SV Erlenbach
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| Full name | Sportverein Erlenbach am Main 1919 e.V. |
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| Founded | 19 March 1919 |
| Ground | Waldsportplatz |
| Chairman | Lars Nowag |
| Manager | Jürgen Baier |
| League | Bayernliga Nord (V) |
| 2015–16 | 14th |
The SV Erlenbach is a German association football club from the town of Erlenbach am Main, Bavaria.
The club's greatest success came in 2013 when it qualified for the northern division of Bayernliga, the fifth tier of the German football league system.
While football was played in Erlenbach before the First World War it was not until after the war that it became organised when FV Viktoria Erlenbach was formed on 19 March 1919. The inspiration for the name Viktoria came from Viktoria Aschaffenburg, formed in 1901, which functioned as a "godparent" for the new club.
Viktoria initially struggled to find a home ground until a patch of land became available after a local forest fire. In the early years the club took part in local competitions. The club struggled with the problems of the hyperinflation, with a bill of 374 Billion Reichsmark as costs for the trip to an away game being recorded. It continued in local competitions up until 1941 when the events of the Second World War put a stop to local football. The final teams the club fielded were already mostly composed of soldiers of the German Wehrmacht.
After the war football soon resumed in Erlenbach, first in the form of friendlies, later, from 1946, as competitive matches in the Kreisliga. Initially grouped in the A-Klasse the club rose to the 2. Amateurliga Unterfranken in 1951 and spent the next 17 seasons there. Relegation followed in 1968, the 2. Amateurliga having been renamed to Bezirksliga in 1963, and the club determined that its old sporting facilities were no longer adequate, deciding to upgrade the grounds.
In 1949, another football club was formed in Erlenbach and name Eintracht Erlenbach'. This club never climbed as high as local rival Viktoria and, in 1969, the two clubs started discusing a merger. After both sides agreed the SV 1919 Erlenbach was formed on 20 February 1970.
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