Rot-Weiß Darmstadt is a
German association football club based in
Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...
,
Hesse
Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...
.
The club's greatest success has been promotion to the Hessenliga, which it achieved for the first time in 2010.
History
''Rot-Weiß'' was formed in 1954, shortly after the
Miracle of Bern, which was one of the motivations to establish the football club. For the most part of its history, the club existed in the lower amateur leagues. In 2007 a title in the tier six Bezirksoberliga Darmstadt took the club up to the
Landesliga Hessen-Süd
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 ...
. The team became a top side in the league and took only three seasons to win the league championship, earning promotion to the Hessenliga in 2010, alongside local rival
1. FCA Darmstadt
1. FCA Darmstadt is a German association football club in Darmstadt, Hesse.
Fca Darmstadt's first-team competes in Germany's 7th-tier league, the Gruppenliga, whilst the second team plays in the 11th-tier league Kreisliga C.
The club's grea ...
, who finished runners-up. After five seasons in the league with an eighth place in 2012 as its best result the club came second-last in 2014–15 and was relegated. In the following season the club made a return to the Hessenliga after a runners-up finish in the Verbandsliga and the promotion round.
Honours
The club's honours:
League
*
Verbandsliga Hessen-Süd
The Verbandsliga Hessen-Süd, until 2008 named ''Landesliga Hessen-Süd'', is currently the sixth tier of the German football league system. Before the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994, the "Verbandsliga Hessen-S" served as the fourth tie ...
** Champions: 2010
* Bezirksoberliga Darmstadt
** Champions: 2007
Recent managers
Recent managers of the club:
Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
Fussball.de – Ergebnisse
Tables and results of all German football leagues
* 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 in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. Also in 2008, a large number of football leagues in Hesse were renamed, with the Oberliga Hessen becoming the Hessenliga, the Landesliga becoming the Verbandsliga, the Bezirksoberliga becoming the Gruppenliga and the Bezirksliga becoming the Kreisoberliga.
References
External links
Rot-Weiß Darmstadt
Rot-Weiß Darmstadt at Weltfussball.de
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables
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Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in Hesse
Association football clubs established in 1954
1954 establishments in West Germany
Darmstadt