SSV Jahn Regensburg

The club is based on a gymnastics club founded in 1886 as Turnerbund Jahn Regensburg which took its name from Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, whose ideas of gymnastics greatly influenced German sport in the 19th century. The football department was created in 1907. The footballers left their parent club in 1924 to form Sportbund Jahn Regensburg. In 1934, they joined Sportverein 1889 Regensburg and Schwimmverein 1920 Regensburg to form SSV which has departments for athletics, boxing, futsal, gymnastics, handball, kendo and nine-pin bowling. The football department separated in 2000 as SSV Jahn Regensburg. Despite the 1934 merger of the football section into the wider sports club, the footballing side's best finish in the Bezirksliga Bayern was a second-place finish in 1930. In the Gauliga Bayern, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich in 1933, Jahn lasted for only two seasons before being relegated in 1935. It returned in 1937 and their best performances were consecutive third-place finishes in 1938 and 1939 after which they became a less competitive mid-to-lower table side.

The club spent most of the period between the end of World War II and the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963 as a "yo-yo team" oscillating between the Oberliga Süd and the second division. Regensburg played the early 1960s in the third division before making their way back to the Regionalliga Süd (II). By the mid-1970s, the team's results…

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Under 19 Bayernliga Winners: 2005, 2007 Runners-up: 2013 Under 17 Bayernliga Winners: 2007 Runners-up: 2003 Under 15 Bayernliga Winners: 2015 Runners-up: 2005, 2012 ‡ Reserve team