FV Speyer
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| Full name | Fußballverein Speyer 1919 e.V. |
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| Founded | 15 May 1919 |
| Dissolved | 30 June 2009 |
| Ground | Stadion am Roßsprung |
| Capacity | 14,000 |
| League | defunct |
FV Speyer was a German association football club from the town of Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate. The club's greatest success has been promotion to the tier one Oberliga Südwest in 1952 and 1956, spending seven seasons at this level. In the Bundesliga era FV played in the tier two Regionalliga Südwest for six seasons from 1968 to 1974, when the league was disbanded.
In 2009 FV Speyer merged with local rival VfR Speyer to form FC Speyer 09.
FV Speyer was formed in 1919, originally as the football department of local gymnastics club Turnverein Speyer, but soon as an independent entity.
FV Speyer became part of the tier one Kreisliga Pfalz in 1920 and played there for two seasons before being relegated again. It returned to top-level football for a season in 1926–27 in the Bezirksliga Rhein and continued on in the following season in the new Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar in what was then very regionalised German first tier football in the Mannheim/Ludwigshafen area. After the rise of the Nazis to power and the establishment of the Gauligas in 1933 Speyer did not make an appearance in top tier football again until 1943 when it joined the Gauliga Westmark, temporarily playing as KSG Speyer.
In 1951 Speyer became a founding member of the tier two 2. Oberliga Südwest in which it finished runners-up and earned promotion in its inaugural season. FV played the next three seasons from 1952 to 1955 in the Oberliga Südwest, with a tenth place in 1952–53 as its best-ever result. After relegation the club finished runners-up once more in the 2. Oberliga and was promoted straight back to the Oberliga. A second stint in the Oberliga Südwest followed from 1956 to 1960 in which the best result was a twelfth place in 1958–59, followed by relegation the season after.
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