BFV Hassia Bingen

The BFV Hassia Bingen is a German association football club from the city of Bingen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate. It last played at the highest level of German football in 1952–53 and reached the third round of the German Cup twice.

History

1910–1945

BFV Hassia (Hassia is the Latin name for Hesse) was formed in 1910, but football was first played in Bingen under the name of Hassia in 1908.

In 1926 the club played in the top division level of football in the region, when it earned promotion to the Bezirksliga Rheinhessen-Saar. It finished fifth in this league out of ten clubs in its first season there, after which the league was disbanded. The team become part of the new tier-one Bezirksliga Main-Hessen, where it was to play for the next three seasons, being relegated in 1930 after a last-place finish.

Hassia won promotion to the Bezirksliga for the 1933–34 season, but the Nazis seized power that year and scrapped the Bezirksliga, introducing a Gauliga system instead, which reduced the number of top leagues in Germany to 16, without expanding the number of clubs in each. Hassia was not admitted to the new Gauliga Sudwest/Mainhessen at all, up to the dissolution of the Gauliga system in 1945.

1945–1963

In post-war Germany, Hassia was grouped in the northern division of the tier-one Oberliga Sudwest for the 1945–46 season. At this level, the team lasted for only one season before dropping back to the second level.

Football in the South West region of Germany was split at this level into three divisions: Vorderpfalz, Westpfalz and Rheinhessen. The club played in the Rheinhessen division without coming close to promotion in the coming years. In 1951, Hassia became one of four teams from this league to gain entry to the newly created 2nd Oberliga Sudwest, the new second division in the region.

In its first season there, the team finished third, with all teams on places one to four