The TSV Gerbrunn is a German association football club from the municipality of Gerbrunn,

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. The club's greatest success came in 2002, when it won promotion to the tier four

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, but it lasted for only one season at this level.

History

Formed in 1877 as a gymnastics club, the Turnverein Gerbrunn, for the most part of its history, existed as a lower amateur side. The club rose to a short stint of Bavarian prominence in 1998 when it won the ''

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'' (VI) in its first season in the league. From there it advanced to the ''

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'' (V) where it finished in mid-table for the next three years. The 2001–02 season was to become the club's greatest so far, winning the ''Landesliga'' and earning promotion to the ''

'' (IV), the highest league in the state. In the ''Bayernliga'' the TSV Gerbrunn found the going hard and was eventually relegated, coming last out of eighteen teams. However, the ''TSV'' won the local Unterfranken Cup, earning it the right to compete in the

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. In this competition, the team went all the way to the final. Financial considerations forced the club to withdraw to the ''Kreisklasse Würzburg'' instead of entering the ''Landesliga'' for 2003–04. Due to the Bavarian Cup final being played at the beginning of the next season, the ''TSV'' found itself with a much weaker team and was sorely defeated by the

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, 0–14. Having qualified for the

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by reaching the Bavarian final, the team met the

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, where another 0–14 defeat meant a harsh end to its area of higher league football. It was only one goal off the record cup defeat of

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against

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, who lost 1–16 in 1997. Five of Gerbrunn's players, including the goal keeper Stylianos Voulgaris, played in both matches. The TSV Gerbrunn returned to local amateur league football in the

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region, where it spent most of its previous history. In its first season there, 2003–04, it suffered another relegation, down to the lowest level, the ''A-Klasse''. A last place finish with 29 loses and one draw to its name, 122 goals scored against, culminated a season that had started with the 0–14 cup los. Gerbrunn actually remained without a win for 15-month, until 29 August 2004, when it beat SV Heidingsfeld II 4–2. Its last victory before that, still in the ''Bayernliga'', was on 11 May 2003, ironically against the TSV Aindling. The ''TSV'' most recently played in the ''Kreisklasse Würzburg-Gruppe 1'', the ninth division of the Bavarian league system, with a second place in 2010–11 as its best result but being relegated from the league in 2016.

Honours

League

(V) ** Champions: 2002 *

(VI) ** Champions: 1998 * Bezirksliga Unterfranken-Mitte (VII) ** Champions: 1997

Cup

** Runners-up:

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* Unterfranken Cup ** Winners: 2003

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 Bezirksoberligas in 1988 as the new fifth tier, below the Landesligas, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the introduction of the

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s in 1994 and the

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in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the establishment of the

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as the new fourth tier in Bavaria in 2012 the

was split into a northern and a southern division, the number of Landesligas expanded from three to five and the Bezirksoberligas abolished. All leagues from the Bezirksligas onwards were elevated one tier.

DFB Cup appearances

The club has qualified for the first round of the

only once: *

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References

Sources

Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables

External links

Official team siteTSV Gerbrunn profile at Weltfussball.de
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