SV München
1880 is a sports club from the Bavarian city of Munich, which was formed in 1880
as Turnklub II Munich. The club has departments for ballet, boxing, fitness,
gymnastics, handball, karate, ninepins, mountain biking, skiing, tennis and
volleyball as well as football.
The club was
renamed München-West in 1897, with the football department being inaugurated in
1905. A further change of title to Turnverein München von 1880 e.V. followed in
1910. In 1921, München
1880 moved into its own sports venue on Tübinger Straße. The club was renamed
Turn-und Sportverein München von 1880 eV a year later.
Yet another
adjustment of title followed in 1924 as the club became Turn-Verein München von
1880 e.V. The club grew as 1,700 members enrolled. Forty-nine members lost
their lives during World War II. The
clubhouse was destroyed by Allied attacks in 1943 before the club was retitled
Turn-Verein München von 1880 e.V. two years later.
In 1951, it was altered to Sport-Verein
München von 1880 e.V. In 1952, work
began on a new gymnasium, club building and sports centre at the club base. The
Emil-Nüssler-Stadion was inaugurated in 1957. Further constructions were added
to the facilities over the ensuing years, with the stadium gaining a grandstand
in 1980.
On July 2nd 2005, the football club hosted an FC Bayern München team to celebrate the
hundredth anniversary of the football department, with the famous visitors
winning the game 11-0. The football
teams play in local amateur football and have sections for women and junior
sides as they look to serve the community of the Schwanthalerhöhe in the west
end district of the city.
They later competed in A-Klasse, the tenth level
of German football. A disastrous
2017-18 campaign saw the team finish rock bottom and drop down to B-Klasse 4, where they only just averted another relegation. The truncated 2019-20 season
saw an improvement to eighth place in their eleventh-tier division.
Soner Toker took his team to the league title in 2021-22 to return to the tenth-tier A-Klasse 4, where the side consolidated their place with a fifth-place finish twelve months later under trainer Oliver von der Born. The team finished fifth once again in 2024-25 by which time Alexander Neziri had taken control of team affairs.
SV München
1880 will play in A-Klasse 4 Oberbayern in the 2025-26 season.
My visit
Thursday 15th December 2017
I was
visiting Munich for a few days on a pre-Christmas break. I considered it to be
very remiss of me if I hadn’t taken in some football clubs at the lower end of
the pyramid. I’d been at Dachau in the morning for a tour of the Concentration
Camp. I needed some light relief.
After
visiting the basic home of SV München Laim, I took the U Bahn one stop from Laimer
Platz to Westendstraße, from where it was just a short walk along Tübinger
Straße to the Emil-Nüssler-Stadion.
The gates
were open into the complex, although the clubhouse and bar by the entrance
appeared closed. The arena had a disused running track around the football
pitch. The small covered stand was across on the far side. Overgrown
banking encircled the track. One could imagine warm summer days with large
crowds enjoying the competitive action.
Perhaps it still happened, and calling
in December caught the place in hibernation? Dusk was drawing
in. I headed to catch a train from München Heimeranplatz. I had planned to take
a look at another ground by Laim station, but getting on the wrong train and
finding a large wall made it a wild goose chase.
Common sense
prevailed. I headed back to my LetoMotel München Moosach room for a brief
siesta before heading into town to enjoy some food from the Christmas Market
before washing it down on several occasions with local beers. Dacau had
taken a profound effect on me. I was going to enjoy every moment that I could afterwards.
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