SV Morlautern
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Wikipedia - SV Morlautern
SV Morlautern is a German association football club from the Morlautern suburb of the city of Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. The club's greatest success has been promotion to the tier five Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar in 2016.
History
The club dates back to 15 July 1912 when the football club SpVgg Morlautern was formed. In the following years two more football clubs were formed in Morlautern, FV-Germania and FC Bayern, the Palatinate being part of the Kingdom of Bavaria at the time, and the three clubs merged to form the current SV Morlautern 1912 on 9 September 1919.
SV Morlautern played in local amateur football league for most of its history. The club became the last station in the career of Werner Kohlmeyer, former 1. FC Kaiserslautern player and member of the West German 1954 FIFA World Cup winning team. The club organised a two-yearly youth tournament in the latters name after Kohlmeyer's early death, the Werner-Kohlmeyer-Memorial-Tournament.
The club began to rise through the league system from 2009 onwards. Four championships and promotions took the club from the tier ten Kreisliga to the tier six Verbandsliga Südwest from 2010 to 2013. After finishing fourth and third in the Verbandsliga in 2014 and 2015 the club came second in 2015–16 and, after two wins in the promotion round, moved up to the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar for the first time.
SV Morlautern har en rik historie, og de har vunnet flere trofeer gjennom årene, inkludert to tyske mesterskap i 1928 og 1941. De har også nådd finalen i den tyske cupen tre ganger, i 1948, 1988 og 1990.
I sine glansdager var SV Morlautern et av de beste lagene i Tyskland og produserte noen av de beste spillerne i landet, som Fritz Walter, Ottmar Walter og Werner Kohlmeyer. De har også spilt i Bundesliga, den øverste divisjonen i det tyske ligasystemet i flere sesonger.
I dag er SV Morlautern et middels lag i Regionalliga Südwest, men de har fortsatt en sterk tilhengerskare, og deres kamper tiltrekker seg ofte store folkemengder til Fritz-Walter-Stadion. Laget håper å returnere til Bundesliga en dag, men de må først prestere godt i lavere divisjoner for å oppnå dette målet.