Sportfreunde Seligenstadt 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...

 based in Seligenstadt

Seligenstadt

Seligenstadt is a town in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. Seligenstadt is one of Germany’s oldest towns and was already of great importance in Carolingian times.-Location:...

, Hesse.

History

The club was founded 2 October 1946 and, in addition to a football department, included sections for athletics

Athletics (track and field)

Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...

, chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

, and table tennis. The following year a gymnastics department was added, and the club has since grown to include archery

Archery

Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus. Archery has historically been used for hunting and combat; in modern times, however, its main use is that of a recreational activity...

, fitness

Physical fitness

Physical fitness comprises two related concepts: general fitness , and specific fitness...

, Ju Jitsu, tennis, volleyball, and a seniors section.

The footballers play in the Bezirksoberliga Frankfurt/Ost (VI) where they had a strong 2006–07 season, finishing just one point out of first place. The club earned promotion to the Landesliga Hessen-Süd (V) led by former Eintracht Frankfurt

Eintracht Frankfurt

Eintracht Frankfurt is a German sports club, based in Frankfurt, Hesse that is best known for its association football club.- Club origins :...

player Alexander Schur

Alexander Schur

Alexander Schur is a German footballer. Schur played for more than ten years for Eintracht Frankfurt and is a legend from the Eintracht supporters due to his fighting spirit and his club loyalty....

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External links

• Official team site (football)
• Official team site (sports club)
• Some pictures of the stadium of Sportfreunde Seligenstadt