1. FC Phoenix Lübeck

Phoenix Lübeck
Basic data
Surname	1. FC Phönix in LBV Phönix from 1903 eV
Seat	Lübeck , Schleswig-Holstein
founding	January 13, 1903
Colours	blue White Red
president	Thomas Laudi
Website	www.1-fcphoenix-luebeck.de
First soccer team
Head coach	Daniel Safadi
Venue	Buniamshof airfield stadium (temporary)
Places	1,773
league	Regionalliga North
2019/20	2nd place ( Oberliga Schleswig-Holstein ) ▲
home Away

The first FC Phoenix in LBV Phoenix 1903 is a football club from Lübeck , of up to 1971, the football section of LBV Phoenix formed. The first men's team of the LBV was particularly in the 1920s as the strongest team from the Lübeck-Mecklenburg area and reached third place in the North German Championship in 1927 behind Holstein Kiel and Hamburger SV . After four seasons in the first-class football league Lübeck-Mecklenburg , in whose all-time table Phoenix took first place, the Lübeckers belonged to the Gauligen Nordmark and Schleswig-Holstein from 1935 to 1938 and in the seasons 1942/43 and 1944/45 .

Even after the Second World War , the Phoenix was represented in supraregional leagues for several years: from 1957 to 1960, the Hanseatic townspeople played in the first-class Oberliga Nord, ten years later they made the leap into the regional league again after the introduction of football -Bundesliga now second class - top division of the North German Football Association. With sixth place in the 1967/68 season , they were the most successful team in Schleswig-Holstein for the first and so far only time . Following the total of seven regional league seasons, 1. FC Phoenix Lübeck mainly belonged to the divisions at SHFV level , with the club temporarily being relegated to seventh division. For the 2019/20 season , the " Eagle Bearers " returned to the Schleswig-Holstein Oberliga for the first time in two decades, where they immediately took second place behind SV Todesfelde . Since they were the only team from Schleswig-Holstein to apply for the registration documents for the Regionalliga Nord, the Lübeckers managed to march straight through to the Regionalliga Nord .

history

Predecessor clubs of the LBV-Phönix

"Family tree" with the previous clubs of 1. FC Phönix Lübeck

Lübeck Ball Game Club and Lübeck Ball Game Club

On January 13, 1903, the merchants Walter Pfohl, Wilhelm Wessel, Eduard Witt, Ludwig Bleibaum, Franz Stuwe as well as the building trade students Carl Timmermann, Max Missfeldt, August Kroß and the volunteers Hermann Rosenkreuz and Albert Kreymann founded the Lübeck Ballspiel-Club , the first independent one Football club in the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. The LBC played their first soccer game on June 21, 1903 against FC Hohenzollern from Altona and lost 11-0, followed shortly afterwards with a 3-1 win against the second representative of KSV Holstein . At the end of the first year of its existence, the club had 37 members, including 27 active athletes. In 1906 there were already more than 100 members, with a junior department having been maintained since 1904. In the first years of its existence, the pure football club became a multi-discipline club, which had departments in the sports of athletics (founded in 1906), tennis (1908) and hockey (1909).

In terms of football, the LBC initially dominated events in the Hanseatic city, but was not yet able to keep up with the clubs from other major cities in Northern Germany, some of which had significantly more gaming experience, in national friendly or championship games. The first official league game round ended the LBC footballers in 1906 as the undefeated champion in their relay of the 1st class before their own second representation. In 1907 the “Holstein” district was formed in the North German Football Association , which brought together the clubs from Lübeck and Kiel in a unified championship round. Previously, the LBC had prevailed again in the Lübeck preliminary round, but had to admit defeat in a subsequent elimination game, the Kiel SV Holstein with 0: 5. Also in the next three seasons, in which Kiel and Lübeck formed a common relay from the start of the season, the Holsteiners showed themselves to be clearly superior. However, the ball game club was always the most successful club in Lübeck and in 1908 and 1910 placed directly behind the KSV in second place.

After just three years in joint game operations with Kiel, another regional restructuring took place, which made Lübeck - together with the clubs from (Bad) Oldesloe, and later also Eutin, Neustadt (Holstein), Reinfeld and others - an independent NFV district. As a result of the increasing popularity of football in the Hanseatic city, the LBC grew increasingly competitive on a regional level: In the four seasons between 1910 and 1914, the club won the championship only once, took second place twice and was behind the in 1912/13 Lübecker Turnerschaft and Allemannia Lübeck only third. After the outbreak of the First World War , the LBV no longer took part in the game operations and initially dissolved after the club's assets were lost. In 1920, the re-establishment of the Lübeck Ballspiel-Verein took place .

A few years after the First World War, the Lübeck soccer region was linked to the Mecklenburg district in the so-called Eastern District League . The Lübeck team ended their first participation in the new division in 1921, tied with FC Schwerin 03 in first place and prevailed 3-0 in the decision-making game that became necessary. In the north German finals, however, the LBV did not get past last place. After another title win, the participation in the North German Championship ended unsuccessfully in the following year, as they lost the qualifying round against Union 03 Altona with 1: 5. After two championships in a row, the LBV took fifth place in its last season as an independent club (1923/24) and had to go with the later merger partner SV Phönix and VfR Lübeck , which secured the district championship one point ahead of Schwerin, also let two Lübeck clubs pass by again. In the same year, a fifth division of the large club, which now has several hundred members, was set up with the handball division.

