FSV Wacker 90 Nordhausen is a
German association football club from
Nordhausen Nordhausen may refer to:
* Nordhausen (district), a district in Thuringia, Germany
** Nordhausen, Thuringia, a city in the district
**Nordhausen station, the railway station in the city
* Nordhouse, a commune in Alsace (German: Nordhausen)
* Narost ...
,
Thuringia.
The club's greatest success has been promotion to the
Regionalliga Nordost in 1995 and 2013. It has also won the
Thuringia Cup on three occasions and, through this, qualified for the first round of the
DFB-Pokal, the German Cup.
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History
The football team ''FC Wacker 05 Nordhausen'' was founded on 1 November 1905 as an offshoot of a Protestant youth club in the city. By 14 June 1906 the team had broadened its scope to become the sports club ''SV Wacker 05 Nordhausen '' and in 1908 merged with local side ''Ballsport-Club Mars Nordhausen'' which had been formed in 1906. Until 1918 the club played as ''SV Wacker-Mars Nordhausen'' when it was renamed ''1. SV Wacker 05 Nordhausen''. Playing in the VMBV (Verband Mitteldeutscher Ballspiel Vereine or Federation of Middle German Ball Playing Teams), ''Wacker'' participated in the early rounds of the league championships in the mid- to late 20s, but without any success.
After the end of World War II occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in Germany, including sports and football clubs. The former membership of ''Wacker'' reorganized as ''SG Nordhausen'' in 1946 and this team went on to become the football department of the sports club ''BSG Motor Nordhausen'' in 1949. The club played briefly as ''KWU/Lok Nordhausen'' after a merger with an industrial club. From 1951 on the team played as ''BSG Motor Nordhausen-West'' in second tier
East German football. ''Motor'' enjoyed some modest success in the early 80s but then slipped and was relegated to the third division Bezirkliga Erfurt in 1989.
After
German reunification
German reunification (german: link=no, Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a united and fully sovereign state, which took place between 2 May 1989 and 15 March 1991. The day of 3 October 1990 when the Ge ...
in 1990 the football department separated from the sports club to form ''FSV Wacker 90''. The newly independent team took up play in the
NOFV-Oberliga Süd (III) in the 1991–92 season and played at that level for seven years, interrupted by three seasons in the
Regionalliga Nordost (III) from 1995 to 1998. During the 1990s the club made three appearances in the
DFB-Pokal, in
1992–93,
1996–97 and
1997–98 but was knocked out in the first round at each occasion. After relegation back to the NOFV-Oberliga Süd (IV) in 1998 the club slowly declined. Financial problems drove the club further down to the
Landesliga Thüringen
The Landesliga ( en, Football State League) is a tier of football in some states of the German football league system.
In Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia, Bremen, Lower Saxony and Hamburg, the Landesligas are set right below the Oberliga and therefo ...
(V) in 2000–01 before they finally landed in the Landesklasse Thuringen-Ost (VI) in 2002.
After a decade of lower league play the club won the Thüringenliga in 2011–12 and the NOFV-Oberliga Süd the season after to make a return to the Regionalliga Nordost where it plays today.
[FSV Wacker 90 Nordhausen at Fussball.de]
accessed: 12 February 2015
Stadium
''FSV'' plays its home matches in the Albert-Kuntz-Sportpark which has a capacity of 8,000 (~1,000 seats) spectators.
Current squad
Honors
The club's honours:
*
NOFV-Oberliga Süd
** Champions: 1995, 2013
*
Thüringenliga
The Thüringenliga is the sixth tier (VI) of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Thuringia (german: Thüringen). Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the fifth tier of the league system, u ...
** Champions: 2012, 2015
‡
* Landesklasse Thüringen-Ost
** Champions: 2005
*
Thuringia Cup
** Winners: 1992, 1996, 1997,
2019
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** Runners-up: 1998, 1999,
2017
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*
‡ Denotes won by reserve team.
Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
Historical German domestic league tables
* With the introduction of the Regionalliga
The Regionalliga () is the fourth tier in the German football league system. Until 1974, it was the second tier in Germany. In 1994, it was introduced as the third tier. Upon the creation of the new nationwide 3. Liga in 2008, it became the four ...
s in 1994 and the 3. Liga
The 3. Liga is a professional association football league and the third division in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2. Bundesliga and the fourth-tier Regionalliga.
The modern 3. Liga was formed for t ...
in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga
The 2. Bundesliga ( ) is the second division of professional football in Germany. It was implemented 11 years after the founding of the Fußball-Bundesliga as the new second division for professional football. The 2. Bundesliga is ranked below ...
, all leagues below dropped one tier.
References
External links
Official team site
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Nordhausen, Thuringia
Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in East Germany
Football clubs in Thuringia
Association football clubs established in 1905
1905 establishments in Germany
Association football clubs established in 1990
1990 establishments in Germany
Works association football clubs in Germany