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| Full name | Fußballverein 1893 Ravensburg e.V | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1893 | ||
| Ground | Ebra-Stadion | ||
| Capacity | 7,000 | ||
| Manager | Martin Braun | ||
| League | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (V) | ||
| 2023–24 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg, 13th of 18 | ||
TheFV Ravensburg is aGermanassociation football club from the town ofRavensburg,Baden-Württemberg.
The club's greatest success has been to play in theOberliga Baden-Württemberg, the highest football league in the state, of which it became a founding member in 1978. It played at this level from 1978 to 1983, 1998 to 2000 and, again, since 2013.
The club was formed asFC Ravensburg in 1893, the same year as fellow Württemberg clubVfB Stuttgart, as one of the first football clubs in what was then theKingdom of Württemberg.[1] In 1907 a second football club was formed in Ravensburg, the FC Rauenegg which soon after merged with theFCR. In the era up to the early 1930s the club competed in the local leagues aroundLake Constance (German:Bodensee), playing in an international competition, theBodensee– Fußball–Vereinigung andBodensee–Vorarlberg–Liga, that included clubs from Austria and Switzerland, likeFC Lustenau andFC St. Gallen. When the Nazis rose to power, however, this cross-border competition ceased to exist and the club joined the newSchwarzwald–Bodensee–Liga instead. In between, during theFirst World War football came to a halt and when it restarted in 1918 the club changed its name toFV Ravensburg. Around that time, in 1919, the club also moved to its current home ground, theWiesental.[2]
After theSecond World War the club received permission from theGouvernement Militaire Ravensburg, the localFrench military occupation authorities, to reform and enter the new second tier of local football, the Landesliga Südwürttemberg. It initially played under the name ofSV Ravensburg but later returned to its old name. This league was disbanded in 1950 and the best clubs joined the newAmateurliga Württemberg, butFVR was not one of them.[3][4]
In 1956 the club earned promotion to the Amateurliga Württemberg, then the third tier of theGerman football league system. It played for three seasons at this level before being relegated again in 1959.[5] In 1960 the Amateurliga Württemberg was split into a northern division, theAmateurliga Nordwürttemberg while a southern division was formed from clubs from the former league and theAmateurliga Südbaden. In this new southern league, theAmateurliga Schwarzwald-Bodensee, FV Ravensburg entered, finishing in third place in its first season there. The club finished in the top six of the league for the first couple of seasons but was relegated in 1966.[6]
In 1968FV was promoted back up but was not able to finish quite as highly as it had in the early days of the league.[6] In 1971 and 1972 the club reached the final of theWürttemberg Cup on two occasions, losing the former toVfL Sindelfingen on penalties and then later toVfR Aalen despite playing at home on both occasions. From 1973 onwards Ravensburg was an improved side in the Amateurliga, once more finishing in the upper half of the table. In the league's final season, 1977–78,RV finished fourth and thereby became one of the five clubs from the league that qualified for the newOberliga Baden-Württemberg.[6]
Ravensburg played the first five seasons of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg with an eighth-place finish in 1981 as its best result. By 1983, however, the club suffered relegation from the league after coming in 18th.[7] It entered theVerbandsliga Württemberg, a league also established in 1978, but finished last in its first season there and dropped to the Landesliga Württemberg, the fifth tier, in 1984.[8]
After five seasons in the LandesligaFV made a return to the Verbandsliga in 1989, with a record 4,000 spectators seeing the local derby againstVfB Friedrichshafen.[4] The Verbandsliga was the league the club would play in the next nine seasons, generally achieving good results there. In 1998 it finished runners-up in the league, missing out on promotion until the following year when it won the league and moved back up to the Oberliga after a 16-year absence.[8] The club came in twelfth in its first season back but a 14th place in 2000 meant relegation back to the Verbandsliga.[9]
Ravensburg began another cycle of dropping from the Oberliga to the Landesliga via the Verbandsliga and back. Relegated from the Oberliga, it spent three seasons in the Verbandsliga, then dropped down to the Landesliga in 2003 and was promoted back up in 2005. Upon its returnFV spent the next eight seasons in the Verbandsliga, missing out on another promotion in 2011 when it finished runners-up. In 2013 however, coming in second behind1. FC Heidenheim II, the team won promotion back to the Oberliga through the promotion round, defeatingSV 98 Schwetzingen.[8]
The club managed to establish itself in the Oberliga, coming in ninth in its first season back.[9]
The club's honours:
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The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[10][11]
| Season | Division | Tier | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999–2000 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | IV | 14th ↓ |
| 2000–01 | Verbandsliga Württemberg | V | 6th |
| 2001–02 | Verbandsliga Württemberg | 12th | |
| 2002–03 | Verbandsliga Württemberg | 15th ↓ | |
| 2003–04 | Landesliga Württemberg IV | VI | 2nd |
| 2004–05 | Landesliga Württemberg IV | 1st ↑ | |
| 2005–06 | Verbandsliga Württemberg | V | 8th |
| 2006–07 | Verbandsliga Württemberg | 3rd | |
| 2007–08 | Verbandsliga Württemberg | 15th | |
| 2008–09 | Verbandsliga Württemberg | VI | 8th |
| 2009–10 | Verbandsliga Württemberg | 4th | |
| 2010–11 | Verbandsliga Württemberg | 2nd | |
| 2011–12 | Verbandsliga Württemberg | 5th | |
| 2012–13 | Verbandsliga Württemberg | 2nd ↑ | |
| 2013–14 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | V | 9th |
| 2014–15 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 7th | |
| 2015–16 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 9th | |
| 2016–17 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 6th | |
| 2017–18 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 6th | |
| 2018–19 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 6th |
| ↑Promoted | ↓Relegated |
