Rot-Weiss Frankfurt


SG Rot-Weiss Frankfurt 01 is a German association football club from Frankfurt am Main. The association was founded on 11 November 1901 as FV Amicitia 1901 Bockenheim in what is today the city district of Bockenheim.

History

Early years

The Frankfurt side played under a number of different names in the decades before World War II. They were known as Frankfurter FV Amicitia from 1909 to 1919, then playing as VfR 1901 Frankfurt after World War I until 1926, playing in the Kreisliga Nordmain. Between 1926 and 1935 they were called SC Rot Weiß Frankfurt and played mostly in the Bezirksliga Main-Hessen. The team enjoyed some success in the early 30s, advancing to the finals of the Southern German championship in 1930 and 1931.
In 1933, German football was re-organized into sixteen top-flight divisions and Rot-Weiß appeared in the Gauliga Südwest for three seasons between 1938 and 1941. In 1941, the division was split into the Gauliga Westmark and the Gauliga Hessen-Nassau where the club played another three years as Reichsbahn TSV Rot-Weiß Frankfurt. Their best result was a divisional vice-championship in '41.

Postwar

After the war occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in Germany, including sports and football associations. In late 1945 the club was re-constituted as SG Bockenheim and in 1947, once again named Rot-Weiß, played a single season in the first division Oberliga Süd before being relegated. The club set an attendance record that still stands to this day when they played 1. FC Nürnberg before 27,000 fans.
Rot-Weiß competed as a third-tier side in the Amateurliga Hessen through most of the 60s and 70s with a single season cameo in the Regionalliga Süd in 1968–69. The club then slipped to the Landesliga Hessen-Süd in 1979 where they played for five of the next seven seasons. From the late 80s to the mid-90s they were once again a third division side and captured the Oberliga Hessen championship in 1990. Participation in the subsequent promotion round for the 2. Bundesliga ended in failure. Under mounting financial pressure the team's performance slipped and by the mid-90s they were playing fourth and fifth division football. Rot-Weiß played in the Hessenliga again from 2007 to 2012, before being relegated, and the primary focus of the club has shifted to its youth sides. A runners-up finish in the Verbandsliga in 2014–15 qualified the club for the promotion round to the Hessenliga where it overcame Hünfelder SV and Viktoria Kelsterbach to win promotion.

Honours

The club's honours:

League

Recent managers of the club:
ManagerStartFinish
Kenan Akbas1 July 200727 October 2007
Klaus Dörner7 November 200716 March 2008
Andreas Baumbach1 July 20082 May 2009
Ignjac Kresic5 May 200930 January 2011
Benjamin Sachs30 January 201129 November 2011
Sasan Tabib29 November 201130 June 2012
Daniyel Cimen1 July 20152017
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Slobodan Komljenović2018

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
SeasonDivisionTierPosition
1999–2000Bezirksoberliga FrankfurtVI3rd
2000–01Bezirksoberliga FrankfurtVI1st ↑
2001–02Landesliga Hessen-SüdV2nd
2002–03Landesliga Hessen-SüdV12th
2003–04Landesliga Hessen-SüdV7th
2004–05Landesliga Hessen-SüdV4th
2005–06Landesliga Hessen-SüdV2nd
2006–07Landesliga Hessen-SüdV2nd ↑
2007–08Oberliga HessenIV15th
2008–09HessenligaV10th
2009–10HessenligaV7th
2010–11HessenligaV14th
2011–12HessenligaV17th ↓
2012–13Verbandsliga Hessen-SüdVI4th
2013–14Verbandsliga Hessen-SüdVI3rd
2014–15Verbandsliga Hessen-SüdVI2nd ↑
2015–16HessenligaV2nd
2016–17HessenligaV3rd
2017–18HessenligaV15th ↓
2018–19Verbandsliga Hessen-SüdVI9th
2019–20Verbandsliga Hessen-SüdVI

↑ Promoted↓ Relegated

Stadium

The club plays its home matches in the Stadion am Brentanobad built in 1940 and re-furbished in 1998. It is also used by women's club 1. FFC Frankfurt.