TSR Olympia Wilhelmshaven is a German sports club based in

Wilhelmshaven Wilhelmshaven (, ''Wilhelm's Harbour''; Northern Low Saxon: ''Willemshaven'') is a coastal town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the western side of the Jade Bight, a bay of the North Sea, and has a population of 76,089. Wilhelmsha ...

, Lower Saxony, on the northwestern coast of the country. The

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was a department of the club which also offers its members

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, athletics, table tennis, and

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History

Only a small local side, the footballers nonetheless played a half dozen seasons in the second division Regionalliga Nord through the early 1970s. They joined the newly formed 2. Bundesliga Nord for the 1974–75 season when a re-structured second division circuit was created from the best performing and most financially stable clubs of the era's five Regionalliga. A middling club at best in their old division, ''Wilhelmshaven'' finished 17th in the re-organized competition and was relegated to the tier III Amateur Oberliga Nord. In 1992 the sports clubs ''TSR Olympia Wilhelmshaven'' and ''

SV Wilhelmshaven SV Wilhelmshaven is a German association football club from Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony. SV Wilhelmshaven play in the Regionalliga Nord. SV Wilhelmshaven was founded in 1905. Since 1999, Wilhelmshaven's stadium is the Jadestadion. History Pre ...

'' merged for economic reasons. ''Olympias football department withdrew to play in the local city circuit. In 2000 the

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(Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) refused a proposed re-union with what was now known as ''SV Wilhelmshaven 92'' which was struggling financially. For the 2009/2010 season the football section of TSR Olympia left the club and joined the football section of ''WSSV Wilhelmshaven'' to form ''FC Olympia 09 Wilhelmshaven''. Since then, football is no longer offered by TSR.

Honours

The club's honours: *

Lower Saxony Cup The Lower Saxony Cup (german: Niedersächsischer Pokal) is an annual football cup competition, held by the ( en, Lower Saxony Football Association) since 1956. For sponsorship reasons, the official name of the competition is Krombacher-Pokal.

** Winners: 1960 * Amateurliga Niedersachsen-West ** Champions: 1956, 1964

External links

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Official football team site
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