Lübeck SV 05

On March 5, 1904, some prospective teachers who had been denied admission to the Lübeck Ballspiel Club founded the FC Lübeck seminar. The new club initially recorded a large increase in membership and also improved in terms of sport, but the club management decided in 1905 that in future only seminarians should have access to the club. Numerous players had to leave the seminar FC after the end of their training and switched to the LBC. A little later, the seminarians merged with the short-term Lübeck soccer club "FC Hohenzollern" to form the Lübeck Sports Association of 1905 (SV 05 Lübeck). Apart from the LBC, Lübeck SV 05 was the only team from the Hanseatic city that was represented in joint play with Kiel from 1908 to 1910 and received prominent support through the accession of the then incumbent Lübeck Mayor Johann Hermann Eschenburg . Overall, however, the LSV always landed behind the Lübeck city rivals in its club history and only recorded sporadic sporting successes. On April 22, 1913, the club joined the Lübeck Ball Game Club.

Lübeck TS and SV Phönix

→ Main article : Lübeck gymnastics club from 1854

In 1907, with Seminar FC Lübeck, another seminarist association was founded in the Hanseatic city in 1907, which in 1912 joined the Lübeck gymnastics association. In the five years of its existence, the Seminar FC temporarily rose to one of the strongest teams in Lübeck and was also allowed to take part in the NFV championship once in 1911/12 (9-0 defeat against Holstein Kiel). The association of the club, which at that time had 53 members, to the Lübeck gymnastics club was primarily due to the fact that the gymnastics club enjoyed a higher reputation in the city than the pure soccer clubs.

The LT football department, which had been in existence since 1911, won the Lübeck championship in 1913, but did not take part in the qualifying games for the North German League, which were played in 1913/14 with the ten best teams in the North German Football Association. Only in the following year did the Lübeck team strive for promotion to the second season of the new division planned for 1914/15. In the promotion round, the Hanseatic city fought a close race with the HSV predecessor club Hamburger FC 88, against which they were in the lead for a long time in direct encounter and only had to accept the 3: 3 equalization shortly before the end of the game. Due to a surprising loss of points against Kilia Kiel, the LT footballers ended up one point behind the HFC and missed a possible play-off. Due to the First World War, the league game was then interrupted anyway. After the end of the war, the Lübeck TS footballers qualified again for the North German Championship: in 1920 the club reached the quarter-finals with a 7-2 win over Prussia Itzehoe and was eliminated there with 3: 6 against Holstein Kiel.

In the course of the clean divorce , the LT 1923 football department became independent as SV Phönix . As an independent club, the SVP played the 1923/24 season with two teams: The first team took over the playing rights of the LT in the Lübeck-Mecklenburg district league and ended up there with two points ahead of the LBV in fourth place. The reserve team played in the second-class B-season of the Gauliga-Lübeck and took second place behind the SV Police Lübeck.

Football department of the LBV-Phönix

1924–1931: Sports dominance in the Lübeck-Mecklenburg area

Both the LBV and the SVP had a financially well-positioned following, which consisted mainly of representatives of the Lübeck upper class. The merger negotiations were therefore primarily conducted with a view to further bundling the infrastructural and financial possibilities and - despite an existing sporting rivalry - were ultimately successful: On April 15, 1924, the Lübeck Ballspielverein and SV Phönix merged to form LBV-Phönix together. After FC Schwerin 03 won the championship again in 1925, the new club played a dominant role in the Lübeck-Mecklenburg area from then on: from the 1925/26 season to the 1930/31 season, the LBV footballers won the title every year regional level and were therefore always allowed to take part in the North German Championship. While the Lübeck team failed in the qualifying round at Holstein Kiel in the 1925/26 season , they made it to the finals for the first time in 1927 with a 3-1 win against Eintracht Braunschweig. In front of 8,000 spectators there was a clear 9-1 defeat at the eventual runner-up Hamburger SV, but Phönix scored four points against the other three opponents and brought the first-placed KSV Holstein with a 2-2 in the Holstein Stadium the only point loss of the Finals at.

See also : Table and results of the North German Championship 1927

The club badge of the LBV Phönix

A year later, the LBV had to accept a close 2: 3 in the qualifying round after extra time against St. Pauli Sport , but received a second opportunity to qualify for the German championship in the so-called losing relay. In a fairly even round, however, Union 03 Altona secured the relegation place against the runner-up in the winning relay. After they were eliminated again in the first round after extra time in 1929 (this time with a 3: 4 against Werder Bremen ), they achieved a sovereign 5: 1 first round success against Bremer SV in 1930 . In the quarter-finals that followed, they were able to keep up surprisingly well against the big favorites from Hamburger SV: After an early 0-1 deficit, the Lübeckers turned the game in front of 5,000 spectators in their own stadium on today's Travemünder Allee within five minutes and went with 2: 1 in the lead. Little by little, however, the Hamburgers lived up to their role as favorites and finally won 5: 2. In 1931, the LBV footballers achieved a 4-3 win against FC St. Pauli once again beyond the first round and again held up very well in the quarter-finals against the reigning German runner-up of Kieler SV Holstein. In the end, the Kielers prevented a surprise and prevailed 2-1.

Outside of the league game operations, the LBV-Phönix players also dominated the selection of the NFV district Lübeck-Mecklenburg in these years. In a friendly game against the then Hungarian amateur champions, five of the eleven players came from the ranks of Lübeck: Bohnsack, Arnold, Gellert, Schaar and Gareis. Gradually, however, the LBV-Elf lost their sporting supremacy in the region and in 1932, for the first time in seven years, they were only runner-up behind the SV Police Lübeck . In their last participation in the NFV championship - which this season was played as a round-robin tournament in the first phase - the Lübeckers were eliminated after three games without winning a point in the preliminary round. In the 1932/33 season, the club finally slipped down to fourth place; since the Lübeck-Mecklenburg region was only entitled to two places for the Gauliga Nordmark , the LBV-Phönix failed to qualify for the new division.

