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{{Short description|German association football club based in Ulm}}
{{For|the basketball team|Ratiopharm Ulm}}
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| capacity = 19,500{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
| chairman = Thomas Oelmeyer{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
| manager  = [[Robert Lechleiter]]
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'''SSV Ulm 1846 FUSSBALL e.V.''', commonly known as '''SSV Ulm 1846''' or '''SSV Ulm''', is a [[Football in Germany|German football club]] based in [[Ulm]], Baden-Württemberg. SSV Ulm 1846 FUSSBALL was formed on 7 March 2009 as new independent club  through the separation of the football department from the present-day multi-sports club SSV Ulm 1846 e.V. After finishing in first place and earning promotion from [[3. Liga]] in 2023–24, the club played in [[2. Bundesliga]] in the [[2024–25 2. Bundesliga|2024–25 season]]; a 17th-place finish in 2. Bundesliga meant relegation back to 3. Liga for the 2025–26 season.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bundesliga.com/en/2bundesliga/table?view=full|title=2. Bundesliga Table}} Retrieved 22 May 2025.</ref>

The club's greatest success has been promotion to the [[Bundesliga]] in 1998–99, where it played for just one season. Ulm has also spent eight seasons in the [[2. Bundesliga]] between 1979–80 and 2000–01.

==History==
The older of the two predecessor sides was founded on 12 April 1846 as Turnerbund Ulm. They had an on-again, off-again{{tone inline|date=January 2024}} relationship with Turnverein Ulm through the 1850s.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} The football department became independent in 1926 as Ulmer Rasensport Verein and in 1939 would merge with Ulmer Fußball Verein, and their old clubmates in TB Ulm and TV Ulm, to form TSG Ulm 1846.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} In 1968, RSVgg Ulm became part of TSG Ulm 1846.

1. Schwimm- und Sportverein Ulm was formed in 1928.
[[File:SSV Ulm Performance Chart.png|260px|thumb|Historical chart of SSV Ulm and predecessors' league performance]]

===TSG Ulm 1846===
[[File:SSV Ulm 1846.svg|100px|thumb|right|Logo of SSV Ulm 1846]]
The football department of Turnerbund Ulm became independent in 1926 as Ulmer Rasensportverein and in 1939 would merge with Ulmer Fußballverein, and their old club mates in TB Ulm and TV Ulm, to form TSG Ulm 1846.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} Throughout this time the club played in local competition before joining the [[Gauliga Württemberg]], one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the 1933 reorganisation of German football under the [[Third Reich]], for the 1939–40 season. The club played there until the end of World War II. After the war they began play in the [[2. Oberliga Süd]] (II) and did well enough to make occasional advances to the [[Oberliga Süd (1945–63)|Oberliga Süd]] (I) for short stays before falling back again. In 1963, with the formation of the [[Bundesliga]], Germany's new top-flight professional league, TSG Ulm 1846 found itself in the [[Regionalliga Süd (1963–1974)|Regionalliga Süd]] (II) for a couple of{{vague|date=January 2024}}{{quantify|date=January 2024}} seasons before slipping to tier III and IV level play. In 1968, RSVgg Ulm became part of TSG Ulm 1846.

===1. SSV Ulm===
1. Spiel- und Sportverein Ulm was formed in 1928 and, after two seasons in the [[Bezirksliga Bayern]], joined the Gauliga Württemberg in 1933, well before their future partner, where they earned just mid-table finishes. After the war and leading up to their union with TSG 1846, they played as a third or fourth division side. Finally, in 1970, 1. SSV Ulm merged with TSG 1846 to form SSV Ulm 1846.

