SV Türkgücü-Ataspor München

SV Türkgücü-Ataspor München
Full name Sport Verein Türkgücü-Ataspor München e.V.
Founded 1975
Ground Bezirksportanlage am Krehlebogen
Ground Capacity 1,000
Chairman Taşkın Akkay
Manager Majid Aghajeri
League Landesliga Bayern-Südost (VI)
2014–15 10th

The SV Türkgücü-Ataspor München is a German association football club from the city of Munich, Bavaria.

The club, which is based in the Turkish community of Munich, was formed in 2009 in a merger of Türkischer SV 1975 München and ATA Spor München.[1] Türkischer SV 1975, in turn, succeeded SV Türk Gücü München in 2001 when the later became insolvent. Türk Gücü was a successful third-division side in the second half of the 1980s and the early 1990s, when the club aimed as high as the German second division, without quite getting there. Satellite television, in the form of live football broadcasts from Turkey and a loss of identity within the Turkish community in Munich however led to the eventual demise of the club.[2]

History

SV Türk Gücü

The club was formed in 1975 by a handful of Turkish migrant workers in Munich, then under the name of SV Türk Gücü München (English: Turkish Power Munich). Originally, the football team played in the lowest tiers of Munich amateur football, something that changed from 1983 onwards, when a number of wealthy Turkish businessmen took over the running of the club. The club found the Bezirksportanlage am Krehlebogen as a permanent home ground and was able to establish a youth department.[2]

Türk Gücü, as the club was commonly referred to, earned a number of promotions, culminating in a 3–1 promotion decider victory over VfR Neuburg, played in front of 3,000 spectators, which earned the club entry to the fourth division Landesliga Bayern-Süd. One of the driving forces behind this success was former FC Bayern Munich and Standard Liege player Erhan Önal.[2]

After its promotion to the Landesliga, Türk Gücü strengthened its team with non-Turkish players and, under coach Peter Grosser, the club won promotion to the Fußball-Bayernliga in 1988, with future professionals like Gerry Hillringhaus and Thomas Kristl in the team. Türk Gücü was an instant success in Bavaria's highest football league, coming sixth in its first season,[3] where it attracted as many as 12,000 spectators in the games against TSV 1860 Munich. The club was able to draw on up to 1,000 fans to travel with the team to away games.[2] Hillringhaus, a goally, scored Germany's goal of the month for September 1989 in a Bayernliga game against MTV Ingolstadt.[4]

The club under chairman Ergun Berksoy, rivaled in its success in the German Turkish community only by Türkiyemspor Berlin, begun to aim even for professional football, hoping to earn promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga.[2] But the club was not able to live up to its ambitions. It finished seventh in the league in the following year, followed by a twelfth place in 1991 and relegation in 1992 after a bitter 4–3 defeat on penalties in the relegation decider against SC 08 Bamberg.[5]

Türk Gücü only spent two seasons in the Landesliga, returning to the Bayernliga in 1994, but fundamental changes started to affect the club. Support for the team had steadily declined, one reason being the large number of non-Turkish players in the club which affected the identification of the local Turkish population with the club. The other was the rise of Satellite television. Being able to watch Turkish giants Beşiktaş, Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe live on TV greatly reduced the number of Turkish people interested in seeing a third- or fourth-division side on the field and, consequently, the clubs financial means.[2]

Back in the Bayernliga, the side nevertheless showed another good performances, coming sixth once more, but now in a league much weakened with the departure of its top clubs to the new Regionalliga Süd the previous year.[6] The clubs significance in Bavarian football was also demonstrated in the fact that the Bavarian Football Associations fiftieth anniversary book had its own two-page article on Türk Gücü, something only awarded to Bavarian giants FC Bayern, TSV 1860, 1. FC Nuremberg and rising star SpVgg Unterhaching.[7]

The clubs second Bayernliga era however ended abruptly in the 1995–96 season, when Türk Gücü came second-last and was relegated once more.[8] Back in the Landesliga, the club came close to Bayernliga promotion once more in 1998, when it finished second in its league but lost to 1. FC Nuremberg Amateure in the first round of the promotion round.[9]

The glory days of Türk Gücü were definitely over now and, in 2001, having become insolvent, the football department left to form Türkischer SV 1975 München.[10]

