SSV Reutlingen 05 is a German association football club from

Reutlingen Reutlingen (; Swabian: ''Reitlenga'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the capital of the eponymous district of Reutlingen. As of June 2018, it has a population of 115,818. Reutlingen has a university of applied sciences, which ...

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History

The club was founded as FC Arminia Reutlingen and was renamed SV Reutlingen 1905 in 1910. The club fused with 1. Schwimmverein 1911 to form the current side in 1938. Reutlingen Performance Chart

Reutlingen became a decent regional side in the years after World War II, two second-place finishes in the Oberliga (I) in 1950 and 1955 being the highlight, and earned a place in the second tier Regionalliga Süd in 1963 when Germany's new top flight professional league, the

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...

, was formed. After a second-place finish in their division in 1965, SSV took part in the Bundesliga promotion rounds, where they faced

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and

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for the right to make their Bundesliga début. Reutlingen were held to a 1–1 draw against Mönchengladbach on their home ground, but were crushed 7–0 away, and finished a point behind them in their group. Reutlingen continued to play second division football until the early 1970s when they dropped into the Amateur

Oberliga Baden-Württemberg The Oberliga Baden-Württemberg is the highest association football league in the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Baden-Württemberg football league system. It is one of fourteen Oberligas in German football, the fifth tier of the German foot ...

(III), briefly even falling to fourth-tier

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. They spent most of the next two-and-a-half decades at the third level before playing their way back to the second tier on the strength of a first-place finish in their division that began with a sixteen-game winning streak to open the season. Their three-year adventure in the 2. Bundesliga ended in 2003 after the team was penalised six points for financial irregularities the previous year. They were then denied a licence to play in the third division Regionalliga Süd and were forced down to

(IV). The team finished in first place in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 2005–06 and returned to the Regionalliga Süd (III) for the 2006–07 season. SSV remained in the third division for two years, narrowly missing promotion into the newly formed 3. Liga at the end of the 2007–08 campaign. Without a place in this new national league, the Nullfünfer remained in the Regionalliga Süd, now as a fourth-tier side. The 2008–09 and 2009–10 seasons saw SSV finish in the middle of the Regionalliga Süd table with early exits from the WFV-Pokal in both campaigns. After finishing in 14th position in the Regionalliga Süd in the 2009–10 season, the team was denied a licence to continue playing in the fourth division due to financial insolvency. SSV have competed in the fifth-tier

since the 2010–11 season. The club won the 2014–15 edition of the

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, defeating FV Ravensburg in the final, and thereby qualified for the first round of the

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. Here they beat their local rivals

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3–1 at the Kreuzeiche with three penalties from their captain, Giuseppe Ricciardi. In the second round, SSV lost 4–0 against another team from the 2. Bundesliga,

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Current squad

Honours

The club's honours:

League

German amateur football championship The German amateur football championship was a national football competition in Germany organized by the German Football Association (German: Deutscher Fußball-Bund; DFB) and in existence from 1950 to 1998. History Overview The championship w ...

** Champions: (2) 1974, 1997 * Oberliga Südwest (I) ** Runners-up: 1950 *

Oberliga Süd Oberliga ( en, Premier league) may refer to: Association football * Oberliga (football), currently the fifth tier of the German football league system, formerly the first * DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of football in East Germany until 1990, re ...

(I) ** Runners-up: 1955 * 2nd Oberliga Süd (II) ** Runners-up: (2) 1954, 1957 * Regionalliga Süd (II) ^‡ ** Runners-up: 1965 * Regionalliga Süd (III) ^‡ ** Champions: 2000 *

(III-IV) ** Champions: (3) 1989, 1992, 2006 *

(IV) ** Champions: 1985 *

Amateurliga Schwarzwald-Bodensee Between 1960 and 1978 the 1. Amateurliga Schwarzwald-Bodensee was the highest football division in the southern parts of the Württembergian Football Association and a level three division of the German football league system. Founding The d ...

(III) ** Champions: (3) 1975, 1977, 1978

Cup

** Winners: (4) 1988, 1990, 1999,

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** Runners-up: (3) 1969, 1991, 1995 * ^‡ There has been two separate incarnations of the Regionalliga Süd, one existing from 1963 to 1974 and the other from 1994 to 2012.

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club: * 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.

References

External links

Official team site

SSV Reutlingen at Weltfussball.de

Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Reutlingen, Ssv 05 Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in Baden-Württemberg Reutlingen Association football clubs established in 1905 1905 establishments in Germany 2. Bundesliga clubs