DVV Coburg
| DVV Coburg | |||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | DJK Viktoria VfB Coburg e. V. | ||
| Seat | Coburg , Bavaria | ||
| founding | 1909 | ||
| resolution | June 30, 2012 | ||
| Colours | Red Black | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | Dr. Eugen Stocke plant ( location ) | ||
| Places | 3,000 | ||
| league | Regional League Bavaria Northwest (FC Coburg) | ||
| 2018/19 | 15th place (Landesliga Bayern Nordost) | ||
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The DVV Coburg , advertised as DJK Viktoria VfB Coburg , was a sports club from the Upper Franconian city of Coburg . The club emerged in this form in 2000 when VfB Coburg 07 joined the DJK / Viktoria 09 Coburg. The DJK Rot-Weiß Coburg had already joined FC Viktoria 09 in 1974. VfB 07 played in football between the world wars and in the post-war decades throughout in higher-class leagues. In addition to football, the club also had bowling, fitness / strength and athletics departments. On September 8, 2011, the FC Coburg was founded, which took over the players and license, as well as the young talent center of the DVV.
History of VfB Coburg
VfB Coburg was founded on October 25, 1907 as Coburger FC (CFC). The city did not belong to Bavaria until 1920, the Coburg teams took part in the games of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs (VMBV) and thus competed primarily against Thuringian and Saxon teams. In the 1913/14 round, the CFC was able to record a first small respectable success when it reached the finals of the Central German Championship, but failed here in the round of 16 at Wacker Halle . After the First World War , on December 11, 1918, the club was renamed VfB Coburg. In the rounds of 1920/21 and 1928/29 the team reached the final again; despite the fact that Coburg was now politically part of Bavaria, they continued to play in the VMBV divisions at that time. In 1929, when he reached the semi-finals of the Central German Championship (after victories over yellow-red Meiningen , Prussia Langensalza and defending champion Wacker Halle) the greatest success up to that point was achieved. The VfB finally lost in the semifinals to the eventual winner Dresdner SC with 2: 3.
After the VMBV was dissolved in 1933 and the Gauligen were introduced as the new top division, the Coburgs played in Bavarian leagues. VfB Coburg belonged to Gauliga Bayern , in which ten teams competed, for the first time in 1936/37 after they had prevailed with a 5-2 in the playoff against Bayern Hof . VfB rose immediately from bottom of the table, but rose again a year later to have to go down again after the round of 1938/39 , this time penultimate. In the last year of the war, VfB qualified for the last time for the top division, which in Bavaria was now divided into several seasons, but the game operations of the 1944/45 season of the Upper Franconia season were stopped due to the war in autumn 1944.
After the end of the Second World War , which was followed by the dissolution of all clubs, the former Coburg clubs initially merged to form the Coburg Sports Association. On December 2, 1948, VfB Coburg split from this association. One of the driving forces behind the rebuilding of the association was Eux Stocke , patron and chairman of VfB Coburg.
In the post-war period it initially took a few years for VfB Coburg to report back in higher-class football, which was not least due to the fact that at that time, VfL Neustadt was a strong competitor in the immediate vicinity. It was not until the 1952/53 season that VfB rose to the third-class Bayernliga , and after they split up into two seasons, the following year they played in the first amateur league in Northern Bavaria. With Heinz Ruppenstein and Willy Reitgaßl , the club produced two players who made careers with the then southern upper division Karlsruher SC . The KSC was one of the top addresses in southern Germany at the time. The outside runner Ruppenstein switched to the reigning German cup winner in 1955, played the final of the German championship in 1956 with the KSC, became cup winner in the same year and experienced the first Bundesliga round in 1963/64 as an active player. The striker Reitgaßl, who followed Ruppenstein to Karlsruhe in 1957, became a national player, after being appointed to the amateur and B national team, he joined the A national team in 1960.
VfB Coburg stayed in the top Bavarian amateur league for a long time, relegation to the second amateur class in 1971 was followed by a rise two years later, and between 1978 and 1982 they were also not represented in the amateur upper house. After relegated in 1984, however, VfB could no longer keep up with the upper divisions. The best-known player during this period was Frank Greiner , who later became a long-time Bundesliga professional and won the 1998 German champions with 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
Since the merger to form DVV Coburg
The sporting went hand in hand with an economic decline of VfB Coburg, so that in 2000 the merger with the former local rivals DJK Rot-Weiß (founded in 1951) and FC Viktoria 09, which had already merged to DJK / Viktoria in 1974. After the merger, DVV Coburg managed to move up to the Landesliga Nord in 2002. There they played with a one-year break (2006/07) until the 2010/11 season. Those responsible continued to struggle with the legacy of the previous clubs, which is why the Dr. Stocke Stadium was sold to the city. Nevertheless, a youth training center was able to be set up. The city of Coburg converted the stadium into a school sports facility and completely refurbished it. Among other things, the back straight and the ticket booth at the entrance were demolished. The new sports facility was inaugurated on the 100th anniversary of the club. For this purpose, SpVgg Greuther Fürth (2nd BL) made a guest appearance in Coburg on July 10, 2009.
The end of DVV Coburg
In November 2010 it became known that the tax office had made an additional demand in the low six-digit range from the years 2000 to 2008 for the players paid and untaxed travel expenses. A sum that the club could not raise. As a result, the association submitted an application to the Coburg District Court at the beginning of June 2011 to open insolvency proceedings, which were rejected due to lack of funds. On August 4, 2011, it was decided to dissolve the association as of June 30, 2012. The game operations of the soccer teams continued until then. The game was played on the former club's own sports field on the "Hinteren Floßanger". The 2010/11 season ended sportingly with relegation from the national league. On September 8, 2011, the FC Coburg was founded, which took over the players and license, as well as the young talent center of the DVV. For the 2012/13 season, all FC Coburg teams competed in the leagues in which the corresponding DVV teams had last played.
Stadion
The venue of the Coburg football club in 1907 on Wiesenstrasse was inaugurated on November 30, 1913 as the Johann Leopold sports field. Before that, the CFC played from 1909 to 1911 on the parade ground Brandsteinsebene and then on the Uferstraße. The namesake for the new home was Johann Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , the then Hereditary Prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . A grandstand was inaugurated in 1928. The VfB Stadium, which was expanded in 1960, was renamed the Dr. Stocke Stadium in 1965 on the occasion of Eux Stocke's 70th birthday .
The city of Coburg bought the stadium from the club at the beginning of the 21st century and converted it into a school sports facility in 2009. The grandstand on the back straight and the marathon gate as well as the ticket offices were demolished and the main grandstand and running track were renewed. The name was changed to Dr.-Eugen-Stocke-Anlage.
literature
- Hardy Grüne , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , pp. 107-108.
Individual evidence
- ^ "The DVV Coburg squad is up" on np-coburg.de from January 4, 2011.
- ^ "FC Coburg plays in the Stocke Stadium" , on np-coburg.de from June 28, 2012.