Türkischer SV

The new team was uncompetitive in the Landesliga in 2001–02, finishing second last, with only SV Lohhof behind it, another club who had only recently played at much higher level.[11] The team spend three seasons in the tier six Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern before another relegation in 2005 took it down to Bezirksliga level.[12]

The side played in the eastern division of this league, the Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Ost, but again as a lower table side and another relegation followed in 2008, the season ATA Spor München entered the league and finished fifth.[13]

Türkischer SV spend its last season before the merger, 2008–09, in the tier-nine Kreisliga 3 Schmid, where it achieved its only single-digit league finish in its eight season existence.[14]

ATA Spor

ATA Spor München was formed in 1981.[1]

Unlike Türk Gücü, ATA Spor had never climbed the heights of Bavarian amateur football and promotion from the tier-eight Kreisliga followed by two seasons in the Bezirksliga just before the merger were the clubs most successful era.

SV Türkgücü-Ataspor

On 19 May 2009, ATA Spor and Türkischer SV merged to form SV Türkgücü-Ataspor in an effort to combine the strength of the two clubs and form a strong side in the eastern suburbs of Munich. The new club had a membership of approximately 500 people.[1]

The new club took up ATA Spor's place in the Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord, where it came eighth in 2010 and tenth in 2011, a long way from the glory days of the old Türk Gücü club.[15]

In 2013 the club finished second and, via the promotion round, earned promotion to the Landesliga Bayern-Südost.

Honours

The club's honours:

League

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club and its predecessors:[16][17]

SV Türk Gücü

Season Division Tier Position
1999–2000 Landesliga Bayern-Süd V 11th
2000–01 Landesliga Bayern-Süd 13th

Türkischer SV

Season Division Tier Position
2001–02 Landesliga Bayern-Süd V 19th ↓
2002–03 Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern VI 13th
2003–04 Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern 9th
2004–05 Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern 15th ↓
2005–06 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Ost VII 11th
2006–07 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Ost 10th
2007–08 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Ost 15th ↓
2008–09 Kreisliga 3 Schmid IX 5th

ATA Spor

Season Division Tier Position
2004–05 Kreisliga 2 Moossmann VIII 4th
2005–06 Kreisliga 2 Moossmann 8th
2006–07 Kreisliga 3 Schmid 2nd ↑
2007–08 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Ost VII 5th
2008–09 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord VIII 6th

SV Türkgücü-Ataspor

Season Division Tier Position
2009–10 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord VIII 8th
2010–11 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord 10th
2011–12 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord 5th
2012–13 Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord VII 2nd ↑
2013–14 Landesliga Bayern-Südost VI 12th
2014–15 Landesliga Bayern-Südost 10th
2015–16 Landesliga Bayern-Südost

References

  1. 1 2 3 News announcement on the merger (German) SV Türkgücü-Ataspor website, accessed: 19 July 2011
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 50 Jahre Bayrischer Fussball-Verband, p. 184-185
  3. ↑ Die Bayernliga 1945–97, p. 124
  4. ↑ Goal of the month September 1989 (German) sportschau.de – Video of the goal, accessed: 19 July 2011
  5. ↑ Die Bayernliga 1945–97, p. 127
  6. ↑ Die Bayernliga 1945–97, p. 130-131
  7. ↑ 50 Jahre Bayrischer Fussball-Verband
  8. ↑ Die Bayernliga 1945–97, p. 133
  9. ↑ Die Deutsche Liga-Chronik seit 1945, p. I 122
  10. ↑ Deutschlands Fussball in Zahlen – Die Saison 2000/2001, p. 242
  11. ↑ Landesliga Bayern-Süd tables and results (German) Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 19 July 2011
  12. ↑ Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern tables and results (German) Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 19 July 2011
  13. ↑ Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Ost tables and results (German) Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 19 July 2011
  14. ↑ Kreisliga 3 Schmid 2008–09 BFV website, accessed: 19 July 2011
  15. ↑ Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord tables and results (German) Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 19 July 2011
  16. ↑ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (German) Historical German domestic league tables
  17. ↑ Fussball.de – Ergebnisse (German) Tables and results of all German football leagues

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