FC Karbach is a German association football club from the town of Karbach,

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

. The club's greatest success has been promotion to the tier five

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in 2015.

History

FC Karbach was formed in 1920 and initially played in the leagues of the '' Deutsche Jugendkraft'', a catholic faith-based organisation. The club, from the start, played at the local ''Quintinsberg'', still its home ground today, but then just a field covered in rocks and weeds. After the interruptions of the

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, during which the club did not field a team, it restarted after the war, playing in the tier five A-Klasse from 1951 until 1971. An era of lesser success followed with the team dropping down to the C-Klasse.Vereinsgeschichte
FC Karbach website – Club history, accessed: 24 October 2015 FC Karbach began to rise through the league system from 2005 onwards, achieving three consecutive league championships and promotions in the Kreisliga B, Kreisliga A and Bezirksliga. The latter took the club up to the tier six

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where it would play from 2008 to 2015. After finishing in the lower half of the table in its first two seasons there the club improved and finished runners up in 2013, followed by a league championship in 2015. The latter took the team up to the

for 2015–16.

Honours

The club's honours: *

** Champions: 2015 ** Runners-up: 2013 * Bezirksliga Mitte ** Champions: 2008 * Kreisliga Hunsrück/Mosel A ** Champions: 2007 * Kreisliga Hunsrück/Mosel B ** Champions: 2006

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:FC Karbach at Fussball.de
accessed: 24 October 2015Historic German football league tables
Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 24 October 2015 * 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

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, all leagues below dropped one tier.

References

External links

Official team site

FC Karbach at Weltfussball.de
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