BV Cloppenburg

BV Cloppenburg
Basic data
Surname	Ballspielverein Cloppenburg e. V. from 1919
Seat	Cloppenburg , Lower Saxony
founding	March 23, 1919
Colours	black-and-white
president	vacant
Website	bvcloppenburg.de
First soccer team
Head coach	Wolfgang Steinbach
Venue	M&P building design arena
Places	5001
league	Landesliga Weser-Ems
2019/20	11th place
home Away

The BV Cloppenburg (officially . Ballspielverein Cloppenburg eV from 1919 ) is a football club from Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony . The club was founded on March 23, 1919 and has the club colors black and white. Because of the black and white striped jerseys, the Cloppenburg players are also known as the " zebras ". The home venue is the M&P Baudesign Arena with 5,001 seats.

The first men's team has been playing in the sixth class Landesliga Weser-Ems since relegation in 2019 . BVC had previously played in the Regionalliga Nord for four years . The first women's team played one year in the Bundesliga and since relegation in 2014 in the 2nd Bundesliga .

history

Early years (1911 to 1949)

The roots of today's BV Cloppenburg lie with SV Cloppenburg 11 , which was founded on January 28, 1911 . However, this association was dissolved during the First World War . BV Cloppenburg did not come out over the lower divisions after its establishment. Higher-class football in the city was only offered by the Reichsbahn Cloppenburg club , which played in the Gauliga Weser-Ems in the 1943/44 season.

After the end of the Second World War , many expellees from the German eastern regions settled in Cloppenburg, from which the association benefited. A first highlight in the club's history was the friendly against FC Schalke 04 on September 22, 1946, when the "Zebras" scored 2-2 in front of 10,000 spectators. In 1948, the Cloppenburg rose to the then second-class Landesliga Weser / Ems and qualified a year later as fifth for the newly created, second-class amateur league Lower Saxony-West .

Between second and third class (1949 to 1964)

The "zebras" stayed in the Upper House of Lower Saxony for three years before relegation followed in 1952. One point was missing in the final account for VfL Oldenburg . Two years later, under coach Fritz Krug, BVC won the Amateur League 2 championship with 14 points ahead of Blau-Weiß Lohne and prevailed in the following round of promotion. After a good start to the season one dreamed of the promotion round to the Oberliga Nord , before a defeat at the relegation candidate ATSV Nienburg made the team stumble.

While the first team did not get beyond midfield positions in the following years, the A-youth won the Lower Saxony Cup in 1961 with a 2-1 win after extra time over Hannover 96 . The foundations for this success are thanks to Bruno Ebel, who was active as a trainer in Cloppenburg from 1957 to 1967.

This success of the juniors could not be transferred to the first team, which in 1962 again relegated from the amateur league West. Although BVC became champions the following season with 134 goals scored this season, they failed in the promotion round to the amateurs of Arminia Hannover , Germania Papenburg and Wilhelmshaven 05 . As runner-up in the 1963/64 season behind Blau-Weiß Lohne, the "Zebras" qualified for the newly created Association League West .

Decline and brief comeback (1964 to 1978)

Third place in the 1964/65 season could not be repeated in the following years. BVC also fell back into mediocrity in the association league. Success was only achieved in the cup. In 1966 and 1967, the Cloppenburg team won the Oldenburg District Cup. In addition, the team reached the Lower Saxony Cup final in 1967 , which was lost 4-0 against the amateurs of 1. SC Göttingen 05 . In 1970 the class could only be held with luck when four teams with equal points had to play playoffs. After a defeat against SpVgg Gaste / Hasbergen , the decision was made in favor of the "zebras" in the game against BV Essen . The winning goal to make it 2-1 fell in the penultimate minute of extra time. A year later followed as the penultimate relegation to the district league.

After Martin Wessels took over the coaching position, the Cloppenburgers went back to the sporty front. In 1974 the BVC became champions of the district league 2. The team scored 122 goals in the season and won against VfL Löningen with 13: 0 and at VfL Wittekind Wildeshausen with 10: 1. In the Association League West, the "Zebras" were 13 points behind SV Atlas Delmenhorst runner-up and qualified for the promotion to the regional league . A 1: 3 defeat on the last match day against FG Winsen initially broke the promotion dreams.

Then the bottom of the table in the state league TuS Haste 01 voluntarily renounced his place in the state league, whereupon the Lower Saxony association set a play-off game for the group runners-up in the promotion round. BVC won this game in neutral Verden against 1. FC Wunstorf 3-0. Sixth place in the 1975/76 promotion season was the sporting climax of this era. Just a year later, the Cloppenburg only just managed to stay in the league before relegation in 1978 had to be accepted.

