SpVgg Sandhofen
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Spielvereinigung Sandhofen 03 e. V. | ||
| Seat | Mannheim , Baden-Wuerttemberg | ||
| founding | 1903 | ||
| Colours | black-and-white | ||
| Board | Fritz Reubold | ||
| Website | spielvereinigung-sandhofen.de | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Mathias Burosch | ||
| Venue | Club facility Neue Riedlache | ||
| Places | nb | ||
| league | District class A Mannheim 2 | ||
| 2016/17 | 6th place | ||
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The Spielvereinigung (SpVgg) Sandhofen 03 is a club founded in 1903 from the Mannheim district of Sandhofen . The football department dominates the club, with handball, bowling and gymnastics departments as well. The footballers played in the 1920s and 1930s at times in the top divisions and from 1958 to 1965 in the first amateur league. Since then, the team has not appeared nationwide.
history
The club in the north of Mannheim was founded in 1903 as the Germania Sandhofen Football Association , and in the following year it joined the Association of South German Football Associations and the German Football Association and took part in championship rounds for the first time. Problems within the club, however, caused the football company to be dissolved as early as 1908 and to re-establish it as FC Phönix Sandhofen . After the First World War, they merged with two other Sandhofen clubs, the FV 1902 Sandhofen and the SV 1918 Sandhofen, and merged on January 9, 1919 to form the Spielvereinigung 03 Sandhofen .
Even if the Sandhofen team never prevailed in the championship rounds against the two top Mannheim clubs VfR Mannheim and SV Waldhof , the game association often tipped the scales in the local derbies of the late 1920s and 1930s when it came to the championship the district league and later the Gauliga went. For the 1926/27 season , after several unsuccessful attempts, the promotion to the top division, the district league Rhine, was successful, where it was able to establish itself in the following years, until with the introduction of the Gauligen in 1933, the demotion to the second division again took place . The club's most successful period began in 1936, when the black and whites qualified as champions of the district class Unterbaden-West, first with two wins over VfB Wiesloch for the promotion round to Gauliga Baden and there after four wins with two defeats as the second promoter next to FC Rastatt 04 qualified for the top division. In the 1936/37 round , the Sandhofen family - alongside SV Waldhof, VfR and VfL Neckarau - were one of four Gauliga clubs from the football stronghold of Mannheim. Despite the great local competition, the game association held for six years - until 1942 in the top division.
After the Second World War, on September 22, 1945, the club was dissolved and re-established as the Sandhofen Games and Sports Association; on January 7, 1947, the old club name was adopted again. The soccer classes were reallocated after the war. As the highest division in southern Germany, the Oberliga Süd was introduced as early as 1945 , Mannheim provided two representatives with SV Waldhof and VfR. The second highest division formed (until 1950) the Landesliga Nordbaden, which comprised ten teams, including SpVgg Sandhofen. The first round was finished with 6th place, in the following years the black and whites were not very successful and after the 1948/49 season finally descended from the regional league as third from bottom.
After they had barely avoided relegation to the A-class in 1956 and only succeeded in making the leap into the first amateur league in 1958, the game association was shortly before qualifying for the contract soccer camp following the round of 1959/60. After the championship round, SpVgg Sandhofen and Phönix Mannheim were tied at the top of the table, so the North Baden champions had to be determined in a decider. In front of 13,000 spectators on the VfR square, the game association had to admit defeat 2: 3. However, if they were successful, they would have waived promotion to the 2nd division south anyway for economic reasons. After five more years in the top amateur league, SpVgg Sandhofen had to relegate it again in 1965; in the previous year they had only escaped relegation in a decider. This ended the presence of the traditional Sandhofen club in national football. After eight more years you had to leave the 2nd amateur league.
Current teams
In the 2010/11 season, the first team of the game association played in the regional Rhein-Neckar league, the second team in the Mannheim district league A. After relegation twice, the first men's team in 2014/15 played in the district A Mannheim. Since 2001 there has also been women's football at SpVgg, the club also provides two teams here. In addition to soccer, a second team sport is played with handball . The handball department of the SpVgg forms a syndicate with TSV 1887 Sandhofen, which competes under the name SG Sandhofen.
literature
- Hardy Grüne , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , pp. 415-416.
- Alfred Heierling 100 years of Spielvereinigung Sandhofen 03. , Mannheim 2003