SpVgg Edenkoben
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| Full name | Spielvereinigung 1920 Edenkoben e.V. |
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| Founded | 20 April 1920 |
| Ground | Weinstraßenstadion |
| Capacity | 8,000 |
| Chairman | Ernst Kunz |
| Manager | Rafael Stasiak |
| League | B-Klasse (X) |
| 2015–16 | A-Klasse Mittelhardt (IX), 14th (relegated) |
The SpVgg Edenkoben, formerly the SV Edenkoben, is a German association football club from the town of Edenkoben, Rhineland-Palatinate.
The club's greatest success came in 1988–89 when it won the tier-three Oberliga Südwest and unsuccessfully took part in the promotion round to the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga. The club became a founding member of the new Regionalliga West/Südwest in 1994 but was relegated the season after and has since dropped into local amateur football.
The club also made two appearances in the German Cup, in 1989–90 and 1994–95.
The origins of the club date back to 1908 when the FC Germania 08 Edenkoben was formed. This club however was short-lived, folding in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War.
In post-war Germany a new football club was formed in Edenkoben on 20 April 1920, the FV 1920 Edenkoben. The new club soon found competition in town when a number of other clubs were formed which all eventually, on 27 January 1921, merged into the Spielvereinigung Edenkoben. The club joined local league football in the south western region of the Palatinate, winning occasional league titles and earning promotion from the C-Klasse via the B- and A-Klasse to the Bezirksliga by 1936. With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 the club had to withdraw its team from official competition.
With the end of the war all sports clubs were initially dissolved by the French occupation authorities and SV Edenkoben had to be reformed, like so many other clubs, which took place on 2 December 1945. SVE played once more in local competition, a situation that would not change until the early 1980s when Hans Frühbis, a local entrepreneur, took over as chairman of the club and also became the main sponsor of SV Edenkoben. His ambitious plan was to take the club to the Verbandsliga in the near future, to win promotion to the Oberliga and, within five years, a league title in the later.
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