Altona 93

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Altona 93
Club logo
Basic data
Surname Altona football club
from 1893 eV
Seat Hamburg - Altona
founding June 29, 1893
Colours Black White Red
Members 1,300 (as of July 16, 2018)
president Dirk Barthel
Website Altona93.de
First soccer team
Head coach Andreas Bergmann
Venue Adolf-Jäger-Kampfbahn
Places 8,000
league Regionalliga North
2019/20 16th place
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The Altonaer Fußball-Club von 1893 eV , commonly known as Altona 93 (AFC for short), is a sports club from the Hamburg district of Altona , which was still an independent town when the club was founded in 1893. It offers football , handball , karate , table tennis and volleyball .

History of the football department

The beginnings (until 1945)

The club was founded as the Altona football and cricket club in 1893 on June 29, 1893 by high school students and young businesspeople, including Hermann Hambrock, who became the first chairman, and Franz Behr . The following year he stopped cricket and took on its current, shorter name for the first time. Since then, he has seen several renaming as a result of mergers - namely in 1919 in VfL Altona (after the merger with the Altonaer Turnerschaft in 1880 ), in 1923 in Altonaer FC 93 VfL (the Turnerschaft became independent again) and in 1938 after another merger with Borussia Bahrenfeld in Altona FC 93 Borussia - before the return to the Altona football club from 1893 was made on November 30, 1979 .

As with many of the first football clubs, athletics were also offered in the early years. Altona 93 provided Paul Fischer, the first ever German athletics champion , when he won the 100-meter run in the neighboring city of Hamburg on September 4, 1898 .

"Altona 93" (or "AFC" for short) is one of the oldest German football clubs. In 1894 he was one of the founders of the Hamburg-Altona Football Association and on January 28, 1900 in Leipzig in the restaurant "Mariengarten" one of the 86 clubs that founded the German Football Association . Until 1904 the active AFC player Franz Behr was also 2nd DFB chairman; Behr, who whistled the first final of the German soccer championship in 1903 , was appointed honorary president.

The soccer team had their heyday before the First World War , when they won a series of Hamburg-Altona champions (1898–1900, 1902 and 1903), and in 1903 and 1909 only failed in the semi -finals and in 1914 in the quarter-finals for the German championship . In the last year she won the championship title in the first-ever North German League of the NFV . Until 1945 Altona 93 remained in the top division, most recently Gauliga Nordmark and Hamburg .

Between city league and regional league north (1945-2001)

After the Second World War there was a new start in the Hamburg City League , in 1950 the league was made into the Oberliga Nord , which they belonged to after being relegated and promoted from 1952 until the Bundesliga was founded in 1963; best performance was two third places (1954, 1958). In 1955 (under coach Klaus-Peter Kirchrath ) and 1964 (under coach Kurt Krause ) the semi-finals of the DFB Cup were reached. During this time, well-known players such as Heinz Bung Bottle , Werner Erb and Dieter Seeler wore the Altona colors and the Adolf Jäger arena was often very well filled (average number of spectators 1952/53: 10,900 visitors); twice (1953 and 1957) it was literally bursting at the seams, when 27,000 spectators each attended a derby against Hamburger SV .

Then the club stayed in the Regionalliga Nord until 1968 (best year: 1965, third place under coach Kurt Krause) before sank into local Hamburg leagues until 1984. In the 1974/75 season, Altona once again caused a national sensation when they reached the round of 16 in the DFB Cup , but lost 7-0 to MSV Duisburg . From 1984 to 1996 he belonged (except 1993/94) to the amateur Oberliga Nord. In the 1985/86 season, the team from Griegstrasse was one of the favorites for a long time in the race to reach the promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga. In the end, however, the team of coach Willi Reimann had to line up behind FC St. Pauli and VfB Oldenburg in the table. After a few years Oberliga Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein, promotion to the Regionalliga Nord was made in 1996, from which, however, in 1997 they were relegated again. For financial reasons (the contracts of some players were also valid for the Oberliga), they voluntarily withdrew to the Hamburg Association.

