SV Beuel 06 is a German association football club that plays in

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

, North Rhine-Westphalia. __TOC__

History

The club's origins are as a group of high school students who were playing football in an informal association as early as 1903. They were known briefly as the ''Rapiditas'' or ''Rapidas'' after a

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side that was in the city to play a match against '' Bonn FV''. By the summer of 1906 they had taken the name ''Beueler FV'', while in the eastern part of the town another club of the same name appeared. Both sides came close to collapse by the end of World War I and so merged. Soon after another club, ''FV Alemannia 1919 Beuel'', came onto the scene, and in 1924 ''Alemannia'' and ''FV'' merged to form ''SV Beuel 06''. German football was re-organized under the

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in 1933 and sixteen new top flight divisions were formed. ''SV'' earned a place in the

Gauliga Mittelrhein The Gauliga Mittelrhein was the highest football league in the central and southern part of the Prussian Rhine Province from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reorganised the administrative regions in Germany, and ...

in the 1936–37 season and inaugurated their new stadium that same year. The following season ''Beuel'' won a disputed championship in the division, but missed an opportunity to play in the national final rounds. By the time a protest by the club had been decided in their favour, second-place finisher ''

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'' had already played its first playoff match. After World War II the club resumed play in the amateur Rheinbezirksliga, which would become the Landesliga Mittelrhein (III), but by the mid 50s had fallen to fourth division play. ''Beuel'' played IV and V tier football over the next several decades, and while they enjoyed some success in capturing a number of titles, they were unable to advance in the promotion rounds. Finally, in 1997, ''SV'' clawed its way to the Landesliga Mittelrhein, Gruppe 1 (IV), where the team earned a second-place result, only just failing to capture the title on the last day of the season. The club's adventure then ended in financial collapse and they were sent down to the Kreisliga (VI). Since then the club has been fluctuating between the Bezirksliga and the Kreisliga A, playing in the former again after promotion in 2016.

Stadium

The club plays its home games in the Franz-Elbern-Stadion in Beuel.

Famous players

* Franz Elbern, eight caps for Germany 1935–38

External links

Official team website
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