1. FC Langen
| 1. FC Langen | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Surname | 1. Football Club Langen 1903 eV |
| Seat | Langen , Hesse |
| founding | 1903 |
| Colours | Red White |
| Board | Stephan Seibel (1st chairman) |
| Website | www.fc-langen.de |
| First soccer team | |
| Head coach | Murat Kilinc |
| Venue | Waldstadion Oberlinden |
| Places | nb |
| league | Group league Frankfurt East |
| 2017/18 | 14th place |
The 1. FC Langen 1903 is a football club from the South Hessian town of Langen . It was founded in 1903 and played from 1928 to 1933 and from 1958 to 1964 in the highest Hessian league, since then the first men's team has moved between Offenbach district and district level. 1. FC Langen has had a women's football department since the 1970s.
Club history
A first Langen soccer team was founded in Langen as early as 1901. The "Soccer Club 1901" joined the Turnverein Vorwärts (TVV) Langen two years later. However, the football department became independent again at the end of 1903 and was now playing under the name "Football Club 03". In the founding years, athletics were also practiced at FC Langen. After the First World War , the footballers initially appeared again as a division of a gymnastics club, TSV 1862 Langen, until the so-called clean separation between gymnastics and soccer clubs on May 1, 1925 for re-establishment as “1. Football Club Langen ”. Under the National Socialists, a merger of all Langen clubs in 1933 led to the creation of the large club "Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft Langen". After the end of the war and the associated dissolution of the clubs, games were resumed in 1946, initially as "VfR Langen", but returned to the old club name "1. FC Langen ”back.
Sporting development
During the first two decades of its existence, the team that had joined the South German Association in 1906 only played on a regional level. In 1928, FC Langen became champions of the district league and, after a successful round of promotion, rose to the district league Main / Hessen, which was the top division at the time. From the 1928/29 season onwards, clubs like Wormatia Worms , Mainz 05 and Darmstadt 98 were on an equal footing. The best placement in the top division was fourth at the end of the 1931/32 round . As early as 1933, the era of first class for the Langener ended, with the introduction of the Gauligen as the new top division, 1. FC was downgraded to second division.
After the Second World War , football was soon played again in Langen, and in 1950, under the temporary name VfR Langen, it was promoted to the 2nd Hesse amateur league (4th level). The Red-Whites established themselves there in the 1950s and also intensified the youth work in the club, in 1957 an international youth tournament was launched. Under coach Heinrich Schweinhardt (former FSV Frankfurt player), the team was promoted to the 1st amateur league in Hessen in the 1957/58 season . There Willi Keim took over the training management and established the club in the Hessian upper house. The climax of this phase was reached when 1. FC Langen was fifth at the end of the 1961/62 season. At the time, the successful team consisted almost exclusively of its own junior staff, with Rudolf Dieter (later Pirmasens) and Heinz Weger, two of their players, were appointed to the Hessen team.
With the relegation to the second amateur league, the Langen third division era ended in 1963/64. In 1965 1. FC Langen qualified for the newly created group league and in the same year reached the finals of the Hessen Cup , in which the red-whites were defeated by Germania Wiesbaden 3: 5. In 1967/68 they were about to return to the Hessian upper house, but in the end had to be satisfied with fourth place. At this time, 1. FC Langen fell more and more into the shadow of the up-and-coming neighboring club SG Egelsbach , was relegated from the group league in 1970 and temporarily fell back into the A-class. The association now concentrated on youth and integration work - the city of Langen had become “multicultural” earlier than many others - and was awarded the Sepp Herberger Prize in 1983 for its exemplary youth development . In the senior sector, attention was drawn again in 1994 when the ex-national goalkeeper Uli Stein , who lived in Langen, was persuaded to work as a coach after he was kicked out at Frankfurt Eintracht. Stein's support not only ensured that 1. FC Langen managed to stay up in the district league, but also created a certain optimistic mood in the "Oberlinden", which culminated in 1997/98 with promotion to the district league. The team was able to stay there for five years, since then it has been commuting between the leagues of the Offenbach soccer district and, after finishing 2nd in the Offenbach district league in 2016/2017 and a successful relegation in the 2017/18 season in the Frankfurt Ost group league. The youth department, which has a large number of members, is still the club's flagship.
Venue
The first sports field of 1. FC Langen was located opposite the train station, in the 1920s and 1930s they played on the east side of today's Berliner Allee at the level of the entrance to the Ginsterbusch. After the end of the Second World War, games were initially started on a former handball court between Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße and Berliner Allee, and a discarded railway car served as a changing room.
1. FC Langen has been at home in the “Oberlinden” forest stadium on the southern outskirts of the city since 1959, and the first clubhouse was built almost entirely by the club members themselves. In October 1999 an artificial turf field was inaugurated on the club's premises.
literature
- Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Hesse. Between FC Alsbach, Eintracht Frankfurt and Tuspo Ziegenhain. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-244-0 , p. 277.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Season 16/17 KOL Offenbach. Retrieved January 7, 2017 .