Dreary years and renewed upswing (1978 to 1994)

In 1979, after a new league reform on the part of the Lower Saxony Association, the four-track association league was replaced by the two-track state league as the second highest division in Lower Saxony. For the Cloppenburger dreary times began when the team did not get beyond midfield. The highlights were fourth places in 1984 and 1985.

A group of local business people founded a development association in 1991 in order to bring the BVC back into the higher divisions. In the past season, the Cloppenburger had only been able to secure the league with great difficulty. With Manfred Hellmann , among other things, an ex-professional was committed. With a 4-1 victory over the amateurs of VfB Oldenburg , the "Zebras" secured the state league championship and were promoted to the Lower Saxony Association League .

The Cloppenburg champions were straight away and moved into the promotion round to the Oberliga Nord . After a 1-0 victory over the amateurs of FC St. Pauli on the last day of the match , 3,500 spectators hoped for promotion, before opponents VfB Lübeck won 1-0 at SV Wilhelmshaven seconds before the final whistle and rose themselves. For the next season 1993/94, BVC signed the long-time Bremen Bundesliga player Jonny Otten , but missed the promotion round in fifth. Nevertheless, the team qualified for the newly created Oberliga Niedersachsen / Bremen .

Between regional and major league (1994 to 2008)

After an exciting title race with SV Atlas Delmenhorst, the "Zebras" secured the championship of the Oberliga Niedersachsen / Bremen in 1995 and were promoted to the Regionalliga Nord . The Cloppenburgers found it difficult there at first. Coach Risse resigned after twelve games from which the team only scored six points. His successor, the former GDR national player Wolfgang Steinbach , led the team to the safe shore, but a 2: 3 defeat at TuS Celle FC led to relegation due to the poor goal difference.

The immediate resurgence was missed. The local delicatessen dealer Albert Sprehe then joined the BVC as a sponsor and turned the club inside out. Instead of the traditional black and white striped jerseys, the people of Cloppenburg now wore red jerseys, based on Sprehes company colors. The team secured the runner-up behind the Lüneburger SK in the 1997/98 season and met TuS Hoisdorf in the promotion relegation . After a goalless draw in Hoisdorf, the “Zebras” managed to get promoted to the regional league with a 6-0 win in front of 3,300 spectators.

Thanks to Sprehe's financial support, the club brought in numerous well-known ex-professionals such as Kay Stisi and Leonardo Manzi . The desired qualification for the two-track regional league was missed with sixth place in the 1999/2000 season . Off the pitch, too, Sprehe made headlines. Sometimes he wanted to merge with VfB Oldenburg, sometimes he wanted to build a modern football stadium in Cloppenburg. For the 2000/01 season, BVC signed Werner Biskup as a coach and the former Lithuanian national player Valdas Ivanauskas as a striker.

The direct resurgence was missed and patron Sprehe switched to VfB Oldenburg. The Cloppenburgers were only able to avoid bankruptcy with great difficulty and it took a long time to shed their image as a “millionaire club”. In the 2003/04 season, fourth succeeded in qualifying for the single-track Oberliga Nord, which was created by merging the two seasons of Lower Saxony / Bremen and Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein . Two years later , the "Zebras" were runner-up behind SV Wilhelmshaven and won the Lower Saxony Cup with a 6-4 win on penalties against VfL Osnabrück .

With this victory, BVC qualified for the first time for the DFB-Pokal , where they lost 1-0 to the eventual cup winner 1. FC Nürnberg on September 9, 2006 in the first round . In the top division 2006/07 season , the Cloppenburger again reached second place in the table behind promoted VfL Wolfsburg II . The 2007/08 season was another qualifying season, in which the team had to reach at least fifth place in order to qualify for the fourth-class regional league from 2008. After a 4-2 win at SV Lurup , qualification was secured in fifth place.

Present (since 2008)

For the 2008/09 regional league season , the BVC was divided into the western group as a hardship case, contrary to association membership, and encountered renowned clubs such as Rot-Weiss Essen or Preußen Münster . As penultimate in the table, however, the "zebras" had to relegate immediately. As fourth in the following season, the Cloppenburg qualified for the 2010 single-track Oberliga Niedersachsen . There the team reached the runner-up behind SV Meppen in the 2010/11 season . With 96 goals, the BVC had the most goal-hungry team. The next runner-up followed a year later , this time behind the Goslarer SC 08 . Second place meant qualification for the re-established Regionalliga Nord.

There, the “Zebras” made the top scorer in the 2012/13 season with Rogier Krohne , who scored 24 goals this season. In terms of sport, the Cloppenburgers did not get beyond mediocrity in the regional league. On the last match day of the 2014/15 season , the "Zebras" slipped to third from last place due to the poorer goal difference compared to the Goslarer SC 08 . With the rise of the champions Werder Bremen II, the league was nevertheless achieved. A year later, he was relegated as the penultimate. The club then got into financial difficulties. In April 2018, no successor was found for the resigned President Bernhard Dorissen. The emergency board of Yilmaz Mutlu was deposed in November of the same year by the Oldenburg District Court .

