1. FC Pforzheim

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1. FC Pforzheim
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Full name 1. Football Club Pforzheim
1896 e. V.
place Pforzheim , Baden-Wuerttemberg
Founded May 5, 1896
Dissolved June 30, 2010
Club colors Blue White
Stadion Stadium in the Brötzinger Tal
Top league Regional League North Baden
II. Division South
Regional League South
successes German runner-up in 1906
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The 1. FC Pforzheim was a football club from Pforzheim . The club, founded in 1896, celebrated the greatest success in club history with the German runner-up in 1906 . In the 1920s and 1930s , the FCP played in the respective top division without achieving further successes across the region. After the Second World War , he belonged to the second highest division for a long time. He then played in the upper amateur classes of Baden-Württemberg, in 2009/10 in the Baden Association League . The association, which last had around 360 members, merged in 2010 with VfR Pforzheim to form the new 1st CfR Pforzheim .

history

The early years

The club was founded on May 5th, 1896 and was one of the pioneers of football in Germany, which was still relatively unknown at that time. The founding members included Mr Dégallier ( Lausanne ), Strub ( Basel ) and Grandjean and Petite ( Neuchâtel ), among others four Swiss. In 1897 1. FC Pforzheim was one of the founding members of the Association of South German Football Associations and in 1900 one of the 86 founding clubs of the DFB, together with clubs such as Karlsruher FV and Karlsruher FC Phönix .

German runner-up in 1906

The championship team from 1906

Almost ten years after the club was founded, 1. FC Pforzheim won the title of southern district champion for the first time in the 1905/06 season in front of the Karlsruhe FV, then became southern German champion and thus took part in the final round of the 1906 German soccer championship . The quarter-finals were won 4: 2 in extra time against the favored FC 99 from Cologne . 1. FC Pforzheim won the semi-final against the defending champion of 1904/05 , Berlin TuFC Union 1892 , with a 4-0 win. Thus, the Fund reached the final, where he before 1,100 spectators at Nuremberg at the place in the Ziegelgasse the VfB Leipzig 1: defeated second

1920s and 1930s

Historical logo of 1. FC Pforzheim

After the end of the First World War , during which the game had to be partially stopped because many players were called up for military service, the club succeeded in making a fresh start in football. At the beginning of the 1920s, 1. FC Pforzheim played in the Württemberg / Baden regional league, which was the top division at the time, until 1925/26 when they first had to go into the second division. In the 1929/30 round , he was promoted to the Württemberg group of the Württemberg / Baden district league.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, sport was reorganized in Germany. 1. FC Pforzheim was divided into the new top division, the Gauliga Baden , in which the club remained until the game was closed in 1944. 1. FC Pforzheim was able to achieve second place behind SV Waldhof Mannheim and VfR Mannheim in 1936 , 1938 and 1939 , but it was not enough for a championship and the associated qualification for the final round of the German championship.

1950s and 1960s

From 1950 to 1963 1. FC Pforzheim played in the 2nd Oberliga Süd and from 1963 to 1967 in the new substructure of the Bundesliga, the Regionalliga Süd ; So he belonged to the second highest German league for 17 years. The FCP achieved its best placement in the 1962/63 season, only two points behind TSG Ulm 1846, which was second .

1970s, 1980s and 1990s

In the 1978/79 season 1. FC Pforzheim played in the amateur league , which has now been re-introduced as the third highest division , but it only finished 17th and was relegated. It was not until 1985 that he was promoted to the Baden-Württemberg Oberliga . The club was able to establish itself there quickly and won the championship title in the 1990/91 season. In the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga , however, the club failed at TSV 1860 Munich . It was during this time that he successfully participated in the DFB Cup in the 1987/88 season. After successes against 1. FC Saarbrücken and Concordia Hamburg , FCP reached the round of 16 and was only defeated 3-1 by Werder Bremen in the second leg at Bremen's Weserstadion after the first leg in Pforzheim had ended with a 1-1 draw .

In 1994 the regional league was reintroduced in Germany , thus replacing the amateur league as the third highest division. 1. FC Pforzheim missed qualification for the newly founded Regionalliga Süd in the 1993/94 season with a 10th place and remained in the now fourth-class Oberliga Baden-Württemberg.

2000s

After the club narrowly missed promotion to the regional league again in the 2000/01 season with two points behind TSG 1899 Hoffenheim , the continuous sporting and financial decline began. Ultimately, the FCP had to initiate insolvency proceedings in 2004 in order to avert impending bankruptcy with a debt of almost one million euros. Although an agreement could be reached with the creditors of the association, the application for bankruptcy meant the forced relegation from the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg .

Thus, 1. FC Pforzheim played in the Association League North Baden from the 2004/05 season . After a process of financial and sporting consolidation, the club was able to celebrate its return to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 2006 in the second season with the championship.

Stadium in the Brötzinger Tal

On October 31, 2006, the boards of the 1. FC Pforzheim and VfR Pforzheim clubs announced that they would strive for a merger for 2007 under the name “SV Pforzheim 1896”. The future venue should be the Holzhof stadium of VfR Pforzheim, which should be modernized. The Brötzinger Tal stadium of 1. FC Pforzheim was to be demolished and turned into a commercial or industrial site. However, the merger failed in May 2007.

The FCP did not achieve the goal of relegation for the round of 2006/07, he rose as 16th in the table back into the Association League North Baden. There he scored third place in the following 2007/08 season with a superior goal difference and one point behind, and thus only just missed relegation or promotion. In the 2009/10 season, 1. FC took 6th place.

On July 1, 2010, 1. FC Pforzheim and VfR Pforzheim merged , creating the new club 1. CfR Pforzheim . The 1st football club Pforzheim 1896 eV was deleted in this context in the Mannheim register of associations (VR 5000054).

Start-up

On December 3, 2018, the "1. FC Pforzheim 2018 eV "by former fans and members with the logo of the former club, which was not protected, was newly founded and entered in the Mannheim register of associations under VR 702366. Since the 2019/20 season he has been playing in the district class C on the grass pitch of the oldest club in Baden, the TV Pforzheim 1834 am Bohrain.

Data and statistics

League affiliation from 1945 to 2010

  • 1945/46 to 1949/50 - Landesliga Nordbaden (level 2)
  • 1950/51 to 1962/63 - 2nd League South (level 2)
  • 1963/64 to 1966/67 - Regionalliga Süd (level 2)
  • 1967/68 to 1977/78 - 1st Amateur League North Baden (level 3)
  • 1978/79 - Amateur Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (level 3)
  • 1979/80 to 1984/85 - Association League North Baden (level 4)
  • 1985/86 to 1993/94 - Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (level 3)
  • 1994/95 to 2003/04 - Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (level 4)
  • 2004/05 to 2005/06 - Verbandsliga Nordbaden (level 5)
  • 2006/07 - Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (level 4)
  • 2007/08 to 2009/10 - Verbandsliga Nordbaden (level 5, from 2008/09 level 6)

successes

  • 1906 - South German master
  • 1906 - German runner-up
  • 1923 - Master of Baden
  • 1929 - Champion of the Enz-Neckar-Kreisliga
  • 1932 - Württemberg master
  • 1936 - Vice-Champion of the Gauliga Baden
  • 1938 - Vice-Champion of the Gauliga Baden
  • 1939 - Vice-Champion of the Gauliga Baden
  • 1986/87 - winner of the Baden Football Cup
  • 1987/88 - Reaching the round of 16 in the DFB Cup in 1988
  • 1988/89 - winner of the Baden Football Cup
  • 1989/90 - Reaching the round of 16 in the DFB Cup in 1990
  • 1990/91 - Champion of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg
  • 1992/93 - winner of the Baden Football Cup
  • 1999/00 - Reaching the 2nd round of the DFB Cup
  • 2005/06 - Champion of the Baden Association League and promotion to the Baden-Württemberg Oberliga

Eternal tables

Special games

  • 1908 test match against SK Rapid Wien 1: 2
  • 1909 test match against Sparta Prague 3-2
  • 1911 friendly against Newcastle United 2-5
  • 1922 Test matches against Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid
  • 1937 won the North African Cup , an international tournament in Algiers
  • 1980 In front of 7,000 spectators, the Philippines was the first German team to play against a selection from the island state
  • 1988 friendly against the national team of China (final score 0-0)
  • 2004 test match against Dinamo Tbilisi , champions of Georgia (final score 1: 5)
  • 2008 test match against Croatian first division club NK Osijek (final score 0: 7)

Known players

Rivalries

The greatest rivalry was naturally with local rivals VfR Pforzheim, but there were also rivalries with the clubs FC Nöttingen, SV Waldhof Mannheim, SSV Ulm and SV Sandhausen.

literature

  • Gernot Otto: dreams, titles and trophies. 100 years of 1. FC Pforzheim . 1. FC Pforzheim e. V. (Ed.), Pforzheim 1996, without ISBN.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schweizer Sportblatt , Volume 1 (1898), Issue 4, p. 2
  2. ↑ Fusion of VfR and FCP: The child is called 1. CfR Pforzheim ( Memento from June 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ bnn.de: New founders of 1. FC Pforzheim 2018 want to "preserve tradition"