1933–1945: Between Gauliga and second class

In 1933/34, the second division clubs from Lübeck and the neighboring districts were divided into the western season of the Lübeck-Mecklenburg district class, which consisted of eight teams. In their first season in the district class, the Hanseatic townspeople were not involved in the battle for the championship and were temporarily in penultimate place in the second half of the season. The following season ended with a regional reform the long-term connection of the clubs from the Lübeck region to the Mecklenburg district. Although Lübeck and Eutin were not to be incorporated into Prussia until 1937 with the Greater Hamburg Act , they were already connected to gaming operations in Schleswig-Holstein that year. The first season in the new region was very successful: At the end of the first half of the season, the LBV-Phönix defeated the championship rivals of VfR Neumünster 5: 4 and, after an autumn championship with 18: 0 points, prevailed just before the VfR at the end of the season . Associated with this was the right to participate in the Gauliga promotion round, which Phönix initially finished in third place after the Kiel police withdrew . However, a protest meant that the three equally ranked teams - Phönix, Hermannia Veddel and Adlero Neustadt-Glewe - had to play another decision round to determine the second promoted team. Phoenix won this round with 4: 0 points and thus returned to the top class.

The team around the main achiever Otto Carlsson reached seventh place in their first Gauliga season and secured relegation with a clear lead over Union Altona. A year later, the LBV, now trained by Albert Eschenlohr , stayed in the midfield of the league and only ended up behind city rivals SV Police Lübeck due to the poorer goal quotient. In 1938 the club achieved national success for the first time thanks to its surprisingly good performance in the Tschammerpokal : After a 2-1 away win at Borussia Dortmund and a 3-2 win over Arminia Bielefeld , the North Germans moved into the round of 16 against Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin , that they just lost 0: 1. In the league game, however, the Phönix footballers got into relegation for the first time and had to leave the class two points behind Altona 93.

In the district league, the LBV was clearly superior and returned after only one year in the top division, which was later renamed the division league Nordmark . Here, however, Phoenix could only play three games and then had to retire. The coming seasons were more and more influenced by the events of the World War, with the Lübeckers being represented twice in a "first-class" league in the next four years: in 1942/43 they took part in the Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein , in which they took part occupied penultimate place. Two years later, the "Eagle Bearers" were again among the participants in the Schleswig-Holstein Gauliga, which was divided into the Kiel and Lübeck squadrons in view of the approaching end of the war. The round was not completely finished, after ten games the LBV-Phönix got 16: 4 points and was in second place behind the SG Ordnungspolizei Lübeck. The last encounter before the surrender of the Wehrmacht was held against SG OrPo with a friendly game on April 8, 1945.

1945–1957: seasons in the amateur league Schleswig-Holstein

In the first few months after the end of the war, there were again unofficial football matches in the occupied Hanseatic city. A first friendly game between the rivals of the LBV and SG OrPo - not yet re-admitted as clubs - took place in the summer on Lübeck's Burgfeld and ended 6: 6 after a 4-0 lead by the Phoenix. The official game operations were resumed at the end of 1945 as part of the " A-Class in the Lübeck District", but was not fully played due to the tight schedule. The LBV footballers finished this season in second place behind the clearly superior and loss point free local rival VfB Lübeck , which had meanwhile emerged from a merger of the workers' sports club BSV Vorwärts Lübeck and the SG Ordnungspolizei Lübeck. In the season 1946/47 it was for the Phoenix to qualify for the first-class Oberliga Nord, which was to form the top division of the future states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein from the 1947/48 season on. In the first class Lübeck, Season B, Phoenix was sovereign champion before Eutin 08 and was thus allowed to participate in the elimination for one of the two Schleswig-Holstein places in the upper league. Here, after a success in the first round against VfB Kiel, they narrowly lost to Itzehoer SV and missed the jump into the final qualifying round.

Due to the simultaneous rise of VfB Lübeck, Phoenix was still the second strongest force in the no longer independent Hanseatic city of Lübeck - but the relatively good performance in the previous season ensured the sovereign qualification for the east relay of the new Schleswig-Holstein state league. The next qualifying season was due here as early as the 1947/48 season , as the highest national league was to be quickly transferred from its three-pronged form to a relay. The LBV had to take at least fourth place in the new Landesliga Ost, which the club certainly succeeded in doing. As a runner-up, however, he missed participation in the state championship, the winner of which was to become Schleswig-Holstein's representative in the promotion round to the league. In 1949, the Lübeck team had already been eliminated from the championship race between Itzehoer SV and Eutin 08 a few match days before the end and finished fourth.

In the 1949/50 season in particular , there was a renewed spirit of optimism on Travemünder Allee: For the new season, the former VfB coach Peter Tietz came and formed a squad in which young players such as Fritz Kuchenbrandt and Heini Bruhn played an important role. After the club was able to survive the first half of the season with just one minus point, they lost on matchday 13 after three missed penalties against Flensburg 08 and did not bring their big lead to the goal. There was also a scandal on the 12th matchday when Phönix had used the ineligible player Wrobel in the game against Gut-Heil Neumünster, who played for Gut-Heil the year before. The two points were deducted from the Lübeckers at the end of the season. In the following seasons, too, the "Adlerträger" were among the top teams in the league: in 1952/53 they signed Kurt Dittmer and Walter Rother from Itzehoer SV, among others, and immediately made it into the promotion round to the Oberliga Nord with the new players. From the games against SC Victoria Hamburg , Bremen 1860 and VfB Oldenburg , however, the white-red-blue only got one point and ended up in last place. The youth department, which won the national championship for young men four times in a row from 1948 to 1951, produced further reinforcements for the league squad.

