ESV Nürnberg-West Fürth
| ESV Nürnberg-West Fürth | |
| Full name | Railway Sports Club Nuremberg-West Fürth eV |
| place | Nuremberg |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Dissolved | 1998 |
| Club colors | Black-and-white |
| Stadion | Kampfbahn West (1946–1965) ESV Stadium Regelsbacher Strasse (1965–1998) |
| Top league | Amateur League Bavaria |
| successes | 2nd place 1961/62 |
The ESV Nürnberg-West Fürth was a sports club from Nuremberg . In 1998 it merged with the FSV Nürnberg to form SG Nürnberg Fürth 1883 .
Club history
The association was founded on February 17, 1946 under the name Reichsbahn TSV Nürnberg-West and stood in the tradition of the pre-war clubs TuS Nürnberg-West and Reichsbahn-SG Nürnberg. On September 17, 1948, the club merged with the Reichsbahn-Sportvereinigung Fürth to form ESV Nürnberg-West Fürth . In 1998 the merger with FSV Gostenhof 1883 Nürnberg to SG Nürnberg Fürth 1883 e. V.
Football department
The footballers of the club rose in 1958 for the first time in the group north of the 1st amateur league Bavaria , in which they succeeded in the 1958/59 season with 13th place to stay. In the season 1959/60 the ESV reached the seventh place, in the season 1960/61 the eighth place and in the season 1961/62 the runner-up championship. The ninth place in the table in the season 1962/63 was not enough for the qualification for the single-track 1st amateur league. In 1967 the ESV succeeded in advancing to the single-track 1st amateur league, which, however, was immediately relegated to bottom of the table. After that, the top Bavarian amateur class was not reached again.
literature
- Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories, S. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
- Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Vereinslexikon , p. 351 , AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .