MFC 08 Lindenhof is a German association football club

Football in Germany

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 from the district of Lindenhof in the city of Mannheim

Mannheim

Mannheim is a city in southwestern Germany. With about 315,000 inhabitants, Mannheim is the second-largest city in the Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, following the capital city of Stuttgart....

, Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg

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. It was established 21 March 1908 as Mannheimer Fußball-Club Lindenhof and was joined in 1915 by Sportverein Lindenhof and Spielvereinigung Lindenhof. The club is notable for its single season turn in the Gauliga Baden

Gauliga Baden

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, one of the country's 15 regional top-flight divisions established in the re-organization of German football in 1933. After capturing the title in the Bezirksklasse Unterbaden-West in 1934, MFC beat FV Weinheim

FV 09 Weinheim

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(3:1, 0:1) in a qualification playoff and then went on to a second place finish in the Gauliga promotion round in order to advance. Their Gauliga campaign ended in a 10th place finish and relegation.

MFC was part of the 2. Amateurliga following World War II

World War II

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 with their highest rise coming in 1999 when they won their way into the Landesliga Rhein-Neckar (VI) where they played until 2002. The club is still active today and with nearly 600 members is Lindenhof's largest sports club with departments for football and tennis

Tennis

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. The footballers are currently part of the Kreisliga

Kreisliga

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Mannheim (IX).