See also : Tables and results of the league promotion rounds 1953, 1956 and 1957

23 years after failing to qualify for the Gauliga, the runner-up in 1956 meant that Phoenix was again number one in the Hanseatic city for the first time. In the subsequent promotion round, a Hamburg team prevailed again with SC Concordia , but the footballers from Travemünder Allee kept up much better than when they participated in their first promotion round and took second place ahead of VfB Peine and tied with Bremer SV . In the coming season you had to let the local rivals of VfB pass again, but as runner-up the LBV got the opportunity to move up to the league for the third time: After the Lübeckers did not get 2-2 against TSV Uetersen in their own stadium and Losing 3-0 at Bremer SV a week later , the starting position was initially extremely unfavorable. With only one point loss from the last four games, the leap to first class was finally achieved: A goal by Heinz Ranzog at TSV Uetersen and a defeat by the highly-favored VfB Oldenburg at Bremer SV made the promotion on the last day of the game perfect. Since the neighboring VfB also won its group, Lübeck became the only city in Schleswig-Holstein and - after Hamburg, Bremen, Hanover and Osnabrück - the fifth city in the NFV area, which was represented with at least two clubs in the top division of the regional association .

1957–1971: Promotions to the major and regional leagues

The club, which was financially well-positioned at the time, signed Reinhold Ertel and Erich Neupert , among others, for the first league season in order to establish itself in the first division as quickly as possible. After a 3-0 defeat in front of 16,000 spectators against Hamburger SV, Phönix settled in the top half of the table, especially in the first third of the season, and finished second behind HSV after the twelfth match day. A subsequent negative run, however, meant that the LBV footballers found themselves at the beginning of the second half of the relegation battle, which should last until the end of the season. Only on the last day of the match did they overtake city rivals VfB by winning a point, who slipped to the relegation zone due to a 2-0 defeat at Altona 93. For the very first time in its club history, the Phönix was the only club that represented the Hanseatic City of Lübeck in the first class.

Game scene VfB Kiel - 1. FC Phönix Lübeck from the 1966/67 season

For the following season, the white-red-blue team strengthened themselves again with well-known newcomers, even if some of them - such as the attacker Erich Dziwoki - could not meet the expectations placed in them. Accordingly, the Lübeck season also spent the 1958/59 season at the bottom of the table and ended the first half of the season in last place in the table. It was only thanks to a winning streak in the second third of the season that the club, which with around 7,500 visitors per game recorded the highest average number of spectators in the upper division from Schleswig-Holstein, was able to stay in the first class. After all, in the third and final league season of their history, the Hanseatic townspeople missed the goal of achieving a place in the secure midfield with Hans Krämer and other experienced players. Although they started the season as leaders after a 2-0 win against Eintracht Osnabrück, this season was also characterized by the constant battle to stay in the league. After Phönix managed to stay in the first class two years earlier, just ahead of VfB, this time it was the local rival who maintained their league membership with a narrow margin and thus became the sporting number one in the Hanseatic city again.

In 1961/62 the club was able to fight again for promotion to the first division, but did not qualify for the promotion round despite a 4-2 win over the favored league relegated VfB Lübeck in front of 10,000 spectators. With the redesign of the divisions at DFB and NFV level, the Phoenix also failed to qualify for the new Regionalliga Nord in the following season, so that the LBV footballers relegated to third division for the first time in their club's history in 1963. While the league team was initially unable to get a place in the midfield of the Schleswig-Holstein state league, the A-youths of the LBV, including Jochen Aido , celebrated the victory of the North Germans with a 4-3 win over Werder Bremen in 1964 A youth championship. Above all, the success of youth work, but also the newcomers around Peter Nogly and the achievements of experienced players such as "Janni" Iden, enabled the Lübeckers to reconnect with their national rivals and in 1967 to move up to the second-class regional league.

See also : Table and results of the Regionalliga promotion round 1967

Game scene Holstein Kiel - 1. FC Phönix Lübeck from the 1967/68 season

The first two seasons in the Regionalliga were particularly successful. In 1967/68 a strong first half of the season ensured that Lübeck had realistic prospects of qualifying for the promotion to the Bundesliga for a long time. After missing the autumn championship one point behind Arminia Hannover, they were still at the top of the table on matchday 20. In this phase of the season, the "Adlerträger" lost their good starting position with four defeats in a row and ended the season in sixth place in the table. Nonetheless, the 1967/68 season is a specialty in the post-war history of Lübeck: For the first and so far only time since it belonged to Schleswig-Holstein, the club was the most successful team in the state. With around 4,600 visitors per game, they were also in the area of ​​spectator interest ahead of the state rivals VfB Lübeck, KSV Holstein and Itzehoer SV. In the 1968/69 season the Lübeckers were mostly placed in midfield and had to leave the role of number one in Schleswig-Holstein back to VfB, but with 38:26 points they managed to defend sixth place in the table and the most successful athletic record to achieve his regional league affiliation.

1. FC Phoenix Lübeck

1971–1994: Relegation from national football

Former Phönix player and trainer Peter Nogly

In 1971 the soccer department of the LBV-Phönix became independent as 1. FC in the LBV-Phönix . The newly founded club refers in its statutes to the soccer tradition of the predecessor club LBC and has been recognized by the club as a whole and by the DFB as the successor to the soccer department in the LBV-Phönix. The fact that the department was outsourced was due to financial problems that led to disputes within the LBV-Phönix and increasingly had an impact on the athletic course of the men's soccer team. In 1972 the club was able to reach eighth place in the regional league again, but in their last season in the second division, the white-red-blue took the last place and clearly missed qualifying for the 2nd Bundesliga . After the season, the Lübeck team had to fight for two places in the Amateur Oberliga Nord together with four other clubs from Schleswig-Holstein. With wins against VfL Pinneberg and VfR Neumünster as well as a draw against Büdelsdorfer TSV and a defeat against Itzehoer SV, 1. FC Phönix narrowly qualified for the newly founded league. Even in the third division, the club was unable to stop the negative trend of recent years: With seven points behind SpVgg Bad Pyrmont , it not only suffered the second decline in two years, but also recorded one with only 530 visitors per match significant drop in audience numbers.

