The SV Raisting is a

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from the town of

Raisting Raisting is a municipality in the Weilheim-Schongau district, in Bavaria, Germany. Sport The towns association football club SV Raisting, formed in 1924, experienced its greatest success in 2013 when it won promotion to the southern division of ...

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. The club's greatest success came in 2013, when it qualified for the southern division of the

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, the fifth tier of the

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History

SV Raisting, for the most of its history, has been a non-descript amateur side in local Bavarian football. The club was formed in 1924 as Sportabteilung Raisting as part of local club MTV Diessen. Playing only friendlies in the early year the club became independent in 1929 under its current name. Disbanded at the end of the

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SV Raisting reformed on 8 July 1946, and entered local football once more in the Zugspitze region. In the following decades the club fluctuated between the lowest division, the C-Klasse, and two levels higher, the A-Klasse. In 1959, ''SVR'' faced a crises that led to the club almost being disbanded but it recovered. It built a new home ground in 1969 with the earth works being carried out by the

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. The club won promotion to the

Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Süd The Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Süd ( en, District league Upper Bavaria-South) is currently the seventh tier of the German football league system in the southern part of the Bavarian ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Upper Bavaria (german: Oberbayern). Until th ...

in 1979 and again in 1991. In 1994, itwon a championship in the Bezirksliga and earned promotion to the Bezirksoberliga. Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Süd
Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 5 August 2014 Raisting played in the

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, the highest league in

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, for three seasons from 1994 onwards, finishing in the bottom half of the table each year and eventually being relegated again in 1997. After two years in the Bezirksliga the club returned to the Bezirksoberliga again in 1999. The club's second three season stint in this league was more successful, culminating in promotion to the

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in 2002.Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern tables and results
Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 5 August 2014 The club's first ever Landesliga season was unsuccessful, finishing sixteenth and being relegated again. Four more Bezirksoberliga seasons followed before Raisting returned to the Landesliga for a second time in 2007. On this occasion, Raisting lasted for two seasons before dropping down again in 2009. The club dropped straight from the Landesliga via the Bezirksoberliga to the Bezirksliga and rose back up again to the Bezirksoberliga by 2011. The 2011–12 season was to be the last of the Bezirksoberliga and Raisting, despite only finishing eleventh qualified for the Landesliga, the later having been expanded from three to five divisions.
Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 5 August 2014 The club came second in the inaugural season of the Landesliga Bayern-Südwest and, via the promotion round, earned promotion to the

. Raisting came eleventh in its first season in the southern division of the Bayernliga in 2013–14. The club finished on a relegation play-off rank in the 2014–15 season and, after losing to

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in the first round, was relegated back to the Landesliga.

Honours

The club's honours: * Landesliga Bayern-Südwest ** Runners-up: 2013 *

** Champions: 2007 ** Runners-up: 2002 *

** Champions: 1994, 1999 ** Runners-up: 2011

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 Bezirksoberligas in 1988 as the new fifth tier, below the Landesligas, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the introduction of the

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s in 1994 and the

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in 2008 as the new third tier, below the

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, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the establishment of the Regionalliga Bayern as the new fourth tier in Bavaria in 2012 the

was split into a northern and a southern division, the number of Landesligas expanded from three to five and the Bezirksoberligas abolished. All leagues from the Bezirksligas onwards were elevated one tier.

Key

References

External links

Official team site

Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables
Manfreds Fussball Archiv
Tables and results from the Bavarian amateur leagues
SV Raisting at Weltfussball.de
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