FC Bitburg
| FC Bitburg | |||
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| Surname | Bitburg football club | ||
| Seat | Bitburg , Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
| founding | 1919 | ||
| Website | fc-bitburg-1919.de | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | Bitburg-Ost stadium | ||
| Places | about 2500 | ||
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Regionalliga Südwest (women) Regional league West Rhineland (men) |
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2018/19 2018/19 |
7th place (women) 2nd place (men) |
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The FC Bitburg is the football club in the town of Bitburg . It was founded in 1919 under the name SV 1919 Bitburg , but later renamed.
Men's soccer
The football men first stepped into the regional limelight in 1956, when they immediately became champions in the then third-class amateur league Rhineland-West as promoted players in 1956/57. However, the promotion to the second class did not succeed. After a third place in 1957/58, relegation took place again at the end of the 1959/60 season. In the 1967/68 season they played again in the amateur league Rhineland, but this time could not hold the class and were immediately relegated. It went better at the third return to the Rhineland amateur league. After finishing sixth as a climber in 1974/75 and third place in 1975/76, they even reached second place in 1976/77. This entitled to participate in the German amateur championship . After the Bitburger were able to prevail in the first round against the FV Eppelborn , the amateurs of Fortuna Düsseldorf were the last stop in the second round. The introduction of the amateur league for Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland (southwest) again required a very good ranking for the qualification for the 1977/78 season. But just in the crucial season, the Bitburger landed only on a tenth place in the table and had to return to fourth division.
The men of FC Bitburg only briefly returned to the national limelight in 1987/88 when they won the Rhineland Cup and thus qualified for the DFB Cup . In the first main round of the 1988/89 season they met SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken . In front of their home crowd, the team lost 3-1, although FC were leading 1-0 up to half-time. The current division in 2019/20 is the District League West (7th division) of the Rhineland Football Association.
The most famous player who emerged from the youth of FC Bitburg was the later Bundesliga professional Edgar Schmitt .
Women's soccer
The women's team was founded in 1992. In 1998 the team made it to the Regionalliga Südwest , the second highest division at the time. After only a year, the team was relegated. After several years in the Rhineland League, they managed to return to the Regionalliga in 2008. After a season, the immediate relegation followed. In 2013 he returned to the regional league again. In 2010, the 3-2 win in the final against the higher-class regional league team 1. FFC Montabaur came as a big surprise in the Rhineland Cup, while the win also meant participation in the first round of the women's DFB Cup. Here they were defeated by the second division club FV Löchgau in front of 400 spectators with 0: 3.
In the Verbandsliga Rheinland the first women's team has so far reached three second places. Since 2007 there has been a second women's team, which has won the district championship four times within five years. In the 2013/14 season, a third team will start the competition for the first time. Since 1998 there has been female junior football in FC Bitburg, in the current season 4 junior teams play in FC Bitburg (E-, D-, C- and B-Juniors). The B-Juniors became Rhineland champions for the first time in 2011/12.
Web links
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- ↑ a b c d Hardy Greens : FC Bitburg. In: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 , p. 73.
- ↑ Greens 2001, p. 495
- ↑ https://www.volksfreund.de/sport/fussball/wie-der-fc-bitburg-den-pokalfluch-besiegte_aid-51527065