FC Eintracht Rheine

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FC Eintracht Rheine
Club logo
Basic data
Surname Eintracht
Rheine eV football club
Seat Rheine , North Rhine-Westphalia
founding June 10, 1994
president Helmut Kockmann
Heinz Hilgenberg
Website fcerheine.de
First soccer team
Head coach Uwe Laurenz
Venue BA.rena
Places 7,500
league Oberliga Westfalen
2019/20 4th Place
home
Away

The FC Eintracht Rheine (officially: Football Club Eintracht Rheine eV ) is a sports club from Rheine in the Steinfurt district . The club has around 860 members in the football and tennis departments . The first football team has belonged to the fifth-class Oberliga Westfalen since its promotion in 2013 . In addition, FC Eintracht took part in the DFB Cup once.

history

Emergence

FC Eintracht Rheine is the product of numerous club mergers. The predecessor clubs can be traced back to 1908. The oldest parent club is Borussia Rheine , which became Westphalia champion in 1928. Borussia merged with VfL Rheine in 1969 to form Rot-Weiß Rheine . The Rheiner clubs BV and SpVgg once played in the highest Westphalian amateur league , which merged into FC Rheine in 1969 . On June 27, 1971, Rot-Weiß and FC Rheine merged to form VfB Rheine . This merged on June 10, 1994 with SG Eintracht Rheine to form FC Eintracht Rheine. The women's football department split off on March 10, 1998 as FFC Heike Rheine .

Sporting development

FC Eintracht started in the Verbandliga Westfalen 1 , where VfB Rheine last played. Just two years later, the team secured the runner-up championship eleven points behind TSG Dülmen and met the runner-up in the DSC Wanne-Eickel parallel season in a decider . In the neutral Rhade , Wanne-Eickel prevailed 1-0; because of the regional league relegation of the second team from Wattenscheid 09 , the game remained meaningless. Two years later, with a four point lead over SV Lippstadt 08, they were promoted to the then fourth-class Oberliga Westfalen.

In the league, Eintracht initially consistently reached single-digit positions. The sporting highlight was the third place in the 2001/02 season behind the amateur teams of Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04 . A year later, FC Eintracht won the Westphalia Cup with a 2-1 victory over Sportfreunde Siegen and qualified for the DFB Cup for the first time and so far only . In the first round , Eintracht met the then second division club VfB Lübeck . After a goalless 90 minutes, the Lübeck team won 2-0 in extra time in front of 2,856 spectators .

Colin van der Berg and Kevin Grewe in a test match at 1. FC Gievenbeck in winter 2017 .

In the league, the club slipped back into mediocrity. On the last matchday of the 2003/04 season, the team lost 8-0 to the amateurs of Arminia Bielefeld . Four years later, Eintracht was fifteenth and thus missed the qualification for the newly created NRW League . Thus, the club continued to play in the now sixth-class Westfalenliga 1. There, Eintracht was runner-up in 2009 and 2011 behind SC Wiedenbrück 2000 and TuS Dornberg . Two years later, Eintracht was runner-up again, this time behind SV Rödinghausen . With a 3-0 play-off win against FC Brünninghausen in neutral Ascheberg , Eintracht made it to the top division.

On the first day of the league season 2013/14 , 3,522 spectators saw a 1-1 draw against local rivals SuS Neuenkirchen . This was also a new attendance record for the league after the reintroduction in 2012. FC Eintracht was able to establish itself in the league in the following years. During the 2015/16 season , the team was in the top tier of the league, but waived a license application for the regional league ahead of time. In November 2016, Sebastian Kockmann took over the post of sporting director from Markus Wersching, who left his job for family reasons.

"Rheine goes first"

At the end of October 2015, the board of directors as well as the economic and financial advisory board of FC Eintracht Rheine presented the club's own initiative “Rheine goes ahead” during a press conference. Under this platform, the association bundles social projects, such as an integration and inclusion team, and presents them in its own brand. The patron is the mayor of the city of Rheine , Peter Lüttmann. The initiative's logo also adorns the jersey of the league team. In 2016, the association won the LWL Youth Prize for the “Rheine goes ahead” campaign.