===SSV Ulm 1846===
At the time of the merger.{{clarify|date=January 2024|reason=full stop? or is it meant to be a comma?}} both clubs were playing football in the tier III [[Amateurliga Württemberg]] and would continue to do so for a nearly a decade. In 1980, the combined side advanced to the [[2. Bundesliga Süd (1974–81)|2. Bundesliga Süd]] and would spend six of the next ten years playing at that level where, except for a fifth-place finish in 1982, their results were well down the table. After another decade in the level III Amateur [[Oberliga Baden-Württemberg]] and [[Regionalliga|Regionalliga Süd]], 1846 made an unexpected{{according to whom|date=January 2024}} breakthrough after just one season in the 2. Bundesliga with a third-place finish that led to the club's promotion to the top-flight Bundesliga for the [[1999–2000 Bundesliga|1999–2000]] season. Even though the issue was not decided until the last day of the season, Ulm could do no better than a sixteenth-place finish and returned to the second division. The [[2000–01 2. Bundesliga|2000–01]] season was an unqualified disaster{{tone inline|date=January 2024}} for the club: they could manage only another sixteenth-place finish and were sent back down to the Regionalliga Süd (III). They were then denied a licence over the chaotic state of their finances which plunged{{tone inline|date=January 2024}} the club down to the fifth tier [[Verbandsliga Württemberg]]. Afterwards Ulm worked their way back, to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (IV) in 2002, and the Regionalliga in 2008.

===SSV Ulm 1846 Fußball===
Following the [[2009 European football betting scandal]], the club released three allegedly involved players, [[Davor Kraljević]], Marijo Marinović and Dinko Radojević.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.n24.de/news/newsitem_5621586.html|title=SSV Ulm kündigt drei Spielern|first=Matthias|last=Jung|work=[[N24 (Germany)|N24]]|date=27 November 2009|access-date=10 November 2010|language=de}}</ref> In January 2011, the club was declared insolvent, and the results of the 2010–11 season were declared void. The club was relegated to the [[Oberliga Baden-Württemberg]] but immediately won the 2011–12 title, finishing nine points clear of second-placed [[VfR Mannheim]] and earning promotion to the new [[Regionalliga Südwest]].

In May 2014, SSV Ulm 1846 was once again close to insolvency, for the third time in 13 years, requiring €420,000 in financial support before the end of the month to ensure survival.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.fussball.de/ssv-ulm-droht-erneut-die-insolvenz/id_69517714/index | title = Ex-Bundesligist SSV Ulm droht erneut die Insolvenz | language = de | website = fussball.de | date = 20 May 2014 | access-date = 22 May 2014}}</ref> The club eventually entered administration and was relegated back to the Oberliga. After two seasons, SSV Ulm 1846 was promoted to the Regionalliga in May 2016.<ref>{{cite news | last = Vogler | first = Winfried | title = SSV Ulm 1846 ist Oberliga-Meister | newspaper = [[Südwest Presse]] | date = 14 May 2016 | language = de | url = http://www.swp.de/ulm/sport/ssv_fussball./Regionalliga;art2296,3835875 | access-date = 16 May 2016}}</ref>

On 28 May 2023, SSV Ulm 1846 secured promotion to 3. Liga for the first time from 2023 to 2024, after defeating [[SG Barockstadt Fulda-Lehnerz|Barockstadt Fulda-Lehnerz]] 5–0 and becoming champion of the Regionalliga Südwest.

On 4 May 2024, SSV Ulm 1846 were crowned 3. Liga champions and earned back-to-back promotion to 2. Bundesliga for the 2024–25 season and the first time since 2000–01 season, after defeating [[FC Viktoria Köln|Viktoria Köln]] 2–0.

==Honours==
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===League===
* '''[[3. Liga]]''' (III)
** Champions: [[2023–24 3. Liga|2023–24]]
* '''[[Regionalliga Südwest]]''' (IV)
** Champions: [[2022–23 Regionalliga#Regionalliga Südwest|2022–23]]
* '''[[German amateur championship]]'''
** Champions: 1996{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
* '''[[Regionalliga Süd (1994–2012)|Regionalliga Süd]]''' (III)
** Champions: 1998{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
* '''[[Oberliga Baden-Württemberg]]''' (III/IV/V)
** Champions: 1979, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1993, 1994, 2012, 2016
** Runners-up: 1992, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008
* '''[[Amateurliga Württemberg]]''' (III)
** Champions: 1946<sup>‡</sup>, 1950<sup>‡</sup>, 1955<sup>†</sup>, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
** Runners-up: 1956<sup>†</sup>, 1974{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
* '''[[Verbandsliga Württemberg]]''' (V)
** Runners-up: 2002{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
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===Cup===
* '''[[Württemberg Cup]]''' (Tiers III-VII)
** Winners: 1957<sup>†</sup>, 1982, 1983, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, [[2017–18 Verbandspokal|2018]], [[2018–19 Verbandspokal|2019]], [[2019–20 Verbandspokal|2020]], [[2020–21 Verbandspokal|2021]]
** Runners-up: 1976, 1998, 2000<sup>¥</sup>, 2001<sup>¥</sup>, 2006, 2007, [[2021–22 Verbandspokal|2022]]
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* <sup>‡</sup> Won by TSG Ulm 1846.
* <sup>†</sup> Won by SSV Ulm.
* <sup>¥</sup> Won by reserve team.

