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from the town of
Ravensburg Ravensburg ( or ; Swabian: ''Raveschburg'') is a city in Upper Swabia in Southern Germany, capital of the district of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg. Ravensburg was first mentioned in 1088. In the Middle Ages, it was an Imperial Free City and ...
,
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 ...
. The club's greatest success has been to play in 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 ...
, the highest football league in the state, of which it became a founding member in 1978. It played at this level from 1978 to 1983, 1998 to 2000 and, again, since 2013.


History

The club was formed as FC Ravensburg in 1893, the same year as fellow Württemberg club
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, as one of the first football clubs in what was then the
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. In 1907 a second football club was formed in Ravensburg, the FC Rauenegg which soon after merged with the ''FCR''. In the era up to the early 1930s the club competed in the local leagues around
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(German:''Bodensee''), playing in an international competition, the ''Bodensee– Fußball–Vereinigung'' and ''Bodensee–Vorarlberg–Liga'', that included clubs from Austria and Switzerland, like FC Lustenau and FC St. Gallen. When the Nazis rose to power, however, this cross-border competition ceased to exist and the club joined the new ''Schwarzwald–Bodensee–Liga'' instead. In between, during the
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football came to a halt and when it restarted in 1918 the club changed its name to FV Ravensburg. Around that time, in 1919, the club also moved to its current home ground, the ''Wiesental''. After the
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the club received permission from the ''Gouvernement Militaire Ravensburg'', the local French military occupation authorities, to reform and enter the new second tier of local football, the Landesliga Südwürttemberg. It initially played under the name of SV Ravensburg but later returned to its old name. This league was disbanded in 1950 and the best clubs joined the new
Amateurliga Württemberg The Amateurliga Württemberg was the highest football league in the region of the Württemberg Football Association and the third tier of the German football league system from its inception in 1945 until the formation of the Oberliga Baden-Württ ...
, but ''FVR'' was not one of them.Geschichte des FV 1893 Ravensburg e.V. – Teil III
FV Ravensburg website – Club history (part 3), accessed: 18 July 2014
In 1956 the club earned promotion to the Amateurliga Württemberg, then the third tier of the
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. It played for three seasons at this level before being relegated again in 1959. In 1960 the Amateurliga Württemberg was split into a northern division, the Amateurliga Nordwürttemberg while a southern division was formed from clubs from the former league and the Amateurliga Südbaden. In this new southern league, the
Amateurliga Schwarzwald-Bodensee Between 1960 and 1978 the 1. Amateurliga Schwarzwald-Bodensee was the highest football division in the southern parts of the Württembergian Football Association and a level three division of the German football league system. Founding The d ...
, FV Ravensburg entered, finishing in third place in its first season there. The club finished in the top six of the league for the first couple of seasons but was relegated in 1966.Amateurliga Schwarzwald-Bodensee tables
''Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv'', accessed: 18 July 2014
In 1968 ''FV'' was promoted back up but was not able to finish quite as highly as it had in the early days of the league. In 1971 and 1972 the club reached the final of the
Württemberg Cup The Bitburger-wfv-Pokal is one of the 21 regional cup competitions of German football. The winner of the competition gains entry to the first round of the German Cup. It was introduced in 1945. In 2011 the cup was renamed from WFV-Pokal into Bitbu ...
on two occasions, losing the former to VfL Sindelfingen on penalties and then later to
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despite playing at home on both occasions. From 1973 onwards Ravensburg was an improved side in the Amateurliga, once more finishing in the upper half of the table. In the league's final season, 1977–78, ''RV'' finished fourth and thereby became one of the five clubs from the league that qualified for the new
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 ...
. Ravensburg played the first five seasons of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg with an eighth-place finish in 1981 as its best result. By 1983, however, the club suffered relegation from the league after coming in 18th. It entered the
Verbandsliga Württemberg The Verbandsliga Württemberg is a German amateur football division administered by the Württemberg Football Association, one of the 21 German state football associations. Being the top flight of the Württemberg state association, the Verbandslig ...
, a league also established in 1978, but finished last in its first season there and dropped to the Landesliga Württemberg, the fifth tier, in 1984.Württemberg tables
''Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv'', accessed: 18 July 2014
After five seasons in the Landesliga ''FV'' made a return to the Verbandsliga in 1989, with a record 4,000 spectators seeing the local derby against
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. The Verbandsliga was the league the club would play in the next nine seasons, generally achieving good results there. In 1998 it finished runners-up in the league, missing out on promotion until the following year when it won the league and moved back up to the Oberliga after a 16-year absence. The club came in twelfth in its first season back but a 14th place in 2000 meant relegation back to the Verbandsliga.Round-by-round results and tables of the ''Oberliga Baden-Württemberg'' from 1994 onwards
Weltfussball.de, accessed: 18 July 2014
Ravensburg began another cycle of dropping from the Oberliga to the Landesliga via the Verbandsliga and back. Relegated from the Oberliga, it spent three seasons in the Verbandsliga, then dropped down to the Landesliga in 2003 and was promoted back up in 2005. Upon its return ''FV'' spent the next eight seasons in the Verbandsliga, missing out on another promotion in 2011 when it finished runners-up. In 2013 however, coming in second behind 1. FC Heidenheim II, the team won promotion back to the Oberliga through the promotion round, defeating SV 98 Schwetzingen. The club managed to establish itself in the Oberliga, coming in ninth in its first season back.


Honours

The club's honours:


League

*
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** Champions: 1998 ** Runners-up: 1997, 2011, 2013 * Landesliga Württemberg IV ** Champions: 2005 ** Runners-up: 2004


Cup

*
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** Winners:
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** Runners-up: 1971, 1972,
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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
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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


Official team site

Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables
FV Ravensburg at Weltfussball.de
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