FV Lauda is a German association football club from the city of

Lauda-Königshofen Lauda-Königshofen () is a town in the Main-Tauber (district), Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Tauber, 7 km southeast of Tauberbischofsheim, and 30 km southwest of Würzburg. Most of the ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

, established on 28 March 1913. It briefly became part of ''Turnverein Lauda'' in 1920 before becoming independent again on 5 June 1923. __TOC__

History

Throughout the late 1970s and into the 1980s, ''FV'' fielded strong sides in the

Verbandsliga Baden The Verbandsliga Nordbaden is a German amateur football division administered by the Baden Football Association, one of the 21 German state football associations. Being the top flight of the Baden state association, the Verbandsliga is currently a ...

(V) and managed to break through to play as part of the

Oberliga Baden-Württemberg The Oberliga Baden-Württemberg is the highest association football league in the States of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg and the Baden-Württemberg football league system. It is one of fourteen Oberliga (football), Oberligas in German footb ...

(IV) on three separate occasions in 1981, 1985, and 1997. Following their 1980 Baden Cup win, ''Lauda'' made its only appearance in play for the

DFB Pokal The DFB-Pokal (), also known as the German Cup in English, is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundes ...

(German Cup), where they were put out in the opening round by ''

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'' (1:2). The team's longest turn in Oberliga play was from 1997 to 2006, which included a second-place finish in 2000. The club struggled on being relegated to the Verbandsliga in 2006, earning only lower table finishes there, and was sent down to the Landesliga Odenwald (VII) after a 15th-place result in 2011. A championship at this level in 2015, when the club remained undefeated all season and won 28 of its 30-season games, took the club back up to the Verbandsliga.

Honours

The club's honours:

League

** Champions: 1981, 1985, 1997 * Landesliga Odenwald ** Champions: 2015

Cup

* North Baden Cup ** Winners: 1980 ** Runners-up: 1997, 2000

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:Fussball.de – Ergebnisse
Tables and results of all German football leagues * With the introduction of the

Regionalliga A (, plural ) is a regional league in numerous Sports governing body, sports governing bodies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, usually located in the upper or middle tiers of the sports leagues. The term is often associated with the Germa ...

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.

References

External links

Official team siteFV Lauda profile at Weltfussball.deDas deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Lauda, Fv Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in Baden-Württemberg Association football clubs established in 1913 1913 establishments in Germany Main-Tauber-Kreis Sport in Stuttgart (region)