==Recent managers==
Recent managers of the club:<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.weltfussball.de/teams/ssv-ulm-1846/9/ | title = SSV Ulm 1846 .:. Trainer von A-Z | language = de | website =  weltfussball.de | access-date = 17 September 2011}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
! Manager
! Start
! Finish
|- align="center"
| align="left" | Dieter Märkle
| 1 July 2004
| 28 November 2004
|- align="center"
| align="left" | [[Marcus Sorg]]
| 29 November 2004
| 6 September 2007
|- align="center"
| align="left" | [[Paul Sauter]]
| 1 July 2007
| 30 June 2008
|- align="center"
| align="left" | [[Janusz Góra]]
| 7 September 2007
| 30 September 2007
|- align="center"
| align="left" | [[Markus Gisdol]]
| 1 July 2008
| 30 June 2009
|- align="center"
| align="left" | Manfred Paula
| 1 July 2009
| 24 September 2009
|- align="center"
| align="left" | Frank Kaspari
| 25 September 2009
| 4 October 2009
|- align="center"
| align="left" | [[Ralf Becker]]
| 15 October 2009
| 1 December 2010
|- align="center"
| align="left" | [[Janusz Góra]]
| 2 December 2010
| 30 June 2011
|- align="center"
| align="left" | [[Paul Sauter]]
| 1 July 2011
| 30 June 2012
|- align="center"
| align="left" | Stephan Baierl
| 1 July 2012
| 13 November 2012
|- align="center"
| align="left" | [[Paul Sauter]]
| 14 November 2012
| 17 October 2013
|- align="center"
| align="left" | [[Oliver Unsöld]]
| 18 October 2013
| 30 June 2014
|- align="center"
| align="left" | Stephan Baierl
| 1 July 2014
| 15 August 2017
|- align="center"
| align="left" | Tobias Flitsch
| 17 August 2017
| 30 June 2018
|- align="center"
| align="left" | Holger Bachthaler
| 1 July 2018
| 30 June 2021
|- align="center"
| align="left" | [[Thomas Wörle]]
| 1 July 2021
| 11 March 2025
|- align="center"
| align="left" | [[Robert Lechleiter]]
| 11 March 2025
| Present
|}

