Wikipedia - TuS Mechtersheim

TuS Mechtersheim are a German association football club based in Mechtersheim.

History

TuS Mechtersheim was founded on 1 March 1914 as Viktoria Mechtersheim. Following the conclusion of World War I the club was remade as Sportverein Mechtersheim. With the formation of an athletics department in 1930 came the adoption of the name Turn- und Sportverein Mechtersheim. In the aftermath of World War II organizations across the country, including sports and football clubs, were ordered dissolved by occupying Allied authorities. The club was re-established as ASV Mechtersheim in 1946, before resuming its old identity as Tus Mechtersheim in March 1950.

TuS played through most of its history at the amateur level. The team won promotion to the Landesliga Südwest-Ost (VI) in 2001 before advancing through the Verbandsliga Südwest (V) to the Oberliga Südwest (IV) in 2004.

For the next eleven seasons the club played in the Oberliga, with a seventh place in 2013 as its best result. A fourteenth place in 2014–15 however meant relegation to the Verbandsliga for Mechtersheim where it won another league title in 2015–16 and returned to the Oberliga.

TuS Mechtersheim er en tysk fodboldklub fra byen Mechtersheim i Rheinland-Pfalz. Klubben blev stiftet i 1920 og spiller i øjeblikket i Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, den femte række i det tyske fodboldsystem.

Mechtersheims hjemmebane er Waldstadion, som har en kapacitet på 2.000 tilskuere. Klubbens traditionelle farver er blå og hvid.

TuS Mechtersheim har vundet Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar to gange, i 1978 og 2003. Klubben har også nået finalen i det tyske amatørmesterskab tre gange, i 1979, 1980 og 1981.

Nogle af Mechtersheims mest kendte spillere gennem tiden er Klaus Toppmöller, der senere blev træner for det tyske landshold, og Gerd Schommers, der spillede for Bayern München og det tyske landshold i 1970'erne.