FC Gutersloh (2000)

FC Gütersloh
Basic data
Surname	Football Club Gütersloh eV
Seat	Gütersloh , North Rhine-Westphalia
founding	February 23, 2000
Colours	green-white-blue
Members	638 (January 1, 2020)
1. Chairman	Heiner Kollmeyer / Hans-Hermann Kirschner / Helmut Delker
Website	fcguetersloh.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Julian Hesse
Venue	Heidewaldstadion
Places	8,400
league	Oberliga Westfalen
2019/20	11th place
home Away

The FC Gütersloh (full name: Football Club Gütersloh eV , shortly FCG ) is a football club in Gütersloh with 641 members (as of August 2020). The club was founded on February 23, 2000 under the name FC Gütersloh 2000 as the successor to the former second division club FC Gütersloh . On June 13, 2017, the number was deleted from the club name. The first team has been playing in the fifth-class Oberliga Westfalen since 2012 . The home games are played in the Heidewaldstadion, which currently holds 8,400 spectators . The club colors are green-white-blue.

In August 2011, TÜV Nord awarded FC Gütersloh 2000 the seal of approval according to the DIN EN ISO 9001: 2008 standard . The FCG is the first football club in Germany that is allowed to advertise with a tested quality. FC Gütersloh 2000 had a department for women's and girls' football until 2009 . The first team played in the 2nd Bundesliga North . In 2009 the department split off from the main association and founded an independent association with the FSV Gütersloh in 2009 .

history

Structural development of FC Gütersloh 2000

The parent clubs

The FC Gütersloh 2000 is a product of numerous club mergers and spin-offs. The 1918 Gütersloh sports association was founded in 1918 . On February 9, 1925, the German SC 1925 Gütersloh split off. In 1933 this merged with the Spiel und Sport 1923 Gütersloh club , which until 1923 formed the football department of the Gütersloh gymnastics club founded on September 7, 1879 , to form the Arminia Gütersloh sports club . The club DJK Gütersloh was also founded in 1923 , which was first renamed VfK Gütersloh and in 1935 joined the Arminia Gütersloh sports club. In August 1945, the 1918 sports association and the Arminia sports association merged to form the Arminia Gütersloh sports association . The greatest sporting success before the Second World War was the promotion to the then first-class district league Westphalia in 1931. After only one season, the team had to leave the league as the bottom of the table in the Eastern group.

SV Arminia Gütersloh (1945 to 1978)

→ Main article : SVA Gütersloh

The SV Arminia Gütersloh team was generally referred to as the "Greens" and was in close contact with the publishing house and media group Bertelsmann , which offered many players jobs. In 1951, the team rose to the highest Westphalian amateur league and was the season winner in 1956 . This made Arminia one of the founding members of the Westphalia Association . In 1963 Arminia was relegated. Four years later, the rise succeeded, with which the duel for supremacy in Gütersloh football began with the DJK, which the kicker referred to as the "football war".

In 1971 he was promoted to the then second-class Regionalliga West . The qualification for the 1974 introduced 2. Bundesliga was missed. In 1975 the promotion round in the final of the Westphalia Championship against Westfalia Herne was missed. Two years later, the Gütersloher failed in the promotion round. As ninth of the association league season 1977/78 , the SVA qualified for the newly created Oberliga Westfalen .

DJK Gütersloh (1953 to 1978)

→ Main article : DJK Gütersloh

In 1953 the clubs DJK Blau-Weiß Gütersloh and DJK Gütersloh-Süd split off from the SVA. Both clubs belonged to the Association of German Youth Power , played at the district level and merged in 1963 to form the DJK Gütersloh. A year later the furniture manufacturer Willy Stickling began his involvement with the “Blauen”, as the DJK players were called. As early as 1968, the DJK, ridiculed by the supporters of Arminia as "church elf", rose to the association league, where the "blues" were champions straight away and were promoted to the regional league.

In 1974 the DJK qualified for the newly created 2nd Bundesliga. After a 14th place in the 1974/75 season , relegation to the association league followed a year later as the penultimate, before qualifying for the newly created Oberliga Westfalen in 1978 .

