Torgelower SV Greif
Encyclopedia
Torgelower SV Greif is a German football club
from the city of Torgelow
in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The football team is part of a sports club which also has departments for women's sport, table tennis, and handball
.
in 1990.
In 1971 the team won its first promotion to the second division DDR-Liga and spent most of the decade as an elevator side moving up and down between second and third tier play. They were eligible for promotion again in 1984 but failed to advance through a playoff.
Nord Torgelow gave up its communist-era name in 1990 to again take on the historical club name Torgelower SV Greif. After the merger of the football leagues of the two Germany's in the early 1990s, Greif played as a lower division side until moving up to the Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (V) in 1994. They played there as a middling side until an exciting 2003–04 campaign saw the club come close to breaking through to the Oberliga Nordost-Nord (IV). The next season the club captured the division title to earn promotion to the country's highest amateur class.
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 Torgelow
Torgelow
Torgelow is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the river Uecker, 12 km south of Ueckermünde, and 41 km northwest of Stettin....
in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The football team is part of a sports club which also has departments for women's sport, table tennis, and handball
Team handball
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...
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History
The club was established in 1919 as Greif Torgelow and after World War II resumed play in East Germany as BSG Motor Torgelow in the third tier Berzirksliga Neubrandenburg. Through the 50s they would play as Motor or as Stahl Torgelow and generally earn upper table finishes. Their performance began to slip in the early 60s and they delivered only mid-table results. In 1963 they were re-named Nord Max Matern Torgelow and would play as NMM or simply Nord Torgelow until after German reunificationGerman reunification
German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany , and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. The start of this process is commonly referred by Germans as die...
in 1990.
In 1971 the team won its first promotion to the second division DDR-Liga and spent most of the decade as an elevator side moving up and down between second and third tier play. They were eligible for promotion again in 1984 but failed to advance through a playoff.
Nord Torgelow gave up its communist-era name in 1990 to again take on the historical club name Torgelower SV Greif. After the merger of the football leagues of the two Germany's in the early 1990s, Greif played as a lower division side until moving up to the Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (V) in 1994. They played there as a middling side until an exciting 2003–04 campaign saw the club come close to breaking through to the Oberliga Nordost-Nord (IV). The next season the club captured the division title to earn promotion to the country's highest amateur class.
Honours
- 2010–11 NOFV-Oberliga2010–11 NOFV-OberligaThe 2010–11 season of the NOFV-Oberliga is the third season of the league at tier five of the German football league system.The NOFV-Oberliga is split into two divisions, the NOFV-Oberliga Nord and the NOFV-Oberliga Süd. Berlin AK 07 and VfB Germania Halberstadt were promoted to the 2011–12...
(V) champions - Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-VorpommernVerbandsliga Mecklenburg-VorpommernThe Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern...
(V) champions: 2005