1. FC Bocholt

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1. FC Bocholt
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Basic data
Surname 1.
Bocholt 1900 eV football club
Seat Bocholt , North Rhine-Westphalia
founding 1900 as Bocholter FC 1900
Colours Black-and-white
president Ludger Triphaus
Website 1fcbocholt.de
First soccer team
Head coach Jan Winking
Venue Gigaset Arena
Places 4,999
league Oberliga Niederrhein
2019/20 5th place
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The 1. FC Bocholt 1900 e. V. is a football club from Bocholt in western Münsterland .

history

Foundation phase

The club was founded on August 21, 1900 under the name “Bocholter Fußballclub 1900” and was accepted into the Rheinisch-Westfälischer Fußballverband just under six months later . The eleven founding members elected August Tangerding as their first chairman. The club played its first competition on August 25, 1901. The club has been based at Gut Hünting since 1904, and in 1920 the grounds were expanded into one of the largest sports grounds on the Lower Rhine .

In 1937 the club merged with the “Ballspielverein 1909 Bocholt” and henceforth called itself “Ballspielverein 1900 Bocholt”. The first team was significantly strengthened by the merger and was able to celebrate promotion to the third highest division, the district class, in 1940. At that time, the club's youth work was also leading far beyond the city's borders. The Bocholter A-Jugend celebrated their greatest success on August 1, 1943 when they became Westphalian regional champion. In the final of the Reichsbahn Stadium of Munster youth teams of was SV 07 Neuhaus with 2: 1 defeat in extra time. After an amendment to the statutes in 1946, the name of the association was changed to “1. Football Club Bocholt ”, which has remained valid to this day.

Development in the post-war period

In the post-war period, 1. FC Bocholt experienced a sporting heyday, which reached its first climax on June 18, 1950 after the 6: 1 against Rheingold Emmerich with promotion to the highest amateur class , the Landesliga Niederrhein . The stay in the association league was not permanent. After relegation in 1954, the club failed in 1957/58 in a playoff (1: 2) to get promoted to the Sportfreunde Katernberg . A year later, the championship and return to the highest amateur class, the Association League Niederrhein , was achieved with one point ahead of BV Altenessen 06 . After relegation in 1962 and a poor sporting decade, 1. FC Bocholt only reached the state league championship again in 1970, tied with city rivals Olympia Bocholt . In a dramatic playoff for promotion they lost 3: 4 goals in front of 10,000 spectators. It was not until the 1973/74 championship that 1. FC managed to get promoted back to the Lower Rhine Association.

First encounters with paid football

In the association league season 1975/76 the 1. FC Bocholt Niederrhein champion , but failed in the promotion round to the 2. Bundesliga at VfL Wolfsburg and the Bonner SC . In 1977 the club made the leap into paid football for the first time in the club's history. Although 1. FC Bocholt had only won second place in the past season, they benefited from the fact that the association league champions, Fortuna Düsseldorf's second team , were not allowed to advance. In the following season, the club could not secure relegation in the then 2. Bundesliga North , so that Bocholt was relegated to the newly founded Oberliga Nordrhein .

After another season in which the rebound as second-placed was only just missed, Bocholt rose again in 1980 as champions of the Oberliga Nordrhein in the 2nd Bundesliga North. There Bocholt was able to achieve greater success compared to his first second division season and finally reached 12th place in the table. However, since a merger of the two second leagues into a single-track 2nd Bundesliga was decided this season , this place in the table was not enough to keep the league and in 1981 resulted in relegation to the Oberliga Nordrhein.

Between 1976 and 1984 1. FC Bocholt was able to qualify five times for the main round of the DFB Cup . The best results were achieved once in the third round ( 1978/79 ), once in the round of 16 ( 1981/82 ) and once in the quarter-finals. It was the season ( 1983/84 ) when Bocholt, after victories against, among others, the Stuttgarter Kickers and Eintracht Braunschweig, only lost to Bayern Munich with 1: 2 goals in the DFB Cup quarter-finals . The last DFB Cup participation for the time being ended in 1993 with a 2: 3 defeat against Rot-Weiss Essen .

The club also qualified three times for the German amateur championship and reached the semi-finals in both 1980 and 1983 . In 1993 they finished second in the group stage behind the Werder Bremen amateurs .

Recent developments in the amateur leagues

1. FC Bocholt won the championship title for the last time in the league season 1983/84 , but failed in the promotion round to the 2. Bundesliga against Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin and FC St. Pauli . After a further ten years in the Oberliga Nordrhein with variable success, the club won the runner-up in 1993 and in the following year 1994 they were promoted to the third-class regional league West / Southwest .

Bocholt was able to assert itself there until 1997, but then rose again to the Oberliga Nordrhein in the 1996/97 season . On the last matchday of the 2006/07 season , the club slipped to a relegation rank after a 2-0 defeat against direct relegation competitor SV Straelen and played in the Association League Niederrhein in the 2007/08 season . After a disastrous season, three game days before the end of the season, the second relegation in a row to the Landesliga Niederrhein was certain. In the 2008/09 season, the club finished fifth in the table, a year later they became runner-up. In the following relegation round of the second in the regional league, 1.FC Bocholt managed to return to the Lower Rhine League on June 9, 2010 under coach Ralf Bugla by fighting against SC Union Nettetal (1: 1) and SSV Sudberg-Wuppertal (3: 1 ) prevailed.

After two years in the Lower Rhine League, the club rose again to the state league at the end of the 2011/12 season. At the end of the 2013/14 season, the first team rose again as champions of the regional league in the Oberliga Niederrhein , where they finished third in 2017 and 2019 .

Former players

Former trainers

An overview of all coaches in the club.

Term of office Trainer
1947-1948 Paul Zielinski
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1955-1960 Jakob van Burgh
1960–1962 Paul Zielinski
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1965-1967 Lambert Rondhuis
1967-1970 Friedel Elting
1970-1971 Lambert Rondhuis
1971-1972 Ludwig Bartholot
1972-1974 Günter Werschy
Term of office Trainer
1974-1982 Friedel Elting
1982-1985 Rolf Mueller
1985-1987 Hans Sondermann
1987-1988 Friedhelm Wenzlaff
1991-1996 Franz-Josef Tenhagen
1996-1997 Fritz Bischoff
03.1997-09.1997 Matthias Herget
1997-1999 Franz-Josef Kneuper
2000-2001 Dirk Helmig
2001-2007 Franz-Josef Tenhagen
Term of office Trainer
2007-2008 Werner Wildhagen
2008-2010 Ralf Bugla
2010-2011 Sebastian Eul
01.2012-04.2012 Georg Schmeinck
05.2012-06.2012 Ivan Alduk
2012-2013 Sascha Brouwer
2013-2020 Manuel Jara
Since 05.2020 Jan Winking

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