Itzehoer SV

Itzehoer SV was established on 3 October 1909 as FC Preußen 1909 Itzehoe and renamed to SV Preußen 1909 Itzehoe in 1919. In 1945 Preußen, VfL Eintracht Itzehoe and SC Askania Itzehoe 1911 merged to form Itzehoer SV. The club won the Schleswig-Holstein championship in 1920 but remained otherwise undistinguished. In post-Second World War football Itzehoer SV played in the Landesliga Schleswig-Holstein, winning three consecutive league championships from 1947 to 1950, the latter earning the club promotion to the Oberliga. The club played, for a single season in 1950–51, in the tier-one Oberliga Nord but was immediately relegated after finishing seventeenth. From 1951 to 1965 the club played in the Amateurliga Schleswig-Holstein and, with the exception of the period from 1960 to 1962, was always a top side in the league, winning championships in 1954 and 1965. Itzehoe's most successful era came from 1965 to 1974 when it played in the tier-two Regionalliga Nord, the second tier of the German league system, below the Bundesliga. In all nine seasons at this level the club never finished better than twelfth place, but despite this avoided relegation until the league was disbanded at the end of the 1973–74 season, when it missed out on qualifying for the new 2. Bundesliga. In this era it also made its first DFB-Pokal appearance, losing 7–1 to SSV Reutlingen in the first round in 1967–68. The club was grouped in the new Oberliga Nord from 1974 onwards, now a tier-three league. Itzehoe…

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Schleswig-Holstein-Liga (II/III/IV/V) Champions: 1948, 1949, 1950, 1954, 1965, 1985, 1986, 2005 Runners-up: 1952, 1958 Schleswig-Holstein Cup (Tiers III-V) Winners: 1955, 1964, 1975, 1985