Koblenz U19

Those crowds were real once. The seniors spent four seasons in the 2. Bundesliga, from 2006 to 2010, with Shefki Kuqi and Cha Du-ri among the names who passed through. Relegation followed, then money ran out: in 2011 the club withdrew from the 3. Liga altogether and started again several divisions lower. The youth section outlasted that collapse.

The club took its present name only in 1982; before that it was TuS Neuendorf, after the district it grew out of, and before 1933 a works-and-neighbourhood side called FC Deutschland Neuendorf. Founded on 1 August 1911, it has been blue and black throughout, and Die Schängel — the Koblenz word for a local child — has stuck as the nickname.

The fixture that carries most weight is the Koblenzer Derby against FC Rot-Weiß Koblenz, founded in 1947 and playing in red and white.