FC Union Mühlhausen is a German football club from

Mühlhausen Mühlhausen () is a city in the north-west of Thuringia, Germany, north of Niederdorla, the country's geographical centre, north-west of Erfurt, east of Kassel and south-east of Göttingen. Mühlhausen was first mentioned in 967 and bec ...

Thuringia Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and larg ...

History

The club was founded in 1972 after the merger of ''BSG Post'' and ''BSG Motor''. As ''BSG Union Mühlhausen'' the team played most of the times in the Bezirksliga, the third level. In 1989 the team promoted to the

DDR-Liga The DDR-Liga (English: GDR League or ''East German League'') was, prior to German reunification in 1990, the second level of football competition in the DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik or German Democratic Republic, commonly East Germany), bei ...

but was demoted after only one season. After German reunification the team took the name ''SV Union''. After a merger in 1994 with Fitniss 90 the team took the name SV 1899 Mühlhausen, in memory of the legendary club that played in the local football before World War II. FC Germania, its predecessor was one of the founding members of the

German Football Association The German Football Association (german: Deutscher Fußball-Bund ; DFB ) is the governing body of football in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB has jurisdiction for the German football league system and is in charge of t ...

(Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) at

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in 1900. In 1997 the football department became independent again as ''FC Union Mühlhausen''. SV 1899 remained active in football but plays at lower levels. ''FC Union Mühlhausen'' won promotion to the tier six

Thüringenliga The Thüringenliga is the sixth tier (VI) of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Thuringia (german: Thüringen). Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the fifth tier of the league system, u ...

in 2010 and has been playing at this level until 2016, achieving a third place finish as its best result in 2013–14. A 15th-place finish in 2015–16 meant relegation to the Landesklasse for the club.FC Union Mühlhausen at Fussball.de
Tables and results of all German football leagues, accessed: 12 February 2015

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External links

Official club website
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