Alemannia Aachen 2018/2019 Home Shirt

ALEMANNIA AACHEN - HOME SHIRT 2018/2019

TSV Alemannia Aachen, founded on 16 December 1900 by a group of eighteen high-school students who borrowed the Latin name for Germany, are one of the more storied clubs in German lower-league football. Based in the historic spa city of Aachen on the Belgian-Dutch border, they play in the famous black, yellow and red at the New Tivoli - a 32,960-capacity ground opened in 2009 that replaced the old Tivoli on Krefelder Strasse, home to Aachen football since 1928. The club's golden hour came in 2003/2004, when they lost the DFB-Pokal final 3-2 to Werder Bremen and went on to reach the UEFA Cup as a second-division side, beating Saint-Étienne along the way!

The 2018/2019 season, in which this traditional home shirt was worn, was Aachen's fourth in the German fifth tier - the Regionalliga West - following the financial collapse and forced relegation from the 3. Liga back in 2012. Under head coach Fuat Kılıç, the Black-Yellows finished 6th in the table, well behind champions Viktoria Köln, who pipped Rot-Weiß Oberhausen to the title on the final matchday to seal promotion to the 3. Liga.

It was, on the whole, a quietly stable mid-table campaign in which Aachen consolidated as one of the Regionalliga West's bigger sides without ever truly threatening the promotion places.

The Tivoli, though, continue to draw four and five-figure crowds week after week, which served as a reminder that Aachen, for all their post-2012 troubles, remained a sleeping giant of German football.

Follow the club on X: @Alemannia_AC