TuS Mechtersheim are a German association football club based in Mechtersheim.

TuS Mechtersheim
Full nameTurn- und Sportverein Mechtersheim 1914
Founded1914
GroundStadion an der Kirschenallee
Capacity2,000
ChairmanGösta Geiger
ManagerManfred Schmitt
LeagueOberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar (V)
2015–16Verbandsliga Südwest (VI), 1st (promoted)

History

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TuS Mechtersheim was founded on 1 March 1914 as Viktoria Mechtersheim. Following the conclusion of World War I the club was remade as Sportverein Mechtersheim. With the formation of an athletics department in 1930 came the adoption of the name Turn- und Sportverein Mechtersheim. In the aftermath of World War II organizations across the country, including sports and football clubs, were ordered dissolved by occupying Allied authorities. The club was re-established as ASV Mechtersheim in 1946, before resuming its old identity as Tus Mechtersheim in March 1950.

TuS played through most of its history at the amateur level. The team won promotion to the Landesliga Südwest-Ost (VI) in 2001 before advancing through the Verbandsliga Südwest (V) to the Oberliga Südwest (IV) in 2004.

For the next eleven seasons the club played in the Oberliga, with a seventh place in 2013 as its best result. A fourteenth place in 2014–15 however meant relegation to the Verbandsliga for Mechtersheim where it won another league title in 2015–16 and returned to the Oberliga.

Honours

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The club's honours:

  • Verbandsliga Südwest (V)
    • Champions: 2004, 2016
  • Landesliga Südwest-Ost
    • Champions: 2001
  • A-Klasse Speyer
    • Champions: 1980, 1986
  • B-Klasse Speyer
    • Champions: 1968, 1977

Recent seasons

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The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[1][2]

Season Division Tier Position
2000–01 Landesliga Südwest-Ost VI 1st ↑
2001–02 Verbandsliga Südwest V 5th
2002–03 Verbandsliga Südwest 4th
2003–04 Verbandsliga Südwest 1st ↑
2004–05 Oberliga Südwest IV 13th
2005–06 Oberliga Südwest 13th
2006–07 Oberliga Südwest 14th
2007–08 Oberliga Südwest 14th
2008–09 Oberliga Südwest V 9th
2009–10 Oberliga Südwest 8th
2010–11 Oberliga Südwest 8th
2011–12 Oberliga Südwest 11th
2012–13 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar 7th
2013–14 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar 13th
2014–15 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar 15th ↓
2015–16 Verbandsliga Südwest VI 1st ↑
2016–17 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar V
Promoted Relegated

References

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  1. ^ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
  2. ^ Fussball.de – Ergebnisse (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
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