The TSG Backnang Fussball is a German association football club from the city of

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. The club's most notable time was between 1965 and 1976, when it reached as far as Germany's second division for one season. The club is one of four legally independent entities of the mother club ''TSG Backnang 1846''.

History

The ''TSG Backnang'' was formed on 9 May 1846 as a gymnastics club. Independently from this club, the FV Backnang formed in 1919 as a football club. It existed as such until the end of the Second World War, when the occupation authorities banned all pre-war sport associations and new ones had to be formed. In Backnang, the ''Sportvereinigung Backnang'' was formed, which included a number of pre-war associations, including the footballers. Eventually, the club returned to the original name of the gymnastics club, ''TSG''. The club did not break through to the higher reaches of German football until 1965, when it earned promotion to the tier-three Amateurliga Nordwürttemberg, where it finished fifth in its first season. The year after, the ''TSG'' came second in the league, behind the

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, the second team of ''VfB'' which was not entitled to promotion to the professional Regionalliga Süd. It was therefore ''TSG Backnang'' who took their place in the promotion round, where the team finished first on equal points with the

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. In a promotion decider, ''TSG'' won 1–0 and earned promotion to the second division. On 21 November 1967, the club separated into four independent departments, one of them the football department. The reason for this was the promotion of the football team to the Regionalliga, a professional league, which had financial and legal implications for the club that the other departments did not want to carry. ''TSG'' only lasted for one season on the professional level, finishing second-last and being relegated back to the Amateurliga again. It came third in its first season back in the Amateurliga in 1968–69, after this it became a mid-table side in the league in the following seasons. After a number of good years, the ''TSG'' finished 16th in the league in 1976 and was relegated to the fourth tier. After this, ''TSG Backnang'' disappeared into the lower amateur leagues until 1983, playing in the Landesliga Württemberg-Staffel 1 (V), when it achieved promotion to the tier-four

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. It played at this level for nine seasons, before being relegated again, without truly coming close to promotion to the

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. In 1991, the club won the

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, beating

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1–0. After a three-year absence, it returned to the Verbandsliga in 1995, played there for three years, after which they were relegated again. ''TSG'' made one more return to the Verbandsliga for the 2003–04 season but was relegated again immediately. After that, the club played in the Landesliga Württemberg-Staffel 1 as an upper table side until winning the league in 2014 and earning promotion back to the Verbandsliga. The club is famous for having a single

ultra adopted by British military intelligence in June 1941 for wartime signals intelligence obtained by breaking high-level encrypted enemy radio and teleprinter communications at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park. '' ...

, named Nico.

Honours

The club's honours:

League

* Landesliga Württemberg-Staffel 1 (V) ** Champions: 1983, 2014

Cup

** Winners: 1991 ** Runners-up: 1966

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

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, all leagues below dropped one tier. * TSG were top of the Verbandsliga Württemberg in 2019-20 when the season was abandoned due to the

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References

Sources

*''Süddeutschlands Fussballgeschichte in Tabellenform 1897–1988'' History of Southern German football in tables, author: Ludolf Hyll

External links

Official team siteDas deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Backnang TSG Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in Baden-Württemberg Association football clubs established in 1919 1919 establishments in Germany