1. FC Germania Egestorf/Langreder is a German association football club from the town of

Barsinghausen Barsinghausen is a town in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated at the Deister chain of hills approx. 20 km west of Hanover. Barsinghausen belongs to the historic landscape Calenberg Land and was first mentioned i ...

, Lower Saxony. The club's greatest success has been promotion to the tier four Regionalliga Nord in 2016. By reaching the final of the 2015–16

Lower Saxony Cup The Lower Saxony Cup (german: Niedersächsischer Pokal) is an annual football cup competition, held by the ( en, Lower Saxony Football Association) since 1956. For sponsorship reasons, the official name of the competition is Krombacher-Pokal.

the club also qualified for the

German Cup The DFB-Pokal ( is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It is considered ...

for the first time, entering the first round of the 2016–17 edition.

History

The club was formed on 16 March 2001 when two local clubs, TSV Egestorf and TSV Langreder, merged to form the current club in an effort to combine the extensive youth department of the former with the senior team of the latter. The new club took started out in the tier seven Bezirksliga Hannover 1 but won promotion from this level to the

Landesliga Hannover The Landesliga Hannover, called the ''Bezirksoberliga Hannover'' from 1979 to 1994 and 2006 to 2010,

in 2003. It spent the next nine seasons there, with the league renamed to Bezirksoberliga Hannover from 2006 to 2010. After finishing runners-up in 2008 and 2010 and missing out on promotion ''Germania'' won the league in 2011–12 and earned promotion to the

Niedersachsenliga The Oberliga Niedersachsen ( en, Upper League Lower Saxony), sometimes referred to as ''Niedersachsenliga'' (Lower Saxony league), is the fifth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Lower Saxony (ge ...

for the first time. At this level the club finished sixth in its first season and gradually improving every year. A second place finish in 2015–16 and success in the promotion round moved the club up to the tier four Regionalliga Nord for the first time. They were relegated in

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. The club qualified for the final of the

and thereby directly for the first round of the

2016–17 DFB-Pokal The 2016–17 DFB-Pokal was the 74th season of the annual German football cup competition. Sixty-four teams participated in the competition, including all teams from the previous year's Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It began on 19 August 201 ...

. They lost 6–0 in the first round at home to Hoffenheim.

Current squad

Honours

The club's honours: *

Landesliga Hannover The Landesliga Hannover, called the ''Bezirksoberliga Hannover'' from 1979 to 1994 and 2006 to 2010,

** Champions: 2011–12 *

** Runners-up:

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Seasons

The season-by-season performance of the club:Germania Egestorf at Fussball.de
accessed: 29 April 2016Historic German football league tables
Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 29 April 2016 * The Landesliga Hannover was renamed to Bezirksoberliga Hannover from 2006 to 2010.

References

External links

Official club site

Germania Egestorf at Weltfussball.de
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