Witten FC 92

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Witten FC 92
Full name Witten football club 1892 eV
place Witten , North Rhine-Westphalia
Founded April 12, 1892
Dissolved 2006
Club colors Red White
Stadion unknown
Top league District class
successes no

The Wittener FC 92 (officially: Witten Football Club 1892 eV ) was a sports club from Witten . It is considered to be the first football club in the Ruhr area . The German sports club for soccer statistics leads the Witten as the first soccer club in today's North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

Team photo of Witten FC 92 in the 1890s

Structural development

The association was founded on July 1, 1891 by students from the Witten secondary school. Encouraged by four brothers whose family had close ties to England , a school association was founded, which was sponsored by the school principal. Initially, only members of the upper bourgeoisie could join the association who attended or had completed a high school. Several later officers , doctors and entrepreneurs were among the founders of the association . It was not until 1900 that this elitist policy was abandoned, so that even students from simple elementary schools could become members. But it didn't come to that.

In 1905 the club joined the Rheinisch-Westfälischer Spielverband . Why the German Football Association named April 12, 1892 as the date of the club's founding is incomprehensible, since all club documents of Witten FC 92 were destroyed in the Second World War . On August 10, 1907, the FC Westfalia Witten split off, which in 1919 became the SuS Witten club . Between 1943 and 1945 the Wittener FC 92 formed together with pupils Witten and the BSG Mannesmann Witten the war game community KSG Witten . In 2006, Witten FC 92 merged with VfB Witten, which was founded in 1930, to form SpVgg Witten 92/30 .

Sporting development

Even if the club is considered one of the pioneers of football in the Ruhr area, the team only played in the lower division in the first few decades. It was not until 1927 that the people of Witten had the chance to move up to the first class Ruhr district class at the time . After a 5: 4 victory over Westfalia Herne , the team reached the final, which was lost in neutral Essen against SuS Schalke 96 with 1: 2 after extra time . In the meantime slipped into the third class, the re-promotion to the now second class first district class Ruhr succeeded in 1930 . After the introduction of the Gauliga Westfalen , the Witteners were again third class, but were promoted to the second class district class again in 1934 . There the team was runner-up behind Prussia Bochum in 1936 .

In a duel with local rivals SuS Witten , FC 92 was mostly ahead of the game until the end of World War II. This changed after the end of the war, when SuS took on the name VfL Witten in 1946 and one year later was one of the founding members of the first-class Oberliga West . FC 92 suspected treason and accused VfL of having better contacts with the British occupying forces in order to get good players. Witten FC 92 was relegated to the district class in 1946 and returned to the district class three years later. In 1951 he went back to the district class. It was not until 1962 that he was promoted again under coach Dieter Attern .

In the district class, the Witten 1964 runner-up behind TSG Sprockhövel . Later the FC 92 descended again into the 1st district class, which became the permanent sporting home of the club. In 1991 the Witten runners-up behind Vorwärts Kornharpen before the team had to relegate to the district B league in 2002. There the direct ascent succeeded.

Successor club SpVgg Witten

SpVgg Witten was runner-up in the district league B behind the Turkish SV Witten in the 2010/11 season . In February 2015, the two men's teams of SpVgg Witten that were still playing in the district league C were withdrawn. SpVgg Witten was later also dissolved.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christopf Teves: Football in the Ruhr area. Planet Wissen , accessed June 16, 2015 .
  2. ^ A b German Sports Club for Football Statistics (Ed.): Football in West Germany 1902 / 03–1932 / 33 . 2009, DNB  997617357 , p. 3, 137, 174 .
  3. ↑ a b c Hartmut Hering: In the land of a thousand derbies . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-7307-0209-3 , p. 35, 54 .
  4. ^ Hardy Green , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 507.
  5. ↑ Ralf Piorr (Ed.): The pot is round - The lexicon of Revier football: The clubs . Klartext Verlag , Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-356-9 , p. 227 .
  6. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics: Football in West Germany 1945–1952 . Hövelhof 2011, p. 16, 106, 192 .
  7. ↑ Oliver Schinkewitz: Football icon Dieter Attern celebrates his 90th birthday. DerWesten, accessed April 9, 2019 .
  8. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (ed.): Football in West Germany 1963 / 64–1965 / 66 . 2018, p. 79 .
  9. ^ Wittener FC. Tables Archive.info, accessed on May 10, 2019 .
  10. ↑ SpVgg. 92/30 brushes the sails. WAZ , February 21, 2015, accessed December 26, 2016 .