Arminia Ludwigshafen

German football club

Football club

Full name

Fußballclub Arminia 03 e.V.

Founded

1903

Ground

Bezirkssportanlage Rheingönheim

Capacity

2,000

League

Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar (V)

2015–16

12th

Home colours

Away colours

Arminia Ludwigshafen is a German association football club from the Rheingönheim of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate.

History

The club was founded 1 September 1903 as 1. FC Arminia Rheingönheim and enjoyed some success in local level competition prior to the outbreak of World War I. Under the Nazis it was forced in to a merger with TSG Rheingönheim as part of a process of political consolidation that eliminated worker's clubs like 1. FC, as well as faith-based clubs, as being ideologically unacceptable to the regime. The club was reestablished as VfL Rheingönheim after World War II before once again becoming FC Arminia Rheingönheim on 22 October 1949.^[1] In 1969, the association adopted the name of the city of Ludwigshafen.

FC first advanced to the Amateurliga Südwest (III) in 1966 where they would compete for nine seasons with their best result coming as a fourth-place finish in 1969–70. In 1988, after several years in the Bezirksliga Vorderpfalz, Arminia slipped to the Kreisliga and then bounced back and forth between these two levels of play for several seasons. A string of three consecutive promotions saw the club return to the Verbandsliga Südwest (VI) in 2005, and in 2011, they won their way into the Oberliga Südwest (V) for the first time, a league renamed to Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar in 2012.

Honours

The club's honours:

League

Verbandsliga Südwest (VI)
- Champions: 2011
Landesliga Südwest-Ost (VII)
- Runners-up: 2005
Bezirksliga Vorderpfalz (VII)
- Champions: 2004

Cup

South West Cup
- Runners-up: 2013

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[2]^[3]

Season	Division	Tier	Position
2003–04	Bezirksliga Vorderpfalz	VII	1st ↑
2004–05	Landesliga Südwest-Ost	VI	2nd ↑
2005–06	Verbandsliga Südwest	V	12th
2006–07	Verbandsliga Südwest		10th
2007–08	Verbandsliga Südwest		12th
2008–09	Verbandsliga Südwest	VI	7th
2009–10	Verbandsliga Südwest		7th
2010–11	Verbandsliga Südwest		1st ↑
2011–12	Oberliga Südwest	V	4th
2012–13	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar		6th
2013–14	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar		4th
2014–15	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar		11th
2015–16	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar		12th
2016–17	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar

With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. In 2012 the Oberliga Südwest was renamed Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar.

↑ Promoted

↓ Relegated

References

^ Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7. Vereinslexikon. Kassel: Agon-Sportverlag. ISBN 978-3-89784-147-5.
^ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
^ Fussball.de – Ergebnisse Archived 2011-12-07 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues