SC 04 Schwabach
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| Full name | Sportclub 04 Schwabach e.V. |
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| Founded | 1996 |
| Ground | Sportpark an der Nördlinger Straße |
| Capacity | 4,000 |
| Chairman | Heinz Rabe |
| Manager | Alexander Maul |
| League | Landesliga Bayern-Nordost (VI) |
| 2015–16 | Bezirksliga Mittelfranken 2 (VII), 1st (promoted) |
The SC 04 Schwabach is a German association football club from the town of Schwabach, Bavaria.
The club was established in 1996, when TSV 04 Schwabach merged with 1. SC Schwabach to form SC 04 Schwabach. Of those two clubs, TSV has been the more successful side, having spent 13 seasons in the Fußball-Bayernliga between 1946 and 1963. After the merger, the new club managed to reach this league level again in 1998 and spent another seven seasons there until 2005.
Apart from football, the club also offers other sports like boxing and tennis.
TSV 04 Schwabach was formed in 1904 as ATV 04 Schwabach, as a working class gymnastics club and renamed to TSV 04 in 1927. Its working class affiliation caused it to be outlawed in 1933, when the Nazis came to power. It was however reformed in 1946. It absorbed three other clubs during its existence, in 1927, 1946 and 1985.
The club was admitted to the northern division of the Landesliga Bayern in 1946 and played there for two seasons, until a league restructering forced it to drop a tier.
Schwabach returned to Bavarias highest league in 1951, now the Amateruliga Bayern, finishing third in its first year there. After two seasons, the league was split once more in a southern and a northern division, with TSV entering the later. The club lasted for another two seasons but than suffered relegation in 1955.
The side made an immediate return to the Bayernliga from the 2nd Amateurliga in 1956, spending another seven seasons at this level. A fifth place in its first season back was the club's best result in this period and it generally out of relegation trouble.
In 1963, with the establishment of the Bundesliga, the Bayernliga was reduced to a single division once more and Schwabach missed the cut in eleventh place to enter the new league.
The club was grupped in the new tier four Landesliga Bayern-Mitte instead, but lasted for only two seasons at this level. It made a return to the Landesliga in 1968 and spent another four seasons in the league but was relegated again in 1972, this time more permanently. It took the side until 1984 to make a return to the league and then for only three seasons.
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