TSV Roth
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| Full name | Turn- und Sportverein 1859 Roth e. V. |
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| Founded | 1859 |
| Dissolved | 2008 |
| League | defunct |
| 2007–08 | Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken (VI), 9th |
The TSV Roth is a defunct German association football club from the town of Roth, Bavaria.
The club's most successful era was in the 1970s when it spent a season in the tier three Bayernliga. In 2008 the club merged with SC Roth 1952 to form TSG 08 Roth.
For most of its history the club has been a non-descript amateur side in local Bavarian football. The clubs most successful era began in 1970 when it earned promotion to the tier four Landesliga Bayern-Mitte after a championship in the Bezirksliga Mittelfranken-Süd. Roth immediately became a top side in this league, finishing fourth in its first season there. A second place followed in 1972 and a league championship the season after. The later earned the club promotion to the Bayernliga, the third tier of the German football league system in Bavaria.
TSV spend the 1973–74 season in the Bayernliga but finished last and was immediately related again, never to return to this level again.
Back in the Landesliga the club could not perform on the same level as before the promotion, instead constantly struggling against relegation. Four seasons at this level followed in which a thirteenth place in 1977 was the clubs best result but relegation back to the Bezirksliga followed the year after. The club earned promotion to the Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken for a season in 1990, a league introduced in 1988, after runners-up finish in the Bezirksliga Mittelfranken-Süd. Between 1999 and 2001 the club dropped even further, to the Kreisliga, but made a recovery after three seasons there.
The club experienced a revival in the last few seasons of its existence, earning promotion to the Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken in 2006 and immediately becoming a top side in this league. After the merger in 2008 the new club, TSG Roth, inheritated the old clubs league place.
The club's honours:
The final season-by-season performance of the club:
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