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39-564: Spielvereinigung Greuther Fürth ( German pronunciation: [ˈʃpiːlfɛɐ̯ˌʔaɪnɪɡʊŋ ˌɡʁɔɪ̯tɐ ˈfʏʁt] ), commonly known as Greuther Fürth ( German pronunciation: [ˌɡʁɔɪ̯tɐ ˈfʏʁt] ), is a German football club based in Fürth , Bavaria . They play in the 2. Bundesliga , the second tier of the German football league system , following relegation from the Bundesliga in

78-521: A difficult first season in the Bundesliga as the club amassed only four victories in the 34-game campaign, one of them at the ground of their rivals 1. FC Nürnberg, when the de facto relegated side won 1–0, giving the fans of the Kleeblatt a peaceful feeling about the relegation. The club also set an infamous record by becoming the first club in Bundesliga history to not win a single home game during

117-524: A first division side until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. The club did not qualify as one of the sixteen teams that made up the new unified national first division and they found themselves playing second division football in the Regionalliga Süd , where they were generally a mid-table side whose best finish was third-place result in 1967. The club played in the 2. Bundesliga from its inception in 1974 until 1983 with their best performance

156-480: A fourth division side. They advanced into the Amateur Oberliga Bayern (III) in 1987, just as SpVgg Fürth was descending to play in the division the more junior club had just escaped. TSV took part in the national amateur playoff round in 1988 and 1995. Their best performance came in the 1995 DFB-Pokal when they upset Bayern Munich 1–0, and then beat FC 08 Homburg 5–1, before being eliminated in

195-484: A fourth-place result in 1978–79. They slipped to playing in the tier III Bayernliga , with a short three-year spell in the fourth division Landesliga Bayern-Mitte in the late 1980s. At this time, the club started to have large financial problems. In 1990, Fürth celebrated a 3–1 victory in the opening round of the DFB-Pokal play over first division side Borussia Dortmund before going out 0–1 to 1. FC Saarbrücken in

234-555: A historic 5–1 home victory in the Frankenderby , their highest-ever home win in a derby. In the following two years, the Spielvereinigung finished mid-table, with not having either fear of getting relegated or gaining promotion. This period of their newer history is characterized by the relegation of FCN in 2014 , and both rivals playing each year since then. In the 2016–17 season , the Kleeblatt won both derbies of

273-412: A merger. In 2008, the stadium faced another redevelopment, as the standing terrace in the north got a roof, and a VIP building was installed near to the old main stand. With this work, the main stand became the last piece of the stadium that has not been redeveloped. In that time, Fürth has come close to renewing its ancient rivalry with Nürnberg at the Bundesliga level, narrowly missing promotion in each of

312-630: A southern group (10 teams) in 1942–43 and 1943–44. No overall Bavarian championship was determined and both league winners went to the German finals competition. The imminent collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945 gravely affected the Gauligas and in Bavaria the league was now staged in five regional groups. With the exception of the Munich division, most of the leagues had to shut down in late 1944. Within

351-587: The Gauliga Württemberg . The Gauliga replaced as such the two Bezirksligas of northern and southern Bavaria. The arrival of the Gauliga heralded somewhat the decline of Bavarian football. The 1. FC Nürnberg and SpVgg Fürth still dominated the Bavarian league but the national success both clubs had, especially in the 1920s, faded away. Until 1937, Nürnberg still made three more appearances in

390-414: The 2012–13 Bundesliga season and the 2014–15 2. Bundesliga season . List of club's coach since 1974: The recent season-by-season performance of the club: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. William Townley , had three turns as coach of SpVgg Fürth in 1911–1913, 1926–1927, and 1930–1932 and led

429-420: The 2021–22 season . Founded in 1903, the most successful era for Greuther Fürth came in the pre-Bundesliga era in the 1910s and 1920s, when the club won three German championships , in 1914 , 1926 , and 1929 respectively, and finished as runners-up in 1920 . In the 2012–13 season , the club played in the Bundesliga for the first time, having won promotion from the 2. Bundesliga; they were relegated back to

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468-555: The Landesliga Bayern (II). SpVgg quickly recovered itself and returned to Oberliga play the next season. They won the title there in 1950 and went on to the national playoffs, advancing as far as the semi-finals before being eliminated 1–4 by VfB Stuttgart . In 1954, two players from the SpVgg , Karl Mai and Herbert Erhardt , were members of the " Miracle of Bern " team that won Germany's first World Cup . Fürth remained

507-574: The Nazi takeover of power in Germany and Bavaria. It replaced the Bezirksliga Bayern as the highest level of play in German football competitions. Up until 1963, Germany did not have a nationwide highest league but rather operated on regional divisions with the winners of those entering a finals round for the German championship. The Gauliga Bayern was established with twelve clubs from

