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| chairman = Fred Höfler{{cn|date=January 2024}}
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'''Spielvereinigung Greuther Fürth''' ({{IPA
Founded in 1903, the most successful era for Greuther Fürth came in the pre-Bundesliga era in the 1910s and 1920s, when the club won three [[List of German football champions|German championships]], in [[1914 German football championship|1914]], [[1926 German football championship|1926]], and [[1929 German football championship|1929]] respectively, and finished as runners-up in [[1920 German football championship|1920]]. In the [[2012–13 Bundesliga|2012–13 season]], the club played in the Bundesliga for the first time, having won promotion from the 2. Bundesliga;<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16180879,00.html | title = Greuter Fürth set to begin first-division debut | publisher = Deutsche Welle | date = 20 August 2012 | access-date = 22 August 2012 | archive-date = 24 August 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180824172851/https://www.dw.com/en/greuther-f%C3%BCrth-set-to-begin-first-division-debut/a-16180879 | url-status = live }}</ref> they were relegated back to the 2. Bundesliga at the end of the season. On 23 May 2021, they{{vague|date=January 2024|reason='it' /'they'? at least be consistent.}} were promoted back to the Bundesliga for the second time.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bochum und Fürth steigen auf – Kiel gegen Köln – BTSV abgestiegen|url=https://www.kicker.de/bochum-und-fuerth-steigen-auf-kiel-gegen-koeln-btsv-abgestiegen-805567/artikel|access-date=23 May 2021|website=kicker|language=de-DE|archive-date=23 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210523162423/https://www.kicker.de/bochum-und-fuerth-steigen-auf-kiel-gegen-koeln-btsv-abgestiegen-805567/artikel|url-status=live}}</ref> Upon placing 18th in the Bundesliga table in the 2021–22 season, they were relegated back to 2. Bundesliga.
==History==
===Spielvereinigung Fürth===
{{Commons|SpVgg Greuther Fürth kits}}
The origins of ''SpVgg Fürth'' are in the establishment on 23 September 1903 of a football department within the gymnastics club ''[[TV 1860 Fürth|Turnverein 1860 Fürth]]''. The footballers went their own way as an independent club in November 1906, after they did not get enough support from ''TV Fürth''. The team played in the Ostkreisliga and took divisional titles there in 1912, 1913 and 1914 before moving on to participate in the Süddeutsche (South German) regional playoffs for the national championship round.<ref name="Grüne, Hardy 2001">{{cite book | last = Grüne | first = Hardy | year = 2001 | title = Vereinslexikon | location = Kassel | publisher = AGON Sportverlag | isbn = 3-89784-147-9 | language = de}}</ref> Right from the beginning, there was a great rivalry between the SpVgg Fürth and the [[1. FC Nürnberg]], predicated on the historical rivalry between the two neighbouring cities.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Burt |first=Mathew |date=2023-09-12 |title=Rivals: 1. FC Nürnberg v SpVgg Greuther Fürth |url=https://bundesligafan.com/2023/09/12/rivals-1-fc-nurnberg-v-spvgg-greuther-furth/ |access-date=2024-03-19 |website=Bundesliga Fanatic |language=en-US |archive-date=19 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319112444/https://bundesligafan.com/2023/09/12/rivals-1-fc-nurnberg-v-spvgg-greuther-furth/ |url-status=live }}</ref>The club grew rapidly, and by 1914, it had 3,000 members and was the largest sports club in Germany.{{cn|date=January 2024}} When the club built their own stadium, [[Sportpark Ronhof Thomas Sommer|Sportpark Ronhof]], in 1910, it was the biggest stadium in Germany at the time.
====National champions====
[[File:Greuther Feurth - Historische Logos.png|thumb|Historical logos of Greuther Fürth]]
Fürth won their first national title, the [[1914 German football championship]], under English coach [[William Townley]] with [[Midfielder#Winger|left winger]] [[Julius Hirsch]], who had joined the team the prior season.<ref name="auto">
The team had a solid{{vague|date=January 2024|reason='solid run of successes'?}} run of successes through the 1920s and into the early 1930s, beginning with an appearance in the national final in 1920 against 1. FC Nürnberg, which was the dominant side of the decade.{{according to whom|date=January 2024}} The rivalry between the two clubs was such that a star{{tone inline|date=January 2024}} player with SpVgg was forced to leave after he married a woman from the city of [[Nuremberg]].{{cn|date=January 2024}} In 1924, for the first and only time, the Germany national side was made up exclusively of players from just two sides – Fürth and 1. FC Nürnberg – and players of the two teams slept in separate rail coaches.
