Freier TuS Regensburg
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| Full name | Freier Turn- und Sportverein Regensburg von 1911 e.V. |
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| Founded | 1911 |
| Chairman | Anton Zimmermann |
| Manager | Nico Beigang |
| League | Kreisliga Regensburg (VIII) |
| 2015–16 | 5th |
The Freier TuS Regensburg is a German association football club from the city of Regensburg, Bavaria.
The club's greatest success came in 2009–10, when it earned promotion to Bavaria's highest state league, the Fußball-Bayernliga, which the club played in for just one season.
The club was formed on 15 June 1911, under the name of Freie Turnerschaft Regensburg, initially as a gymnastics club with its members predominantly drawn from the local working class. The club soon expanded to include other sports departments, including football.
With the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933, Freier TuS, like most other clubs that were organised within the working-class Arbeiter-Turn- und Sportbund, was outlawed and its assets confiscated. The former members had to find a new home, which many did in the local railway men's sports club, ESV Regensburg. After the end of the Second World War, the club reformed in 1946 and was eventually able to have its assets returned.
On the football field, the club did not rise above local level for most of its history, with football in Regensburg being firmly dominated by Jahn Regensburg.
TuS was a founding member of the Bezirksoberliga Oberpfalz in 1988 but lasted for only one season, being relegated back to the Bezirksliga after winning only two games all season. The club made a return to the Bezirksoberliga in 1992, after a tile in the Bezirksliga Oberpfalz-Süd, after which the side was more competitive at this level.
In 1997, the club was very successful in indoor competitions, winning the Upper Palatinate and Bavarian Indoor Football Championships. After promotion to the tier-five Landesliga Bayern-Mitte in 1997 through a second place in the Bezirksoberliga, TuS played for thirteen seasons at this level. The first eight seasons of those, it played as a mid- to lower table side but, in 2005–06, the side finished second in the league and qualified for the Bayernliga promotion round, where it was unsuccessful. Results in the Landesliga were much healthier after that and the club eventually took out the league championship in 2010 and earned promotion to the Fußball-Bayernliga for the first time.
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