546-433: The SpVgg and changing the name of the Spielvereinigung to the name SpVgg Greuther Fürth , which is still in use. The SpVgg so had the chance to get back in both financial and on-pitch success, while TSV could grow bigger in the city of Fürth than it would have been possible in the village of Vestenbergsgreuth . Meanwhile, the small village team of TSV Vestenbergsgreuth was established 1 February 1974 and debuted as

585-490: The 2. Bundesliga after 18 years, and played in the second tier at the first time since 1979. At this time, the Sportpark Ronhof , now called Playmobil Arena , faced the first major redevelopment since the post-war years and the construction of the old main stand in 1950. They built new stands on three of the four sides of the pitch, a roofed seating stand on the opposite side of the main stand, an uncovered terrace in

624-592: The 2. Bundesliga at the end of the season. On 23 May 2021, they were promoted back to the Bundesliga for the second time. Upon placing 18th in the Bundesliga table in the 2021–22 season, they were relegated back to 2. Bundesliga. The origins of SpVgg Fürth are in the establishment on 23 September 1903 of a football department within the gymnastics club Turnverein 1860 Fürth . The footballers went their own way as an independent club in November 1906, after they did not get enough support from TV Fürth . The team played in

663-408: The 2001–02 season and finished second there in 2006–07. which lead to promotion to Regionalliga Süd . 1. FC Nürnberg is by far Furth’s biggest rival, going back to the early days of German football when, at times, those two clubs dominated the national championship. Matches between both teams also called as "Frankenderby". Minor rivals include Bayern Munich . Both competed against each other again in

702-738: The Bavarian capital, football games continued until almost the end of the war, with the last official game in Nazi Germany being the FC Bayern versus 1860 Munich derby on 23 April 1945, ending 3–2. With the end of the Nazi era, the Gauligas ceased to exist and shortly after, in late 1945, in the US occupation zone in southern Germany, the Oberliga Süd came to be the highest league in this region. The twelve founding members and their positions in

741-667: The Bundesliga. Football in Germany Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 550511334 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:53:46 GMT Gauliga Bayern The league was introduced by the Nazi Sports Office in 1933, after

780-467: The German final and won in 1936, but no other Bavarian club had any success on the national championship level. Only in the German cup competition, the Tschammerpokal , did Nürnberg (1935, 1939) and 1860 Munich (1942) win some more titles. In its first season, the league had twelve clubs, playing each other once at home and once away. The league winner qualified for the German championship while

819-610: The Ostkreisliga and took divisional titles there in 1912, 1913 and 1914 before moving on to participate in the Süddeutsche (South German) regional playoffs for the national championship round. Right from the beginning, there was a great rivalry between the SpVgg Fürth and the 1. FC Nürnberg , predicated on the historical rivalry between the two neighbouring cities.The club grew rapidly, and by 1914, it had 3,000 members and

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858-474: The all-time league table of the 2. Bundesliga. By finishing second in the 2020–21 season , Greuther Fürth gained promotion to the Bundesliga for the second time in the club's history. Under manager Stefan Leitl , the team secured promotion on the last matchday of the season with a 3–2 victory over Fortuna Düsseldorf. Fürth also fields a reserve side which has played in the Oberliga Bayern (IV) since

897-427: The away goal rule when the return leg ended 1–1. In the following seasons, they struggled to be as strong as they were before the Bundesliga promotion. They nearly got relegated to the 3. Liga in the 2014–15 season , when only a narrow win against later promoted club SV Darmstadt 98 on matchday 33, and other teams not winning on matchday 34, kept them in the league. In the same season, on early matchday 2, they gained

936-536: The bottom three teams were relegated. Over the next two seasons, the league was reduced at first to eleven, then ten teams. From 1935 to 1936, the Gauliga Bayern had two teams relegated per season, but the modus remained unchanged otherwise. The 1939–40 season started on 27 August 1939, but with the outbreak of the Second World War four days later, league football was suspended. It only resumed at

975-471: The club to two championships. In September 2012, former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger , whose family fled Nazi Germany in 1938, attended a SpVgg match against Schalke 04 . He had promised to attend a game at the Ronhof stadium if the team were promoted to the top-flight Bundesliga. As a child, Kissinger had tried to watch games there, despite it being against his parents' wishes. Kissinger

1014-406: The end of October, with a number of local city-championships having been played to bridge the gap. In 1939–40, only one team was relegated as the league reverted to twelve teams for the following season. After the 1941–42 season, the negative effects of the Second World War became seriously visible with player shortages and transport difficulties. The league was staged in a northern (11 teams) and

