1. FC Germania Egestorf/Langreder is a German association football club from the town of Barsinghausen, Lower Saxony. The club's greatest success has been promotion to the tier four Regionalliga Nord in 2016. By reaching the final of the 2015–16 Lower Saxony Cup the club also qualified for the German Cup for the first time, entering the first round of the 2016–17 edition.
History The club was formed on 16 March 2001 when two local clubs, TSV Egestorf and TSV Langreder, merged to form the current club in an effort to combine the extensive youth department of the former with the senior team of the latter.
The new club took started out in the tier seven Bezirksliga Hannover 1 but won promotion from this level to the Landesliga Hannover in 2003. It spent the next nine seasons there, with the league renamed to Bezirksoberliga Hannover from 2006 to 2010. After finishing runners-up in 2008 and 2010 and missing out on promotion Germania won the league in 2011–12 and earned promotion to the Niedersachsenliga for the first time. At this level the club finished sixth in its first season and gradually improving every year. A second-place finish in 2015–16 and success in the promotion round moved the club up to the tier four Regionalliga Nord for the first time. They were relegated in 2019.
The club qualified for the final of the Lower Saxony Cup and thereby directly for the first round of the 2016–17 DFB-Pokal. They lost 6–0 in the first round at home to Hoffenheim.
Current squad
Honours The club's honours: Landesliga Hannover Champions: 2011–12 Lower Saxony Cup Runners-up: 2016
Seasons The season-by-season performance of the club:Germania Egestorf at Fussball.de accessed: 29 April 2016Historic German football league tables Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 29 April 2016 Season Division Tier Position 2001–02 Bezirksliga Hannover 1 VII 2002–03 Bezirksliga Hannover 1 2nd ↑ 2003–04 Landesliga Hannover VI 6th 2004–05 Landesliga Hannover 5th 2005–06 Landesliga Hannover 6th 2006–07 Bezirksoberliga Hannover 6th 2007–08 Bezirksoberliga Hannover 2nd 2008–09 Bezirksoberliga Hannover 11th 2009–10 Bezirksoberliga Hannover 2nd 2010–11 Landesliga Hannover 4th 2011–12 Landesliga Hannover 1st ↑ 2012–13 Niedersachsenliga V 6th 2013–14 Niedersachsenliga 5th 2014–15 Niedersachsenliga 4th 2015–16 Niedersachsenliga 2nd ↑ 2016–17 Regionalliga Nord IV 10th 2017–18 Regionalliga Nord 5th The Landesliga Hannover was renamed to Bezirksoberliga Hannover from 2006 to 2010.
↑ Promoted ↓ Relegated
References
External links Official club site Germania Egestorf at Weltfussball.de