TuS Heeslingen was a
German association football club from the town of
Heeslingen
Heeslingen is a municipality in the district of Rotenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It has 4788 inhabitants.
Heeslingen belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the Duchy of Bremen, wh ...
,
Lower Saxony. The footballers were part of a larger sports club that had departments for
aerobics,
athletics,
badminton,
bowling, gymnastics,
Pilates,
table tennis, and volleyball.
History
The roots of the association go back to the 1906 founding of ''MTV Heeslingen''. On 2 February 1946 this club merged with ''Sportverein Viktoria Heeslingen'' to form present-day ''Turn- und Sportverein Heeslingen''. The team played as an unheralded local side before breaking into the Verbandsliga Ost Niedesachsen (V) in 1994. The 2006–07 season was one of the most successful for the club as they won promotion to the
Oberliga Nord
The Oberliga Nord was the fourth tier of the German football league system in the north of Germany. It covered the states of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. With the introduction of the 3. Liga, the league ceased to exist f ...
(IV).
The club last played in the tier five
Niedersachsen-Liga
The Oberliga Niedersachsen ( en, Upper League Lower Saxony), sometimes referred to as ''Niedersachsenliga'' (Lower Saxony league), is the fifth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Lower Saxony (ge ...
where it finished fourth in 2012–13 but was refused a licence for the following season and folded. Its place was taken up by a new club, the Heeslinger SC.
Der Verein
Heeslinger SC website: The club, accused: 23 March 2015
Honours
The club's honours:
* Verbandsliga Niedersachsen-Ost
The Oberliga Niedersachsen ( en, Upper League Lower Saxony), sometimes referred to as ''Niedersachsenliga'' (Lower Saxony league), is the fifth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Lower Saxony (ge ...
** Champions: 2007
References
External links
Official team site of Heeslinger SCDas deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables (in German)
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Defunct football clubs in Germany
Defunct football clubs in Lower Saxony
Association football clubs established in 1906
Association football clubs disestablished in 2013
1906 establishments in Germany
2013 disestablishments in Germany
Football clubs in Germany