Germania Bieber is a German association football club from the village of

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part of Offenbach,

Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major historic cities are Dar ...

. The club was founded in 1901 as ''Fußballclub Germania Bieber'' and took on its current name after a 1919 merger with ''FV 1910 Bieber''.

History

Through the early 1910s ''Germania'' was part of the regional top flight

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before slipping to lower tier local play midway through the decade. The team returned to senior level play in 1928, but failed in its 1935 group playoff bid to become part of the

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, one of 13 top flight regional divisions formed in the reorganization of German football under the

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in 1933.Hardy Grüne: Legendäre Fußballvereine. Hessen. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, , S. 231–232 Following

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, ''FV'' was part of the

Landesliga Hessen The Hessenliga (until 2008 ''Oberliga Hessen'') is the highest football league in the state of Hesse and the Hessian football league system. It is one of fourteen Oberligas in German football, the fifth tier of the German football league system. ...

(II) until 1953 when they again slipped into lower level play. They narrowly missed advancement several times in the 1960s before making it to fourth tier competition in 1968 for a three-year turn. The team has since faded and today is part of the tier nine Kreisliga A.

References

External links

Official team site
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