FV Speyer
association football club
FV Speyer was a German association football club from the town of Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate. The club's greatest success has been promotion to the tier one Oberliga Südwest in 1952 and 1956, spending seven seasons at this level. In the Bundesliga era FV played in the tier two Regionalliga Südwest for six seasons from 1968 to 1974, when the league was disbanded.
In 2009 FV Speyer merged with local rival VfR Speyer to form FC Speyer 09.
History
FV Speyer was formed in 1919, originally as the football department of local gymnastics club Turnverein Speyer, but soon became an independent entity.
FV Speyer became part of the tier one Kreisliga Pfalz in 1920 and played there for two seasons before being relegated again. It returned to top-level football for a season in 1926–27 in the Bezirksliga Rhein and continued on in the following season in the new Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar in what was then very regionalised German first tier football in the Mannheim/Ludwigshafen area. After the rise of the Nazis to power and the establishment of the Gauligas in 1933 Speyer did not make an appearance in top-tier football again until 1943 when it joined the Gauliga Westmark, temporarily playing as KSG Speyer.
In 1951 Speyer became a founding member of the tier two 2. Oberliga Südwest in which it finished runners-up and earned promotion in its inaugural season.
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