TSV Aubstadt

TSV Aubstadt

Full name	Turn- und Sportverein Aubstadt 1921 e. V.
Nickname(s)	Abschter
Founded	1921
Ground	NGN-Arena
Capacity	3,000
Chairman	Herbert Köhler
Manager	Julian Grell
League	Regionalliga Bayern (IV)
2023–24	4th of 18
Home colours Away colours

The TSV Aubstadt is a German association football club from the town of Aubstadt, Bavaria.

The club qualified for the new northern division of the expanded Bayernliga in 2012, the fifth tier of the German football league system. In 2019, the team promoted to tier-four Regionalliga Bayern after winning the Bayernliga Nord championship.

For most of its history the club has been a non-descript amateur side in local Bavarian football. In post-Second World War football Aubstadt played in the local C-Klasse, the lowest division of the Bavarian football league system. It won promotion to the B-Klasse in 1961 and on to the A-Klasse four years later in 1965. In the 1980s and early 1990s the club won promotion to the Bezirksliga from the A-Klasse twice but was relegated again each time. In 1993 it permanently left local football when it won promotion to the Bezirksliga again which was followed by a title in this league in 1994.^[1]

The later won promotion to the tier five Bezirksoberliga Unterfranken, then the highest football league in Lower Franconia, in 1994. It spent two seasons at this level, coming 13th in its first year there but winning the league the year after and earning promotion to the Landesliga Bayern-Nord.^[2] Three seasons in the Landesliga followed in which the club never finished better than 13th and was relegated again in 1999.^[3]

A runners-up finish back in the Bezirksoberliga in 1999–2000 took TSV straight back up to the Landesliga but again the club could never break into the upper half of the table and was relegated again after four seasons.^[2][3]

The club now spent the next four seasons in the Bezirksoberliga Unterfranken where it finished as low as twelfth in 2006 but won the league for a second time in 2008.^[2] TSV Aubstadt's third stint in the Landesliga threatened to become as unsuccessful as the first two with a 9th, 15th and 13th-place finish in the following seasons. The league's final season, 2011–12 however was also the clubs best, finishing runners-up and qualifying for the new northern division of the Bayernliga.^[3]

In the Bayernliga the club came eighth in its first season there but finished runners-up in 2013–14. Having received approval for a Regionalliga Bayern licence the team took part in the promotion round but failed in the first of two rounds, losing 7–3 on aggregate to 1. FC Schweinfurt 05.^[4]

As of 15 September 2024^[5]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Max Böhnke 2 DF  GER Lukas Mrozek 3 DF  GER Tim Hüttl 4 DF  GER Christian Köttler 6 MF  GER Marcel Volkmuth 7 DF  GER Luke Hemmerich 8 MF  GER Timm Koch 9 FW  GER Max Grimm 10 MF  GER Timo Pitter 11 DF  GER Sam Zander 12 MF  GER Jannik Reubelt 15 MF  USA Creighton Braun 16 DF  GER Steffen Behr 17 MF  GER Jens Trunk

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 FW  GER Marvin Weiß 19 DF  GER Maximilian Eckstein 21 MF  MDA Adrian Hatman 22 FW  CAN Owen Degelman 23 DF  GER Ingo Feser 24 GK  GER Julian Schneider 25 GK  GER Martin Walter 27 DF  GER Nico Ott 28 GK  UKR Vladyslav Vertey 29 FW  GER Marco Nickel 30 MF  GER Loris Maier 31 MF  GER Leon Heinze 32 DF  GER Maximilian Stahl 36 MF  GER Piet Scheurer

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[6][7]

• 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.
• The 2020–21 Regionalliga Bayern season has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, and the original 2019–20 season was extended until spring 2021.

• Official team site (in German)
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) historical German domestic league tables
• Manfreds Fussball Archiv (in German) Tables and results from the Bavarian amateur leagues
• TSV Aubstadt at Weltfussball.de (in German)