TSV Crailsheim 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 town of Crailsheim

Crailsheim

Crailsheim is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, 32 km east of Schwäbisch Hall, 40 km southwest of Ansbach in the Schwäbisch Hall district, incorporated in 1338....

, 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

Founded as the gymnastics club Turnverein Crailsheim in 1846, the association today has over 3,000 members in 20 departments including athletics

Athletics (track and field)

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, basketball, cycling

Cycling

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, dance sport, fistball

Fistball

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, fencing

Fencing

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, fitness

Physical fitness

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, football, hand ball

Team handball

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, Ju Jitsu, Judo

Judo

is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...

, rehabilitation sport, swimming, table tennis

Table tennis

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, and tennis.

Several of the teams representing the club have enjoyed success: the women's football side plays in the 2. Bundesliga

2. Fußball-Bundesliga (women)

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, the men's basketball team in the 2. Basketball-Bundesliga Süd, and the men's footballers in 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).

TSV was promoted to the Verbandsliga Württemberg

Verbandsliga Württemberg

The Verbandsliga Württemberg 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) in 2001 and then advanced to 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...

 in 2003. In their first season at that level they narrowly missed quick promotion to the Regionalliga Süd

Regionalliga Süd

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 (III) when they finished just one point behind FC Nöttingen

FC Nöttingen

FC Nöttingen is a German association football club from the Nöttingen district of Remchingen, Baden-Württemberg. The footballers are part of a sports club of more than 500 members that also has departments for table tennis and an unusual sport popular locally known as Schnürles or Fussballtennis ,...

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After seven Oberliga seasons, the club suffered relegation in 2010 and decided to withdraw to the tier eight Bezirksliga Hohenlohe instead.

Recent seasons

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

Season	Division	Tier	Position
2000–01	Landesliga Württemberg	VI	↑
2001–02	Verbandsliga Württemberg Verbandsliga Württemberg The Verbandsliga Württemberg 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	4th
2002–03	Verbandsliga Württemberg		1st ↑
2003–04	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
2004–05	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg		6th
2005–06	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg		11th
2006–07	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg		6th
2007–08	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg		7th
2008–09	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg	V	13th
2009–10	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg		17th ↓
2010–11	Bezirksliga Hohenlohe	VIII	3rd
2011–12	Bezirksliga Hohenlohe

• 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.

External links

• Official team site
• Official team site (men's football)
• Official team site (women's football)
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (in German)