==Recent seasons==
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.f-archiv.de/ | title = Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv | language = de}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.fussball.de/fussball-ergebnisse-die-top-ligen-bei-fussball-de/id_45692854| title = Fussball.de - Ergebnisse | language = de}}</ref>
{{List missing criteria|reason=how recent is 'recent'? who decides this? why does this section begin in 1999?|date=January 2024}}
{| class="wikitable"
! Season
! Division
! Tier
! Position
|- align="center"
| 1999–2000
| align="left"| [[Bundesliga]]
| I
| bgcolor="#ffcccc"| 16th ↓
|- align="center"
| 2000–01
| align="left"| [[2. Bundesliga]]
| II
| style="background:#ffcccc"| 16th ↓
|- align="center"
| 2001–02
| align="left"| [[Verbandsliga Württemberg]]
| V
| style="background:#ddffdd"| 2nd ↑
|- align="center"
| 2002–03
| align="left"| [[Oberliga Baden-Württemberg]]
| rowspan=9| IV
| 2nd
|- align="center"
| 2003–04
| align="left"| Oberliga Baden-Württemberg
| 6th
|- align="center"
| 2004–05
| align="left"| Oberliga Baden-Württemberg
| 2nd
|- align="center"
| 2005–06
| align="left"| Oberliga Baden-Württemberg
| 3rd
|- align="center"
| 2006–07
| align="left"| Oberliga Baden-Württemberg
| 2nd
|- align="center"
| 2007–08
| align="left"| Oberliga Baden-Württemberg
| style="background:#ddffdd"| 2nd ↑
|- align="center"
| 2008–09
| align="left"| [[Regionalliga Süd (1994–2012)|Regionalliga Süd]]
| 7th
|- align="center"
| 2009–10
| align="left"| Regionalliga Süd
| 6th
|- align="center"
| 2010–11
| align="left"| Regionalliga Süd
| style="background:#ffcccc"| ↓ due to insolvency
|- align="center"
| 2011–12
| align="left"| Oberliga Baden-Württemberg
| V
| style="background:#ddffdd"| 1st ↑
|- align="center"
| 2012–13
| align="left"| [[Regionalliga Südwest]]
| rowspan=2| IV
| 10th
|- align="center"
| 2013–14
| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest
| style="background:#ffcccc"| 15th ↓
|- align="center"
| [[2014–15 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg|2014–15]]
| align="left"| Oberliga Baden-Württemberg
| rowspan=2| V
| 3rd
|- align="center"
| [[2015–16 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg|2015–16]]
| align="left"| Oberliga Baden-Württemberg
| style="background:#ddffdd"| 1st ↑
|- align="center"
| [[2016–17 Regionalliga#Regionalliga Südwest|2016–17]]
| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest
| rowspan=7| IV
| 9th
|- align="center"
| [[2017–18 Regionalliga#Regionalliga Südwest|2017–18]]
| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest
| 9th
|- align="center"
| [[2018–19 Regionalliga#Regionalliga Südwest|2018–19]]
| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest
| 6th
|- align="center"
| [[2019–20 Regionalliga#Regionalliga Südwest|2019–20]]
| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest
| 7th
|- align="center"
| [[2020–21 Regionalliga#Regionalliga Südwest|2020–21]]
| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest
| 4th
|- align="center"
| [[2021–22 Regionalliga#Regionalliga Südwest|2021–22]]
| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest
| 2nd
|- align="center"
| [[2022–23 Regionalliga#Regionalliga Südwest|2022–23]]
| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest
| style="background:#ddffdd"| 1st ↑
|- align="center"
| [[2023–24 3. Liga|2023–24]]
| align="left"| [[3. Liga]]
| III
| style="background:#ddffdd"| 1st ↑
|- align="center"
| [[2024–25 2. Bundesliga|2024–25]]
| align="left"| 2. Bundesliga
| II
| style="background:#ffcccc"| 17th ↓
|- align="center"
| [[2025–26 3. Liga|2025–26]]
| align="left"| 3. Liga
| III
| 
|}
* With the introduction of the [[Regionalliga]]s in 1994 and the [[3. Liga]] in 2008 as the new third tier, below the [[2. Bundesliga]], all leagues below dropped one tier. In 2012, the number of Regionalligas was increased from three to five with all Regionalliga Süd clubs except the Bavarian ones entering the new [[Regionalliga Südwest]].{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

;Key
{|class="wikitable" align="center"
| style="background:#ddffdd"| ↑<small>[[Promotion and relegation|Promoted]]</small>
| style="background:#ffcccc"| ↓ <small>[[Promotion and relegation|Relegated]]</small>
|}