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However, Fürth had a difficult first season in the Bundesliga as the club amassed only four victories in the 34-game campaign, one of them at the ground of their rivals 1. FC Nürnberg, when the de facto relegated side won 1–0, giving the fans of the ''Kleeblatt'' a peaceful feeling about the relegation.{{vague|date=January 2024|reason='a peaceful feeling'?}} The club also set an infamous{{according to whom|date=January 2024}} record by becoming the first club in Bundesliga history to not win a single home game during the regular season.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/newscentre/features/news/newsid=2079583/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218194218/http://www.fifa.com/newscentre/features/news/newsid=2079583/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 December 2014 |title=Runs, records and retirement |publisher=FIFA |date=15 May 2013 |access-date=11 May 2014}}</ref> The club finished last in the league with 21 points and was relegated back to the 2. Bundesliga.
The following season, despite not aiming for promotion, the club was a strong contender for a direct return to the Bundesliga.{{according to whom|date=January 2024}} A third place in the final standings qualified the team for the promotion play-offs, where it faced [[Hamburger SV]]. After a 0–0 draw in [[Hamburg]], the club missed out on promotion on the away goal rule when the return leg ended 1–1. In the following seasons, they struggled to be as strong as they were before the Bundesliga promotion. They nearly got relegated to the [[3. Liga]] in the [[2014–15 2. Bundesliga|2014–15 season]], when only a narrow win against later promoted club [[SV Darmstadt 98]] on matchday 33, and other teams not winning on matchday 34, kept them in the league. In the same season, on early matchday 2, they gained a historic{{tone inline|date=January 2024}} 5–1 home victory in the [[Frankenderby]], their highest-ever home win in a derby. In the following two years, the ''Spielvereinigung'' finished mid-table, with not having either fear of getting relegated or gaining promotion. This period of their newer history is characterized by the relegation of ''FCN'' in [[2013–14 Bundesliga|2014]], and both rivals playing each year since then. In the [[2016–17 2. Bundesliga|2016–17 season]], the ''Kleeblatt'' won both derbies of the regular season for the first time since the 1970s, and finished above Nuremberg for the first time since the 1950s. In early 2016, the 1950-built main stand was demolished, and the construction of a new main stand started. Before the [[2017–18 2. Bundesliga|2017–18 season]], the construction of the new main stand was finished. With a 3–1 victory over [[Fortuna Düsseldorf]] on 17 September 2017, the club became leader of the all-time league table of the 2. Bundesliga.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.weltfussball.de/ewige_tabelle/2-bundesliga/ |title=Ewige Tabelle |publisher=weltfussball.de |date=20 September 2017 |access-date=20 September 2017 |archive-date=24 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124004143/https://www.weltfussball.de/ewige_tabelle/2-bundesliga/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
By finishing second in the [[2020–21 2. Bundesliga|2020–21 season]], Greuther Fürth gained promotion to the Bundesliga for the second time in the club's history. Under manager [[Stefan Leitl]], the team secured promotion on the last matchday of the season with a 3–2 victory over Fortuna Düsseldorf.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/news/greuther-furth-promoted-back-to-the-top-flight-julian-green-usmnt-16002 |title=Greuther Fürth: Welcome back to the Bundesliga! |publisher=bundesliga.com |date=23 May 2021 |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=25 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225020336/https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/news/greuther-furth-promoted-back-to-the-top-flight-julian-green-usmnt-16002 |url-status=live }}</ref>
===SpVgg Greuther Fürth II===
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==Rivals==
{{Main|Bavarian football derbies}}
1. FC Nürnberg is by far
==Honours==
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==Recent coaches==
List of club's coach since 1974:<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.weltfussball.de/teams/spvgg-greuther-fuerth/9/ | title = SpVgg Greuther Fürth " Trainer von A-Z | language = de | publisher = Weltfussball.de | access-date = 11 November 2008 | archive-date = 15 June 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180615145307/http://www.weltfussball.de/teams/spvgg-greuther-fuerth/9/ | url-status = live }}</ref>