1053-479: The final held on 31 May in Magdeburg . A 154-minute-long thriller, the longest completed game in German football history (the 1922 Final was abandoned after 189 minutes due to darkness), ended with Fürth scoring a golden goal to secure the title. The team had a solid run of successes through the 1920s and into the early 1930s, beginning with an appearance in the national final in 1920 against 1. FC Nürnberg, which

1092-417: The first two seasons of the 2010s. On 23 April 2012, Fürth finally gained promotion to the Bundesliga in the 2011–12 season , eventually winning the 2. Bundesliga under manager Mike Büskens . With promotion, the 1998-built south stand was demolished, and a new one was installed, gaining a capacity increase from 14,500 to 18,000, as well as providing a roof on the south for the first time. However, Fürth had

1131-503: The national stage, advancing to the semi-finals in 1923 and 1931. They claimed two more championships – in 1926 and 1929 – with both of those victories coming at the expense of Hertha BSC . Through this period, the club played five finals in the Süddeutscher Pokal (en:South German Cup), coming away as cup winners on four occasions. On 27 August 1929, the association was joined by FC Schneidig Fürth . German football

1170-512: The north end, and an uncovered mixed standing and seating area in the south of the stadium, as well as installing floodlights in the Ronhof the first time ever. With the modernized stadium and a clever transfer strategy, they have consistently finished in the top half of the 18-team table in the 2000s, despite having one of the lowest budgets most of the time. On 1 July 2003, the club added former workers' club Tuspo Fürth to its tradition through

1209-401: The regular season for the first time since the 1970s, and finished above Nuremberg for the first time since the 1950s. In early 2016, the 1950-built main stand was demolished, and the construction of a new main stand started. Before the 2017–18 season , the construction of the new main stand was finished. With a 3–1 victory over Fortuna Düsseldorf on 17 September 2017, the club became leader of

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1248-482: The regular season. The club finished last in the league with 21 points and was relegated back to the 2. Bundesliga. The following season, despite not aiming for promotion, the club was a strong contender for a direct return to the Bundesliga. A third place in the final standings qualified the team for the promotion play-offs, where it faced Hamburger SV . After a 0–0 draw in Hamburg , the club missed out on promotion on

1287-549: The second round. They returned to the Bayernliga (III) in 1991 and the Regionalliga Süd (III) in 1994. But still, the club's financial issues became bigger, and they were forced to sell their ground to the local businessman Conny Brandstätter . As the financial problems continued to grow, the president of SpVgg , Edgar Burkhart, arranged a deal with Helmut Hack, president of TSV Vestenbergsgreuth , to let TSV join

1326-563: The state of Bavaria, but without any teams from the Palatinate region (German: Pfalz ), then politically a part of Bavaria but not geographically connected to the rest of the state. The clubs from this region traditionally never played in the Bavarian leagues and were now added to the Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen . The football clubs from Ulm , which had been playing in the Bavarian league system until 1933, now joined

1365-404: The third round of the competition by VfL Wolfsburg on penalty kicks. At the time when Vestenbergsgreuth's football branch was incorporated in 1996, in which TSV's football players came over to Fürth, both clubs were playing at about the same level in Regionalliga Süd (III). The SpVgg was runner-up behind long-term rival 1. FC Nürnberg in the division the next year, and so earned promotion back to

1404-464: Was an honorary member of SpVgg, and for decades he kept himself informed about match results and held contact to the club. During his time serving in the White House in the 1970s, he reportedly asked his staff to have the team's weekend result ready for him on Monday mornings. He visited his hometown and the club several times and attended a Bundesliga match in 2012 during the team's first season in

1443-559: Was re-organized in 1933 under the Third Reich into 16 top flight Gauligen . Fürth became part of the Gauliga Bayern , but their success over the next dozen seasons was limited to a division title there in 1935, alongside regular appearances in competition for the Tschammerpokal, predecessor to today's DFB-Pokal (German Cup). After the war, the team struggled through three seasons in the Oberliga Süd (I) before slipping to

1482-431: Was the dominant side of the decade. The rivalry between the two clubs was such that a star player with SpVgg was forced to leave after he married a woman from the city of Nuremberg . In 1924, for the first and only time, the Germany national side was made up exclusively of players from just two sides – Fürth and 1. FC Nürnberg – and players of the two teams slept in separate rail coaches. SpVgg showed regularly on

1521-455: Was the largest sports club in Germany. When the club built their own stadium, Sportpark Ronhof , in 1910, it was the biggest stadium in Germany at the time. Fürth won their first national title, the 1914 German football championship , under English coach William Townley with left winger Julius Hirsch , who had joined the team the prior season. They faced VfB Leipzig  – the defending champions with three titles to their credit – in

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