TSG Augsburg

The TSG Augsburg is a German football and sports club from Augsburg, Schwaben, formed in 1885. It consists of over 2500 members in 13 different departments ranging from football to alpine skiing.OverviewThe club was formed on 12 March 1885 at the Gasthaus Paradiesgarten, a restaurant and pub in the north of Augsburg, as TV Lechhausen. The club originally was focused on gymnastics. The club built a sports hall in the Augsburg suburb of Hammerschmiede in 1892. In 1918, the club formed a football team together with the players of the FC Lechhausen (formed 1911) which returned from the First World War. The football department within the club named itself FC Union and started to take part in the Bavarian leagues. In 1923, the club archived the championship in the A-Klasse and gained promotion to the second division. In 1924, the football department separated from the TV Lechhausen due to a change in the laws governing sports associations in Germany.In August 1933, a group of local sports- and football-clubs merged to form the Turn- und Sportgemeinde Eintracht Augsburg, among them the TVL and the FC Union. This union however didn't last long and the varying clubs became independent again.In 1934, the TVL and the FC Union merged again, this time for good, and formed the Turn- und Sport-Union 1885 Augsburg.In April 1941, with the effects of World War II showing, the local clubs in the Lechhausen area had to finally merge and the TSG Augsburg was born.In 1942, the new club managed to win promotion to the Gauliga Südbayern, the highest league in southern Bavaria at the time. In 1944, the ground of TSG was heavily damaged in one of many air-raids on the industrially important city of Augsburg.