Spielvereinigung Greuther Fürth (), commonly known as Greuther Fürth (), is a
German football club based in
Fürth
Fürth (; East Franconian: ; yi, פיורדא, Fiurda) is a city in northern Bavaria, Germany, in the administrative division (''Regierungsbezirk'') of Middle Franconia. It is now contiguous with the larger city of Nuremberg, the centres of the t ...
, Bavaria. They play in the
2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the
German football league system
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, following relegation from the
Bundesliga
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in the
2021–22 season.
Founded in 1903, the most successful era for Greuther Fürth came in the pre-Bundesliga era in the 1910s and 1920s, when the club won three
German championships in
1914
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,
1926, and
1929
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respectively and finished as runners-up in
1920. In the
2012–13 season, the club played in the Bundesliga for the first time, having won promotion from the 2. Bundesliga; it was relegated back to the 2. Bundesliga at the end of the season. On 23 May 2021 they were promoted back to the Bundesliga for the second time. Upon placing 18th in the Bundesliga table in the 2021–22 season, they were relegated back to 2. Bundesliga.
History
Spielvereinigung Fürth
The origins of ''SpVgg Fürth'' are in the establishment on 23 September 1903 of a football department within the gymnastics club ''
Turnverein 1860 Fürth''. The footballers went their own way as an independent club in November 1906, after they did not get enough support from ''TV Fürth''. The team played in the Ostkreisliga and took divisional titles there in 1912, 1913 and 1914 before moving on to participate in the Süddeutsche (South German) regional playoffs for the national championship round.
Right from the beginning, there was a great rivalry between the SpVgg Fürth and the
1. FC Nürnberg, predicated on the historical rivalry between the two neighbouring cities. The club grew rapidly, and by 1914, it had 3,000 members and was the largest sports club in Germany. When the club built their own stadium,
Sportpark Ronhof
Sportpark Ronhof , Thomas Sommer is an association football stadium in the district of Ronhof in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany, and the home ground of Bundesliga team SpVgg Greuther Fürth.
The stadium was originally opened on 11 September 1910 u ...
, in 1910, it was the biggest stadium in Germany at the time.
National champions
Fürth won their first national title in winning the
1914 German football championship under English coach
William Townley
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He scored the first hat-trick in the history of the FA Cup final, but his lasting legacy is defined as an important pioneer of the game in Ger ...
with
left winger
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
Julius Hirsch, who had joined the team the prior season.
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