Eintracht Gelsenkirchen

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Eintracht Gelsenkirchen
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Full name Sports community Eintracht
Gelsenkirchen eV
place Gelsenkirchen - Ückendorf ,
North Rhine-Westphalia
Founded June 30, 1950
Dissolved June 15, 1973
Club colors Red Blue
Stadion South Stadium
Top league II. Division West
Regionalliga West
successes Westfalenmeister 1964, 1970
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Eintracht Gelsenkirchen (officially: Sportgemeinde Eintracht Gelsenkirchen eV) was a sports club from the Gelsenkirchen district of Ückendorf . The association was created on June 30, 1950 through the merger of the Alemannia and Union Gelsenkirchen associations . The first soccer team played for ten years in the II. Division West and eight years in the Regionalliga West . The greatest successes were the Westphalia Championships in 1964 and 1970. The venue was the stadium at Südpark until 1967 and then the Südstadion Gelsenkirchen .

On June 15, 1973, Eintracht Gelsenkirchen merged with local rivals STV Horst-Emscher to form Eintracht Gelsenkirchen-Horst . This club took on the name STV Horst-Emscher again five years later. In 1997, the club SV Fortuna Gelsenkirchen, founded in 1930, took on the name Eintracht Gelsenkirchen.

history

The parent clubs

Alemannia Gelsenkirchen was created in 1911 through the merger of Viktoria Gelsenkirchen and SuS Leithe to form SV Rheinelbe Gelsenkirchen, which later took on the name Alemannia. Renamed after another merger to BSG Gelsenguß Gelsenkirchen , the team was promoted to the first-class Gauliga Westfalen in 1939 , where Gelsenguß was runner-up in the 1940/41 season. Eight years later, the club, which had since been renamed Alemannia again, was one of the founding members of the 2nd Division West in 1949.

Fusion partner Union was created in May 1910 through the merger of Viktoria Gelsenkirchen-Neustadt with Germania Ückendorf . In 1931 the Union reached the final round of the West German Championship, with the club benefiting from the fact that FC Schalke 04 had to do without most of its top performers because of a professional player affair. After the Union failed twice in the promotion round, it reached the then first-class Gauliga Westphalia in the 1940/41 season . In 1949 the club was included in the newly created II. West Division.

In the 1949/50 season , the Alemannia reached 10th place, while the Union was last in the parallel season. Both clubs got into financial difficulties. The West German Football Association recommended a merger of the two clubs; after much back and forth, this was completed on June 30, 1950 and this is how SG Eintracht Gelsenkirchen came into being .

Second Division West (1950 to 1963)

The Eintracht took over the starting place in the II. Division West from the Alemannia. Just two years later , the team was relegated to the Landesliga Westfalen . The II. Division was converted from a two- to a single-track league in 1952 and Eintracht missed the eighth place required for qualification by just one point. Three years later , the rise succeeded. First, Eintracht secured the state championship in the Glückauf-Kampfbahn in the decisive game for the Westphalia championship with a goalless draw against VfB 03 Bielefeld . Since both Mittelrheinmeister SV Bergisch Gladbach 09 and Vice Stolberger SV waived, Eintracht rose directly to the II. Division.

The successful youth work of the club, which produced numerous junior national players, played a major role in the sporting boom. Homemade like Heinz Hornig or Hans Nowak even made it into the national team . For financial reasons, however, the club had to let its top performers regularly move to more financially strong clubs. FC Schalke 04 in particular liked to use Eintracht. In the II. Division West, Eintracht always reached placements in the upper half of the table. The highlight was 3rd place in the 1958/59 season , although the Gelsenkirchen team were six points behind runner-up Schwarz-Weiß Essen and clearly missed the desired promotion to the Oberliga West .

In the 1960/61 and 1961/62 seasons , Eintracht again reached fourth place. In the 1962/63 season it was all about qualifying for the newly created Regionalliga West, for which the first eight clubs should qualify. But the Gelsenkirchen team lost 2-1 at Duisburg SpV on the last matchday , which meant that Arminia Bielefeld overtook Eintracht after a 4-1 win over Dortmund's SC 95 . The Gelsenkirchener were tenth and had to relegate to the Association League Westphalia .

Regionalliga West (1963 to 1973)

A year later , the team won the Westphalia Championship against the Dortmund SC 95 . After the first and second leg , both teams were tied, so a play-off was scheduled. This won the Eintracht in Castrop-Rauxel with 2-0. In the following round of promotion to Regionalliga West, the Gelsenkirchen team prevailed together with Homberger SV against SV Schlebusch . In 1965 Eintracht hoped for a league game against local rivals FC Schalke 04, who had just been relegated from the Bundesliga . After the forced relegation of Hertha BSC and the increase in the Bundesliga, Schalke remained in the Bundesliga.

In the second half of the 1960s, the club relied on ready-made players instead of their own offspring. Nevertheless, Eintracht did not come out of the lower half of the table. In 1968, the then Eintracht captain Willi Koslowski brought the former Schalke Willi Kraus , who had lost his player license after several thefts , to the Südstadion. After a few games for Eintracht, Kraus was caught on a thief tour in Osnabrück and arrested. Without Kraus, the Gelsenkirchen team just managed to stay up in the league, but the Kraus affair had consequences for the club: The relegated SC Viktoria Köln protested against the evaluation of three games that Eintracht had won with Kraus because they were eligible to play by Willi Kraus by the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court . Six points were deducted from the Gelsenkircheners, which meant that Eintracht had to relegate and Cologne held the class. Eintracht Gelsenkirchen tried to increase the regional league to 20 clubs, but this was rejected by the association.

