Eimsbutteler TV

Eimsbutteler Turnverband is a German sports club based in Eimsbuttel, Hamburg. Apart from football, the club also offers a variety of other sports, like basketball, volleyball, and fencing. The club's golden era was in the 1930s and early 1940s when it made five appearances in the German championship finals round and won a number of Hamburg city championships against the now much more prominent clubs Hamburger SV and FC St. Pauli.

As of 2022, the club's most successful team have been the volleyball women who play in the German Women's 2 Volleyball Bundesliga.

Eimsbutteler TV made headlines in 2011 when it lost almost its complete first and second teams because of disagreements over how to split the money earned from reaching the first round of the 2011–12 DFB-Pokal after winning the Hamburg Cup. ETV was forced to field a side predominantly made up of players from its under-19 side.

History

The beginnings

The roots of the association lay in the 12 June 1889 formation of the gymnastics club Eimsbutteler Turnerschaft. This club broke up within a month when a number of members left to form Eimsbutteler Mannerturnverein. On 1 May 1893 the two groups were re-united as Hamburg-Eimsbutteler Turnverein, while a new association using the name Eimsbutteler Turnerschaft was established 28 December the same year. This club in turn joined HETV to create Eimsbutteler Turnverband on 19 February 1898 with the goal of constructing a common sports hall. The facility was completed in 1910, under the direction of the chairman Julius Sparbier.

A football department was established within ETV on 12 May 1906 and the footballers took up play in the A-Klasse Hamburg, the highest league in the city. They sent their first representative to the national side in 1910 and won their first city title in 1915.