After relegation from the Oberliga Nord, 1. FC Phönix Lübeck was only fourth class for the first time in its club history and entered the Schleswig-Holstein Association League. Despite the fact that significantly fewer spectators came to the Phoenix games and many sponsors had already jumped out, the last time they returned to the third division was in 1978: Under coach Bernd Emerich, the Lübeckers won the state championship and qualified with a 5-2 win over the SV / MTV Winsen / Luhe for the second time for the amateur league. In particular, due to a bad second half of the season, it was not possible to remain in national football this season. In the following association league seasons, the team increasingly developed into a midfield team that fought more to stay in the league than to return to the amateur league. In 1985, the team, now trained by Manfred Bomke, got into major relegation difficulties for the first time and only saved themselves on the last day of the game by turning a 1: 2 deficit at TSV Plön with two late goals (88th and 92nd minute).

See also : Table and results of the league promotion round 1978

In the mid-1980s, 1. FC Phönix seemed to be able to build on more successful times for a short time: in 1985/86 the club won both city derbies and was the best place of all Lübeck teams for the last time. Also in the next two seasons, the Lübeck-based company was in the running for a place in the promotion round to the Oberliga Nord for a long time, but did not make it to one of the first two places in both 1987 and 1988. The three years in the upper third of the league table was followed by the worst association league season in the club's history, at the end of which they had to go into the fifth division for the first time with ten points behind. Even in the regional league, Phoenix was only able to hold out for a year, before the preliminary sporting low point was reached with 13th place in the sixth-class regional league. At this point, however, there was a surprising turnaround: the march from the fourth to the sixth division was followed by two promotions within two years and the equally quick return to the association league. There, in the course of a league reform, a placement in the upper half of the table was necessary in order to qualify for the Oberliga Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein. With a fifth place, the new league was safely achieved, which means that the Hanseatic townspeople were represented in a national league for the first time in twenty years.

1994-2017: seasons in the major league and retreat to seventh division

The club, which was still struggling with a financially difficult situation, was able to confirm the good placement from the 1993/94 season in the Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein Oberliga: In his first season he again reached fifth place and won against Champions and regional league promoters of FC St. Pauli II three out of four possible points. In the following season, which was played for the first time according to the three-point rule , the Lübeckers were involved in the relegation battle, but were initially able to save themselves with two points ahead of ASV Bergedorf 85 . A year later they finally suffered their first relegation in seven years with a large gap of 14 points. Despite an unfavorable starting position, the footballers from Travemünder Allee returned to the league one more time: In 1998 1. FC Phönix won the runner-up in the Schleswig-Holstein Association League, which entitles them to participate in the promotion games against the Hamburg runner-up. After a 0-2 home defeat in the first leg against Glashütter SV, footballers from Travemünder Allee in Norderstedt won 4-1 after extra time.

In 1999, however, the major financial problems and the significantly reduced interest of the audience ensured that the board of directors decided to withdraw the first men's team to the district league. As a result, the club was only seventh-class and should always spend the next two decades in lower-class football. In the course of a league reform, the FCP took part for the first time in the game operation at the district level from 2008/09, which was initially played in the joint Lübeck / Lauenburg district league and from 2011 in the independent Lübeck district league. With the 13th place on the seventh league level in 2011, the worst position in the club's history was achieved at this time.

Four years later, the Hanseatic townspeople should finally succeed in reconnecting with the upper regional leagues. After two promotions in 2005 and 2012 each resulted in a short return to the regional league and association league South-East, 1. FC Phönix Lübeck held its ground above the seventh division level again from 2015 onwards. A close relegation in the Association League South-East was followed by another league reform, in which the four Association League seasons were to be replaced by two national leagues in 2017. The club safely achieved the necessary placement in the upper half of the table.

Since 2017: return to national football

The team, now trained by the former regional league coach Denny Skwierczynski, played a good role in the new division right away and narrowly missed the relegation games to the Schleswig-Holstein Oberliga with third place. A year later, the Lübeck team returned to the top national league for the first time in over two decades. In particular due to numerous new signings from the retired previous year's champion NTSV Strand 08 , the newcomers were given good chances of winning the championship right away. The 2019/20 season was interrupted by the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic and canceled in April. At this point in time, 1. FC Phönix Lübeck was in 1st place after 20 of 30 games, ahead of SV Todesfelde with the same number of points , but who had played one game less. Due to a quotient regulation, the SV Todesfelde (2.47 points) was declared champion ahead of the Lübeckers (2.35 points). From the Oberliga Schleswig-Holstein, however, only 1. FC Phönix Lübeck submitted approval documents for the coming season of the Regionalliga Nord . The North German Football Association responsible for the Regionalliga Nord also decided to end the season and that a promotion round of the subordinate upper leagues would be dispensed with, which resulted in five direct promoters (Oberliga Schleswig-Holstein, Oberliga Hamburg , Bremen-Liga and two teams from the Oberliga Lower Saxony ) gave.

For the 2020/21 season, Phoenix returned to the 4th division for the first time since 1998, in which they will be active again in the entire area of ​​the North German Football Association for the first time since relegation from the amateur league 41 years earlier. Due to the situation, which is still characterized by the COVID-19 pandemic, the regional league will initially be played in two preliminary round relays consisting of eleven teams. The 5 best teams each play the participant for the promotion games to the 3rd league in a championship round, the 6 worst teams the relegated teams. Phoenix Lübeck was divided into the north relay with the teams from Schleswig-Holstein (5) and Hamburg (4) as well as the two northernmost clubs from Lower Saxony ( SV Drochtersen / Assel and Lüneburger SK Hansa ).