Women's soccer

The division brought in by VfB played in the Bundesliga and in the era of the two-pronged Bundesliga came fourth up until 1997. The greatest success was achieved in 1997 when the team reached the final of the DFB Cup . Here the team Grün-Weiß Brauweiler lost 1: 3. The best-known player is Kerstin Stegemann , who played a total of 191 international matches for the German national team and was world champion twice .

Personalities

successes

Stages

The home ground of FC Eintracht Rheine is the BA.rena. The stadium was opened in 1961 and was called Stadion Delsen until 2002 . From 2002 to 2010 the venue was named Auto-Senger-Stadion and from 2010 to 2019 OBI Arena . The BA.rena has a capacity of 3,000 seats, 400 of which are covered and 300 are standing. Most of the youth teams play their games in the VR-Bank Stadium at Uhlenhook in Wadelheim .

Criticism of the development of amateur football

On the occasion of the announced bankruptcy of FC Gütersloh 2000 , FC Eintracht published a critical commentary on the development of amateur football, which caused a lot of feedback. In its statement, the club complains about the accumulation of insolvency among top division clubs and explains:

“While in international professional football high millions are paid for average footballers (Julian Draxler's transfer to Paris as the current peak of madness), TV money soars to dizzying heights, millions of viewers make the pilgrimage to the multi-functional arenas, amateur sport is brutally falling by the wayside . "

Furthermore, the club criticizes the Sunday games of the Bundesliga clubs, high association requirements and taxes and the increasing difficulty of attracting volunteers for amateur sport.

The comment was shared and recited by many media and league opponents. In the soccer magazine 11Freunde, the sports director and commentator Sebastian Kockmann said that stopping the development was a task for society as a whole.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Association. FFC Heike Rheine , archived from the original on April 9, 2018 ; Retrieved July 20, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Eintracht Rheine - VfB Lübeck 0: 2 (0: 0). German Football Association , accessed on May 4, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Elmar Redemann: Wasserschlacht clearly goes to Eintracht. RevierSport , accessed July 20, 2013 .
  5. ^ Philipp Bülter: Draw in front of 3522 (!) Spectators. RevierSport, accessed on August 18, 2013 .
  6. ^ Krystian Wozniak: Three clubs apply for regional league license. RevierSport, accessed March 10, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Christian cell: Kockmann new sporting director in Rheine . November 18, 2016 ( wdr.de [accessed February 20, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Rheine goes first - go with me! Retrieved February 20, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Current projects - Rheine goes first. Retrieved February 20, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Patron - Rheine goes first. Retrieved February 20, 2017 .
  11. ↑ FCE receives 2000 Euro youth prize - Rheine - Münsterländische Volkszeitung. Retrieved February 20, 2017 .
  12. ↑ OBI Arena. FC Eintracht Rheine, accessed on July 20, 2013 .
  13. ↑ VR-Bank Stadium | FC Eintracht Rheine. Retrieved February 20, 2017 .
  14. ^ Henning Hoheisel: FC Gütersloh is insolvent. Retrieved February 20, 2017 .
  15. ↑ master: A (alarming) comment on the current development in Gütersloh. In: FC Eintracht Rheine. January 3, 2017. Retrieved February 20, 2017 .
  16. ^ RevierSport, Essen, Germany: OL WF: League competitor comments on Gütersloh insolvency . In: RevierSport online . ( reviersport.de [accessed on February 20, 2017]).
  17. ↑ DerWesten - derwesten.de: Why the madness in professional football is destroying amateur clubs . ( derwesten.de [accessed on February 20, 2017]).
  18. ↑ "At the moment, football simply kills everything" - Rheine - Münsterländische Volkszeitung. Retrieved February 20, 2017 .
  19. ^ Amateurs in crisis: "The system is sick" . In: 11FREUNDE.de . ( 11freunde.de [accessed February 20, 2017]).