league in its second season and earned promotion to the

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but lasted for only two seasons before being relegated down again. The club made an immediate return to the Verbandsliga in 2010 after finishing runners-up in the Landesliga. After an eleventh-place finish in 2011 the club entered a more successful era, winning the league in 2012. It also won the

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that season and qualified for the first round of the

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where it lost to

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.FC Hennef 05
fussball.de, accessed: 17 September 2014 At the end of the 2011–12 season the German football league system saw some changes, among them the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein being elevated a tier and receiving Oberliga status. Hennef remained at this level rather than being promoted to the

and won the Oberliga in the next two seasons. In 2013 it declined promotion but took it up the following year, entering

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level football for the first time.Regionalliga West tables & results
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'', accessed: 17 September 2014 It came last in the Regionalliga in 2014–15 and was relegated from the league.

Honours

The club's honours: * Oberliga Mittelrhein (V) ** Champions: 2013, 2014, 2023 *

(VI) ** Champions: 2012 * Landesliga Mittelrhein 1 ** Champions: 2007 ** Runners-up: 2010 *

** Winners: 2012

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
Historical German domestic league tables, accessed: 16 September 2014Fussball.de – Ergebnisse
Tables and results of all German football leagues, accessed: 16 September 2014 *With the introduction of the

s in 1994 and the

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in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.

Key

References

External links

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Official team site
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Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Hennef, Fc Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in North Rhine-Westphalia Association football clubs established in 2005 2005 establishments in Germany