Present (since 2002)

From 2002 to 2004 the team played again in the (now, however, fourth class) Oberliga Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein. For the 2004/05 season, the team qualified for the single-track Oberliga Nord , which included all four regional associations of the North German Football Association .

The goal of the 2007/08 season was to qualify for the new Regionalliga Nord . As runner-up and also with the most goals and the best home record, the qualification succeeded sovereignly.

The ascent is done! Scoreboard during the game against Bergedorf 85 on May 25, 2008

The regional league team for the 2008/09 season consisted on the one hand of young players, some of them from the junior areas of northern German clubs, but on the other hand also of those with experience in the professional field. Almost all regular players of the 2007/08 season could be retained; there were also some reinforcements. The league team played their home games in the Hoheluft stadium in the 2008/09 season . The Hamburg Sports Office had expanded the stadium to make it suitable for the regional league until the first home game.

For the 2009/10 season, the club was not granted a license for the regional league due to irregularities at the tax office. But the Altona were also relegated in terms of sport. The direct resurgence was missed. Only in the 2012/13 season Altona reached second place again, but had not applied for a license for the Regionalliga Nord.

In June 2016, the club failed in the relegation for the Regionalliga Nord . For the promotion round, the Altona had not qualified with 6th place; But since all other clubs in the Hamburg Oberliga decided not to be promoted, Altona 93 moved up. In the 2017/18 season, the team played again in the Regionalliga Nord after ten years. As third in the league they had successfully participated in the promotion round. As bottom of the table, the direct relegation followed, in spring 2019 Altona returned as Hamburg amateur champion again in the regional league.

League affiliation and placements

See also: Altona 93 seasonal balance sheets

season League level league space Gates Points
1963/64 2 Regionalliga North 04th 82:46 44:24
1964/65 2 Regionalliga North 03. 69:45 41:23
1965/66 2 Regionalliga North 10. 41:47 31:33
1966/67 2 Regionalliga North 08th. 43:46 31:33
1967/68 2 Regionalliga North 16. 37:78 20:44
1968/69 3 State League Hamburg 06th 57:48 32:28
1969/70 3 State League Hamburg 10. 47:54 28:32
1970/71 3 State League Hamburg 16. 29:68 15:45
1971/72 4th Amateur league Hamburg / Hansa 01. 65:36 45:15
1972/73 3 State League Hamburg 07th 46:49 30:30
1973/74 3 State League Hamburg 05. 59:49 34:26
1974/75 4th State League Hamburg 02. 57:29 41:19
1975/76 4th State League Hamburg 02. 64:34 42:18
1976/77 4th State League Hamburg 02. 56:31 43:17
1977/78 4th State League Hamburg 03. 56:33 39:21
1978/79 4th Association League Hamburg 06th 42:38 33:27
1979/80 4th Association League Hamburg 13. 51:57 25:35
1980/81 4th Association League Hamburg 16. 24:84 10:50
1981/82 5 State League Hamburg / Hammonia 02. 86:35 46:14
1982/83 5 State League Hamburg / Hammonia 01. 96:17 52: 08
1983/84 4th Association League Hamburg 02. 66:29 46:14
1984/85 3 Oberliga Nord 11. 48:56 34:34
1985/86 3 Oberliga Nord 04th 47:30 41:27
1986/87 3 Oberliga Nord 11. 55:52 31:33
1987/88 3 Oberliga Nord 11. 46:61 31:37
1988/89 3 Oberliga Nord 05. 51:42 42:26
1989/90 3 Oberliga Nord 10. 62:52 31:37
1990/91 3 Oberliga Nord 12. 54:49 30:38
1991/92 3 Oberliga Nord 14th 51:60 27:37
1992/93 3 Oberliga Nord 14th 42:55 23:37
1993/94 4th Association League Hamburg 07th 47:40 33:27
1994/95 4th Oberliga Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 03. 60:31 41:19
1995/96 4th Oberliga Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 01. 58:28 0064
1996/97 3 Regionalliga North 15th 33:68 0030th
1997/98 5 Association League Hamburg 13. 48:75 0029
1998/99 5 Association League Hamburg 13. 46:52 0036
1999/00 5 Association League Hamburg 02. 67:52 0052
2000/01 5 Association League Hamburg 03. 67:39 0058
2001/02 5 Association League Hamburg 02. 81:33 0066
2002/03 4th Oberliga Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 08th. 66:50 0046
2003/04 4th Oberliga Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 02. 72:31 0065
2004/05 4th Oberliga Nord 12. 49:55 0042
2005/06 4th Oberliga Nord 07th 61:52 0048
2006/07 4th Oberliga Nord 05. 65:51 0055
2007/08 4th Oberliga Nord 02. 80:35 0065
2008/09 4th Regionalliga North 16. 40:66 0031
2009/10 5 Oberliga Hamburg 03. 73:36 0066
2010/11 5 Oberliga Hamburg 05. 63:46 0054
2011/12 5 Oberliga Hamburg 09. 55:48 0053
2012/13 5 Oberliga Hamburg 02. 74:50 0067
2013/14 5 Oberliga Hamburg 03. 78:43 0064
2014/15 5 Oberliga Hamburg 07th 61:38 0051
2015/16 5 Oberliga Hamburg 06th 65:41 0057
2016/17 5 Oberliga Hamburg 03. 72:41 0064
2017/18 4th Regionalliga North 18th 31:73 0023
2018/19 5 Oberliga Hamburg 01. 72:24 0078
2019/20 4th Regionalliga North 16. 26:48 0016

