1. FC Mönchengladbach

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1. FC Mönchengladbach
Club crest of 1. FC Mönchengladbach
Basic data
Surname 1. Football Club Mönchengladbach
1894 e. V.
Seat Mönchengladbach , North Rhine-Westphalia
founding April 4, 1894
Colours blue yellow
president Christian Oh
Website www.1fcmg.de
First soccer team
Head coach Alexi Triantafillidis
Venue Ernst Reuter arena
Places 4000
league Oberliga Niederrhein
2019/20 3rd place ( Landesliga Niederrhein 2 )  
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The 1. FC Mönchengladbach 1894 e. V. is a sports club from Mönchengladbach . It is the oldest still existing football club in the West German Football Association . The first football team will play in the fifth-class Oberliga Niederrhein in the 2020/21 season . Colloquially, 1. FC Mönchengladbach is also known as the Fine-Heäre-Klub (High German: Feine-Herren-Klub ).

history

1. FC Mönchengladbach was created in 1950 through the merger of SC München-Gladbach with Eintracht München-Gladbach .

The parent clubs

The SC München-Gladbach was founded on April 4, 1894 by the sports teacher HC Heesch as Mönchengladbacher FC 94 . In 1905 and 1908 the Gladbachers were West German runners-up, before 1909 after a 3-2 victory over Prussia Duisburg won the West German soccer championship and achieved the greatest success in the club's history. At that time, the games were played on the 20,000-seat arena at the old water tower . After the end of the First World War , the name was changed to SC München-Gladbach . In 1933 the SC merged with its city rival Borussia by political order , but the merger was reversed that same year.

Fusion partner Eintracht was founded on September 15, 1901 and played in the top division in the 1910s and 1920s with varying degrees of success. In 1938, Eintracht missed the possible promotion to the then first-class Gauliga Niederrhein in the promotion round against Westende Hamborn . After the end of the Second World War , both clubs played in the district class and did not get beyond mediocrity there. The two clubs then merged in 1950. In 1957 the city built the Ernst-Reuter-Kampfbahn between Luisenstrasse and Hügelstrasse, which still serves as a venue today.

After the merger

In the first season after the merger, the new club made it to the state league , the highest amateur league at the time on the Lower Rhine. Seventh place in the 1952/53 season became the sporting highlight of the team, which three years later failed to qualify for the newly created Association League Niederrhein . In the early 1960s, a new era of success dawned for 1. FC, which brought two third places in 1961 and 1962 with it. In 1963 the team played for a long time for promotion and ended the season level on points with Bayer 05 Uerdingen . Uerdingen won the playoff for promotion 4-1.

The missed promotion should be a setback for the Gladbachers, who had to relegate to the district class in 1965. Two years later, the promotion landed in the regional league, where the club could no longer go beyond midfield placements. In 1975 the relegation followed before 1. FC managed to get promoted again two years later. A regional league era that lasted for decades followed. The 1992/93 season, in which the club was represented by two teams in the national league, was curious. In 2007 1. FC rose from the national league and managed to get promoted again immediately. Back in the national league, the Gladbachers developed into a top team and were runner-up in 2011 and 2014 behind SV Hilden-Nord and VfR Krefeld-Fischeln .

Finally, in 2015, due to the better goal difference compared to 1. FC Kleve, they were promoted to the Oberliga Niederrhein. The Gladbachers needed a win with at least two goals difference on the last day of the match, while Kleve was free of play. Westender won 3-0 against SC Union Nettetal . At the end of the 2015/16 season , the club rose again and managed to rise again four years later.

More teams

The club's A youth team became Lower Rhine champions in 2014 and made it to the A-Junioren-Bundesliga West, where they finished seventh straight away . In the following 2015/16 season , the team was relegated penultimate. Also in 2016, the B-Jugend rose to the U-17 Bundesliga . The second men's team has been playing in the district league since promotion in 2012.

Women's soccer

The women's football department was founded in 2008. The women's team was promoted to the district league in 2012 and, after two consecutive promotions, made it into the fourth-class Niederrheinliga in 2016. For three years, the team won the final of the Niederrhein Cup against SV Heißen 5-1 and qualified for the DFB Cup . There, the Mönchengladbachers were eliminated in the first round after a 0-1 defeat at TuS Wörrstadt .

In June 2020, the club made headlines when the FCM canceled both women's and the regional B-junior women's teams. Due to the rise of the men's team in the Oberliga Niederrhein, there should no longer be any capacity for the women's teams. The players then started a petition against this decision, which was signed by almost 20,000 people. Including the German national player Alexandra Popp . At the end of June 2020, the department split off and founded its own association, FV Mönchengladbach .

Personalities

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Individual evidence

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  3. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics : Football in West Germany 1945–1952 . Hövelhof 2011, p. 200 .
  4. ^ German Sports Club for Soccer Statistics: Soccer in West Germany 1958–1963 . Hövelhof 2013, p. 32 .
  5. ^ German Sports Club for Soccer Statistics: Soccer in West Germany 1952-1958 . Hövelhof 2012, p. 131, 179, 235 .
  6. ↑ magi: 1. FC: youth with Borussia at eye level. Westdeutsche Zeitung , accessed on January 16, 2015 .
  7. ↑ No more space for women: 1. FC Mönchengladbach has canceled three teams. Kicker , accessed July 2, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Heiko Van der Velden: Women of 1. FC Mönchengladbach found a new club. Rheinische Post , accessed on July 2, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Hein, Dirk: From the depth of space. WAZ NewMedia GmbH & Co. KG, September 14, 2008, accessed on March 30, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Murphy, Martin: The rise keeps the new Gerresheimer boss down. Handelsblatt GmbH, June 21, 2010, accessed on March 30, 2012 .