Borussia Fulda
| Borussia Fulda | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Surname | Sports club “Borussia” 04 e. V. Fulda |
| Seat | Fulda , Hesse |
| founding | 4th July 1904 |
| Colours | Red Black |
| Board | Oliver Hasenauer |
| Website | www.borussia-fulda.de |
| First soccer team | |
| Venue | B-place in the sports park Johannisau |
| Places | k. A. |
| league | District league A Fulda |
| 2019/20 | 5th place |
The Sportclub Borussia 04 Fulda is a sports club in the East Hessian Fulda . The team celebrated its greatest successes in the 1930s and 1940s, when they made it into the West German and German championship finals several times. Until 1964, Borussia Fulda was still able to hold its own in the second highest division and was mostly represented in the third and fourth level, i.e. in the highest amateur classes in Hesse, in the following decades. In the recent past the club got into economic difficulties and the team played in the regional leagues for a few years before returning to the Hessenliga in 2015 . For the 2018/19 season, the club gave up the right to play in the Hessen League. The first men's team was integrated into TSV Lehnerz , which was renamed SG Barockstadt Fulda-Lehnerz and received a new logo and new club colors. The youth area remained in the club and the second team, based in the district league A, became the first team.
history
The club was founded by students on June 4, 1904 under the name FC Borussia Fulda and was thus the second local soccer club, after the Fuldaer Kickers that had been created the year before and which has since become part of today's FT 1848 , but quickly advanced to become the sporting figurehead of the at that time around 20,000 inhabitants counting city. Joined the West German Game Association (WSV) in 1905 , the team was already playing in the top division two years later after two consecutive promotions, and also in 1907 a sports field with the first covered grandstand in East Hesse was opened on Wallweg. In 1911, with the first entry into the finals of the West German soccer championship, another milestone in the club's history was reached. In 1913 the company moved to the new venue on Neuenweg, whose huge grandstand offered space for 500 spectators. The First World War interrupted the association's rapid ascent for a few years.
After the war, the tranquil cathedral city gradually transformed into a modern industrial location, in which, in addition to traditional wax and candle production, the textile and clothing industry was now based. Borussia also benefited from this: in addition to new patrons from the ranks of the industrialists, the club found numerous new talented players from the ranks of the workforce. Not least as a result of the joining of the Germania strength sports club and the local cycling club, the club grew into a large club in the post-war years, which on September 6, 1923 was renamed 1. SV Borussia . Three months earlier, on June 2, 1923, the facility on the Johannisau was also moved into a new venue, which would remain the club's home for the next 40 years.
It took a few years, despite the dazzling conditions, to make contact with the top athletes in the Hessen / Hanover district. From 1927/28 onwards, they just missed their second entry into the West German finals after 1911 four times in a row, and in 1931/32, under coach Karl Willnecker, the breakthrough came with two clear wins in the playoffs against the North Season winner Göttingen 05 . The Enders brothers, team player Willi Harz and captain August Hoßfeld stood out from this year's championship eleven. Borussia only failed in the final for the “West German” when they lost 3-1 to FC Schalke 04 on May 1, 1932 in front of 45,000 spectators in Cologne-Müngersdorf . In 1933 the championship of North Hesse and South Hanover again made it into the finals, and this year too, the East Hesse had to admit defeat late, they failed in the semifinals at the later German champions Fortuna Düsseldorf .
After the National Socialists came to power, the divisions in German football were reorganized, the clubs from North and East Hesse now played in the Gauliga Hessen . In the very first season of 1933/34 , Borussia Fulda won the Hessian Gaumeist title, making it into the finals of the German championship for the first time in the club's history. This success could be repeated three times in 1940/41 and - in the meantime merged with the Reichsbahnern to RSG Borussia since July 25, 1941 - in the Gauliga Kurhessen in 1942 and 1944 , but retired early in the final round.
