TSV 1861 Nördlingen
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| Full name | TSV 1861 Nördlingen e. V. |
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| Founded | 1861 |
| Ground | Gerd-Müller-Stadion |
| Capacity | 10,000 |
| Chairman | Helmut Beyschlag |
| Manager | Karl-Heinz Schüler |
| League | Landesliga Bayern-Südwest (VI) |
| 2015–16 | 3rd |
The TSV 1861 Nördlingen is a German football club in the town of Nördlingen, Schwaben, formed in 1861. It plays its home games at the Gerd-Müller-Stadion which has a capacity of 10,000 spectators. Apart from football, the club offers 14 other sports departments, the most successful by far being the basketball-department which currently has a men's and women's team in the 2nd Basketball Bundesliga (II).
The club has two very successful basketball teams, the men's team now named Giants Nördlingen and the womes's WWK Donau-Ries Nördlingen. Both the men's and women's team played in the 2nd Basketball Bundesliga in 2008. The women's team belonged to the Basketball-Bundesliga for many years from 1989 before voluntarily withdrawing to the second division. The men's team won the Basketball-Regionalliga South-East (III) in 2003 and played in the 2nd Bundesliga-Süd (II) which now is called 2nd Bundesliga Pro-A until 2008, when the team achieved promotion to the Basketball Bundesliga. Once before, in the 1972–73 season, did the team reach this level, to finish last out of eight teams in the southern group of the Bundesliga and to be imideatelly relegated.
The 2007–08 season was by far the most successful in the club's basketball history. Both the men's and women's senior teams won their league and earning promotion, with the women being especially dominant, winning 21 out of their 22 games, with a 63–72 defeat at home to ASC Theresianum Mainz being the only loss of the season. The men's team won the league championship on the strength of a 17-game winning streak, lasting until the end of the season. Both teams are eligible for Bundesliga promotion.
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The club was promoted in 1959 to the 2nd Amateurliga Schwaben (IV), were it spent the next three seasons until the reorganisation of German football in 1963. The TSV was grouped in the Bezirksliga (V) Schwaben, which it managed to win in its first season, thanks to the goal scoring efforts of a young talent with the name of Gerd Müller. Promotion to the Landesliga Bayern-Süd (IV) was achieved and the club spent three seasons in the league until they were relegated back to the Bezirksliga in 1967. The Bezirksliga Schwaben was split into a northern and a southern section in 1968 and the TSV entered the Bezirksliga Schwaben-Nord, where it stayed until 1974.
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