1. FC Union Solingen
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1. Football Club Union Solingen 97 eV |
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| place | Solingen , North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Founded | May 21, 1990 | ||
| Dissolved | 2012 | ||
| Club colors | blue yellow | ||
| Stadion | Stadium on Hermann-Löns-Weg | ||
| Top league | Oberliga Nordrhein | ||
| successes | Lower Rhine Champion 1994 | ||
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The 1. FC Union Solingen was a football club from Solingen . The club was founded in 1990 as the successor to the SG Union Solingen , which was dissolved due to bankruptcy , and played for seven years in the then fourth-class Oberliga Nordrhein . In 2012 the 1. FC Union Solingen was dissolved after insolvency proceedings .
history
Predecessor club SG Union Solingen
The SG Union Solingen was created on July 24, 1974 through the merger of the OSC Solingen - this club was called Union Ohligs until April 1974 - and the VfL Solingen-Wald . Under this name, he was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga North in 1975 . Six years later, the SG Union qualified for the single-track 2nd Bundesliga. In the 1983/84 season the Solingen team reached their sporty zenith with fifth place in the table. A year later, the team reached the quarter-finals in the DFB Cup , where they failed 2-1 at Borussia Mönchengladbach . In 1989 the SG Union was relegated from the 2nd Bundesliga and a year later it was passed through to the Association League. At the same time, the association had to file for bankruptcy and was dissolved.
Elevator Years (1990 to 2007)
1. FC Union Solingen was founded on May 21, 1990 as the successor club. Although it was a start-up, the first team could start in the 1990/91 season in the Association League Niederrhein . In 1994 Union won the championship and rose to the then fourth-class Oberliga Nordrhein. Despite a 7-0 defeat at Meister Rot-Weiß Oberhausen , the class could just be kept. As the third last of the 1995/96 season , the Solingen had to go back to the association league.
In the Verbandsliga Union had to fight relegation again. In 1998 he was relegated to the state league , with the Solingen team losing out after the voluntary withdrawal of FC Zons only because of the poorer goal difference to VfB Speldorf . A year later, the club had to go into bankruptcy. After the successful conclusion, the promotion was achieved again in the 1999/2000 season. As runner-up behind FC Kray , the Solingen team prevailed in the promotion round. 8,500 spectators saw the decisive game against TuRU Düsseldorf .
Two years later Union was one point ahead of SV Straelen association league champion and returned to the Oberliga Nordrhein. There the team initially fought against relegation and suffered an 8-1 defeat at Wuppertaler SV in the promotion season. The sporting highlight of the era was eighth place in the 2004/05 season. A year later Union was only able to keep the class thanks to the better goal difference against FC Junkersdorf . On February 22, 2007, the association had to file for bankruptcy, but was able to withdraw the application in May 2007. Nevertheless, the team rose as the penultimate.
Decline (2007 to 2012)
In the 2008/09 season, the team fought promisingly for the championship of the Lower Rhine League. In March 2009, the former German national player Thomas Brdarić was committed to the position of sporting director. After repeated conflicts between the coach Frank Zilles and the board as well as the sporting management, the Union board reacted on May 12, 2009 and put Frank Zilles and his team on leave with immediate effect. On the same evening Brdarić took over the training as interim trainer. At the same time, the former Bosnian national coach Enver Ališić was installed as an assistant coach. At the end of the season, Union was runner-up, three points behind VfB Speldorf. At the same time, managing directors Christian Deutzmann, Enver Ališić and finally Thomas Brdarić left the association.
In the following season 2009/10 the Solingen rose as a knocked-down bottom in the national league. On June 29, 2010 another application for bankruptcy was initiated and the team withdrew from the national league. The remaining board of the association then resigned. In the meantime, a transfer of parts of the first team to the district division BSC Aufderhöhe and a renaming of this club in BSC Union Solingen was under discussion. After a year of abstinence in men's football, the senior division of 1. FC Union resumed playing in the Niederrhein 2 district league and was relegated bottom of the table. In 2012 the bankruptcy proceedings ended and the 1. FC Union was dissolved.