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|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|Germany}} Alfred Hoffmann
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|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|Germany}} Paul Hesselbach ''(interim)''
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==Recent seasons==
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.f-archiv.de/ | publisher = Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv | language = de | title = Historical German domestic league tables | access-date = 18 September 2011 | archive-date = 2 October 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181002180000/http://www.f-archiv.de/ | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.fussball.de/fussball-ergebnisse-die-top-ligen-bei-fussball-de/id_45692854/index | publisher = Fussball.de
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===SpVgg Greuther Fürth===
{| class="wikitable"
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▲| '''Division'''
▲| '''[[Bavarian football league system|Tier]]'''
▲| '''Position'''
|- style="text-align:center"
| [[1999–2000 2. Bundesliga|1999–2000]]
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| [[2023–24 SpVgg Greuther Fürth season|2023–24]]
| style="text-align:left"| 2. Bundesliga
| 8th
|- style="text-align:center"
| [[2024–25 SpVgg Greuther Fürth season|2024–25]]
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===SpVgg Greuther Fürth II===
{| class="wikitable"
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▲| '''Division'''
▲| '''[[Bavarian football league system|Tier]]'''
▲| '''Position'''
|- align="center"
| 1999–2000
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===Current squad===
{{updated|
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{{Fs player|no= 3|nat=MAR|name=[[Oualid Mhamdi]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no= 4|nat=POL|name=[[Damian Michalski]]|pos=DF}}
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{{Fs player|no= 7|nat=GER|name=[[Dennis Srbeny]]|pos=FW}}
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{{Fs player|no=14|nat=GER|name=[[Jomaine Consbruch]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=17|nat=GER|name=[[Niko Gießelmann]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=18|nat=GER|name=[[Marco Meyerhöfer]]|pos=DF}}
▲{{Fs player|no=19|nat=GER|name=[[Tim Lemperle]]|pos=FW|other={{small|on loan from [[1. FC Köln|Köln]]}}}}
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{{Fs player|no=20|nat=GER|name=Leander Popp|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=21|nat=GER|name=[[Kerim Çalhanoğlu]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=23|nat=GER|name=[[Gideon Jung]]|pos=DF}}
▲{{Fs player|no=25|nat=GER|name=[[Leon Schaffran]]|pos=GK}}
{{Fs player|no=27|nat=GER|name=[[Gian-Luca Itter]]|pos=DF}}
▲{{Fs player|no=30|nat=GER|name=[[Armindo Sieb]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=33|nat=USA|name=[[Maximilian Dietz]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=34|nat=GER|name=Denis Pfaffenrot|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=36|nat=GER|name=Philipp Müller|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=37|nat=USA|name=[[Julian Green]]|pos=MF}}
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{{Fs player|no=|nat=BFA|name=[[Sacha Bansé]]|pos=MF}}
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===Notable fans===
In September 2012, former [[United States Secretary of State]] [[Henry Kissinger]], whose family fled Nazi Germany in 1938, attended a SpVgg match against [[FC Schalke 04|Schalke 04]]. He had promised to attend a game at the Ronhof stadium if the team were promoted to the top-flight Bundesliga. As a child, Kissinger had tried to watch games there, despite it being against his parents' wishes.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/0000235523.jsp | first = Christopher | last = Mayer-Lodge | title = Fürth's most famous ambassador | publisher = [[Bundesliga]] official site | date = 2 January 2013 | access-date = 25 February 2024 | archive-date = 1 August 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230801095943/https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/0000235523.jsp | url-status = live }}</ref> Kissinger was an honorary member of SpVgg, and for decades he kept himself informed about match results and held contact to the club.{{cn|date=January 2024}} During his time serving in the [[White House]] in the 1970s, he reportedly asked his staff to have the team's weekend result ready for him on Monday mornings.{{cn|date=January 2024}} He visited his hometown and the club several times and attended a Bundesliga match in 2012 during the team's first season in the Bundesliga.{{cn|date=January 2024}}
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