SSV Ulm 1846


SSV Ulm 1846 is a German football club from Ulm, Baden-Württemberg. The modern-day football department, officially playing as SSV Ulm 1846 Fussball, was formed on 9 March 2009 when the department separated from SSV Ulm 1846.
The club's greatest success has been promotion to the Bundesliga in 1998–99, where it played for just one season. Ulm has also spent eight seasons in the 2. Bundesliga between 1979–80 and 2000–01.

History

The older of the two predecessor sides was founded on 12 April 1846 as Turnerbund Ulm. They had an on-again, off-again relationship with Turnverein Ulm through the 1850s. The football department became independent in 1926 as Ulmer Rasensport Verein and in 1939 would merge with Ulmer Fußball Verein, and their old clubmates in TB Ulm and TV Ulm, to form TSG Ulm 1846. In 1968, RSVgg Ulm became part of TSG Ulm 1846.
1. Schwimm- und Sportverein Ulm was formed in 1928.

TSG Ulm 1846

The football department of Turnerbund Ulm became independent in 1926 as Ulmer Rasensportverein and in 1939 would merge with Ulmer Fußballverein, and their old club mates in TB Ulm and TV Ulm, to form TSG Ulm 1846. Throughout this time the club played in local competition before joining the Gauliga Württemberg, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the 1933 reorganisation of German football under the Third Reich, for the 1939–40 season. The club played there until the end of World War II. After the war they began play in the 2. Oberliga Süd and did well enough to make occasional advances to the Oberliga Süd for short stays before falling back again. In 1963, with the formation of the Bundesliga, Germany's new top-flight professional league, TSG Ulm 1846 found itself in the Regionalliga Süd for a couple of seasons before slipping to tier III and IV level play. In 1968, RSVgg Ulm became part of TSG Ulm 1846.

1. SSV Ulm

1. Spiel- und Sportverein Ulm was formed in 1928 and, after two seasons in the Bezirksliga Bayern, joined the Gauliga Württemberg in 1933, well before their future partner, where they earned just mid-table finishes. After the war and leading up to their union with TSG 1846, they played as a third or fourth division side. Finally, in 1970, 1. SSV Ulm merged with TSG 1846 to form SSV Ulm 1846.

SSV Ulm 1846

At the time of the merger. both clubs were playing football in the tier III Amateurliga Württemberg and would continue to do so for a nearly a decade. In 1980, the combined side advanced to the 2. Bundesliga Süd and would spend six of the next ten years playing at that level where, except for a fifth-place finish in 1982, their results were well down the table. After another decade in the level III Amateur Oberliga Baden-Württemberg and Regionalliga Süd, 1846 made an unexpected breakthrough after just one season in the 2. Bundesliga with a third-place finish that led to the club's promotion to the top-flight Bundesliga for the 1999–2000 season. Even though the issue was not decided until the last day of the season, Ulm could do no better than a sixteenth-place finish and returned to the second division. The 2000–01 season was an unqualified disaster for the club: they could manage only another sixteenth-place finish and were sent back down to the Regionalliga Süd. They were then denied a licence over the chaotic state of their finances which plunged the club down to the fifth tier Verbandsliga Württemberg. Afterwards Ulm worked their way back, to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 2002, and the Regionalliga in 2008.

SSV Ulm 1846 Fußball

Following the 2009 European football betting scandal, the club released three allegedly involved players, Davor Kraljević, Marijo Marinović and Dinko Radojević. In January 2011, the club was declared insolvent, and the results of the 2010–11 season were declared void. The club was relegated to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg but immediately won the 2011–12 title, finishing nine points clear of second-placed VfR Mannheim and earning promotion to the new Regionalliga Südwest.
In May 2014, SSV Ulm 1846 was once again close to insolvency, for the third time in 13 years, requiring €420,000 in financial support before the end of the month to ensure survival. The club eventually entered administration and was relegated back to the Oberliga. After two seasons, SSV Ulm 1846 was promoted to the Regionalliga in May 2016.

Honours

League

Recent managers of the club:
ManagerStartFinish
Dieter Märkle1 July 200428 November 2004
Marcus Sorg29 November 20046 September 2007
Paul Sauter1 July 200730 June 2008
Janusz Góra7 September 200730 September 2007
Markus Gisdol1 July 200830 June 2009
Manfred Paula1 July 200924 September 2009
Frank Kaspari25 September 20094 October 2009
Ralf Becker15 October 20091 December 2010
Janusz Góra2 December 201030 June 2011
Paul Sauter1 July 201130 June 2012
Stephan Baierl1 July 201213 November 2012
Paul Sauter14 November 201217 October 2013
Oliver Unsöld18 October 201330 June 2014
Stephan Baierl1 July 201415 August 2017
Tobias Flitsch17 August 201730 June 2018
Holger Bachthaler1 July 2018Present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
SeasonDivisionTierPosition
1999–2000BundesligaI16th ↓
2000–012. BundesligaII16th ↓
2001–02Verbandsliga WürttembergV2nd ↑
2002–03Oberliga Baden-WürttembergIV2nd
2003–04Oberliga Baden-WürttembergIV6th
2004–05Oberliga Baden-WürttembergIV2nd
2005–06Oberliga Baden-WürttembergIV3rd
2006–07Oberliga Baden-WürttembergIV2nd
2007–08Oberliga Baden-WürttembergIV2nd ↑
2008–09Regionalliga SüdIV7th
2009–10Regionalliga SüdIV6th
2010–11Regionalliga SüdIV↓ due to insolvency
2011–12Oberliga Baden-WürttembergV1st ↑
2012–13Regionalliga SüdwestIV10th
2013–14Regionalliga SüdwestIV15th ↓
2014–15Oberliga Baden-WürttembergV3rd
2015–16Oberliga Baden-WürttembergV1st ↑
2016–17Regionalliga SüdwestIV9th
2017–18Regionalliga SüdwestIV9th
2018–19Regionalliga SüdwestIV6th

;Key
↑Promoted↓ Relegated

Current squad

Updated 17 March 2020