SpVgg Bad Homburg
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| Full name | Spielvereinigung 05/99 Bomber Bad Homburg e.V. |
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| Founded | 20 August 1905 14 May 1999 (reformed) |
| Ground | Sandelmühle |
| Capacity | 7,000 |
| Chairman | Joachim Herbert |
| Manager | Ralf Haub |
| League | Kreisoberliga Hochtaunus (VIII) |
| 2015–16 | 2nd |
The SpVgg Bad Homburg is a German association football club from the town of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hesse.
The club's greatest success came in 1973 when it won the German amateur football championship, but it also reached the final of this competition on another three occasions. SpVgg also took part in the German Cup on two occasions, in 1977–78 and 1992–93. The club folded in 1999 and reformed soon after and now plays as the SpVgg 05/99 Bomber Bad Homburg.
The club was formed as SC Germania 05 Homburg on 20 August 1905 and the clubs early history is one of frequent mergers and name changes. In 1906 it was renamed to FC Germania 05 Homburg and, in 1911, it merged with FC 1908 Kirdorf to form Homburger SpVgg 08. The following year another merger, now with FC Phönix 08 Bad Homburg, saw the club renamed to Homburger FV 05. Yet another set of mergers, with Sportclub 1920 Homburg and Homburger Hockeyclub saw it renamed to Homburger Sport-Verein 05, a name it retained when it merged with Vorwärts Homburg in 1930. In 1937 the club merged with Reichsbahn-TuSV 1930 Bad Homburg, a club associated with the German railway, and became Reichsbahn SV 05 Bad Homburg, soon after to be changed to Reichsbahn SG 05 Bad Homburg. It was under this name that it experienced its greatest pre-1945 success, reaching the promotion round to the tier one Gauliga Hessen in 1941.
The railways club was disbanded after the end of the Second World War and Freie-Sportgemeinschaft Bad Homburg was formed which became the SpVgg 05 Bad Homburg on 1 February 1946. The club became a founding member of the tier three Amateurliga Hessen in 1950 but lasted for only one season before being relegated again. It returned to this level in 1952 for a spell of nine seasons until 1961. It won the league in 1955 which entitled it to participate in the German amateur football championship for the first time. SpVgg went all the way to the final, where it lost to Sportfreunde Siegen 0–5 in front of 15,000 spectators. The club continued to achieve good results in the Amateurliga, coming second in 1958 but was relegated again in 1961.
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