TSV Roth

TSV Roth

Full name	Turn- und Sportverein 1859 Roth e. V.
Founded	1859
Dissolved	2008
League	defunct
2007–08	Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken (VI), 9th

The TSV Roth is a defunct German association football club from the town of Roth, Bavaria.

The club's most successful era was in the 1970s when it spent a season in the tier three Bayernliga. In 2008 the club merged with SC Roth 1952 to form TSG 08 Roth.^[1]

History

For most of its history the club has been a non-descript amateur side in local Bavarian football. The clubs most successful era began in 1970 when it earned promotion to the tier four Landesliga Bayern-Mitte after a championship in the Bezirksliga Mittelfranken-Süd.^[2] Roth immediately became a top side in this league, finishing fourth in its first season there. A second place followed in 1972 and a league championship the season after. The later earned the club promotion to the Bayernliga, the third tier of the German football league system in Bavaria.^[3]

TSV spend the 1973–74 season in the Bayernliga but finished last and was immediately related again, never to return to this level again.^[4]

Back in the Landesliga the club could not perform on the same level as before the promotion, instead constantly struggling against relegation. Four seasons at this level followed in which a thirteenth place in 1977 was the clubs best result but relegation back to the Bezirksliga followed the year after.^[3] The club earned promotion to the Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken for a season in 1990, a league introduced in 1988, after runners-up finish in the Bezirksliga Mittelfranken-Süd. Between 1999 and 2001 the club dropped even further, to the Kreisliga, but made a recovery after three seasons there.^[2]

The club experienced a revival in the last few seasons of its existence, earning promotion to the Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken in 2006 and immediately becoming a top side in this league. After the merger in 2008 the new club, TSG Roth, inheritated the old clubs league place.^[5]

Honours

The club's honours:

• Landesliga Bayern-Mitte
  • Champions: 1973
  • Runners-up: 1972
• Bezirksliga Mittelfranken-Süd
  • Champions: 1970, 2006
  • Runners-up: 1990, 2005

Final seasons

The final season-by-season performance of the club:^[6][7]

• With the introduction of the Bezirksoberligas in 1988 as the new fifth tier, below the Landesligas, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the establishment of the Regionalliga Bayern as the new fourth tier in Bavaria in 2012 the Bayernliga was split into a northern and a southern division, the number of Landesligas expanded from three to five and the Bezirksoberligas abolished. All leagues from the Bezirksligas onwards were elevated one tier.

Key

References

External links

• Official TSG 08 Roth website (German)
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (German) historical German domestic league tables
• Manfreds Fussball Archiv (German) Tables and results from the Bavarian amateur leagues