FC Nöttingen


FC Nöttingen is a German association football club from the Nöttingen district of Remchingen, Baden-Württemberg. The footballers are part of a sports club of more than 500 members that also has departments for table tennis and an unusual sport popular locally known as Schnürles or Fussballtennis, played with a soccer ball on a tennis court. The game was introduced to the area from Czechoslovakia in the 1920s by coach Fritz Schnürle.

History

Founded on 2 July 1957, FC acknowledges TSV Germania Nöttingen, established prior to World War I, as a predecessor side. Germania folded in 1927.
The modern day successor rose slowly and steadily, out of B-class football into A-class in 1969, on into the Bezirksliga Pforzheim in 1972, the Landesliga Mittelbaden in 1996, the Verbandsliga Nordbaden in 1997, and the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 2002. On reaching the Regionalliga Süd in 2004 FC stumbled and was relegated after finishing in last place. The club currently plays in the fifth tier Oberliga Baden-Württemberg as a lower table side.
In 2010–11, the club lead the Oberliga for most of the season, but eventually missed out on the title and promotion to Waldhof Mannheim when it lost the last two games of the season. A third-place finish in the Oberliga qualified the club for the promotion play-offs to the Regionalliga Südwest, where it defeated FSV Salmrohr and earned promotion. After only one season in the Regionalliga the club was relegated to the Oberliga again in 2015. Finishing runners-up in the Oberliga in 2015–16 Nöttingen was once more promoted to the Regionalliga after a play-off after four-all draw with SC Hauenstein in the final match.

Honours

The club's honours:

League

The club's second team also captured the Berzirksliga title in 2004.

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:
ManagerStartFinish
Günther Cuntz9 January 200630 June 2006
Rainer Ulrich1 July 200631 December 2006
Gerd Doll1 January 200730 June 2007
Michael Fuchs1 July 200730 June 2010
Michael Wittwer1 July 201013 April 2016
Gerd Dais14 April 20162 July 2016
Dubravko Kolinger3 July 2016Present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
SeasonDivisionTierPosition
1999–2000Verbandsliga NordbadenV12th
2000–01Verbandsliga NordbadenV6th
2001–02Verbandsliga NordbadenV1st ↑
2002–03Oberliga Baden-WürttembergIV8th
2003–04Oberliga Baden-WürttembergIV1st ↑
2004–05Regionalliga SüdIII18th ↓
2005–06Oberliga Baden-WürttembergIV9th
2006–07Oberliga Baden-WürttembergIV14th
2007–08Oberliga Baden-WürttembergIV11th
2008–09Oberliga Baden-WürttembergV5th
2009–10Oberliga Baden-WürttembergV9th
2010–11Oberliga Baden-WürttembergV2nd
2011–12Oberliga Baden-WürttembergV6th
2012–13Oberliga Baden-WürttembergV4th
2013–14Oberliga Baden-WürttembergV3rd ↑
2014–15Regionalliga SüdwestIV15th ↓
2015–16Oberliga Baden-WürttembergV2nd ↑
2016–17Regionalliga SüdwestIV18th ↓
2017–18Oberliga Baden-WürttembergV5th

↑ Promoted↓ Relegated