TSV Gersthofen
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| Full name | Turn- und Sportverein 1909 Gersthofen e.V. |
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| Founded | 1909 |
| Ground | TSV-Sportarena |
| Chairman | Jürgen Treffler |
| Manager | Ivan Konjevic |
| League | Bezirksliga Schwaben-Nord (VII) |
| 2015–16 | 6th |
The TSV Gersthofen is a German association football club from the town of Gersthofen, Bavaria.
The clubs most outstanding achievements were six seasons spend in the third-division Amateurliga Bayern South in the late 1950s and early 1960s and qualifying for the first round of the German Cup in 1980. Experiencing a revival in recent years, TSV achieved promotion back to Bavaria's highest league in 2011 for the first time in almost 50 years.
While the club itself dates back to 1909, the football department was only formed in 1926, initially as an independent club, the Eintracht Gersthofen. In 1934, this club then joined TSV Gersthofen.
Eintracht, and later TSV, played in the local amateur leagues of Swabia, never quite breaking through to state level until the late 1950s. Then, in 1957, TSV earned promotion from the 2nd Amateurliga Schwaben to the southern division of the tier-three Amateurliga Bayern.Gersthofen played at this level for six seasons, with a sixth place in 1961 as its best result.
In 1963, the club finished 17th and was relegated. The reorganisation of the German league system because of the introduction of the Fußball-Bundesliga meant that the Amateurliga Bayern was reduced from two to one division and three Landesligas established below, with TSV becoming a founding member of the tier-four Landesliga Bayern-Süd. The club lasted for only one season at this level and was relegated, not to return to this level for another 44 years.
TSV, who had a number of good runs in the Schwaben Cup in the early 1950s, with two cup wins, finished runners up in the competition in 1980, its one outstanding result in this era. Qualified for the German Cup for 1980–81, it made a first round exit when it lost 0–1 to OSC Bremerhaven.
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