TSG Weinheim is a German association football club from the city of

Weinheim Weinheim (; ) is a town with about 43,000 inhabitants in northwest Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region, approximately north of Heidelberg and northeast of Mannheim. Weinheim is known as the "Zwei-Burgen-Sta ...

, Baden-Württemberg. The origins of the club go back to the founding on 20 August 1862 of the gymnastics club ''Turnverein Weinheim''. __TOC__

History

In 1878 the club split into two branches with the formation of ''TV II Weinheim''. The breakaway club took on the name ''Turngenossenschaft Weinheim'' in 1883 before becoming ''Turngenossenschaft Jahn 1878 Weinheim'' in 1907. On 29 June 1946, parent club ''TV Weinheim'' was reunited with ''TGS Jahn Weinheim'' and was also joined by ''DJK Schwarz-Weiß 1923 Weinheim'' to form ''TSG 1862 Weinheim''. Throughout its early history the Weinheim club remained an anonymous side in lower tier local competition. Following a 1994 Landesliga Nordbaden (V) title win ''TSG'' broke through to the Amateurliga Nordbaden (IV) where they played as a middling side over the next four seasons. In 1990, the club formed an American Football department, the

Weinheim Longhorns The Weinheim Longhorns are an American football team from Weinheim, Germany. The club's greatest success was promotion to the German Football League in 2006, where it spent four seasons. During this time, the club reached the playoffs on three oc ...

. In 1998 another local club, ''

FV Weinheim FV Weinheim was a German association football club from the city of Weinheim, Baden-Württemberg. Established in 1909, the team was active until declaring bankruptcy in 1997. The footballers of ''FV'' left to become part of '' TSG Weinheim'' with ...

'', failed financially and its football department subsequently became part of ''TSG''. The new team took to the field under the name ''TSG Weinheim 62/09'' and advanced 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 ...

(IV) in 1999. They were sent down after a 15th-place result, and over the next four seasons repeated the cycle of promotion followed by immediate relegation. Between 2004 and 2009 the team played as part of the Verbandsliga Nordbaden and returned to the now fifth tier Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 2009. The club was relegated from the Oberliga again in 2011. Since then the club took part in the promotion round to the Oberliga twice after finishing runner-up in the Verbandsliga, in 2012 and 2016, but on both occasions was unsuccessful.

Honours

Verbandsliga Nordbaden The Verbandsliga Nordbaden is a German amateur football division administered by the Baden Football Association, one of the 21 German state football associations. Being the top flight of the Baden state association, the Verbandsliga is currently a ...

** Champions: 1999, 2001, 2003, 2009

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:

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

Regionalliga A (, plural ) is a regional league in numerous Sports governing body, sports governing bodies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, usually located in the upper or middle tiers of the sports leagues. The term is often associated with the Germa ...

s in 1994 and the

3. Liga The 3. Liga is a professional association football league and the third division in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2. Bundesliga and the fourth-tier Regionalliga. 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

Official team siteDas deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables
TSG Weinheim profile at Weltfussball.de
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