In December 2018, the club made headlines when it became the first German club in a higher league to hire a trainer, Imke Wübbenhorst . But Wübbenhorst could no longer prevent the descent of the uncompetitive team. After the end of the 2019/20 Landesliga season, the club filed for bankruptcy.

successes

• Champion of the Oberliga Lower Saxony / Bremen 1995
• Lower Saxony champion 1993
• Lower Saxony cup winner 2006

Personalities

Former players

• André Breitenreiter
• Ansgar Brinkmann
• Jupp Derwall
• Luc-Arsène Diamesso
• Serhiy Dychtjar
• Horst Elberfeld
• Frank Faltin
• Bernd Gerdes
• Bernd Heemsoth
• Manfred Hellmann
• Valdas Ivanauskas
• Jörg-Uwe Klütz
• Rogier Krohne
• Leonardo Manzi
• Christian Neidhart
• Jonny Otten
• Markus Sailer
• Maarten Schops
• Kay Stisi
• Zdeněk Svoboda
• Arne Tammen
• Robert Thoben

Former trainers

• 1996 - Sep. 1999: Wolfgang Steinbach
• October 1999 - May 2000: Hubert Hüring
• May 2000–2000: Rainer Scholz
• 2000 - Sep 2001: Werner Biskup
• Sep 2001–2005: Hubert Hüring
• 2005-2006: Tom Saintfiet
• 2006 - February 2008: Jörg Goslar
• Feb. 2008–2008: Jörg-Uwe Klütz
• 2008 - December 2008: Frank Schulz
• Dec. 2008 - Nov. 2015: Jörg-Uwe Klütz
• Nov. 2015 - Apr. 2017: Steffen Bury
• Apr. 2017–2017: Jörg Goslar
• 2017 - October 2017: Petar Kosturkow
• Oct - Dec 2017: Sebastian Schütte
• Jan. - Dec. 2018: Olaf Blancke
• Dec. 2018 - June 2019: Imke Wübbenhorst
• since June 2019 Wolfgang Steinbach

Stadion

→ Main article: M&P Baudesign Arena

The home games of BV Cloppenburg are played in the M&P Baudesign Arena in Cloppenburg. The stadium was originally called Stadion on Friesoyther Straße . Between July 13, 2007 and July 21, 2011 the stadium was named Arena Oldenburger Münsterland , then TimePartner Arena until June 2017 and pk sportpark until March 2020 . The stadium has since the renovation in the summer of 2006 with a capacity of 5,001 seats, of which 1,080 seats. The facility, which has been in use since 1958, was originally a grass racing track, the size of which had a negative impact on the atmosphere.

Women's soccer

→ Main article: BV Cloppenburg (women's football)

For the 2008/09 season, the footballers of SV Höltinghausen joined BV Cloppenburg. Höltinghausen was promoted to the Regionalliga Nord in 2007 and immediately took second place. The background to the merger was that in Höltinghausen, for financial and infrastructural reasons, promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga would not be possible. This succeeded as champions of the Regionalliga Nord in the 2009/10 season. In the first season of the second division , they finished tenth, which entitles them to relegation with the tenth of the 2. Bundesliga South. The relegation was canceled due to the withdrawal of the second team of Hamburger SV .

For the 2011/12 season , the team was significantly strengthened with players who were partly active in the Bundesliga and reached third place. A year later , coach Tanja Schulte's team secured the championship and promotion to the Bundesliga early . As the penultimate of the 2013/14 season , the prompt relegation followed.

Web links

Commons : BV Cloppenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official club homepage
• Homepage of the women's football department

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 , pp. 201-202.
2. ^ Hardy Green, Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 107.
3. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (Ed.): Football in Lower Saxony 1964–1979 . Taught 2008, p. 206, 207 .
4. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (Ed.): Football in Lower Saxony 1964 - 1979 . Taught 2008, p. 75 .
5. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (Ed.): Football in Lower Saxony 1964 - 1979 . Taught 2008, p. 130 .
6. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (Ed.): Football in Lower Saxony 1964 - 1979 . Taught 2008, p. 137 .
7. ↑ Stephan Tönnies: It’s so turbulent at BV Cloppenburg. Nordwest Zeitung , accessed November 14, 2018 . 
8. ^ First trainer in the major league. Sport1 , accessed December 23, 2018 . 
9. Jump up ↑ https://www.om-online.de/om/bvc-stell-endung-auf-insolvenzverfahren-43039