Ground Capacity 2,000 Manager Manfred Schmitt | Chairman Gösta Geiger Founded 1914 | |
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Full name Turn- und Sportverein Mechtersheim 1914 Ground Stadion an der Kirschenallee 2015–16 Verbandsliga Südwest (VI), 1st (promoted) Leagues Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, Verbandsliga Südwest | ||
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TuS Mechtersheim are a German association football club based in Mechtersheim.
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History
TuS Mechtersheim was founded on 1 March 1914 as Viktoria Mechtersheim. Following the conclusion of World War I the club was remade as Sportverein Mechtersheim. With the formation of an athletics department in 1930 came the adoption of the name Turn- und Sportverein Mechtersheim. In the aftermath of World War II organizations across the country, including sports and football clubs, were ordered dissolved by occupying Allied authorities. The club was re-established as ASV Mechtersheim in 1946, before resuming its old identity as Tus Mechtersheim in March 1950.
TuS played through most of its history at the amateur level. The team won promotion to the Landesliga Südwest-Ost (VI) in 2001 before advancing through the Verbandsliga Südwest (V) to the Oberliga Südwest (IV) in 2004.
For the next eleven seasons the club played in the Oberliga, with a seventh place in 2013 as its best result. A fourteenth place in 2014–15 however meant relegation to the Verbandsliga for Mechtersheim where it won another league title in 2015–16 and returned to the Oberliga.
Honours
The club's honours:
Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club: