Fußballsportverein Frankfurt 1899 e.V., commonly known as simply FSV Frankfurt, is a
German association football club based in the
Bornheim district of
Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on it ...
, Hesse and founded in 1899. FSV Frankfurt also fielded a rather successful women's team, which was disbanded in 2006.
History
The club was one of the founding members of the
Nordkreis-Liga
The Nordkreis-Liga (English: ''Northern district league'') was the highest association football league in the German Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau from 1909 to 1918. The league was disbanded with the introduction ...
in 1909, when football started to become more organised in Southern Germany. With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, this league came to a halt but a championship for the region was still held, which ''FSV'' won in 1917.
After the war, the club became part of the
Kreisliga Nordmain
The Kreisliga Nordmain (English: ''District league North Main'') was the highest association football league in parts of the German state of Hesse and the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau from 1919 to 1923. The league was disbanded with the intr ...
, which it managed to win in 1922–23, qualifying for the
Southern German championship, where it finished last out of five teams.
The pinnacle of the team's achievement was a losing appearance in the 1925 national final, 0–1 to
1. FC Nürnberg
1. Fußball-Club Nürnberg Verein für Leibesübungen e. V., often called 1. FC Nürnberg (, en, 1. Football Club Nuremberg) or simply Nürnberg, is a German association football club in Nuremberg, Bavaria, who currently compete in the 2. Bund ...
, and the capture of a German amateur title in 1972 in a 2–1 victory over
TSV Marl-Hüls
TSV Marl-Hüls is a German association football club from the town of Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia.
In 1954 ''TSV'' took out the German amateur football championship and also made a losing appearance in the final of this competition in 1972. Th ...
. The club contested the final of the 1938 Tschammerpokal, predecessor of today's
DFB-Pokal, but was beaten 1–3 by
Rapid Vienna
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Rapids are hydrological features between a ''run'' (a smoothly flowing part of a stream) and a '' cascade'' ...
.
The club played in the
Bezirksliga Main
The Bezirksliga Main-Hessen was the highest association football league in the German state of Hesse and the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau from 1923 to 1927, when the league was replaced by the ''Bezirksliga Main-Hessen''.
Overview
The leag ...
, then the
Bezirksliga Main-Hessen throughout the 1920s and 1930s. After capturing the championship of the VSFV (Verband Süddeutscher Fussball Vereine or Federation of South German Football Clubs) in 1933, FSV went on to play in the
Gauliga Südwest, one of sixteen top-flight divisions formed that same year in the re-organization of German football in the
Third Reich. They consistently earned mid-table results there with the club's best finish being second place in 1939. In 1941 the Gauliga Hessen was split into the Gauliga Westmark and the Gauliga Hessen-Nassau with FSV playing in the latter division. The team finished a close second to
Kickers Offenbach in 1943 and in 1944 merged briefly with SG Eintracht Frankfurt to play as the wartime side KSG (Kriegspielgemeinschaft) Frankfurt. The following season the Gauliga collapsed with the advance of Allied armies into Germany as World War II drew to a close.
After the war occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in Germany, including sports and football clubs. FSV was re-established as ''SG Bornheim'' but had taken on their old identity again by late 1945. The team resumed play in the first division
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* DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of football in East Germany until 1990, rep ...
where they played undistinguished, middling football until relegated at the end of the 1961–62 season. The
Bundesliga
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, Germany's first top-flight professional league, was formed in 1963. ''FSV'' joined the
Regionalliga Süd and remained a regular tier II side from the early 1960s through to the early 1970s when they slipped to the third tier. The club returned to the second tier in 1975 a year after the formation of the 2. Bundesliga, playing in the
2. Bundesliga Süd. In 1981 the northern and southern divisions of this league were combined and as a perennial lower table side FSV was delivered to the third division
Oberliga Hessen (III). The club made a single season cameo appearance in the combined league in 1982–83 before once again falling back.
They played in the Regionalliga Süd (III) in 2007–08 after seven seasons in the Amateur Oberliga Hessen (IV). Winning the championship of the Regionalliga Süd (III), for the 2008–09 season the club was promoted to the
2. Bundesliga
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, where it played for eight seasons with moderate success before relegation to the
3. Liga at the end of the 2015–16 season.
Reserve team
The club's reserve team, the
FSV Frankfurt II, rose for the first time above local Hesse level in 2010 when it won the
Hessenliga and was promoted to the
Regionalliga Süd. After two seasons, this league was disbanded in 2012 and FSV II became part of the new
Regionalliga Südwest. It was relegated to the Hessenliga in 2013 and disbanded the following year after a rule change which meant professional clubs did not have to have a reserve side any more, something that previously had been compulsory.
