SV 98 Schwetzingen is a German association football club from the town of

Schwetzingen Schwetzingen (; pfl, Schwetzinge) is a German town in northwest Baden-Württemberg, around southwest of Heidelberg and southeast of Mannheim. Schwetzingen is one of the five biggest cities of the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district and a medium-sized ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

. The club's greatest success has been promotion to the

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 footb ...

in 1982 and 1986, playing at this level for eight seasons. The club has also qualified for the

DFB-Pokal The DFB-Pokal ( is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It is considere ...

once in 1984, courtesy to a

North Baden Cup The North Baden Cup (German: ''Badischer Pokal'' or ''BFV-Pokal'') is one of the 21 regional cup competitions of German football. The winner of the competition gains entry to the first round of the German Cup. History The Cup was established in ...

win.

History

Formed in 1998 SV Schwetzingen made a brief appearance in the tier one

Kreisliga Odenwald The Kreisliga Odenwald (English: ''District league Odenwald'') was the highest association football league in the northern part of the German state of Baden and the southern part of the state of Hesse from 1919 to 1923. The league was disbanded wit ...

from 1920 to 1922. In post-

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

football SV Schwetzingen earned promotion in 1947 to the northern division of the

Amateurliga Nordbaden The Amateurliga Nordbaden was the highest football league in the region of the North Baden Football Aassociation and the third tier of the German football league system from its inception in 1945 to the formation of the Oberliga Baden-Württember ...

, then the second tier of the league system. It qualified for the unified Amateurliga in 1948 but was relegated from the league in 1949. ''SVS'' returned to the Amateurliga which had now slipped to third tier in 1950 and finished runners-up in the league in 1952 but was relegated again in 1955. The club made an immediate return in 1956 but suffered another relegation in 1958. Schwetzingen won another promotion to the Amateurliga Nordbaden in 1963 and won the league in its first season back but failed to win promotion to 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 ...

. It remained in the league as an upper table side for the remainder of the 1960s but declined during the 1970s, on occasion coming close to relegation. The club however survived and, in the last season of the Amateurliga in 1977–78 missed out on qualification to the new

by just a point. ''SVS'' became something of a fixture in the new

Verbandsliga Baden The Verbandsliga Nordbaden is a German amateur football division administered by the Baden Football Association, one of the 21 German state football associations. Being the top flight of the Baden state association, the Verbandsliga is currently a ...

, playing in this league or the league above, the Oberliga, for the next twenty five seasons. A runners-up finish in 1982 took the club up to the Oberliga for the first time but it was immediately relegated again. The club qualified for the

in 1984 after its second

win, the first having come in 1969, but lost 1–2 in the first round to

Alemannia Aachen Alemannia Aachen () or ATSV Alemannia 1900 is a football in Germany, German football club from the western city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia. A long term fixture of the country's 2. Bundesliga, second division, ''Alemannia'' enjoyed a three- ...

.DFB-Pokal 1984/1985
Weltfussball.de, accessed: 25 April 2015 Two season later, in 1986, a league championship in the Verbandsliga moved the club up again and, this time, it survived for seven seasons. The club had a particularly successful era between 1988 and 1991 when it finished in the top four of the Oberliga in three consecutive seasons. It declined after this and, in 1993, was relegated once more. Schwetzingen played the next ten seasons in the Verbandsliga, generally as an upper table side, achieving six top four finishes in this time. In 2002–03 however the club could only finish fifteenth in the league and was relegated from the top league of North Baden for the first time in four decades. Three seasons in the Landesliga followed before a runners-up finish in 2006 took the club back up to the Verbandsliga. Schwetzingen came close to Oberliga promotion in 2013 once more when it finished runners-up but lost in the promotion round to

FV Ravensburg The FV Ravensburg is a German association football club from the town of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg. The club's greatest success has been to play in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg, the highest football league in the state, of which it beca ...

. Since then the club continues to play in the Verbandsliga.

Honours

The club's honours:

League

Verbandsliga The Verbandsliga ( en, Football Association League) is usually a tier-six football league in the German football league system, covering the area of a '' Bundesland'' or a regional part of such Bundesland.Amateurliga Nordbaden The Amateurliga Nordbaden was the highest football league in the region of the North Baden Football Aassociation and the third tier of the German football league system from its inception in 1945 to the formation of the Oberliga Baden-Württember ...

** Champions: 1964 ** Runners-up: 1952

Cup

** Winners: 1969, 1984

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:Historic German football league tables
Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 23 April 2015SV 98 Schwetzingen at Fussball.de
accessed: 23 April 2015 * With the introduction of the

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 siteSV 98 Schwetzingen at Weltfussball.de
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