Duisburger SV
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| Full name | Eintracht Duisburg 1848 e.V. |
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| Founded | 1848 (TuS Duisburg 1848) 1 July 1964 (merger of TuS Duisburg 48/99 and Duisburger SV) |
| Ground | Leichtathletikstadion Duisburg |
| Capacity | 2,500 |
| Chairman | Dietmar Rudat |
| Head coach men Head coach women |
Marcus Folgner Stefan Kaehler |
| League | Kreisliga B Duisburg Gruppe 2 (IX) |
| 2015–16 | 16th |
| Website | Club home page |
Eintracht Duisburg is a German sportsclub from the city of Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia. Founded in 1848 it is one of the country's oldest sport associations.
The history of the club includes the mergers of a number of earlier clubs, the most important of these being the Duisburger Turngemeinde für Erwachsene von 1848 – predecessor of the Duisburger Spielverein – and TuS Duisburg 48/99. It was these two sides that fused to create today's club on 24 July 1964.
Duisburger SV was one of the most successful sides of early football in western Germany. The team was formed out of Duisburger TfE on 22 March 1900 on the initiative of Gottfried Hinz, who would later go on to become president of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association). Between 1900 and 1913 SV made regular appearances in the national playoffs, twice advancing to the semi-finals, and contesting the final in 1913 against VfB Leipzig, losing 1:3. The club played as a strong side into the late 20s winning a total of ten West German championships between 1904 and 1927.
After their final championship the club faded from prominence. They did not re-appear in upper tier football until after World War II when they advanced to play in the Oberliga West in 1949. Generally a mid-table side, the club's best result was a second-place finish in 1957 and, except for a short period from 1951 to 1954, DSV played first division football until 1962. A last-place result that season ensured the team would not be part of the newly formed sixteen-team Bundesliga, Germany's first professional league, going on to play instead in the Regionalliga West (II).
The origins of TuS Duisburg 48/99 go back to the founding in 1899 of Duisburger Fussball Klub. In 1903, this club merged with SV Viktoria 1893 to create Duisburger SV Viktoria 1899. They were joined in 1921 by five-month-old Turn-Borussia Duisburg thereby becoming TuS.
The earliest of Eintracht's predecessor sides, Duisburger TSV 1848 then gave rise to two separate clubs in 1923 with the gymnasts forming Duisburger TV 1848 and the footballers forming Duisburger TSV 1899. This football club played two seasons in the Gauliga Niederrhein, one of sixteen top-flight divisions formed in the 1933 re-organization of German football under the Third Reich, before being relegated.
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