League affiliation

With the promotion to the Regionalliga Nord 2020/21, the men of 1. FC Phönix Lübeck and its predecessor clubs recorded the 30th league change since 1903. In ten further years, league reforms took place, during which Phönix stayed at the same league level The following season, however, had to compete in a division with a new name or a different geographic layout.

Participation in other competitions

At the national level, Phönix has been represented twice in the DFB and Tschammer Cups. The best result was achieved by the North Germans when they first participated in 1938, when they defeated Borussia Dortmund and Arminia Bielefeld and failed in the round of 16 against Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin. In addition to the state rivals KSV Holstein and VfB Lübeck, who each reached the semi-finals once, as well as Heider SV , Phönix Lübeck is one of four clubs from Schleswig-Holstein that was able to reach the round of the last 16. In 1976/77 1. FC took part in the national cup for the second time, but were eliminated in the first round by a 2-0 defeat against Eintracht Bad Kreuznach .

In its club history, Phönix Lübeck also took part in various cups at regional and state association level. The NFV Cup was first played in the years 1924 to 1928, with the Lübeckers reaching the final in their only participation and losing 3-1 to Holstein Kiel. After the war, the North German Football Association continued the competition with changing staging modes and in this way determined the NFV participants in the DFB Cup from 1952 to 1974. Phoenix took part in a total of nine editions of the North German Cup, but only survived the first round in 1960, 1968 and 1971. As in the league game, the 1967/68 season was the most successful season, when Lübeck won over Altona 93 and Holstein Kiel reached the last lap. There they missed a place in the DFB Cup due to a 3-2 defeat against Langenhorn TSV . After 1974, the regional participants in the DFB-Pokal were awarded by the regional associations, which is why the SHFV-Cup was now of greater importance. 1. FC Phönix Lübeck secured their first and so far only title in the state cup with their victory in the 1975/76 final.

The Hanseatic townspeople also took part in the German amateur championship twice: in 1954 they met TSV Uetersen, Hertha BSC and SV Hemelingen in their preliminary group. The Lübeck team prevailed without losing points and achieved, among other things, a 5-4 away win in the Olympic Stadium, which had 50,000 spectators . In the subsequent semifinals, the club was defeated by the later amateur champions TSV Hüls with 0: 2. In their second participation in 1966 , the North Germans failed in the first round at SSV Mülheim .

Greatest successes

• 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930: Champion of the first-class Oberliga Lübeck / Mecklenburg and participation in the North German championship
• 1927: Third place in the North German championship
• 1957: Promotion to the first-class Oberliga Nord
• 1967: Promotion to the second-rate Regionalliga Nord
• 1976: Victory in the Schleswig-Holstein State Cup
• 2019: Promotion to the fifth class Oberliga Schleswig-Holstein
• 2020: Promotion to the fourth-class Regionalliga Nord

In the all-time table of the first-class Oberliga Nord from 1947 to 1963, the club is in 24th of 28 places and in a national comparison in fourth place ahead of Heider SV and Itzehoer SV.

Well-known former players

An overview of all players who have played at least fifty games in the first-class Oberliga Nord, the second-class Regionalliga Nord or both divisions for LBV Phönix or 1. FC Phönix Lübeck can be found in the list of players of 1. FC Phönix Lübeck .

More teams

In the senior division, the Phönix also reports other men's teams for play, the second team will play in the seventh-class association league in 2020/21. Historically, the second representatives of the Lübeck-based company were able to play an important role on a regional level several times: in 1906, when a league game was held in the Hanseatic city for the first time, the second LBC team took part in first class once and finished second there - behind LBC I Space. Provided the regulations allowed it, the Lübeck and their predecessor clubs were always active with their reserve teams at the second highest league level in the 1920s. This applies to both the LT, the LBV and the SV Phönix (existing only in 1923/24), as well as the later LBV-Phönix II, which reached the championship in the Lübeck district in the first year after the merger . In the post-war period, however, the LBV-Phönix Amateure team did not achieve any sporting successes worth mentioning. In contrast to the state rivals from Kiel, Itzehoe or Neumünster, the "Adlerträger" were never active with their amateur team in the highest national league. The best placement of the Hanseatic city was a third place in the third class district league in 1959/60.

In the youth field, the teams of the LBV or the 1. FC Phönix Lübeck were among the strongest in Schleswig-Holstein in the 1950s, 1960s and 1990s and won numerous state championships at that time. The young men recorded their greatest success at the North German Championship in 1964: After winning the SHFV Championship (6: 1 against Holstein Kiel) and an equally confident 5: 1 win against Lower Saxony champion Arminia Hannover, they qualified for the final against the host SV Werder Bremen. In front of 1,500 spectators, the Lübeckers equalized a temporary 1: 3 deficit and won the title 4: 3 after extra time thanks to a goal by Hans-Joachim Ihde. For the first time, and to this day the only time, a club from Schleswig-Holstein presented the best A-youth in northern Germany.

In the early 1990s, both the A-Juniors in 1991/92 and 1992/93 and the B-Juniors in the 1990/91 and 1991/92 seasons qualified for the German youth championship. In all four competitions, however, the Lübeckers did not get past the first round or the round of 16 and, in addition to seven defeats, only scored one draw in the second leg of the 1991 B-Youth Championship.

See also : Data on the German championships of the A and B juniors with the participation of 1. FC Phönix Lübeck

In three seasons, the youth soccer teams of 1. FC Phönix Lübeck were also represented nationwide in league operations: in 1992/93 and 1996/97, the A-Juniors belonged to the first-class Regionalliga Nord, in 1998/99 the B-Jugend was one of the founding members of first played Northern season of the Regionalliga. In all three seasons, however, the Lübeck had to relegate immediately, the B-youth had to leave the Regionalliga in 1998/99 without winning a point. 1. FC Phönix is ​​currently cooperating in the youth sector with Eichholzer SV and TSV Eintracht Groß Grönau. The club is also part of a cooperation in women's football: the Kronsforde / Phönix syndicate exists here together with Kronsford SV .

