Union Böckingen
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| Full name | Fussball Verein Union 08 Böckingen e.V. |
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| Nickname(s) | Die Löwen (the Lions) |
| Founded | 1908 |
| Dissolved | 2012 |
| Ground | Stadion am See |
| Capacity | 10,000 |
| 2011–12 | Bezirksliga Unterland (VIII), 2nd |
Union Böckingen is a German sports club from the district of Böckingen in the city of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg. Founded in 1908 out of the merger of Fussball Klub Germania 08 Böcking and Viktoria Böcking, the club today has 1,200 members in departments for canoeing, handball, and skiing. The footballers made up the largest section in the club with nearly 600 members. The most successful department is the canoe section which has won medals at the national and world championships.
In 2012 the football department of the club left to merge with FC Heilbronn to form a new club, the FC Union Heilbronn.
After having played in the tier-one Kreisliga Württemberg (1920–22) and then the Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden (since 1926) and winning the title there in 1931, Union's most significant football achievement was their 1933 championship in the Gauliga Württemberg, one of 16 top-flight divisions formed that year in the reorganization of German football under the Third Reich. That title put the team into the opening round of the national finals in a qualifying group that included SV Waldhof Mannheim, Mühlheimer SV, and Kickers Offenbach where they won only two of six matches. The next year the Böckingen side crashed to a ninth place finish and were relegated. They immediately bounced back and earned a string of upper table finishes before again being sent down for a single season in 1941–42. After two more seasons in the Gauliga the team withdrew from competition in November 1944 as World War II overtook the country. In 1938, Böckingen took part in the opening round of the Tschammerpokal, predecessor of today's German Cup, where they were put out by Bayern Munich (0:7).
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