TSV Amicitia Viernheim
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| Full name | Turn- und Sportverein Amicitia 1906/09 Viernheim e.V. |
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| Founded | May 2008 (1906/09) |
| Ground | Waldstadion Viernheim |
| Capacity | 4,000 |
| Chairman | Edmund Scheidel |
| Manager | Norbert Muris |
| League | Verbandsliga Baden (VI) |
| 2015–16 | 4th |
The TSV Amicitia Viernheim is a German association football club from the city of Viernheim, Hesse. Due to the close proximity of Viernheim to Baden-Württemberg, the club plays in the league system of this state.
The club was formed in a merger of the SpVgg Amicitia Viernheim and the TSV Viernheim in May 2008. Amicitia is the Latin word for friendship.
TSV was formed in 1906 as a football club, under the name of Fußballclub Sodalität Viernheim. After the First World War, the club joined the DJK organisation and expanded into other sports. With the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933, the club was outlawed due to its association to the Catholic Deutschen Jugendkraft but it was reformed in 1946.
Originally as TSV 1946, the club later changed its name to TSV 1906, claiming its origins in the old club.
For the most part of its history, it stood in the shadow of Amicitia as football is concerned. TSV gained promotion to the 2nd Amateurliga Rhein-Neckar (IV) in 1971, where it was joined by Amicitia a year later. In 1974, it was relegated from this league again.
In 1986, it won promotion to the Landesliga Nordbaden-Staffel 2 (V), a league it won the season after.
The club played in the tier-four Verbandsliga Nordbaden for ten seasons from 1988 onwards, a fifth place in its first year being the best result. It returned to this league in 1999–2000 and again from 2003 to 2006 but never came close to Oberliga promotion. Its last season before the merger, 2007–08, it spent in the Landesliga (VI) once more, alongside Amicitia.
Amicitia was formed in 1909, three years after the club the TSV claims as its origins. The club was always exclusively a football club, unlike TSV who functioned as a multi-sports club.
Amicitia first reached prominence when it gained promotion to the tier-one Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar in 1931. Despite a seventh place in the first season and a fourth in the second, the club could not qualify for the new Gauliga Baden in 1933.
After two years in the second tier, it regained its first division status in 1935 but was relegated from the Gauliga again immediately. Amicitia once more returned to this league for one season in 1939.
After the end of the Second World War, Amicitia was briefly renamed Grün-Weiß Viernheim due to all pre-1945 sport associations being outlawed. The club became part of the tier-two Landesliga Nordbaden, where it archived a second place in the northern division of the league in 1948, qualifying for the promotion round to the Oberliga Süd, where it came last. After this season, the league was merged into one single division and Amicitia only managed a tenth place the following season. The year after, a seventh place was not enough to qualify the team for the new tier-two 2nd Oberliga Süd and it became part of what was now the Amateurliga Nordbaden.
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