Malchower SV is a German association football club based in

Malchow Malchow () is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte (district), Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. Geography It is situated on the river Elde, 25,5 km we ...

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; ), also known by its Anglicisation, anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a Federated state, state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's States of Germany, sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpom ...

, currently playing in the

NOFV-Oberliga Nord The NOFV-Oberliga Nord is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the northern states of the former East Germany and West Berlin. It covers the States of Germany, German states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania a ...

. The club was established on 26 July 1990, but traces its tradition back to the city's earliest sides.

History

''Malchower Fussballclub'' and the worker's sports club ''Arbeitersportverein Kloster-Malchow'' were established in 1911. Worker's clubs were regarded as politically undesirable under the

Third Reich Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictat ...

and these two sides were merged in 1938 to form the ideologically palatable club ''Verein für Leibesübungen Malchow''. Following World War II, organizations across the country, including football and sports clubs, were disbanded by occupying Allied authorities as part of the postwar

de-Nazification Denazification () was an Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of the Nazi ideology following the Second World War. It was carried out by removing those who had been Nazi Par ...

program. ''Sportgemeinde Malchow'' was formed in 1946 out of the memberships of the pre-war clubs. On 6 August 1949, ''SG'' was split into two clubs: ''SG Malchow'' and ''BSG Tufama''. Just a year later the football sides of these two clubs were reunited as ''BSG Fortschritt Malchow''. The city was located in the Soviet occupation zone and the football club was part of the separate football competition that emerged in

East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...

. ''SV'' was a lower tier local side throughout its history in East German competition. With the reunification of the country in 1990, the membership of ''Fortschritt'' organized themselves as ''Malchower Sportverein'' and became part of the single national competition in the Landesliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (VI) out of the Bezirksliga Neubrandenburg. The Landesliga became the

Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern The Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the fifth tier of the ...

in 1996. ''SV'' was relegated for a single season in 1996 with their best result coming as a second-place finish in 2007 and 2009. The latter result advanced the team to the

(V) where they play today.Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
Historical German domestic league tablesMalchower SV at Fussball.de
Tables and results of all German football leagues

Honours

The club's honours: *

** Runners-up: 2007, 2009

References

External links

Malchower SV
{{NOFV-Oberliga Nord Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Association football clubs established in 1990 1990 establishments in East Germany