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The SpVgg Edenkoben, formerly the SV Edenkoben, is a
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from the town of
Edenkoben Edenkoben () is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It lies approximately halfway between Landau and Neustadt an der Weinstraße. Edenkoben is one of the towns situated along the German Wine R ...
, Rhineland-Palatinate. The club's greatest success came in 1988–89 when it won the tier-three Oberliga Südwest and unsuccessfully took part in the promotion round to the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga. The club became a founding member of the new
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in 1994 but was relegated the season after and has since dropped into local amateur football. The club also made two appearances in the
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, in 1989–90 and 1994–95.


History

The origins of the club date back to 1908 when the FC Germania 08 Edenkoben was formed. This club however was short-lived, folding in 1914 with the outbreak of the
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.Chronik der Spielvereinigung Edenkoben
SV Edenkoben website – Club history, retrieved 9 August 2012
In post-war Germany a new football club was formed in Edenkoben on 20 April 1920, the FV 1920 Edenkoben. The new club soon found competition in town when a number of other clubs were formed which all eventually, on 27 January 1921, merged into the Spielvereinigung Edenkoben. The club joined local league football in the south western region of the Palatinate, winning occasional league titles and earning promotion from the C-Klasse via the B- and A-Klasse to the Bezirksliga by 1936. With the outbreak of the
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in 1939 the club had to withdraw its team from official competition. With the end of the war all sports clubs were initially dissolved by the French occupation authorities and SV Edenkoben had to be reformed, like so many other clubs, which took place on 2 December 1945. ''SVE'' played once more in local competition, a situation that would not change until the early 1980s when Hans Frühbis, a local entrepreneur, took over as chairman of the club and also became the main sponsor of SV Edenkoben. His ambitious plan was to take the club to the Verbandsliga in the near future, to win promotion to the Oberliga and, within five years, a league title in the later. After earning promotion to the tier-four
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 ...
in 1984 the team missed out on another promotion the following year by one point when it finished second in the league behind champions FK Clausen. The year after however the club won the league and earned promotion.Verbandsliga Südwest tables
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv, retrieved 9 August 2012
SV Edenkoben's first season in the Oberliga Südwest was not a success with the team finishing second from the bottom and being relegated.Oberliga Südwest tables
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv, retrieved 9 August 2012
Back in the Verbandsliga in 1987–88 the team took out another league title and bounced back to the Oberliga Südwest. Returning to the Oberliga, the club proved a much stronger side, eventually taking out the league championship four points clear of second placed
Eintracht Trier SV Eintracht Trier 05 is a German association football club based in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate. It was formed on 11 March 1948 out of the merger of Westmark 05 Trier and Eintracht Trier 06, on the 43rd anniversary of the establishment of pred ...
. As one of the eight Amateur-Oberliga champions, Edenkoben was entitled to take part in the promotion round to the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga. With two of the four Southern German Oberliga champions going up, the club came last in its group with four defeats and only one win and one draw, missing out on promotion to
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and
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, as did
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. ''SVE'' remained a strong side in the Oberliga the following seasons, finishing seventh in 1990, followed by three consecutive fifth places in the league. In 1989–90 the team qualified for the first round of the German Cup for the first time, where it defeated SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken 1–0 before going out to
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in the second round. In 1993–94 the club was once more a contender for the league championship under coach
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, again competing against Eintracht Trier, but this time the club from Trier came out on top and Edenkoben finished in second place, two points behind. It also, for the first and only time, won the local cup competition, the
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, thereby qualifying for the German Cup for the following year. Facing
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in the 1994–95 edition, the club went out in the first round after a 1–2 home defeat. Its 1993–94 league performance allowed the team to easily qualify for the newly introduced third division in the region, the
Regionalliga West/Südwest The Regionalliga West/Südwest was the third tier of the German football league system in the states of Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz and Nordrhein-Westfalen from 1994 to 2000. Overview The Regionalliga West/Südwest was formed in 1994 to form a r ...
. In this league however the club proved to weak, finishing second-last, nine points clear of a non-relegation rank, and dropped to the Oberliga, now the fourth tier. In the Oberliga, ''SVE'' was not competitive any more either, suffering another relegation, now to the Verbandsliga. Back in the Verbandsliga Südwest, SV Edenkoben became a struggler, finishing in the lower half of the table in the first two seasons. In 1998–99 a sixth place meant a slight improvement but, after a tenth place the following year the club decided to withdraw from the league to the lower amateur leagues. In 2004 the club was officially renamed SpVgg Edenkoben and has since fluctuated between the Bezirksklasse and the Bezirksliga. From 2014 to 2016 it played in the A-Klasse Mittelhardt, the ninth tier of the
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but was relegated at the end of the 2015–16 season.


Honours

The club's honours:


League

* Oberliga Südwest ** Champions: 1989 ** Runners-up: 1994 *
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** Champions: 1986, 1988 ** Runners-up: 1985 * Bezirksklasse Vorderpfalz-Mitte ** Champions: 2011


Cup

*
South West Cup The South West Cup (german: Südwestpokal) 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. It is limited to clubs from the Rheinhessen-Pfalz region of R ...
** Winners: 1994


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
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s in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. In 2012 the Oberliga Südwest was renamed
Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar The Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, formerly the ''Oberliga Südwest'', is the highest regional football league for the Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland states of Germany, organized by the Southwestern Regional Football Association. It is the fifth ...
.


References


External links


Official team site

Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables
SV Edenkoben at Weltfussball.de
{{DEFAULTSORT:Edenkoben, Sv Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in Rhineland-Palatinate Association football clubs established in 1920 1920 establishments in Germany Südliche Weinstraße