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Sport- und Schwimmverein Jahn 2000 Regensburg, to give their full name, were founded in 1907 when a football team was created as part of a larger sports club which began in 1889. The Turnerbund Jahn Regensburg, which took its name from Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, whose ideas of gymnastics greatly influenced German sport in the 19th century. The footballers and swimmers left their parent club in 1924 to form Sportbund Jahn Regensburg.
A merger with Sportverein 1889 Regensburg in 1934 to form Vereinsname Sport- und Schwimmverein Jahn Regensburg did little to improve fortunes and the club have spent most of their existence in the lower leagues of German football.
In 2000 the football team left to become an independent club, hence the 2000 in the club name, and were joined by players from SG Post/Süd Regensburg in 2002.
The club faced financial difficulties and narrowly avoided bankruptcy in 2005. They plunged to the depths of the Oberliga Bayern in 2005–06, but Jahn won the title the following season and were promoted again to the Regionalliga Süd. Due to a reorganisation of the leagues in 2008, Jahn were founder members of the newly created Liga 3.
The club struggled down in the lower reaches of the table before finishing in the play-off positions in 2012 and gaining promotion to Bundesliga 2 after beating Karlsruhe on the away goals rule.
They are currently bottom of the league, so it is safe to assume a quick return to Liga 3 is likely.
The Jahnstadion was the ground i'd been looking forward to visiting since this trip was planned and it did not disappoint. The ground is a proper a old ground with vast open terraces. Built in 1926 It was used for football games during the Olympic games of 1972. There is, what looks like, a temporary stand behind the goal but apart from that the ground gives the impression it has changed little from the day it was built.
The game was a decent affair, with the goals and most of chances coming in the opening 45 minutes. The point though doesn't really help Regensburg with their battle against relegation.
Kevin Schlitte gave the visitors the lead after 12 minutes before a scrambled equaliser from Koke after 25 minutes. The game was marred by a serious injury to Jahn skipper Andre Laurito, who left the stadium in an ambulance.
The was just time for one more beer in Munich before catching our flights home and a top draw (in more ways than one) euro weekender was at an end.
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