SpVgg Lindau
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| Full name | SpVgg Lindau 1919 |
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| Founded | 1919 |
| Ground | Reutiner Straße |
| Capacity | unknown |
| Chairman | Michael Lehmann |
| Manager | Helmut Stegmaier |
| League | Kreisliga Bodensee A (IX) |
| 2015–16 | Kreisliga Bodensee B4 (X), 1st (promoted) |
The SpVgg Lindau is a German football club from Lindau, Bavaria.
The club was formed on 1 August 1919 as the football department of the TSV 1850 Lindau under the leadership of Sosthenes Sailer and its first chairman Goldbrunner. The new club was put into the A-Klasse Gau Oberschwaben, where it remained in the coming years. Despite being a Bavarian club, the team always competed in neighbouring Württemberg, which it is geographically much closer to then to clubs in the Bavarian region of Schwaben were it politically belongs to.
In 1924, a new law in Germany stipulated that football clubs had to be clearly separated from other sports clubs and the team was renamed VfL Lindau, now under the leadership of Jakob Egg.
In 1928, the club archived its first success with the championship in the A-Klasse and promotion to the Bezirksliga.
In 1934, a new football stadium was opened in town, the Städtische Stadion. To celebrate this occasion, a game between the FC Bayern Munich and SSV Ulm was organised which Bayern won 3–2.
During the years of World War II , football in Lindau actually received a boost with a large number of German soldiers stationed in town. By 1944 however, football came gradually to a halt as most of those were sent to the front line.
Football only resumed in Lindau in April 1946, with permission of the allied authorities, when the SG Lindau was formed.
Facing the rather unusual situation of having to many players, the club split in 1950 in two new ones: The ESV Lindau and SpVgg Lindau.
SpVgg Lindau was formed on 5 March 1950 in the "Gasthof Schweitzerhof", a restaurant and pub and the new club was integrated in the A-Klasse Bodensee that year. SpVgg finished on top of that league in its first year and gained promotion to the 2nd Amateurliga Oberschwaben where they played for two season before being relegated back down. Immediately winning promotion back to the 2nd Amateurliga, the club managed to stay there this time, archiving a championship in this league in 1961. SpVgg Lindau however failed to gain promotion to the Amateurliga Schwarzwald-Bodensee, losing its promotion matches.
The year after, the club archived its goal, promotion to the third division Amateurliga Schwarzwald-Bodensee, on the strength of another 2nd Amateurliga championship. In 1966, the SpVgg managed to win the Württemberg Cup with a 5–3 victory over the TSG Backnang. This qualified them for the Southern German Cup where they lost 0–6 to SSV Reutlingen. In 1968, they won the cup again, this time with a 1–0 victory over Union Böckingen.
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