TuS Lintfort

TuS Lintfort

Surname	Turn- und Spielverein Lintfort eV
Founded	1945/87
Place of foundation	Kamp-Lintfort
Association headquarters	Eyller Str. 45 47475 Kamp-Lintfort
Departments	3
Chairman	Ulrich Klein
Homepage	www.tus-lintfort.de

The TuS Lintfort 45/87 is a sports club in the west of the Rhine Kamp-Lintfort in North Rhine-Westphalia , the nationally by the successes of Handball departments of its precursors teams became known. The soccer department of the predecessor club TuS Lintfort in 1945 played for a year in the then second-class II Division West .

The club also offers volleyball and dance sports.

history

The Lintforter Spielverein (short: Lintforter SpV ) was founded in 1919 and merged with the Lintforter Turnverein founded in 1927 to form VfL Lintfort before the end of the war . After the end of the Second World War , a new association was founded in 1945 under the name TuS Lintfort. In 1967 the gymnasts resigned from this and re-established the Lintfort gymnastics club. The 'first' TuS merged in 1971 with the SV Hoerstgen to Spielvereinigung Lintfort . In 1987 the handball players left the SVL and founded TuS Lintfort 45/87 as a new independent club.

Handball

Men's handball

The events in Lintfort handball initially determined the men. As early as 1940 they won the German field handball championship (as Lintforter SpV ). Field handball remained one of Lintfort's strengths even after World War II . Between 1952 and 1961, two German championship titles and three runner-up championships went to the monastery town. The last time they took part in a final round of the German championship in 1962, they were eliminated in the quarter-finals. The successes in indoor handball were not quite as spectacular, but two Lower Rhine state championships in 1953 and 1966 are also here. The men's team currently plays in the regional league.

Women's handball

TuS Lintfort

Full name	Turn- und Spielverein Lintfort eV
Abbreviation (s)	TUS
Founded	1945/87
Club colors	Blue and white
Hall	Sports hall on Eyller Strasse
Places	800 seats
Trainer	Bettina Grenz-Klein
league	2nd Bundesliga
2019/20
rank	8th place
DHB Cup	1 round
Website	http://www.tus-lintfort.de
home Away
Greatest successes
National	3 × German field handball champions

In the 2004/05 season, the TuS handball players played in the 2nd Bundesliga for the first time and took a respectable eighth place with 26:30 points. A year later 17:35 points were only enough for eleventh place, the final relegation against the south-twelfth TV Mainzlar was clearly lost with 28:35 and 24:29. In the Regionalliga season 2006/07 they started as a top favorite, but cramped, played a weak first half and fell behind. After an increase in performance in the back series, third place jumped out behind master TuS Nettelstedt and vice Bayer Leverkusen . Since both of them refrained from promotion for financial reasons, they returned to the 2nd Bundesliga . Since then - the contract with coach Lothar Schulz had not been extended - Bettina Grenz-Klein ("a TuS veteran", according to the handball week ) has taken over the sporting management again. The first season after being promoted again turned out to be a tremendous game. In the end they saved themselves to tenth place with 17:31 points, and MTV 1860 Altlandsberg (16:32) had to go into the Regionalliga . In the following season, however, the team rose again from the bottom of the table in the Regionalliga West. There they managed to win the championship. After Lintfort played again in the 2nd Bundesliga North in the 2010/11 season , the team had to go back to the third division. In 2016 Lintfort returned to the 2nd Bundesliga.

Seasonal balances since 1999/00

season	Division	space	Sp.	Gates	Diff.	Points
1999/00	Regionalliga West	07th	22nd	443: 419	+ 024	20:24
2000/01	Regionalliga West	04th	26th	522: 514	+ 008	29:23
2001/02	Regionalliga West	08th	26th	563: 573	- 010	24:28
2002/03	Regionalliga West	06th	26th	585: 570	+ 015	28:24
2003/04	Regionalliga West	01	26th	691: 568	+123	48: 40
2004/05	2nd Bundesliga North	08th	28	727: 743	- 016	26:30
2005/06	2nd Bundesliga North	11	26th	702: 750	- 048	17:35
2006/07	Regionalliga West	03	26th	774: 668	+106	35:17
2007/08	2nd Bundesliga North	10	24	633: 664	- 031	17:31
2008/09	2nd Bundesliga North	12	22nd	540: 698	−158	04:40
2009/10	Regionalliga West	01	26th	871: 692	+179	44: 80
2010/11	2nd Bundesliga North	12	22nd	582: 685	−103	06:38
2011/12	3rd League West	10	26th	708: 730	- 022	24:28
2012/13	3rd League West	05	24	718: 616	+102	27:22
2013/14	3rd League West	02	26th	788: 675	+113	44: 08
2014/15	3rd League West	04th	26th	703: 615	+ 088	33:19
2015/16	3rd League West	02	22nd	578: 489	+ 089	32:12
2016/17	2nd Bundesliga	16	30th	793: 894	−101	18:42
2017/18	3rd League West	01	22nd	680: 581	+99	36: 8
2018/19	2nd Bundesliga	11	30th	799: 864	−65	24:36
2019/20	2nd Bundesliga	08th	21st	536: 553	−17	20:22

	Ascent
	descent

Greatest successes

• German champion in the field handball (men) 1940, 1959 , 1961
• German runner-up in field handball (men) 1952 , 1954 , 1960
• Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga (women) in 2004, 2007, 2010 , 2016 , 2018

Former departments

Soccer

In 1947, the TuS Lintfort footballers missed qualifying for the newly created Lower Rhine regional league after losing 1-0 in the playoff against FC 03 Süchteln . Six years later he was promoted to the state league, which was the highest amateur league in the Lower Rhine region at the time. In 1956 , the Lintforts were runner-up in their national league team behind the Duisburg FV 08 and qualified for the newly created Niederrhein Association League . Two years later, the TuS footballers secured the championship under coach Felix Zwolanowski . At the West German amateur championship, the Linforters came second behind the Hombrucher FV 09 . In addition, the Lintforters rose to the 2nd Division West.

Against well-known opponents like Bayer 04 Leverkusen or Wuppertaler SV, however , the TuS footballers had no chance and were relegated from the bottom of the table. The low point of the season was a 9-1 defeat at Schwarz-Weiß Essen . In the 1961/62 season , the Lintforters also rose from the association league after the team lost the playoffs against the tied amateurs of Fortuna Düsseldorf and the Rheydter Spielverein . Four years later it was enough for the runner-up in the regional league behind the Duisburg FV 08, before the team had to go into the district class in 1968. Three years later, the rise succeeded.

basketball

In 1958 a basketball department was established. Only one title could be celebrated: in 1961 the men's team became district champions of the Niederrhein basketball district. After the division was dissolved in 1965, the players switched to the much more successful BG Lintfort club in 1954 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ History. Lintforter Turnverein, accessed on December 2, 2016 . 
2. ^ Hardy Green , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 300.
3. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics : Football in West Germany 1902/03 - 1932/33 . Berlin 2009, p. 49 .
4. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics: Football in West Germany 1945–1952 . Hövelhof 2011, p. 135, 160, 271 .
5. ^ German Sports Club for Soccer Statistics: Soccer in West Germany 1958–1963 . Hövelhof 2013, p. 16, 178 .

Web links

• Internet presence of the association