After the dissolution of the sports clubs after the Second World War, the club was reorganized under the leadership of Josef Schindewolf and Karl Pappert, initially under the name SG Borussia 04/45 ; on May 14, 1948, they merged with SC Fulda to form SC Borussia 04 . In terms of sport, things did not go particularly well for Borussia in the post-war years, after the team around striker Erwin Witzel failed in the promotion round to the Oberliga Süd in 1947 , they even slipped into the third division three years later. Only in 1957 succeeded at least the return to the II. Oberliga, where Borussia - with a break in 1959/60 - was able to hold up until the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963. The new "football lower house", the Regionalliga Süd , on the other hand, turned out to be a size too big for East Hesse in the first year, while Borussia took 18th place at the end of the round in 1963/64 and had to go to the amateur camp.
This was followed by twelve seasons in the amateur league Hessen, without more than a third place in the table in the 1970/71 season , and in 1975 Borussia Fulda also rose from the top amateur division. Only at the beginning of the 1990s did the club return permanently to the Hessian upper house. In 1995 he was promoted to the Regionalliga Süd, now the third highest level, and three years later, in the 1997/98 season , with third place in the Regionalliga, promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga was within reach. In the following years, Borussia Fulda commuted between the regional and the upper league, until the club was refused the license for the upper league in 2004 and it was not until 2006 that they returned to the Hessian upper house. The team could not hold the class in the 2008/09 season and was relegated from the Hessen League as 17th . In the following season in the Hessian Association League North, the downward slide of the club continued, which ended the season as 18th again on a relegation rank. Due to the economic situation of the club, the application for bankruptcy was filed at the end of the season, but this was withdrawn on April 21, 2010. After four years in the seventh-class Fulda group league, Borussia Fulda won the group league championship for the 110th anniversary of the club in the 2013/14 season and played in the sixth-class association league Hessen-Nord in the 2014/15 season. There they celebrated the championship four game days before the end of the season. Thus, from the 2015/16 season, Borussia played again in the fifth-class Hessen League, where they were able to stay up after the promotion. In the 2016/17 season , Borussia Fulda finished fifth in the table.
For the 2018/19 season, the club gave up the right to play in the Hessen League. The men's area was integrated into TSV Lehnerz , which was renamed SG Barockstadt Fulda-Lehnerz and received a new logo and new club colors. The youth area remained in the club. In the 2017/18 season , Borussia Fulda reached seventh place in the table, but due to the merger with TSV Lehnerz, it was placed last in the table after the last match day. The club's previous second team became the new first. She entered the ninth-class district league A Fulda.
Trainer
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Viktor Passulko (2003)
player
- Sebastian Kehl , German national player at Borussia Dortmund
- Altin Lala , with Hannover 96 for 14 years
- César Thier , goalkeeping coach at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
- Olivier Djappa , later top scorer in the 2nd Bundesliga at SSV Reutlingen
- Karl-Heinz “Gala” Metzner , member of the world championship team from 1954 and idol of Hessen Kassel
Venue
The venue for the home games is the stadium of the city of Fulda in the Johannisau sports park with 20,000 seats. 742 of the total of 1978 seats are covered. The stadium was inaugurated in 1957 without the current grandstand. A record number of spectators were the 26,000 visitors in 1963 in the Regionalliga Süd 1963/64 at the game between Fulda and the later southern champions Hessen Kassel . For security reasons, the number of visitors was reduced to 25,000 in the early 1970s and to 20,000 in the early 1980s.
In 1997, a friendly match between Fulda and FC Bayern Munich received 20,000 visitors. On the 3rd matchday of the Regionalliga Süd 1996/97 around 18,000 spectators saw the championship game between Borussia Fulda and 1. FC Nürnberg (1: 1).
Athletics department
Until the year 2000, SC Borussia Fulda also had an athletics department. This then merged with the athletics departments of other Fulda clubs to form the Athletics Community (LG) Fulda . The most famous athlete was the hammer thrower Karl Storch , who in the Borussia Fulda jersey was three times German champion and also three times runner-up and won the silver medal at the 1952 Olympic Games.
literature
- Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Hesse. Between FC Alsbach, Eintracht Frankfurt and Tuspo Ziegenhain. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-244-0 , pp. 78-83.
- Hardy Grüne, Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 172.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Borussia Fulda and TSV Lehnerz found the "SG Barockstadt Fulda Lehnerz" ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , tsv-lehnerz.de, April 9, 2018, accessed on June 6, 2018.
