The SG Quelle Fürth is a German football club from the city of Fürth in Bavaria.

History The club was formed as the football section of the athletics club TV 1860 Fürth on 1 June 1973. The club's name, SG Quelle, refers to the fact that it has a strong connection with the Quelle company and originated out of the company's still existing Sunday League team BSG Quelle Kickers.BSG QUELLE Kickers website accessed: 17 October 2008

The club was part of the lower amateur leagues in Middle Franconia until 1988, when it won promotion from the Bezirksliga Mittelfranken-Süd to the Landesliga Bayern-Mitte (IV). After four seasons where it struggled for survival in this league, SG Quelle was relegated back down, now to the Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken in 1992. 1991 saw the arrival of Dieter Lieberwirth as the club's manager, a former long-term player of the 1. FC Nürnberg, a position he held until 2002, when he returned to Nürnberg.Dieter Lieberwirth profile at Weltfussball.de accessed: 17 October 2008

The club only spent one season in the BOL before returning to the Landesliga. A better performance there saw it finish seventh there in 1993–94, taking out the league title the season after. Promoted to the Bayernliga, it finished second in this league, behind fellow promoted team SC Weismain. Both earned a place in the Regionalliga Süd for the following year. Fürth as the second placed team had to play-off against the runners-up from the Oberliga Hessen, Viktoria Aschaffenburg and from the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg, VfB Stuttgart II, to do so, defeating both teams.Die Regionalligen 1995/96 – Yearbook on German amateur football , publisher: DSFS, page: 145, accessed: 17 October 2008

The club played for one season in the same league as its mighty neighbors, 1. FC Nürnberg and SpVgg Greuther Fürth but from there their ways lay apart, the later two returning to the 2. Bundesliga while Quelle was relegated back to the Bayernliga.

The next two Bayernliga seasons saw good performances by the club, finishing second in 1998 and 1999. In 1998, it missed out on promotion to the SC Pfullendorf.Die Regionalligen 1997/98 – Yearbook on German amateur football , publisher: DSFS, page: 25, accessed: 17 October 2008 The later earned them a promotion back to the Regionalliga, this time by finishing ahead of the SV Sandhausen and the SG Hoechst in a promotion round.Die Regionalligen 1998/99 – Yearbook on German amateur football , publisher: DSFS, page: 25, accessed: 17 October 2008 However, the club could again not survive at this level and returned to the Oberliga the next season.

From 2000 to 2003, SG Quelle played at this level before being relegated once more, now back to the Landesliga.

A runners-up spot in 2004 proofed not enough to earn promotion back to the Bayernliga but the season after, the league could be won and Quelle won promotion once more. Again, for only one season, the club being straight relegated again.

The 2006–07 season saw the club handed straight down to the Bezirksoberliga, where it, true to its unsteady past, earned promotion straight back up.

Back in the Landesliga for the 2008–09 season, the club struggled at the lower end of the table and a 14th-place finish, on equal points with 15th placed SV 73 Nürnberg-Süd, meant it had to go into post-season relegation matches once more. Quelle won 1–0 and was present in Landesliga in 2009–10 but suffered another relegation, back to the Bezirksoberliga.Landesliga Mitte 2008/09 Bayliga.de, accessed: 16 October 2008

At the end of the 2011–12 season the team qualified directly for the newly expanded Landesliga after finishing second in the Bezirksoberliga.Das war die Relegation 2012 auf Verbandsebene fupa.net, published: 7 June 2012, accessed 8 June 2012

Honours The club's honours:

League Bayernliga (IV) Runners-up: (3) 1996, 1998, 1999 Landesliga Bayern-Mitte (V) Champions: (2) 1995, 2005 Runners-up: 2004 Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken (V) Champions: 1993 Runners-up: 2008, 2012 Bezirksliga Mittelfranken-Nord Runners-up: 1998 Bezirksliga Mittelfranken-Süd Runners-up: 1987

Cup Mittelfranken Cup Winners: 1999 Runners-up: 2006

Recent managers Recent managers of the club:Quelle Fürth .:. Trainer von A-Z weltfussball.de, accessed: 27 April 2011 Manager Start Finish Dieter Lieberwirth 1 July 1991 30 June 2002 Franz Weber 1 July 2001 January 2002 Reinhard Hofmann January 2002 October 2006 Paul Hesselbach October 2006 June 2007 Petr Skarabela July 2007 June 2008 Norbert Hütter July 2008 2010 Thomas Adler 2010 30 June 2015 Patrick Frühwald 1 July 2015 present

Recent seasons The recent season-by-season performance of the club:Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv Historical German domestic league tablesFussball.de - Ergebnisse Tables and results of all German football leagues Season Division Tier Position 1999–2000 Regionalliga Süd III 16th ↓ 2000–01 Bayernliga IV 9th 2001–02 Bayernliga 8th 2002–03 Bayernliga 15th ↓ 2003–04 Landesliga Bayern-Mitte V 2nd 2004–05 Landesliga Bayern-Mitte 1st ↑ 2005–06 Bayernliga IV 17th ↓ 2006–07 Landesliga Bayern-Mitte V 17th ↓ 2007–08 Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken VI 2nd ↑ 2008–09 Landesliga Bayern-Mitte VI 14th 2009–10 Landesliga Bayern-Mitte 17th ↓ 2010–11 Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken VII 3rd 2011–12 Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken 2nd ↑ 2012–13 Landesliga Bayern-Nordost VI 4th 2013–14 Landesliga Bayern-Nordost 4th 2014–15 Landesliga Bayern-Nordost 7th 2015–16 Landesliga Bayern-Nordost 3rd 2016–17 Landesliga Bayern-Nordost With the introduction of the Bezirksoberligas in 1988 as the new fifth tier, below the Landesligas, all leagues below dropped one tier. 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. With the establishment of the Regionalliga Bayern as the new fourth tier in Bavaria in 2012 the Bayernliga was split into a northern and a southern division, the number of Landesligas expanded from three to five and the Bezirksoberligas abolished. All leagues from the Bezirksligas onwards were elevated one tier.

↑ Promoted ↓ Relegated

References

External links Official website TV Fürth 1860 website

SG Quelle Fürth profile at Weltfussball.de