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| Full name | Sportgemeinde Eintracht e.V. 1902 Bad Kreuznach | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Gässjer | ||
| Founded | 1902 | ||
| Ground | Friedrich Moebus Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 10,000 | ||
| Chairman | Bert Haag | ||
| Manager | Steffen Seidel | ||
| League | Verbandsliga Südwest (VI) | ||
| 2023-24 | Verbandsliga Südwest (VI), 7th | ||
Eintracht Bad Kreuznach is aGerman association football club from city ofBad Kreuznach,Rhineland-Palatinate. They are among the most successful amateur football teams in southwestern Germany but, after a couple of consecutive relegations, now find themselves in the tier eight Bezirksliga Nahe.
The club was established asFußball Club Kreuznach on 18 June 1902 and later, in 1907 merged withSport Club 1906 Kreuznach to become1. FC Kreuznach. This side was joined on 19 August 1932 withFußballsportverein 07 Kreuznach.
During the World War II, the club became part of the first divisionGauliga Mittelrhein when that circuit was expanded from 10 to 21 teams and split into theGauliga Köln-Aachen andGauliga Moselland. They finished atop the Moselland Gruppe Ost, but then lost the divisional playoff toFV Stadt Düdelingen, a club from German-occupied Luxemburg.Kreuznach remained part of Gauliga competition until the end of the 1943–44 season, after which the war overtook the region and play in the division was suspended.
Eintracht Bad Kreuznach played one year in the2nd Bundesliga, which was during the1975/76 season.
In 2000, the club advanced to theOberliga Südwest (IV) where they played until being sent down to theVerbandsliga Südwest (V) after a 17th place Oberliga result in 2008. What followed was two more relegations and an insolvency in 2011, caused by a debt of Euro 110,000, which took the club to the eighth tier, Bezirksliga Nahe.[1]
The club began its recovery in 2011–12 when it took out the Bezirksliga title and earned promotion to the Landesliga again. It lasted for only one season before dropping back to the Bezirksliga in 2013. Another Bezirksliga title in 2015 took the club back to the Landesliga once more, followed by promotion back to the Verbandsliga in the 2015–16 season.
Until 1965, the team played in the Eintracht-Sportfeld Heidenmauer. The record attendance for this ground was somewhere between 23,000 and 25,000 for the first match of the 1950–51 season when they were beaten 2:4 by1. FC Kaiserslautern.
On 11 June 1965Eintracht opened the Freidrich Moebus Stadium which was initially certified to hold 15,000. This was increased to 20,000 but has since been decreased to only 10,000. In 2005 the city ofBad Kreuznach paid to replace the old wooden benches in the stands with modern plastic seats in the course of an unsuccessful attempt to win designation as a training venue for the2006 World Cup held in Germany.
The club's honours:
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The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[2][3]
| Season | Division | Tier | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999–2000 | Verbandsliga Südwest | V | 1st ↑ |
| 2000–01 | Oberliga Südwest | IV | 11th |
| 2001–02 | Oberliga Südwest | 16th | |
| 2002–03 | Oberliga Südwest | 10th | |
| 2003–04 | Oberliga Südwest | 6th | |
| 2004–05 | Oberliga Südwest | 7th | |
| 2005–06 | Oberliga Südwest | 7th | |
| 2006–07 | Oberliga Südwest | 13th | |
| 2007–08 | Oberliga Südwest | 17th ↓ | |
| 2008–09 | Verbandsliga Südwest | VI | 16th |
| 2009–10 | Verbandsliga Südwest | 16th ↓ | |
| 2010–11 | Landesliga Südwest-Ost | VII | 16th ↓ |
| 2011–12 | Bezirksliga Nahe | VIII | 1st ↑ |
| 2012–13 | Landesliga Südwest-West | VII | 14th ↓ |
| 2013–14 | Bezirksliga Nahe | VIII | 3rd |
| 2014–15 | Bezirksliga Nahe | 1st ↑ | |
| 2015–16 | Landesliga Südwest-West | VII | 2nd ↑ |
| 2016–17 | Verbandsliga Südwest | VI | 11th |
| 2017–18 | Verbandsliga Südwest | 6th | |
| 2018–19 | Verbandsliga Südwest | 9th | |
| 2019-20 | Verbandsliga Südwest | 12th | |
| 2020-21 | Verbandsliga Südwest-Gruppe 1 | 8th | |
| 2021-22 | Verbandsliga Südwest-Gruppe 1 | 6th ↓ | |
| 2022-23 | Landesliga Südwest-West | VII | 1st ↑ |
| 2023-24 | Verbandsliga Südwest | VI | 7th |
| 2024-25 | Verbandsliga Südwest |
| ↑Promoted | ↓Relegated |
