SG Egelsbach
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| Full name | Sportgemeinschaft Egelsbach 1874 e.V. – Verein für Leibesübungen |
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| Founded | 10 November 1945 |
| Ground | Am Berliner Platz |
| Capacity | 6,000 |
| Chairman | Edgar Karg |
| Manager | Armin Schuler |
| League | Kreisoberliga Offenbach (VIII) |
| 2015–16 | 5th |
The SG Egelsbach is a German association football club from the city of Egelsbach, Hesse.
The club was formed after the Second World War in 1945 when four local sports associations merged, the FC Egelsbach 1903, TV 1874 Egelsbach, TG 1885 Egelsbach and the Arbeiter-Radfahrverein 1905. Through the TV 1874, which was formed on 15 August 1874, the current club claims its foundation date within the club's name. Like in most other towns and cities within the US occupation zone, only one sports club was permitted to exist. The new SGE was heavily based on the pre-1933 workers clubs, which had been outlawed by the Nazis. But unlike most other places, where, after the liberlisation of occupation laws, the old sport associations re-surfaced, in Egelsbach the merger of the four formerly separate clubs endured.
For the most part of its history, the club existed as a minor local amateur side. The SGE first rose to attention when it earned promotion to the Landesliga Hessen-Süd (IV) in 1974. After a couple of good seasons in this league, a championship was won in 1979 and the SGE entered the Oberliga Hessen for the first time. Before that, in 1976, the club managed for the first time to qualify for the German Cup. In the DFB Cup 1976-77, it beat the 1. FC Mülheim 0–3 in the first round before falling to the VfL Osnabrück 0–2 in the next round.
The club only lasted for two seasons in this league before returning to the Landesliga in 1981. Another decent cup run in the DFB Cup 1980-81 saw the team again reach the second round. After defeating the TuS Neuendorf 3–4 in extra time, the 1. FC Kaiserslautern ended their run in round two. A runners-up spot in 1985 was the highlight of the following Landesliga seasons, before another league championship in 1989 earned it the return to the Oberliga. Immediate relegation from this league was followed by another Landesliga championship and another return to the highest league in the state of Hesse.
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