Well-known former players

successes

  • German championship finals : semi-finals 1903, 1909
  • DFB Cup : semi-finals 1955, 1964
  • North German master 1909, 1914
  • Meister von Hamburg and Altona (until incorporation in 1938): 1898, 1899, 1900, 1903, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1917, 1925, 1933
  • a total of 64 first division years:
    • 1895–1933 (A-Class, North German League / Elbe District, "Round of Ten" or North German Oberliga / Greater Hamburg)
    • 1933–1945 ( Gauliga Nordmark, Gauliga Nord and Gauliga Hamburg)
    • 1945–1947 (City League Hamburg)
    • 1950/51, 1952–1963 ( Oberliga Nord )

Teams

Adolf-Jäger-Kampfbahn, entrance
Back straight of the Adolf-Jäger-Kampfbahn , scene from the league game against VfR Neumünster on October 1st, 2006

In the 2008/09 season, the first team played in the Hoheluft stadium , while the first women's, the A-youth regional league and the second men's team continued to use the stadium for their competitive games. After the relegation of the first team to the league, it has been playing its home games again in the Adolf-Jäger-Kampfbahn since the 2009/10 season.

Of the total of 1,300 members (as of July 16, 2018) of the club, almost 800 are young football players, they play in 36 teams. A special feature is one of the largest women's and girls' departments in a general soccer club in Germany. A total of 200 female soccer players play in a total of 13 teams from F-girls to women over 30s - and thus in all age groups.

The main sponsor of the AFC has been the Barthel Armaturen company based in Schnackenburgallee in Bahrenfeld since 1991 . Its owner has also been the club's president for many years.

Venue

The club has been using the AFC arena on Griegstrasse since 1909 , which was won in 1944 after 18 times national and 51 times North German selection players and three times winners of the Crown Prince (1914, 1917) and Federal Cup (1919), the most famous AFC Actor Adolf Jäger in Adolf-Jäger-Kampfbahn was named and today can accommodate around 8,000 spectators. In 1958 the grandstand was inaugurated. Before that, games were played on the so-called parade pasture in Bahrenfeld (near today's Schnackenburgallee), where the first final of the German soccer championship between VfB Leipzig and DFC Prague took place on May 31, 1903 , and from 1905 to 1908 in the interior of the Bahrenfeld trotting track .

