1. SC Göttingen 05 is a German football club based in

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911. General information The ori ...

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

. The club is the second to use that name.

History

The first incarnation of 1898 was disbanded by 1903 and a new club was started up in 1905 as ''Göttinger FC 05''. In 1920 it was renamed to ''VfR 05 Göttingen'' and in 1921, to ''1. SC Göttingen 05''. For the most part, the club lived out its existence as a side known only locally in northern Germany. They played in the Westdeutscher Spielverband between 1921 and 1933, and after the re-organization of German football under the

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, joined the

Gauliga Niedersachsen The Gauliga Niedersachsen was the highest football league in the Prussian Province of Hanover and the German states of Bremen, Brunswick, Schaumburg-Lippe and Oldenburg from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reor ...

. After World War II, the team was disbanded and re-formed as ''Schwarz-Gelb Göttingen''. They took on the name ''1. SC Göttingen 05'' again in 1948 and at the same time joined first-class

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 ...

. The club spent ten years there, with their best result being a fifth-place finish, before slipping to the Amateurliga Niedersachsen-Ost (III). Göttingen played their way into the

Regionalliga Nord The Regionalliga Nord ( en, Regional League North) is the fourth tier of the German football league system in the states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg. It is one of five leagues at this level, together with the Regional ...

(II) in 1964–65 for a run of thirteen seasons with good results early on including three consecutive second-place finishes. The club failed in three attempts to advance to the

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through the promotion rounds in 1967, 1968, and 1974. In

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, Göttingen was one of the founding members of the 2. Bundesliga Nord. By the late-1970s the team slipped to the III tier Amateur-Oberliga Nord, with one last appearance in the 2. Bundesliga in 1980–81, followed by a temporary fall to IV division play in the mid-1990s. In 1996 and 1999, Göttingen won promotion back into the

(III), just to suffer relegation again in 1998 respectively 2000. A solid effort and first-place finish in the

Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen The Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen was the fourth tier of the German football league system in the north of Germany, existing from 1994 to 2004. It covered the states of Lower Saxony and Bremen. With the re-formation of the Oberliga Nord in 2004, ...

(IV), followed by a clean run through the promotion round in 2001 was wasted when the club could not get a license due to its shaky financial condition. By September 2003 the club was bankrupt: its Verbandsliga games were cancelled and its operation folded up. A new side dubbed ''1. FC Göttingen 05'' rose from the ashes and its youth teams returned to the pitch. A merger was arranged with ''RSV Geismar'' which needed some help after being relegated and also having their own side fall apart. The combined side has returned to play in 2005–06 as ''RSV Göttingen 05''. After a fourth and a fifth place finally succeeded in the 2010/11 season the championship in the now called Landesliga Braunschweig. The highlight of the season was the 1-1 draw in the local derby at SVG Göttingen in front of 2,500 spectators. With the promotion, ''RSV plays'' in the fifth-tier Oberliga Niedersachsen, where the team finished 13th in the 2011/12 season. On September 20, 2012, the board of ''RSV Göttingen 05'' unanimously decided to spin off the soccer department from the club and transfer the playing rights of the first men's team to 1. SC Göttingen 05, which was founded on September 27, 2012. The new club bears the same name as its predecessor, 1. SC Göttingen 05, which had to be dissolved in 2003 due to insolvency. The club sees itself in its tradition, even if it is not a successor club in the legal sense. In the course of this, the black-yellow-green ''RSV'' emblem was replaced by the old black-yellow emblem. The new founding of the club took place mistakenly first with the spelling I. SC Göttingen 05. In December 2022, it was decided at the annual general meeting of the club to correct this and to carry the club name in the historically correct spelling of the predecessor club. After a stint in the tier five

Niedersachsenliga 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 (g ...

the club was relegated from this league after coming last in 2014–15. A year later, the team was relegated to the Bezirksliga, which was followed by direct promotion after a duel with local rivals Sparta Göttingen.

Honours

The club's honours:

1. SC Göttingen 05

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: 1963, 1967^‡ *

** Champions: 1999, 2001 *

Landesliga Braunschweig The Landesliga Braunschweig, called the ''Bezirksoberliga Braunschweig'' from 1979 to 1994 and 2006 to 2010,Landesliga Braunschweig The Landesliga Braunschweig, called the ''Bezirksoberliga Braunschweig'' from 1979 to 1994 and 2006 to 2010,Football club website

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