FC Homburg
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FC Homburg is a German football club based in Homburg, Saarland. The club was founded on June 15, 1908 by a group of seventeen young men at the local Hohenburg pub. In 1913 they were re-named FV Homburg and went on to take the local championship that season. By the mid 20's the side was playing tier II ball.
After World War II, Allied occupation authorities dissolved all types of associations in Germany, including football clubs. FC Homburg was re-constituted in 1947 as Omnisportverein SV Homburg until taking on its current name in 1949. The Saarland was occupied by the French who made various efforts to see the state become independent of Germany or join France. In sport this was manifested as separate 1952 Olympic and 1954 World Cup teams for Saarland, the establishment of a short-lived football league for the state, and the German club 1. FC Saarbrücken playing in the French second division. Homburg played in the Saarland Ehrenliga from 1949 to 1951. By the time of the 1951-52 season the return of German teams to the DFB (Deutsche Fussball Bund or German Football Association) had been negotiated: the Erhenliga faded away and by 1956 the independent Saarland Fussball Bund had re-joined the DFB.
Through the 50's and 60's Homburg managed a couple of amateur league championships and was once again playing tier II football. In the late 70's the team advanced to the quarter finals of the German Cup on two occasions, but then slipped to tier III ball in the early 80's. Then, in the second half of the decade, they enjoyed their greatest success. They played their way back to the second division and on into the Bundesliga in 1986. Homburg played two seasons there, were relegated, and returned for one final Bundesliga season in 1989-90 before beginning a gradual descent which would lead them to Oberliga Sudwest (IV) where they play today.
Along the way the club had a couple of misadventures. In 1988, the DFB prohibited the team from wearing the sponsorship logo of a condom manufacturer on ethical and moral grounds. In 1998, they entered into an agreement with 1. FC Saarbrücken to loan players to that team to help ease Homburg's financial pinch. Despite this, in 1999 the club had a brush with bankruptcy that led to their being denied a license to play in the Regionalliga W/SW (III) and demotion to the Oberliga Sudwest (IV).
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