SV Gonsenheim is a German association football club from the district of

Gonsenheim Gonsenheim is a borough in the northwest corner of Mainz, Germany. With about 25,000 inhabitants, it is the second-most populated borough of Mainz, before Oberstadt and after Neustadt. History Protohistory The history of Gonsenheim reaches bac ...

in the city of

Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

. It was established in 1919 as ''Fußball-Klub Viktoria Gonsenheim'' and on 14 September 1919 merged with ''Fußball-Club Germania 1915 Gonsenheim'' to form ''Sportverein Gonsenheim''. __TOC__

History

Following

World War II 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 opposing ...

, sports and football clubs across the country were disbanded by occupying Allied authorities as part of the process of denazification. A new club known as ''Sportgemeinde Gonsenheim'' was formed out of the former memberships of ''SV'' and ''Turnverein Gonsenheim'' in 1946. The team was part of the postwar first division Oberliga Südwest-Nord where they played just two seasons as a lower tier side before choosing to leave the top-flight. In 1949, ''SV'' and ''TV'' split to become separate clubs again. In the late 1960s, ''SV'' broke through to the third tier

Amateurliga Südwest The Amateurliga Südwest was the highest football league in the region of the Südwest FA and the third tier of the German football league system from its inception in 1952 to the formation of the Oberliga Südwest and the Verbandsliga Südwest ...

where they played 5 seasons between 1964–71. In 2003, they were promoted to the Verbandsliga Südwest (V) and earned a strong third-place finish in their first season there. However, it would not be until 2010 that ''SV'' would advance to the Oberliga Südwest (V), a league renamed to Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar in 2012.

Honours

The club's honours: *

Verbandsliga Südwest The Verbandsliga Südwest is a German amateur football division administered by the Southwest German Football Association, one of the 21 German state football associations. Being the top flight of the Southwestern state association, the Verbandslig ...

** Champions: 2010 * Landesliga Südwest ** Champions: 2005

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 Regionalligas 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 th ...

in 2008 as the new third tier, below the

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, all leagues below dropped one tier. In 2012 the Oberliga Südwest was renamed Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar.

References

External links

Official team site

SV Gonsenheim at Weltfussball.de

Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
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