SC Apolda
The SC Apolda was a sports club in the East Thuringian city of Apolda . It was founded in 1910, dissolved in 1945 and re-established in 1990. It was dissolved again in the mid-1990s.
SC Apolda until 1945
Founded in 1910, SC Apolda was particularly well known for its soccer team. She participated in 1928, 1929, 1930 and 1932 in the Central German Championships, in which the SC Apolda advanced three times to the quarter-finals. In 1940 the SC was promoted to the Gauliga Mitte for one season , at that time one of the 16 highest football classes in Germany. After the end of the Second World War, the SC Apolda was dissolved in the course of the association ban initiated by the Soviet occupying power.
Continuation as a company sports community
In 1946, sports competitions in East Germany were only allowed within a narrow regional framework for loosely organized sports communities (SG). The sports community founded in Apolda instead of the sports club mainly played football. In 1948 the SG changed its name to Olympia Apolda and took part in the Thuringian football championship. The regional class of Thuringia led directly to the eastern zone championship , which was held for the first time in 1948 , so that the SG can be regarded as a first division team at that time. With rank 7, however, Olympia Apolda could not qualify for the finals of the Eastern Zone Championship. The company sports association (BSG) Metall, which was formed from the SG Olympia in 1949, did not rise above the national league level until 1952. When the newly founded third-class district league in Erfurt started in the summer of 1952, the team involved also included the now renamed BSG Empor Apolda with the local trade as the sponsoring company . In the meantime, also under the name "Chemistry" (1954 to 1957), the BSG was able to hold in the district league until 1958, but had to be relegated at the end of the 1958 season as the 13th and penultimate team. Between 1962 and 1976 the carrier company was changed several times, each time resulting in a name change:
- 1962: BSG progress (sponsoring company Thuringian upper tricot days)
- 1966: TSG Apolda (several sponsoring companies)
- 1976: BSG Obertrikotagen Apolda (carrier company VEB Obertrikotagen)
With three interruptions due to relegations, the BSG played between 1952 and 1982 in 24 seasons in the district league. In 1982, OT Apolda (the common abbreviation) was bottom of the table and was relegated again, only to not return to the third division until the end of the GDR soccer game.
FDGB Cup
The company sports association in the GDR soccer cup has a long tradition . Between 1950 and 1975, the BSG was able to qualify eight times for the GDR-wide FDGB cup competition either as a district cup winner or as a district finalist. The BSG Empor / Chemie came furthest in the 1953/54 competition , when they remained victorious in four rounds and only lost 3-2 in the round of 16 at the second division Rotation Plauen after extra time. The most prominent opponent was in 1957 in the third round of the upper division SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt , to which the BSG Empor again lost 3: 7 after extra time in front of their own audience. A total of 16 games were played in the GDR Cup, nine of which were won.
Start-up
After German reunification in 1990, the company sports associations could no longer be supported by their sponsoring companies due to the changed economic situation. The BSG Obertrikotagen dissolved in Apolda and the Apolda sports club was re-established as a civil association by former BSG members. However, it was financially on an insecure basis so that it had to be dissolved again in the mid-1990s. There was no longer a direct successor, the football tradition of Apolda was continued by the clubs BSC and VfB Apolda, which, however, have no historical connection to SC Apolda.
People of particular importance
- Wolfgang Brünner (* 1928), goalkeeper at SC Motor Jena, started at Metall Apolda
- Karl Schäffner (1931-1995), GDR upper league player and coach, played as a teenager at SC Apolda
- Karl Schnieke (1919–1974), GDR national player in Jena, played for Metall Apolda until 1951
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The following sources were used for the first version of the article: