Torgelower FC Greif is a German football club from the city of

Torgelow Torgelow () is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in north-eastern Germany. It is situated on the river Uecker, 12 km south of Ueckermünde, and 41 km northwest of Szczecin, Poland ...

in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The football team is part of a sports club which also has departments for women's sport, table tennis, and handball. The club was known as Torgelower SV Greif until 2014.

History

The club was established in 1919 as ''Greif Torgelow'' and after World War II resumed play in

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

as ''BSG Motor Torgelow'' in the third-tier Berzirksliga Neubrandenburg. Through the 1950s they would play as ''Motor'' or as ''Stahl Torgelow'' and generally earn upper-table finishes. Their performance began to slip in the early 1960s, and they delivered only mid-table results. In 1963 they were renamed ''Nord Max Matern Torgelow'' and would play as ''NMM'' or simply ''Nord Torgelow'' until after

German reunification German reunification (german: link=no, Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a united and fully sovereign state, which took place between 2 May 1989 and 15 March 1991. The day of 3 October 1990 when the Ge ...

in 1990. In 1971 the team won its first promotion to the second-division DDR-Liga and spent most of the decade as an elevator side moving up and down between second- and third-tier play. They were eligible for promotion again in 1984 but failed to advance through a playoff. ''Nord Torgelow'' gave up its communist-era name in 1990 to again take on the historical club name ''Torgelower SV Greif''. After the merger of the football leagues of the two Germanys in the early 1990s, ''Greif'' played as a lower-division side until moving up to the

Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern The Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the fifth tier of the ...

(V) in 1994. They played there as a middling side until an exciting 2003–04 campaign saw the club come close to breaking through to the

NOFV-Oberliga Nord The NOFV-Oberliga Nord is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the northern states of the former East Germany and West Berlin. It covers the German states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and northern Saxony ...

(IV). The next season the club captured the division title to earn promotion to the country's highest amateur class. The club played in the Oberliga for the next seven seasons, winning the league in 2011 but declining promotion to the

Regionalliga The Regionalliga () is the fourth tier in the German football league system. Until 1974, it was the second tier in Germany. In 1994, it was introduced as the third tier. Upon the creation of the new nationwide 3. Liga in 2008, it became the fourt ...

. At the end of the following season the club qualified for the new

Regionalliga Nordost The Regionalliga Nordost is the fourth tier of German football in the states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia. These comprise the states of former East Germany as well as West Berlin. It ...

where it played for a season until relegated again in 2013. Back in the Oberliga the club dropped another level in 2014 and played in the Verbandsliga again before returning to the Oberliga in 2017.Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
Historical German domestic league tablesTorgelower SV Greif at Fussball.de
Tables and results of all German football leagues

Honours

The club's honours: *

(V) ** Champions: 2011 *

(V) ** Champions: 2005, 2017 * Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Cup ** Winners: 2009, 2010

Stadium

Torgelower SV Greif play their home matches in the Gießerei-Arena, built in 1958, which has a capacity of 10,000.

References

External links

* {{NOFV-Oberliga Nord Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in East Germany Football clubs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Association football clubs established in 1919 1919 establishments in Germany