Heidenauer SV are a sports team from

Heidenau Heidenau is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in Saxony, Germany. The town is situated on the left bank of the Elbe, 13 km southeast of Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbi ...

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

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. Their football team compete in the

Sachsenliga The Sachsenliga, formerly referred to as ''Landesliga Sachsen'', is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Saxony (German: ''Sachsen''). Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was ...

, at the sixth tier of

German football Football (or "soccer") is the most popular sport in Germany. The German Football Association (german: Deutscher Fußball-Bund, link=no or ) is the sport's national governing body, with 6.6 million members (roughly eight percent of the popul ...

History

The club was founded in 1948 as BSG Motor Heidenau and took up their current name after German reunification. They have mostly played in amateur competition, but their second-place finish in the Landesliga Sachsen in 2011–12 saw them qualify for the

NOFV-Oberliga Süd The NOFV-Oberliga Süd is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the southern states of the former East Germany. It covers the German states of Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Saxony and southern Brandenburg. It is one of fourteen Oberl ...

for the first time. In 2014 they finished at the bottom and were sent back to Sachsenliga.Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
Historical German domestic league tablesHeidenauer SV at Fussball.de
Tables and results of all German football leagues At the end of the 2015–16 season the club withdrew from the Sachsenliga for financial reasons, €320,000 in debt, and withdrew to the Landesklasse below.
(in German) fupa.net, published: 27 June 2016, accessed: 29 June 2016

References

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External links

Official website
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