Table tennis department

As early as the 1920s, table tennis was played by tennis players at Altona 93 in order to bridge the winter months. The game was initially played in the "Kaiserhof" near Altona train station. In March 1927, Altona 93 hosted a team tournament for the first time, to which the Altona tennis club , Union Borussia and the Bahrenfeld gymnastics club were invited. After the outsourcing of table tennis players from the tennis department had been discussed several times, the time had finally come in 1930:

"With the approval of the board of the AFC, as well as after detailed consultation with the board of the tennis department of the AFC, ds. Js. at a meeting in the Ebert-Hof, the establishment of a table tennis department within the AFC. "

- Club news of the Altonaer football club v. 1893 (Verein für Leibesübungen Altona) eV from December 1, 1930, p. 8

27 club members took part in the establishment of the club, and in the current 1930/31 season the club took part in the Hamburg Association's games with three men, one women and one youth team. The game was played in the aforementioned locations Kaiserhof and Ebert-Hof . Up until the beginning of the war in 1939, gaming operations were gradually expanded; when it had to be stopped due to the war is not known due to a lack of records from that time.

After the end of the war, training could only be started again in 1949, because there was initially no game venue in the destroyed Altona until the mechanical engineering company Wilhelm Fette, based in Altona at the time, made its canteen available. When Fette moved to Schwarzenbek in 1953, this venue was also history, and the Fischers Allee gym of the Bleickenallee school (today's Rudolf Steiner School Altona) has been in use ever since . The new venue seemed to encourage new sporting heights, because in 1956 the Altonaer rose for the first time in the city league, as the highest Hamburg division was called at the time, and were thus second class, because above that only the Oberliga Nord existed . The 93er should stay in the city league for ten years before relegation to the association league in 1966. As a result of this descent, Altona's celluloid artists even became fourth class, because the table tennis Bundesliga was founded in the same year . Only from 1974 to 1976 and 1977/78 succeeded in returning to the Hamburg table tennis upper house, which was now called the Hamburg League . In the meantime, Altona 93, which has formed a syndicate with the former ASK 47 Hamburg railway police association since 2013 , is overshadowed by local rivals Altonaer TV from 1845 . In the 2020/21 season, the syndicate only has one men's team that competes in the lowest Hamburg division.

Once a table tennis player from Altona also attracted international attention. At the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg , Hartmut Klein won the gold medal with the German team; in the individual, he took fifth place. The later Hamburg State Councilor, Rolf Reincke, was an international referee for Altona 93 for many years, including at World and European Championships.

museum

The club museum on Elbchaussee was closed in 2009 due to financial difficulties.

literature

  • Norbert Carsten: Altona 93. 111 league years in ups and downs . The workshop, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-437-5 .
  • Norbert Carsten: Fascination Adolf-Jäger-Kampfbahn. Altona 93 and its 100-year-old cult stadium . The workshop, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-627-0 .
  • Werner Skrentny: Altona's symphonic color beauty. In: Jens Reimer Prüß (Hrsg.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .
  • Hans-Jürgen Schulz-Torge: 1930 • 65 years • 1995 - table tennis at Altona 93 , Hamburg 1995.

Web links

Commons : Altona 93  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Altona93: Integration work in the Altona football club from 1893 eV Sport.de: Altona 93
  2. 60 years of AFC Borussia, Hamburg 1953.
  3. Lüdtke / Lorenzen, Die Turn- und Sportstadt Altona, there 1927, p. 89 f.
  4. Abendblatt.de: Altona 93 does not get a license for the Regionalliga , from May 2, 2009
  5. Schulz-Torge: 1930 • 65 years • 1995 - table tennis at Altona 93, p. 7.
  6. ^ Association news of the AFC from 1893, edition December 1, 1930, p. 8.
  7. a b c Schulz-Torge: 1930 • 65 years • 1995 - table tennis at Altona 93 , p. 1.
  8. Schulz-Torge: 1930 • 65 years • 1995 - table tennis at Altona 93, p. 12/13.
  9. MyTischTennis.de: Team overview , accessed on August 1, 2020.