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.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7. Vereinslexikon. Kassel: Agon-Sportverlag. . 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:Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv Historical German domestic league tablesFussball.de – Ergebnisse Tables and results of all German football leagues 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
External links Official team site Arminia Ludwigshafen at Weltfussball.de Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables