Achim Melcher

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Achim Melcher
Personnel
birthday February 4, 1935
place of birth Germany
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
FC Sobernheim 03
1956-1961 Eintracht Bad Kreuznach 126 (5)
1961-1966 Borussia Neunkirchen 136 (6)
1 Only league games are given.

Achim Melcher (born February 4, 1935 ) is a former German soccer player . The midfielder played 52 league games for Borussia Neunkirchen from 1964 to 1966 in the Bundesliga .

Career

Achim Melcher, who came to Eintracht Bad Kreuznach from FC Sobernheim 03 in the 1956/57 round, played until 1961 under coach Jupp Rasselnberg with the team from the Nahe valley in the league . On the first day of the 1956/57 season, August 19, 1956, he made his debut on half-left at the home game against Saar 05 Saarbrücken in the blue-whites of the major league. After a total of 126 league appearances with five goals, Melcher , who was mostly used as an outside runner or half-striker in the World Cup system then practiced, moved to league rivals Borussia Neunkirchen for the 1961/62 season .

With Neunkirchen, he immediately won the championship in the southwest under coach Alfred Preißler in 1962 and made it to the final round of the German championship. As defending champion it was enough in the last year of the old first-class Oberliga era 1962/63 to runner-up and the renewed individual in the finals. For Neunkirchen he completed another 43 league games from 1961 to 1963 and scored four goals for the team from the Ellenfeldstadion . In total, Melcher is listed with 169 top division games with nine goals. Neunkirchen was not nominated for the newly founded Bundesliga 1963/64; 1. FC Kaiserslautern and 1. FC Saarbrücken from the southwest were considered for the upper house of German football. Melcher and his teammates from Neunkirchen thus started in the Southwest Regional Football League . After 38 game days, in which Melcher always played and scored a goal, the Borussia celebrated the championship under coach Horst Buhtz , so they were qualified for the first round of promotion to the Bundesliga. The promotion round was successfully designed after a weak start, with victories against FC Bayern Munich , FC St. Pauli and Tasmania Berlin , Melcher played four of the six games. Melcher and teammates started in the Bundesliga with three defeats. The rest of the season turned out to be more successful, so that the Bundesliga season 1964/65 ended for Neunkirchen in 10th place. In the second Bundesliga season 1965/66 , the Neunkirchen could not build on the performance of the previous year. In the end, Borussia was penultimate and relegated. Melcher came in his first Bundesliga season on 27 and in his second season on 25 league appearances. In his first year in the Bundesliga he also scored a goal for Neunkirchen. After the 1966/67 season, he had only completed three competitive games in the Regionalliga Südwest for Borussia, he ended his higher-class career.

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 .
  • Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The fear of the devil in front of the pea mountain. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Melcher, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany