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| Full name | SG Quelle Fürth im TV 1860 e.V. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1973 | ||
| Ground | Gustav-Schickedanz-Sportfeld | ||
| Capacity | 7,000 | ||
| Manager | Patrick Frühwald | ||
| League | Landesliga Bayern-Nordost (VI) | ||
| 2015–16 | 3rd | ||
TheSG Quelle Fürth is aGerman football club from the city ofFürth inBavaria.
The club was formed as the football section of the athletics clubTV 1860 Fürth on 1 June 1973. The club's name, SG Quelle, refers to the fact that it has a strong connection with theQuelle company and originated out of the company's still existingSunday League team BSG Quelle Kickers.[1]
The club was part of the lower amateur leagues inMiddle Franconia until 1988, when it won promotion from theBezirksliga Mittelfranken-Süd to theLandesliga Bayern-Mitte (IV). After four seasons where it struggled for survival in this league, SG Quelle was relegated back down, now to theBezirksoberliga Mittelfranken in 1992. 1991 saw the arrival ofDieter Lieberwirth as the club's manager, a former long-term player of the 1. FC Nürnberg, a position he held until 2002, when he returned to Nürnberg.[2]
The club only spent one season in the BOL before returning to the Landesliga. A better performance there saw it finish seventh there in 1993–94, taking out the league title the season after. Promoted to theBayernliga, it finished second in this league, behind fellow promoted teamSC Weismain. Both earned a place in theRegionalliga Süd for the following year. Fürth as the second placed team had to play-off against the runners-up from theOberliga Hessen,Viktoria Aschaffenburg and from theOberliga Baden-Württemberg,VfB Stuttgart II, to do so, defeating both teams.[3]
The club played for one season in the same league as its mighty neighbors,1. FC Nürnberg andSpVgg Greuther Fürth but from there their ways lay apart, the later two returning to the 2. Bundesliga while Quelle was relegated back to the Bayernliga.
The next twoBayernliga seasons saw good performances by the club, finishing second in 1998 and 1999. In 1998, it missed out on promotion to theSC Pfullendorf.[4] The later earned them a promotion back to theRegionalliga, this time by finishing ahead of theSV Sandhausen and theSG Hoechst in a promotion round.[5] However, the club could again not survive at this level and returned to the Oberliga the next season.
From 2000 to 2003, SG Quelle played at this level before being relegated once more, now back to the Landesliga.
A runners-up spot in 2004 proofed not enough to earn promotion back to the Bayernliga but the season after, the league could be won and Quelle won promotion once more. Again, for only one season, the club being straight relegated again.
The 2006–07 season saw the club handed straight down to the Bezirksoberliga, where it, true to its unsteady past, earned promotion straight back up.
Back in theLandesliga for the 2008–09 season, the club struggled at the lower end of the table and a 14th-place finish, on equal points with 15th placed SV 73 Nürnberg-Süd, meant it had to go into post-season relegation matches once more. Quelle won 1–0 and was present inLandesliga in 2009–10 but suffered another relegation, back to theBezirksoberliga.[6]
At the end of the 2011–12 season the team qualified directly for the newly expanded Landesliga after finishing second in the Bezirksoberliga.[7]
The club's honours:
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Recent managers of the club:[8]
| Manager | Start | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Dieter Lieberwirth | 1 July 1991 | 30 June 2002 |
| Franz Weber | 1 July 2001 | January 2002 |
| Reinhard Hofmann | January 2002 | October 2006 |
| Paul Hesselbach | October 2006 | June 2007 |
| Petr Skarabela | July 2007 | June 2008 |
| Norbert Hütter | July 2008 | 2010 |
| Thomas Adler | 2010 | 30 June 2015 |
| Patrick Frühwald | 1 July 2015 | present |
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[9][10]
| Season | Division | Tier | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999–2000 | Regionalliga Süd | III | 16th ↓ |
| 2000–01 | Bayernliga | IV | 9th |
| 2001–02 | Bayernliga | 8th | |
| 2002–03 | Bayernliga | 15th ↓ | |
| 2003–04 | Landesliga Bayern-Mitte | V | 2nd |
| 2004–05 | Landesliga Bayern-Mitte | 1st ↑ | |
| 2005–06 | Bayernliga | IV | 17th ↓ |
| 2006–07 | Landesliga Bayern-Mitte | V | 17th ↓ |
| 2007–08 | Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken | VI | 2nd ↑ |
| 2008–09 | Landesliga Bayern-Mitte | VI | 14th |
| 2009–10 | Landesliga Bayern-Mitte | 17th ↓ | |
| 2010–11 | Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken | VII | 3rd |
| 2011–12 | Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken | 2nd ↑ | |
| 2012–13 | Landesliga Bayern-Nordost | VI | 4th |
| 2013–14 | Landesliga Bayern-Nordost | 4th | |
| 2014–15 | Landesliga Bayern-Nordost | 7th | |
| 2015–16 | Landesliga Bayern-Nordost | 3rd | |
| 2016–17 | Landesliga Bayern-Nordost |
| ↑Promoted | ↓Relegated |
