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| Full name | Oststädter Sportverein Hannover von 1923 e.V. | ||
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| Founded | 1923 | ||
| Ground | Oststadtstadion | ||
| Capacity | 6,000 | ||
| Chairman | Bianka Heublein | ||
| Manager | Wolfgang Kirchner | ||
| League | Landesliga Hannover (VI) | ||
| 2021–22 | Landesliga Hannover Nord, 7th of 9 | ||
OSV Hannover is aGerman association football club based in the Oststadt district ofHanover,Lower Saxony.
The club was founded in 1923 asFreie Sportvereinigung Hannover Ost. The club was dissolved in 1933 in the course of theNazi regime's politically motivated reorganization of sport and football clubs throughout the country and re-constituted asOststädter Sportverein Hannover. In 1937, the club merged with the older sideMTV Groß Buchholz, which had been founded in 1923.
After World War II the football side was associated withTuS Bothfeld 04 until re-establishing themselves as an independent club in 1953. The club has an unremarkable history, noted only for three seasons spent inRegionalliga Nord from 1972 to 1974, and another two in the2. Bundesliga Nord in 1979 and 1980.OSV re-established a facility sharing partnership withTuS Bothfeld 04 in the mid-1970s, and had a close brush with bankruptcy in the early 1980s.
The club slipped into obscurity in the lower level local leagues, playing as far down as the Kreisliga Hannover-Stadt (IX) in 2003–05. In 2005, the executive board helped engineer a turnaround when they brought in Wolfgang Kirchner as manager and had formerSV Arminia Hannover player Philip Menges join the team as player-coach. The club's fortunes improved greatly and they went through nearly two full seasons unbeaten at home. A championship in the eighth tier Bezirksklasse Hannover/4 led to promotion to the Bezirksliga Hannover (VII). With the league renamed to Landesliga the club today plays in theLandesliga Hannover.