With 56: 4 points, however, the Gelsenkirchen team were superior champions of their association league relay and also won the final of the Westphalia Championship against Westfalia Herne with 2: 1. In the promotion round, the concord with Herne prevailed against Sterkrade 06/07 and managed the direct promotion . After fifth place in the 1970/71 season , the Gelsenkirchen team slipped back into mediocrity. When the DFB decided to introduce the 2nd Bundesliga in 1974 , Eintracht merged with STV Horst-Emscher to form STV Eintracht Gelsenkirchen-Horst .

Eintracht Gelsenkirchen-Horst

During the 1972/73 season , trainer Friedel Elting changed from STV Horst-Emscher to Eintracht. Because of the imminent introduction of the second division, Elting campaigned for a merger of the two clubs. " Dog and cat should get along in order to become a second force in the Schalke city," says Elting. Against all reservations, the merger took place on June 15, 1973. The team was now wearing blue, red and black jerseys and settled in the Fürstenberg Stadium. The thrown together team, which was already weakened by the sale of some top performers from Eintracht, only reached third from last place in the 1973/74 regional league season and was relegated to the Association League . The goal of the 2nd Bundesliga was missed by far.

In addition, the merger association was viewed by many as an artifact that was not accepted by either the Horsters or the Eintracht supporters. As a result, more and more former Eintracht members turned away from the merger association. In the association league, the STV Eintracht no longer got beyond mediocrity. The highlights were eighth place in 1975 and ninth place two years later. In 1978, the merger club also missed the newly created Oberliga Westfalen as twelfth in the table and slipped into fourth division. Since hardly any former Eintracht members were still active in the club, the STV Eintracht Gelsenkirchen-Horst became STV Horst-Emscher again in May 1978. A new Eintracht, however, was not founded.

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Stadium at the Südpark

The first sporting home of Eintracht Gelsenkirchen was the stadium at Südpark . It was built with financial support from Ückendorfer merchants and was inaugurated on April 9, 1923 with a friendly between Union Gelsenkirchen and SpVgg Fürth . In front of 16,000 spectators, Union lost 2-0. This was also the attendance record. The stadium had a capacity of 28,000 seats and was located next to the Rheinelbe colliery . In the mid-1960s, the stadium had to give way to the new development area In der Esch and was demolished.

Gelsenkirchen South Stadium

In 1967 Eintracht moved to the newly built Südstadion. Originally designed as a district sports facility, the planned capacity was expanded from 10,000 to 21,680 seats. The stadium was opened with a friendly match between Eintracht and an amateur team from Gelsenkirchen. Around 2,000 spectators saw a 2-0 from Eintracht Gelsenkirchen. During the regional league years, a record audience of 15,000 was recorded three times. The opponents were Rot-Weiss Essen , VfL Bochum and Wuppertaler SV . Other sources speak of 20,000 viewers as a record. After the merger with STV Horst-Emscher, Eintracht Gelsenkirchen-Horst played in the Fürstenberg Stadium .

Today's unity

SG Eintracht 07/12
Surname SG Eintracht 07/12
Venue South Stadium
Places 21,680
Head coach Carlo Allievi
league District league A2 Gelsenkirchen
2019/20 11th place
Website eintracht-gelsenkirchen.de
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In 1997 the club SV Fortuna Gelsenkirchen, founded in 1930, took on the name SG Eintracht Gelsenkirchen. Before that, a community of Ückendorfer companies and private individuals founded a support group consisting of the youth departments of the Fortuna Gelsenkirchen, ETuS Gelsenkirchen, Arminia Ückendorf and Schwarz-Weiß Gelsenkirchen-Süd associations . However, the other clubs later withdrew, so that Fortuna dared to go it alone and changed its name. Historically, however, there is no connection between Fortuna and historical unity.

The new club took over the history and tradition of the old club. There is nothing to be read about the history of Fortuna on today's Eintracht website . Four years after the renaming, the new Eintracht was promoted to the district league. After two runner-up championships in 2003 and 2006 behind Karadeniz Herne and Rot-Weiß Leithe , they were promoted to the regional league in 2007. Two years later, the Gelsenkirchen team were relegated and passed into the district league A in the following 2009/10 season. Since relegation in 2014, the team played in the Gelsenkirchen District League B.

In the summer of 2017, SG Eintracht Gelsenkirchen merged with Sportfreunde Gelsenkirchen to form SG Eintracht Gelsenkirchen 07/12 . The new club took over the place of Sportfreunde in the district league A and was there two years later champions of season 2. The final of the district championship and direct promotion to the district league was lost to VfB Kirchhellen on penalties after Eintracht shortly before the final whistle the regular playing time still led 3-1. Relegation games against Türksport Dortmund followed , but they were clearly lost with 1: 5 and 1: 6.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Ralf Piorr (Hrsg.): The pot is round - The lexicon of Revier football: The clubs . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-356-9 , p. 99-102 .
  3. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (ed.): Football in West Germany 1958–1963 . 2013, p. 216 .
  4. ↑ a b Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 , pp. 11, 53.
  5. ↑ a b Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The great book of the German football stadiums . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-668-3 , p. 148 .
  6. ↑ SG Eintracht Gelsenkirchen 1977. Tables Archive.info, accessed on May 11, 2019 .
  7. ↑ waz: Fusion of SG Eintracht and Sportfreunde 07/12. RevierSport , accessed March 28, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Andreas Artz: Again relegation drama: But this time Kirchhellen rises. FuPa , accessed June 9, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Andreas Artz: The next slap: SGE dreams of advancement abruptly burst. FuPa, accessed June 9, 2019 .

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