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| Full name | Fußballklub 03 Pirmasens e.V. | ||
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| Nickname | Die Macht vom Horeb | ||
| Founded | 1903 | ||
| Ground | Sportpark Husterhöhe | ||
| Capacity | 10,000 | ||
| Chairman | Emil Schweitzer | ||
| Manager | Steven Dooley | ||
| League | Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar (V) | ||
| 2022–23 | 3rd | ||
FK Pirmasens is aGerman association football club inPirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate. The team was formed as the football section of the gymnastics and sports club TV Pirminia Pirmasens in 1903 and became independent in 1914. They took on their current name in 1925. FK is one of the few teams that uses the German Klub in their name as opposed to the commonly affected English-style term Club.
The club developed into a strong amateur side in southwestern Germany. In post-First World War play, the club was grouped in the tier-oneKreisliga Saar in 1919 but then moved to theKreisliga Pfalz in 1920. From 1930 to 1933 the team made three consecutive appearances in the final of theSouthern German championship, on the strength of fourBezirksliga Rhein-Saar titles, and between 1934 and 1936 were three times vice-champions of theGauliga Südwest, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the re-organization of German football under theThird Reich. World War II was hard on the club: following a 0–26 beating at the hands of1. FC Kaiserslautern in 1942 they withdrew from competition until after the conflict. After the war the club played in theOberliga Südwest and captured league titles there in 1958, 1959 and 1960 while finishing as vice champions in 1954 and 1962. The club was so popular at the time that they often had to abandon their home ground in favour of the stadium in nearbyLudwigshafen in order to accommodate crowds of up to 65,000 spectators.
After the formation of theBundesliga, Germany's new professional league, in 1963 Pirmasens found themselves in the second divisionRegionalliga Südwest where they consistently finished in the upper half of the league table over the course of the next decade. While they had several opportunities to advance to the Bundesliga through the promotion rounds they were unsuccessful. By the mid-1970s the club was faltering. They narrowly missed relegation in 1977, only staying up because rivalSV Völklingen was denied a license. However, by 1980 they found themselves in the AmateurOberliga Südwest (III), slipped to theVerbandsliga Südwest by 1993, and just two seasons later were playing in the Landesliga Südwest (VI). The club has recovered nicely and climbed as high as the third divisionRegionalliga Süd in 2006–07.
In 2006, the club stunned German football when they defeatedWerder Bremen in the first round of theDFB-Pokal in a penalty shootout.
Since 2007 the club played in the Oberliga Südwest where the team has achieved good results, coming second in 2010 and 2011. From 2012 to 2013 the Oberliga Südwest was renamed Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, with FKP continuing in this league. The club won the championship in 2014 and earned promotion to theRegionalliga Südwest.
The club's reserve team, FK Pirmasens II, achieved its greatest success in 2014–15 when it won promotion to the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar.
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The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[1][2]
| Season | Division | Tier | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999–2000 | Regionalliga West/Südwest | III | 17th ↓ |
| 2000–01 | Oberliga Südwest | IV | 8th |
| 2001–02 | Oberliga Südwest | 7th | |
| 2002–03 | Oberliga Südwest | 13th | |
| 2003–04 | Oberliga Südwest | 12th | |
| 2004–05 | Oberliga Südwest | 10th | |
| 2005–06 | Oberliga Südwest | 1st ↑ | |
| 2006–07 | Regionalliga Süd | III | 17th ↓ |
| 2007–08 | Oberliga Südwest | IV | 10th |
| 2008–09 | Oberliga Südwest | V | 3rd |
| 2009–10 | Oberliga Südwest | 2nd | |
| 2010–11 | Oberliga Südwest | 2nd | |
| 2011–12 | Oberliga Südwest | 3rd | |
| 2012–13 | Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar | 8th | |
| 2013–14 | Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar | 1st ↑ | |
| 2014–15 | Regionalliga Südwest | IV | 14th |
| 2015–16 | Regionalliga Südwest | 13th | |
| 2016–17 | Regionalliga Südwest | 14th ↓ | |
| 2017–18 | Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar | V | 2nd ↑ |
| 2018–19 | Regionalliga Südwest | IV | 9th |
| 2019–20 | Regionalliga Südwest | 16th |
| ↑Promoted | ↓Relegated |
Heinz Kubsch, played for West Germany's1954 World Cup winningMiracle of Bern side.
