Chemnitz BC
The Chemnitzer Ballspiel-Club or CBC for short was a football club from the Saxon city of Chemnitz .
Club history
The club was founded on December 2nd, 1899 by Mittweida students as Chemnitzer SC Britannia . On January 28, 1900, the club was one of the founding clubs of the DFB . In April 1900 the club was renamed Chemnitzer BC 1899 . On August 8, 1903, the club was one of four founding members of the Chemnitz Football Association . After bankruptcy in 1933, the CBC was re-established under the name Chemnitzer BC in 1933 and existed until 1945. This made the CBC the oldest soccer club in Chemnitz, the club's shirt colors were black, red and white. After the reunification in the GDR, the attempt to revive the FC Karl-Marx-Stadt in this tradition as a Chemnitz ball game club failed . The club played its home games from 1939 in the Großkampfbahn in Chemnitz-Bernsdorf.
The CBC also had a field hockey team that played their games on the municipal arena from 1929 onwards.
Athletic career
In 1905 the club was qualified for the first time for the final round of the Central German Championship, in which the CBC participated a total of 15 times until 1929. After two semi-finals in 1908 and 1914, the team made it to the final in 1927, which was lost to VfB Leipzig 4-0. With a 3-2 victory in the final against VfB Leipzig , Chemnitz won the Central German Football Cup in 1927 and still qualified for the final round of the 1927 German championship . There the team had to compete in the first round against the eventual champions 1. FC Nürnberg and lost 1: 5. In 1929 the Chemnitz team reached the final of the Central German Championship again, but this time they lost 3-2 to Dresdner SC . In 1933 the CBC started in the newly founded Gauliga Sachsen , which was the top German league at the time. After the team was relegated in the first season, it took until 1939 to return to the Gauliga. The club played there until the end of the game in 1944.
people
- Erich Hänel
- Kurt Nieher
- Lothar Richter played a game for the German national team in 1941
successes
- Central German cup winner : 1927
literature
- Hardy Greens : Chemnitzer BC. In: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 , p. 105.
Individual evidence
- ^ SL: Tradition field hockey in Chemnitz. SL, August 6, 2017, accessed August 6, 2017 .
- ^ Poster "Hockey-Städtespiele Chemnitz - Freiberg" on June 2, 1929