Club environment

pendant

Historically, the "Eagle Bearers" were considered to be a sports club for the upper middle class, which is due not least to the time when its predecessors were founded. In phases, the two seminarist associations recruited their members exclusively from the Lübeck teachers' seminars. Since in the 1900s, talented upper-class students almost without exception had access to higher education, the SFC footballers were accordingly more often than average well-educated men from wealthy parents. With the merger to form the LBV-Phönix at the latest, there were no longer any formal requirements that were linked to membership - nevertheless the founding years shaped the composition of the association and its supporters for several decades. Until the post-war period, the Phönix was considered an “elitist” club, which further intensified the rivalry with VfB, whose supporters mostly came from a proletarian environment.

Highest viewership

season	spectator
1957/58	122,000
1958/59	113,000
1959/60	93,000
1967/68	74,304
1968/69	63,408

Even before the Second World War, there were occasional games with 5,000 spectators on Israelsdorfer Allee, but the audience interest in the LBV-Phönix was greatest during its most successful sporting period in the 1950s and 1960s. The 122,000 visitors who watched the LBV home games in the 1957/58 season together represent the highest number of spectators in Schleswig-Holstein that was achieved by a club other than Holstein Kiel and VfB Lübeck. In addition to KSV, VfB and Flensburg 08 (1976), only the Phönix (1959 and 1968) managed to attract the highest spectator interest of the SHFV clubs in two seasons. In the immediately following seasons, however, the Phoenix recorded a sharp drop in audience numbers, which further exacerbated the financial problems at the beginning of the 1970s. Due to the long-standing membership in lower divisions, the active fan scene shrank noticeably in the following decades, even if the club was back in third place on the audience table in the broken-off 2019/20 season.

Rivalries

The most important rivalry in the history of the Phönixer club is that of the neighboring VfB Lübeck. The question of sporting supremacy in the city was particularly controversial in the 1950s and 1960s and at that time was also of relatively great relevance in a national comparison: While in Kiel, Itzehoe and (since 1951) Neumünster the city-internal "number one" was undisputed both in terms of sport and the interests of the audience, there were two nationally competitive sports clubs with strongly rival fan camps in the Hanseatic city. The duels held in the major league seasons 1957/58 and 1959/60 were the only city derbies so far between two clubs from the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association that took place in a first-class league and met with 14,000 in the 1959/60 season (with Phönix) and 20,000 visitors (at VfB) on a very large audience interest. No encounter with the participation of two clubs from Schleswig-Holstein had a higher number of visitors after 1945 than the game at the Lohmühle on October 25, 1959 .

The Lübeck sports journalist Christian Jessen, taking into account all compulsory and friendly matches between Phoenix and VfB (including the predecessor clubs of the two clubs), came up with 78 VfB wins, 37 Phoenix games won and 22 undecided encounters. Although the Phoenix placed in front of VfB several times in the 1950s and 1960s, it was not until the 1978/79 and 1985/86 seasons that the “Eagle Bearers” managed to win both league matches in the course of one season. VfB did this five times, including in the 1959/60 league season. After a city derby with twelve goals (7: 5 for VfB) in front of 2,600 spectators, which is still legendary today, the games in the 1988/89 season were the last derbies between the first two teams in a league game ( five years later there was another meeting in the final of the district cup). In view of the different league affiliations, the rivalry between the two clubs has played an increasingly minor role since then. Nonetheless, the game between Phönix and VfB's second team in the Oberliga Schleswig-Holstein 2019/20 next to the Nordfriesland derby between Husumer SV and SV Frisia 03 Risum-Lindholm was the game with the most spectators in this division.

The following timeline gives an overview of which Lübeck team achieved the best placement in the DFB's league games in the years up to 1989. An overview of all competitive games that took place after the end of the war in the NFV or SHFV divisions between VfB and Phoenix can be found in the list of league games between VfB Lübeck and 1. FC Phönix Lübeck .

Stadion

View of the soccer field of FC Phönix Lübeck, grandstand

The footballers of the Lübeck ball game club trained in their immediate founding period first on the sports grounds of MTV Lübeck at Lübeck Burgfeld and in 1905 they planned to move to a grass pitch on Israelsdorfer Allee for the first time . However, as the local conditions did not allow an organized football game, the LBC footballers moved their home ground to a paddock in the then still independent Krempelsdorf . The course was inaugurated on July 1, 1906 with a game against FC Britannia from Hamburg, which was lost 8-1.

A little later, the LBC invested more than 10,000 marks in a large sports area on Israelsdorfer Allee, which had several tennis courts and a running track as well as a football field with a grandstand. Lübeck's first football stadium, which has existed for around five years, was opened on August 29, 1909 with a friendly against IFK Malmö . Since the facilities were heavily devastated during the First World War and could no longer be used, Harry Maasz designed a new sports field on the site of the nearby Karlshof airfield , which the club is still using today. The new venue was opened on September 19, 1920 with a hockey game.

In the course of the founding of the LBV-Phönix, the new stadium was to play a decisive role: After the footballers of the Lübeck Turnerschaft - no reliable information has been handed down on the sports fields of the other predecessor clubs - had always been at the Turnerschaftsplatz on Charlottenstraße , the stadium question was for the SV Phönix one of the main reasons to enter into the merger negotiations. Accordingly, the airfield , as the stadium, which was only completed in the years to come, was colloquially called, also became the venue for the newly founded club. As a result of the Second World War , the stadium was destroyed and later confiscated by the Allies. Some time after the end of the war, the club took over the stadium again and expanded it in 1950 for 13,000 German marks and in 1956 with the help of a loan from the city of Lübeck. In addition to a new standing grandstand, a floodlight system was installed on the stadium at the end of 1957, which was a rarity in northern Germany until then and proved to be extremely lucrative for the club: the possibility of evening games opened up the opportunity to meet attractive opponents from western and southern Germany Bringing friendly matches to Lübeck and led to the neighboring VfB also occasionally renting the stadium on Travemünder Allee. In 1966 the club sold its stadium to the city of Lübeck.

As part of the promotion to the Regionalliga Nord for the 2020/21 season , various expansion measures are planned at the Flugplatz stadium , which should enable the venue to be used in the 2020/21 season in accordance with the DFB requirements. Until then it is planned to switch to the Buniamshof stadium for the regional league games .

literature

• 25 years of Lübeck ball game Verein-Phoenix . Publisher: Lübeck Ballspielverein Phönix from 1903, Lübeck 1928.
• Festschrift to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the LBV Phönix from 1903 e. V. Publisher: Lübeck Ballspielverein Phönix from 1903, Lübeck 1953.
• 100 years LBV Phönix - Festschrift 2003 . Published by: Lübeck Ballspielverein Phönix from 1903, Lübeck 2003.
• Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 , pp. 54-57.
• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): Sports field on Travemünder Allee . In: The big book of German football stadiums. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89533-306-9 , p. 235

Web links

• Official homepage of the 1. FC Phönix Lübeck
• Bungee bottle with flat pass cork - player data of the soccer Oberliga Nord 1947-63 ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

References, Sources and Notes

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5. ↑ Lübeck became a subdistrict of the HAFB in 1905 ; a final for its championship of the 2nd class was lost with 1: 6 against Altona 93 IIa . More details from Udo Luy: Football in Northern Germany 1888 - 1914 , Kleinrinderfeld 2018, page 300
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10. ↑ 25 years of Lübeck Ballspiel Verein-Phönix, Ed .: Lübecker Ballspielverein Phönix from 1903, Lübeck 1928, p. 16.
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12. ↑ ^{a b c d} Christian Jessen: When Lübeck's “Eagle Bearers” annoyed the HSV . In: Nord Sport . S. 29-31 .
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15. ↑ At that time the street was still called Israelsdorfer Allee
16. ↑ Lübeck-Mecklenburg against Hungarian champions. in: Lübecker Generalanzeiger of August 9, 1929, quoted from: Peter Stäcker - Sportgeschichte des VfL Oldesloe
17. ↑ The dates of the second division seasons are not known with the exception of the 1941/42 season. Here Phönix took 1st place in the district league with 29: 3 points and 71:23 points, see: Football Week, North German edition of June 2, 1942, page 14
18. ↑ The reallocation in football . in: Oldesloer Landbote, August 16, 1933. Quoted from: Peter Stäcker - Sportgeschichte des VfL Oldesloe
19. ↑ 9. Point game: Oldesloer SV - Phönix Lübeck 1: 1 (1: 0) . in: Oldesloer Landbote, January 14, 1934. Quoted from: Peter Stäcker - Sportgeschichte des VfL Oldesloe
20. ↑ In 1935 this measure was temporarily withdrawn.
21. ^ LBV Phönix Herbstmeister . in: Oldesloer Landbote, November 12, 1934. Quoted from: Peter Stäcker - Sportgeschichte des VfL Oldesloe
22. ↑ Kicker from September 1, 1936, page 12
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27. ^ Christian Jessen: rubble, hunger, refugees - and sporting boom as VfB . In: VfB Lübeck: A century of football history in the Hanseatic city . Die Werkstatt GmbH, July 31, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , pp. 37 - 42.
28. ^ Chronicle of VfB Lübeck: Season 1945/46 ( Memento from November 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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30. ↑ Tables for the 1949/50 season (PDF; 54 kB)
31. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Christian Jessen: VfB against Phoenix - fight for number one in the city . In: VfB Lübeck: A century of football history in the Hanseatic city . Die Werkstatt GmbH, July 31, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , pp. 268 - 272.
32. ↑ Ertel, Reinhold ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
33. ↑ Audience figures for the Oberliga Nord 1958/59
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35. ↑ Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the LBV Phönix from 1903 eV, Ed .: Lübecker Ballspielverein Phönix from 1903, Lübeck 1978
36. ↑ DSFS (Ed.): North Chronicle. Amateur Oberliga Nord 1974–1979
37. ^ Rudolf Moll: TSV Pansdorf was only missing a "little gate" . In: Lübecker Nachrichten . May 21, 1985.
38. ↑ Due to the relegation of the first team, the better placed KSV Holstein II team would have had to be relegated even if they stayed in class
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40. ↑ Evaluation of the 2019/20 season , shfv-kiel.de, May 9, 2020, accessed on May 9, 2020.
41. ↑ 27 applications for the approval process , nordfv.de, April 2, 2020, accessed on May 9, 2020.
42. ↑ NFV Presidium Presidium decides to end the season , nordfv.de, May 22, 2020, accessed on May 23, 2020.
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47. ↑ Tables for the season 1963/64 (PDF; 24 kB)
48. ↑ Homepage of the youth development association Grönau / Phönix / Eichholz
49. ^ Klaus Brenneke: Quo Vadis, VfB Lübeck? –Memories and observations from six decades . In: Lübeckische Blätter . March 22, 2008, p. 101-103 .
50. ↑ The two seasons in which the LBV-Phönix had the highest number of viewers in the SHFV are highlighted in red.
51. ↑ Peter-Wulf Dietrich: 7: 5 against Phoenix - Cekala scored the 100th VfB goal . In: Lübecker Nachrichten . May 17, 1988.
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