SpVgg Neckarelz 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 Neckarelz

Neckarelz

-Geography:Neckarelz is in northern Baden-Württemberg, between the Odenwald and Kraichgau, at the confluence of the Neckar and Elz rivers. On the other side of the Neckar, are the towns of Hochhausen and Obrigheim. Next to Neckarelz, is the suburb of Diedesheim....

, 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...

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History

The club was established in June 1921 as Fußballverein Neckarelz and was renamed Spielvereinigung Neckarelz in April 1930. The club reached its highest level of play when they advanced to the Amateurliga Nordbaden

Amateurliga Nordbaden

The Amateurliga Nordbaden was the highest football league in the region of the Nordbaden FA and the third tier of the German football league system from its inception in 1945 to the formation of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg and the Verbandsliga Nordbaden below it in 1978.- Overview :The...

 (III) in 1974. They played four seasons at that level before failing to qualify for the new Amateuroberliga Baden-Württemberg formed in 1979 out of the four separate circuits then existing in the state. Their best result came as a 6th place finish in 1977. SpVgg has appeared twice in play for the DFB Pokal (German Cup), going out in the first round 1:6 to Freiburger FC

Freiburger FC

Freiburger FC is a German association football club based in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg. Freiburger FC was a founding Clubs of the DFB in 1900.-History:...

in 1979, and 1:3 to Bayern Munich in 2010.

Following a Verbandliga (VI) title in 2010, Neckarelz became 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...

, where they currently compete.

Honours

The club's honours:

• Verbandsliga Nordbaden
  Verbandsliga Nordbaden
  The Verbandsliga Baden is currently the 6th tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga it was the 5th tier of the league system.- Overview :...
  
  
  • Champions: 2010
  • Runners up: 1979
• Landesliga Odenwald
  • Champions: 2006
  • Runners up: 2004
• North Baden Cup
  North Baden Cup
  The North Baden Cup is one of the 21 regional cup competitions of German football. The winner of the competition gains entry to the first round of the German Cup.-History:...
  
  
  • Winners: 2009

Recent seasons

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

Season	Division	Tier	Position
1999–2000
2000–01
2001–02
2002–03
2003–04	Landesliga Odenwald	VI	2nd ↑
2004–05	Verbandsliga Nordbaden	V	17th ↓
2005–06	Landesliga Odenwald	VI	1st ↑
2006–07	Verbandsliga Nordbaden Verbandsliga Nordbaden The Verbandsliga Baden is currently the 6th tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga it was the 5th tier of the league system.- Overview :...	V	14th
2007–08	Verbandsliga Nordbaden		9th
2008–09	Verbandsliga Nordbaden	VI	4th
2009–10	Verbandsliga Nordbaden		1st ↑
2010–11	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...	V	4th
2011–12	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg

• With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3rd Liga
  3rd Liga
  The 3rd Liga is the third division of football in Germany. The league started with the beginning of the 2008–09 season, when it replaced the Regionalliga as the third tier football league in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2...
  
   in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2nd Bundesliga
  2. Fußball-Bundesliga
  - Changes in division set-up :* Number of clubs: currently 18. From 1974 to 1981 there were two conferences, each of 20 teams. In 1981–91 it had 20...
  
  , all leagues below dropped one tier.

Stadium

The club plays its home games at the Elzstadion, which has a capcity of 5,500 and was opened in 1963.

External links

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