Meeraner Sportverein is a German football club from

Meerane Meerane () is a town in the Zwickau district of Saxony, Germany. It lies midway between the towns of Altenburg and Zwickau, west of Chemnitz. As of 31 December 2015, there were 14,851 inhabitants. The population has declined from a peak of over 2 ...

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 ...

. It currently plays in the Landesklasse, the eighth tier in the

German football league system The German football league system, or league pyramid, refers to the hierarchically interconnected league system for association football in Germany that in the 2016–17 season consisted of 2,235 leagues in up to 13 levels having 31,645 teams ...

. It was founded in 1907 as SpVgg Meerane 07 and refounded as SG Meerane after World War II, also being called SG Einheit Meerane and BSG Fortschritt Meerane, the last one after being made a company team of a textiles factory. It was a founder member of

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

's DDR-Oberliga in 1949, playing six seasons until relegation in 1955, never to return. It ranked 23rd of 44 teams in the

All-time DDR-Oberliga table The all-time DDR-Oberliga table is a cumulative record of all match results, points, and goals of every team that played in the former East Germany's first division DDR-Oberliga from its inception in 1949 until its dissolution in 1991 following Germ ...

. Upon German reunification, it reverted to its original name.

Richard Hofmann Richard Hofmann (8 February 1906 – 5 May 1983) was a German football player. He played in 25 internationals for Germany as a centre forward, scoring 24 goals, including the first ever international hat-trick against England by a player from ...

, German international striker of the 1920s and 1930s, was born in Meerane and played for the team, later becoming namesake of their stadium.

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