==Current squad==
{{Updated|14 February 2025}}
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player | no= 1 | nat=GER | pos=GK | name=[[Niclas Thiede]]|other={{small|on loan from [[VfL Bochum]]}}}}
{{Fs player | no= 4 | nat=GER | pos=DF | name=Tom Gaal}}
{{Fs player | no= 5 | nat=GER | pos=DF | name=Johannes Reichert|other=[[Captain (association football)|captain]]}}
{{Fs player | no= 6 | nat=GER | pos=DF | name=[[Thomas Geyer]]}}
{{Fs player | no= 7 | nat=GER | pos=DF | name=[[Bastian Allgeier]]}}
{{Fs player | no= 9 | nat=GER | pos=FW | name=[[Lucas Röser]]}}
{{Fs player | no=10 | nat=GER | pos=MF | name=[[Andreas Ludwig]]}}
{{Fs player | no=11 | nat=GER | pos=FW | name=[[Dennis Chessa]]}}
{{Fs player | no=12 | nat=GER | pos=GK | name=Marvin Seybold}}
{{Fs player | no=13 | nat=GER | pos=MF | name=[[Robert Leipertz]]|other={{small|on loan from [[1. FC Magdeburg]]}}}}
{{Fs player | no=14 | nat=GER | pos=MF | name=[[Dennis Dressel]]}}
{{fs mid}}
{{Fs player | no=16 | nat=SUI | pos=MF | name=[[Aaron Keller (footballer)|Aaron Keller]]|other={{small|on loan from [[SpVgg Unterhaching|Unterhaching]]}}}}
{{Fs player | no=18 | nat=GER | pos=DF | name=[[Lennart Stoll]]}}
{{fs player | no=19 | nat=GER | pos=DF | name=[[Jonathan Meier]]}}
{{fs player | no=21 | nat=GER | pos=MF | name=[[Oliver Batista Meier]]}}
{{Fs player | no=22 | nat=BIH | pos=FW | name=[[Aleksandar Kahvić]]}}
{{Fs player | no=23 | nat=GER | pos=MF | name=Max Brandt}}
{{Fs player | no=27 | nat=GER | pos=DF | name=Niklas Kolbe}}
{{Fs player | no=30 | nat=GER | pos=MF | name=[[Maurice Krattenmacher]]|other={{small|on loan from [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]]}}}}
{{Fs player | no=33 | nat=GER | pos=FW | name=[[Felix Higl]]}}
{{Fs player | no=39 | nat=GER | pos=GK | name=Christian Ortag}}
{{Fs player | no=43 | nat=GER | pos=MF | name=[[Romario Rösch]]}}
{{fs end}}

===Out on loan===
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player | no=   | nat=GER | pos=DF | name=[[Niklas Kölle]]|other={{small|at [[VfL Osnabrück]] until 30 June 2025}}}}
{{Fs player | no=   | nat=GER | pos=MF | name=Julian Kudala|other={{small|at [[1. FC Schweinfurt 05]] until 30 June 2025}}}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player | no=   | nat=GER | pos=FW | name=[[Niklas Castelle]]|other={{small|at [[Alemannia Aachen]] until 30 June 2025}}}}
{{Fs end}}

==Fans and controversies==
In the fanscene there are [[Right wing extremist|right-wing extremist]] tendencies and right-wing [[Hooliganism|hooligans]]. In May 2019, several extremists attacked a [[Romani people|Roma]] family. Four of the perpetrators had connections to the SSV Ulm fan scene. Despite a trial, the perpetrators were initially not banned from the stadium, which is why the club's management was heavily criticized by the [[Central Council of German Sinti and Roma]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF%20Fez1QS6E Sport inside, Neonazis bei Traditionsvereinen | Sportschau on YouTube] (in German)</ref>

"To ignore this inhuman crime simply stunned us. Imagine if the same incident had occurred against the Jewish minority, then different measures would have been taken by the club's management. The Holocaust clearly also includes the annihilation of half a million Sinti and Roma in Nazi occupied Europe. And the responsibility of a club management must be the same here." - Romani Rose, chairman, Central Council of German Sinti and Roma.

In addition, there are group photos on which, among other things, the [[Nazi salute]] is shown.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF%20Fez1QS6E Sport inside, Neonazis bei Traditionsvereinen | Sportschau on YouTube] (in German)</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
*{{Official website}}
*[http://www.weltfussball.de/teams/ssv-ulm-1846/ SSV Ulm 1846] at Weltfussball.de
*[http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv] – historical German domestic league tables {{in lang|de}}

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