FV Lauda is a German association football club

Football in Germany

Association football is the most popular sport in Germany. The German Football Association is the sport's national governing body, with 6.6 million members organized in over 26,000 football clubs. There is a league system, with the 1. and 2. Bundesliga on top, and the winner of the first...

 from the city of Lauda-Königshofen

Lauda-Königshofen

Lauda-Königshofen is a town in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Tauber, 7 km southeast of Tauberbischofsheim, and 30 km southwest of Würzburg...

, Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...

, established on 28 March 1913. It briefly became part of Turnverein Lauda in 1920 before becoming independent again on 5 June 1923.

History

Throughout the late 1970s and into the 1980s, FV fielded strong sides in the Verbandsliga Baden (V) and managed to break through to play as part of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg

Oberliga Baden-Württemberg

The Oberliga Baden-Württemberg is the highest Football League in the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Baden-Württemberg football league system. It is one of eleven Oberligas in German Football, the 5th tier of the German football league system...

 (IV) on three separate occasions in 1981, 1985, and 1997.

Following their 1980 Baden Cup win, Lauda made its only appearance in play for the DFB Pokal (German Cup), where they were put out in the opening round by VfB Oldenburg

VfB Oldenburg

VfB Oldenburg is a German association football club based in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony. As of the 2011/12 season they play in the Oberliga Niedersachsenliga, which is at the 5th level of football in Germany.-History:...

(1:2).

The team's longest turn in Oberliga play was from 1997-2006, which included a second place finish in 2000. The club struggled on being relegated to the Verbandsliga in 2006, earning only lower table finishes there, and was sent down to the Landesliga Odenwald (VII) after a 15th place result in 2011.

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:

Season	Division	Tier	Position
1999–2000	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg Oberliga Baden-Württemberg The Oberliga Baden-Württemberg is the highest Football League in the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Baden-Württemberg football league system. It is one of eleven Oberligas in German Football, the 5th tier of the German football league system...	IV	2nd
2000–01	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg		5th
2001–02	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg		10th
2002–03	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg		6th
2003–04	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg		13th
2004–05	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg		13th
2005–06	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg		17th ↓
2006–07	Verbandsliga Baden	V	8th
2007–08	Verbandsliga Baden		14th
2008–09	Verbandsliga Baden	VI	8th
2009–10	Verbandsliga Baden		12th
2010–11	Verbandsliga Baden		15th ↓
2011–12	Landesliga Odenwald	VII

External links

• Official team site
• FV Lauda profile at Weltfussball.de
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables