Overview
- Members voted on Sunday to remove the suffix “Greuther,” with 88.3 percent of roughly 2,100 eligible voters backing a bylaw change that exceeds the three‑quarters threshold required for renaming.
- The decision crowns an eight-year campaign by the fan alliance “Zurück zur SpVgg Fürth” that combined grassroots organizing with fundraising to push for a return to the club’s traditional identity.
- Published estimates put the rebranding cost between about €400,000 and €500,000, and supporters have already raised a substantial portion of that sum though final budgets will be set as the presidency works through implementation.
- President Volker Heißmann said the club leadership will prepare the necessary steps to complete the switch at the season break, and the vote followed a contested meeting in which honorary president Helmut Hack made a last-ditch appeal to keep “Greuther.”
- The name change reverses a 1996 merger with TSV Vestenbergsgreuth that saved professional football in Fürth and is framed by supporters as a move to strengthen local identity while preserving the merged era’s achievements.