Meeraner Sportverein is a German

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club based in

Meerane Meerane () is a town in the Zwickau district of Saxony, Germany. It lies midway between the towns of Altenburg and Zwickau, west of Chemnitz. As of 31 December 2015, there were 14,851 inhabitants. The population has declined from a peak of over 2 ...

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

, that competes in the Landesklasse, the eighth tier in the

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. The club was founded as SpVgg Meerane 07 in 1907 and refounded as SG Meerane after World War II, and was also known as SG Einheit (meaning 'unity') Meerane and BSG Fortschritt (meaning 'progress') Meerane, the latter after the local textiles factory took it over. It was a founder member of

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 ...

DDR-Oberliga The DDR-Oberliga (English: ''East German Premier League'' or ''GDR Premier League'') was the top-level association football league in East Germany. Overview Following World War II, separate sports competitions emerged in the Allied-occupied G ...

in 1949, playing six seasons until relegation in 1955, never to return. It ranked 23rd of 44 teams in the All-time DDR-Oberliga table. Upon

German reunification German reunification () was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the East Germany, German Democratic Republic and the int ...

, it reverted to its original name.

Richard Hofmann Richard Hofmann (8 February 1906 – 5 May 1983) was a German football player. He played in 25 internationals for Germany as a centre forward, scoring 24 goals, including the first ever international hat-trick against England by a player from ou ...

, German international striker of the 1920s and 1930s, was born in Meerane and played for the team. The stadium is named after him.

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