1. FFC 08 Niederkirchen (formerly TuS Niederkirchen) is a German

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club based in

Niederkirchen Niederkirchen is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous countr ...

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. The team plays in the German

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History

TuS Niederkirchen

TuS Niederkirchen was founded in 1900. Since 1969 the club had a

department, which was a member of the women's Bundesliga at its inception. After winning the championship in 1992–93 the club was relegated 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 four ...

in 2000. Several seasons of promotions and relegations followed. In the last season at TuS Niederkirchen the club finished 9th in the

. When the club's management decided not to apply for a license for the next season, but did not inform the players about that decision, the entire women's section left the club to found their own. On 25 April 2008 1. FFC 08 Niederkirchen was established, and began playing in the Regionalliga Südwest in 2008–09.

1. FFC 08 Niederkirchen

After two years in the Regionalliga, the team returned to the 2nd Bundesliga as champions in 2010 and secured its place in the league on the antepenultimate match day. In April 2011 a co-operation - initially lasting two years - was announced with 1. FC Kaiserslautern from 1 July 2011, which was extended by two years in July 2013. In 2015, the team was relegated from the 2nd Bundesliga, but managed direct re-promotion in 2016. Two years later, 1. FFC was relegated again before being promoted after the 2019–20 season.

Honours

* Champion of the Fußball-Bundesliga (women): 1993 * Winner of the SWFV association cup: 2005, 2010 * Champion of the Regionalliga Südwest: 2005

Notable past players

Nicole Bender Nicole may refer to: People * Nicole (name) * Nicole (American singer) (born 1958), a contestant in season 3 of the American ''The X Factor'' * Nicole (Chilean singer) (born 1977) * Nicole (German singer) (born 1964), winner of the 1982 Eurovi ...

* Nadine Fols * Steffi Jones *

Heidi Mohr Heidi Mohr (29 May 1967 – 7 February 2019) was a German footballer who played as a forward. She was renowned for her speed and her ability to shoot with both feet. In 1999 she was voted Europe's Footballer of the Century. Club career Mohr pl ...

Conny Pohlers Conny Pohlers (born 16 November 1978) is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward. From 1998 she played in the Women's Bundesliga and from 2001 in the Germany national team. Club career Born, Halle, Pohlers comes from a ...

* Carmen Roth *

Sandra de Pol Sandra de Pol is a Swiss former footballer who played as a defender for Bayern Munich in the Frauen-Bundesliga. She also played for FC Malters and Blue Stars Zürich in the Swiss Nationalliga, Brewton-Parker College in the NAIA and TuS Nied ...

Statistics

TuS Niederkirchen

¹ The second team of TuS Niederkirchen was also qualified and reached the round of 16.

1. FFC 08 Niederkirchen

References

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