SV 1899 Mühlhausen is a German sports club from

Mühlhausen Mühlhausen () is a city in the north-west of Thuringia, Germany, north of Niederdorla, the country's geographical centre, north-west of Erfurt, east of Kassel and south-east of Göttingen. Mühlhausen was first mentioned in 967 and bec ...

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. The team is active in athletics, volleyball, football, wrestling, boxing, gymnastics, badminton, darts, capoeira and sports for the disabled.

Football

The club was founded as ''FC Germania 1899 Mühlhausen'' on 23 February 1899 by a group of 14 school boys who had been playing football on the army drill field since 1893–94. They played their first match in April 1899 against '' SC Erfurt'' and dropped a 0:2 decision. ''Germania'' is notable as a founding member of the

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(Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) at

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in 1900. In 1918 the club merged with ''Fußball Club 1901 Teutonia Mühlhausen'' to form ''Sportvereinigung 1899 Mühlhausen''. Over the next three decades the name of the club changed several times and the lineage of the club became somewhat murky. Following World War II the team disappeared and other teams were formed. In 1994 ''SV Union Mühlhausen'' and ''Fitness 90'' merged and took the historic name ''SV 1899 Mühlhausen''. In 1997 the football department became independent as

FC Union Mühlhausen FC Union Mühlhausen is a German football club from Mühlhausen, Thuringia. History The club was founded in 1972 after the merger of ''BSG Post'' and ''BSG Motor''. As ''BSG Union Mühlhausen'' the team played most of the times in the Bezirksliga ...

. However SV 1899 also remained active in football and is currently fielding only a D-Juniors team wherein players are between 10 and 12 years old. The senior team last played in 2. Kreisklasse Unstrut-Hainich (XI) in 2011 and later withdrew from league play, not featuring a senior men's team anymore.

External links

Official website
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