SSV Reutlingen 05 is a
German association football club from
Reutlingen
Reutlingen (; ) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the capital of the eponymous Reutlingen (district), district of Reutlingen. As of June 2018, it had an estimated population of 116,456. Reutlingen has a Reutlingen University, univ ...
,
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 ...
.
History
The club was founded as FC Arminia Reutlingen and was renamed SV Reutlingen 1905 in 1910. The club merged with 1. Schwimmverein 1911 to form the current side in 1938.

Reutlingen became a decent regional side in the years after World War II, two second-place finishes in the Oberliga (I) in 1950 and 1955 being the highlight, and earned a place in the second tier
Regionalliga Süd in 1963 when Germany's new top flight professional league, the
Bundesliga
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, was formed. After a second-place finish in their division in 1965, SSV took part in the Bundesliga promotion rounds, where they faced
Bayern Munich
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and
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e.V. Mönchengladbach, better known as Borussia Mönchengladbach () and colloquially known as just Gladbach, is a professional Association football, football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-W ...
for the right to make their Bundesliga début. Reutlingen were held to a 1–1 draw against Mönchengladbach on their home ground, but were crushed 7–0 away, and finished a point behind them in their group.
Reutlingen continued to play second division football until the early 1970s when they dropped into the Amateur
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 ...
(III), briefly even falling to fourth-tier
Verbandsliga Württemberg
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. They spent most of the next two-and-a-half decades at the third level before playing their way back to the second tier on the strength of a first-place finish in their division that began with a sixteen-game winning streak to open the season. Their three-year adventure in the
2. Bundesliga ended in 2003 after the team was penalised six points for financial irregularities the previous year. They were then denied a licence to play in the third division
Regionalliga Süd and were forced down to
Oberliga Baden-Württemberg
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(IV).
The team finished in first place in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 2005–06 and returned to the Regionalliga Süd (III) for the 2006–07 season. SSV remained in the third division for two years, narrowly missing promotion into the newly formed
3. Liga
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The modern 3. Liga was formed for t ...
at the end of the 2007–08 campaign. Without a place in this new national league, the Nullfünfer remained in the Regionalliga Süd, now as a fourth-tier side.
The 2008–09 and 2009–10 seasons saw SSV finish in the middle of the Regionalliga Süd table with early exits from the
WFV-Pokal in both campaigns. After finishing in 14th position in the Regionalliga Süd in the 2009–10 season, the team was denied a licence to continue playing in the fourth division due to financial insolvency. SSV have competed in the fifth-tier
Oberliga Baden-Württemberg
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since the 2010–11 season.
The club won the
2014–15 edition of the
Württemberg Cup
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, defeating
FV Ravensburg in the final, and thereby qualified for the first round of the
2015–16 DFB-Pokal. Here they beat their local rivals
Karlsruher SC
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3–1 at the
Kreuzeiche with three penalties from their captain, Giuseppe Ricciardi. In the second round, SSV lost 4–0 against another team from the 2. Bundesliga,
Eintracht Braunschweig
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.
Current squad
Honours
The club's honours:
League
*
German amateur football championship
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History
Overview
The championship was ...
** Champions: (2) 1974, 1997
*
Oberliga Südwest (I)
** Runners-up: 1950
*
Oberliga Süd Oberliga () may refer to:
Association football
* Oberliga (football), currently the fifth tier of the German football league system, formerly the first
* DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of football in East Germany until 1990, replaced by the NOFV-O ...
(I)
** Runners-up: 1955
*
2nd Oberliga Süd (II)
** Runners-up: (2) 1954, 1957
*
Regionalliga Süd (II)
‡
** Runners-up: 1965
*
Regionalliga Süd (III)
‡
** Champions: 2000
*
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 ...
(III-IV)
** Champions: (3) 1989, 1992, 2006
*
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 ...
(IV)
** Champions: 1985
*
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 ...
(III)
** Champions: (3) 1975, 1977, 1978
Cup
*
Württemberg Cup
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** Winners: (4) 1988, 1990, 1999,
2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as:
* International Year of Light
* International Year of Soil __TOC__
Events
January
* January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
** Runners-up: (3) 1969, 1991, 1995
*
‡ There has been two separate incarnations of the Regionalliga Süd, one existing from 1963 to 1974 and the other from 1994 to 2012.
Recent managers
Recent managers of the club:
Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
* With the introduction of the
Regionalliga
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The term is often associated with the Germa ...
s in 1994 and the
3. Liga
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The modern 3. Liga was formed for t ...
in 2008 as the new third tier, below the
2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.
References
External links
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SSV Reutlingenat Weltfussball.de
Das deutsche Fußball-Archivhistorical German domestic league tables
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Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in Baden-Württemberg
Reutlingen
Association football clubs established in 1905
1905 establishments in Germany
2. Bundesliga clubs
Sport in Tübingen (region)