TSV Rain am Lech
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| Full name | TSV 1896 Rain am Lech |
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| Founded | 1896 |
| Ground | Georg-Weber-Stadion |
| Capacity | 3.400 |
| Chairman | Hans Ruf |
| Manager | Tobias Luderschmid |
| League | Bayernliga Süd (V) |
| 2015–16 | Regionalliga Bayern (IV), 18th (relegated) |
The TSV Rain am Lech is a German association football club from the town of Rain am Lech, Bavaria.
The club's most notable achievement has been to qualify for the tier four Regionalliga Bayern in 2012, where it played for two seasons before relegation in 2014. It returned to this league after a Bayernliga title in 2015. The club has also qualified for the first round of the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, once, courtesy to a runners-up finish in the Bavarian Cup.
The club was formed in 1896 under the name TV Rain am Lech as a gymnastics club. A football department was however not formed, instead, the FC Rain am Lech came into being on 31 August 1920 and took up the sport.
While the two clubs existed independently for many years, in 1941 a forced merger formed the TSG Rain am Lech. The worsening war situation had made this step necessary but activities were severely limited in the coming years.
With the end of the Second World War, this forced merger ended and both clubs became independent again. The FC soon reestablished itself but the TV was struggling to do so due to a high number of losses of its members during the war. In the spring of 1946, the two clubs decided to merge once more, this time by free choice and the TSV Rain am Lech was formed. The new club retained the old colors of the TV, red and white. A new club constitution was drafted on 30 April 1946 and the US occupation authorities sanctioned the new club on 6 May 1946. By the end of June 1946, the new club already had 180 members. While the club offered a number of sports, football was virtually the only one played on competitive level.
In 1987, the club celebrated a new record in membership, having reached a 1000 members.
After its formation in 1920, The FC Rain entered the 2nd Kreisklasse Schwaben Nord, a league it performed rather well in the coming seasons. After its third title in this league in 1929–30, it earned promotion to the 1st Kreisklasse, where it spent two seasons before being relegated again. The club once more achieved promotion in 1937 but this time only lasted for one year in the higher level. Despite winning the title and promotion again in 1938–39 the FC Rain chose to withdraw from the league due to the outbreak of the war.
The club continued in 1945 where it finished six years earlier, earning good results in the 2nd Kreisliga. Under the new name of TSV Rain, this trend continued.
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