Succession conflict
Since 2010, the clubs OFC Solingen (since 2018: 1. FC Solingen ) and BSC Union Solingen have been arguing about who is the legitimate successor to 1. FC Union Solingen. The OFC or 1st FC is ignored on the part of the BSC Union. Conversely, the OFC environment continues to refer to the BSC Union as BSC Aufderhöhe . The process is comparable to the Leipzig clubs BSG Chemie Leipzig and SG Sachsen Leipzig which to insolvency from 2011 SG Sachsen Leipzig in 2014, as well as founded in the same year LFV Sachsen Leipzig , as a follow-clubs of the dissolved FC Sachsen Leipzig saw or see.
1. FC Solingen
| 1. FC Solingen | |
| Surname | 1. FC Solingen |
| Venue | Herbert Schade Sports Facility |
| Places | nb |
| Head coach | Michael Röttgen |
| league | District league A Solingen |
| 2019/20 | 7th place |
| Website | 1fcsolingen.de |
After filing for insolvency proceedings against 1. FC Union Solingen in 2010, former board members, sponsors and fans founded OFC Solingen on December 7, 2010 . The new club sees itself as the successor to Ohligser FC 06 , a predecessor of the insolvent 1. FC Union Solingen. In addition, the new club should give the youth department a perspective. The majority of the Union supporters as well as the young players joined the new club.
In the 2011/12 season the OFC started in the county league C and managed immediately unbeaten promotion to the Kreisliga B. There was a time the former German Handball - goalkeeper Chrischa Hannawald as a striker for the OFC on. In 2016, they were promoted to the district league A. On June 25, 2018, the club was renamed 1. FC Solingen . With the name change, the club wants to make itself better known throughout the city and nationwide. The greatest success was third place in the 2018/19 season.
The home ground of 1. FC Solingen is the Herbert Schade sports complex.
BSC Union Solingen
| BSC Union Solingen | |
| Surname | BSC Union Solingen |
| Venue | Brabandt district sports facility |
| Places | nb |
| Head coach | David Düllgen |
| league | District league B Solingen |
| 2019/20 | 6th place |
| Website | unionsolingen.de |
A group around the former youth leader of 1. FC Union, André Altmann, campaigned for the merger with BSC Aufderhöhe , who played in the district league A , which was carried out in April 2012. At the creditors' meeting on June 15, the sale of the Union's naming rights to BSC Aufderhöhe was approved, which was then renamed BSC Union Solingen . Although 1. FC Union no longer existed at that time, Altmann assessed the process as a merger. In 2014 the BSC Union rose to the district league and had to relegate three years later.
In December 2017, the first team, which at that time occupied the last place in the district league A, was canceled from the game. The home arena is the Brabandt district sports facility.
successes
- Champion Association League Niederrhein: 1994, 2002
- Champion Landesliga Niederrhein: 2000
Personalities
Stadion
1. FC Union Solingen played its home games in the stadium built in 1929 on Hermann-Löns-Weg. The football stadium, which was renovated in 1950 and 1985, offers space for around 16,000 spectators. In June 2006, the stadium's capacity was limited to 5,000 spectators as a city inspection revealed significant violations of the Venue Ordinance. In 2009, the floodlight system built in 1985 was shut down because the city of Solingen did not replace a necessary emergency power generator for cost reasons.
Further renovation measures in the stadium, which should have been carried out in 2009, were also canceled by the city for cost reasons. The stadium has since been demolished. Houses and apartments are now to be built on the area of the former stadium.
Web links
- Official website of 1. FC Solingen
- Senior football department of the BSC Union Solingen
- Soccer youth department of the BSC Union Solingen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tim Röhn: Farewell to the first great football love. Die Welt , accessed October 10, 2014 .
- ^ Off after three days for the BSC Union 2010. Solinger Tageblatt , accessed on August 16, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c Tim Röhn: "We against us". In: 11 Friends # 131, page 46
- ^ OFC Solingen founded. Rheinische Post , accessed on March 3, 2019 .
- ↑ OFC Solingen is now called 1. FC Solingen. Rheinische Post, accessed on March 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Michael Tesch: Union and BSC become BSC Union Solingen. Rheinische Post, accessed on August 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Creditors' meeting approves name purchase. Rheinische Post, accessed on August 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Martin Auer: BSC Union withdraws its first. Solinger Tageblatt, accessed on December 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Guido Radtke: The days of the stadium are numbered. Rheinische Post, accessed on December 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Martin Oberpriller: The stadium case to Ohligs. Rheinische Post, October 18, 2018, accessed on April 17, 2020 .