Frankfurt derby
The 2011–12 season saw FSV Frankfurt play city rivals
Eintracht Frankfurt in a league match for the first time in almost 50 years. The last league game between the two had been played on 27 January 1962, then in the
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* DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of football in East Germany until 1990, rep ...
. For the first of the two matches, FSV's home game on 21 August 2011, the decision was made to move to Eintracht's stadium as FSV's
Volksbankstadion only holds less than 11,000 spectators and in excess of 40,000 spectators were expected to attend the game.
Honours
League
*
German football championship
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**Ge ...
** Runners-up: 1925
*
Southern German championship
** Champions: 1933
*
German amateur champions
The German amateur football championship was a national football competition in Germany organized by the German Football Association (German: Deutscher Fußball-Bund; DFB) and in existence from 1950 to 1998.
History
Overview
The championship wa ...
** Champions: 1972
*
Nordkreis-Liga
The Nordkreis-Liga (English: ''Northern district league'') was the highest association football league in the German Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau from 1909 to 1918. The league was disbanded with the introduction ...
(I)
** Champions: 1917
** Runners-up: 1911, 1916, 1918
*
Kreisliga Nordmain
The Kreisliga Nordmain (English: ''District league North Main'') was the highest association football league in parts of the German state of Hesse and the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau from 1919 to 1923. The league was disbanded with the intr ...
(I)
** Champions: 1923
** Runners-up: 1920
*
Bezirksliga Main
The Bezirksliga Main-Hessen was the highest association football league in the German state of Hesse and the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau from 1923 to 1927, when the league was replaced by the ''Bezirksliga Main-Hessen''.
Overview
The leag ...
(I)
** Champions: 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927
*
Bezirksliga Main-Hessen (I)
** Champions: 1933
*
2. Oberliga Süd (II)
** Champions:
1963
*
Oberliga Hessen (III-IV)
** Champions: 1969, 1973, 1975, 1982, 1994, 1998, 2007, 2010
‡
** Runners-up: 1993, 2002, 2005, 2006
*
Verbandsliga Hessen-Süd (VI)
** Champions: 2009
‡
Cup
*
German Cup
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** Runners-up: 1938
*
Hesse Cup (Tiers III-VII)
** Winners: 1990
** Runners-up: 1982, 1986, 2006,
2020
*
‡ Won by reserve team.
Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
* With the introduction of the
Regionalligas in 1994 and the
3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the
2. Bundesliga
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, all leagues below dropped one tier.
Players
Current squad
Former players
*
Alexander Opoku
*
Zsolt Kalmár
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Kalmár began his professional career with Nemzeti Bajnokság I clu ...
*
Ehsan Hajsafi
Staff
Sports
* ''Head Coach:'' Thomas Brendel
* ''Assistant Coach:'' TBA
* ''Goalkeeping Coach :'' Marcel Richter
* ''Athletics Coach :'' Michelle Hürzeler
Recent managers
Recent managers of the club:
Women's department
The women's team won three championships and five cups, even completing a
double
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Double, The Double or Dubble may also refer to:
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* Double (filmmaking), someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character
* ...
in 1995, but was retired after the
2005–06 season due to financial weakness. In its time FSV had many German top football players, including national record scorer
Birgit Prinz, who left in 1998 for local rival
1. FFC Frankfurt.
Honours
*
German Championship: 1986,
1995,
1998
*
DFB-Pokal winner: 1985, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996
Notable past players
The following players who have played for Frankfurt have been capped for
Germany
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at least 50 times:
*
Birgitt Austermühl
*
Steffi Jones
*
Sandra Minnert
Sandra Minnert (born 7 April 1973) is a former German football defender. She played for SC 07 Bad Neuenahr and the German national team.
Honours
;FSV Frankfurt
* Bundesliga: Winner 1994–95, 1997–98
* DFB-Pokal: Winner 1991–92, 1994 ...
*
Birgit Prinz
*
Sissy Raith
*
Sandra Smisek
*
Britta Unsleber
Other sports departments
As a sports club ''FSV'' has had at various times departments for
athletics
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** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competi ...
,
boxing
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,
darts,
handball,
ice hockey
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, and tennis.
FSV Frankfurt » Verein » Abteilungen
FSV Frankfurt website, accessed: 6 December 2011
References
External links
Official website
FSV Frankfurt at Weltfussball.de
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables
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Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in Frankfurt
Association football clubs established in 1899
1899 establishments in Germany
Frauen-Bundesliga clubs
2. Bundesliga clubs
3. Liga clubs