FC Gütersloh (1978 to 2000)

→ Main article : FC Gütersloh (1978)

On May 12, 1978, the soccer departments of SVA and DJK Gütersloh merged to form FC Gütersloh. The merger was a marriage of convenience, as both sides had come to the understanding that together they could achieve more for Gütersloh football. The new club established itself in the top group of the Oberliga Westfalen and was runner-up in 1982 . A year later, quarrels with the Football and Athletics Association Westphalia (FLVW) caused unrest in the club. With the support of the patron Heinz Steinkamp, ​​the association attracted ex-professionals with salaries contrary to the statutes. In the first instance , the team was transferred to the association league. This decision was first weakened into a point deduction and finally into a fine.

In terms of sport, the FCG became champions , but failed in the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga. In 1990 the team had to relegate surprisingly, but managed to get promoted again immediately. In the 1995 season , FCG made it to the regional league as champions and marched sensationally through to the 2nd Bundesliga a year later . In the 1997/98 season , FCG played for a long time for promotion to the Bundesliga and finally came in fifth. A year later , the Gütersloher relegated and had to file for bankruptcy during the 1999/2000 regional league season . A total of nine million marks in debt depressed the club. On February 14, 2000, the club was dissolved and the first men's team was signed off from ongoing play. The other men's, women's and youth teams, on the other hand, were able to finish their games properly.

Today's association (since 2000)

Oberliga and NRW League (2000 to 2009)

Three days after the dissolution of FC Gütersloh, a successor club was founded with FC Gütersloh 2000, which merged with the insolvent old club. The new Presidium found a loophole in the statutes of the Westphalian Football and Athletics Association. First of all, a classification in the Oberliga Westfalen failed because the old club still owed contributions to the administrative professional association . It was only after FC Gütersloh 2000 agreed to take over the outstanding contributions of 900,000 marks that the new club was admitted to the fourth-class Oberliga Westfalen for the 2000/01 season . This decision was heavily criticized by representatives of other clubs.

With a completely new team, FCG started playing in the major league, including two ex-professionals with Ralf Lewe and Dirk Konerding . 3,500 spectators saw the first league game of FC Gütersloh 2000, which the home side won 1-0 against Westfalia Herne . The team occupied mostly places in the upper half of the table. The seasons 2002/03 and 2005/06 stood out when the team finished third. The Gütersloher were 17 and 20 points behind the respective champions FC Schalke 04 Amateure and Borussia Dortmund II . In the meantime, the club suffered from financial problems. According to the chairman of the FLVW football committee, Siegfried Hirche, the club received approval for the 2003/04 season “only with great misgivings and grievances”.

In April 2007, the club made headlines nationwide when it went looking for players with the help of a newspaper advertisement . However, the candidates were not allowed to have an intermediary in order to save fees . In the meantime, the association was burdened with a six-figure additional tax claim. In tenth place in the table, FC Gütersloh 2000 qualified in the 2007/08 season for the newly created NRW League , which should replace the upper leagues of Westphalia and North Rhine from 2008. After a 2-0 opening win over Hammer Spvg, Gütersloh was the first table leader in the NRW League. However, the team quickly slipped down into the table basement, as the club ran into financial difficulties again and was only able to pay players' salaries late. At the end of the season, the Gütersloher, who were in debt with around 150,000 euros , were relegated to the sixth class Westfalenliga.

From the Westfalenliga back to the Oberliga (2009 to 2014)

FCG at the guest performance in Hamm, 2013

During the 2009/10 season, the board of SC Wiedenbrück 2000 negotiated with that of FC Gütersloh 2000 about a merger of the two clubs. The background was the possible requirements of the German Football Association for the stadium in the event of a regional league promotion for the Wiedenbrückers. The Gütersloh Heidewaldstadion was discussed as the venue. However, the merger talks were broken off by the Wiedenbrücker side. Both clubs wanted to go into the merger free of debt, which Gütersloh could not ensure, especially since a subsequent demand of 92,000 euros from the German pension insurance emerged. In 2012, FCG 2000 qualified third in the table for the re-introduced Oberliga Westfalen.

On October 27, 2013, the Gütersloher set the league record for the highest-scoring game in the 5-8 defeat against SpVgg Erkenschwick . There were 13 goals before in the 1985/86 season in the 7: 6 victory of DJK Hellweg Lütgendortmund in the game against Sportfreunde Siegen . In the summer of 2014, due to the precarious financial situation, rumors surfaced about the club's voluntary withdrawal into the state or district league, but these were then discarded. In July 2014, Andre Niermann was elected as a new first chairman. Niermann initially sought a cooperation between FC Gütersloh 2000, SC Wiedenbrück 2000 and SC Verl , for which Gütersloh District Administrator Sven-Georg Adenauer also made a strong contribution. The first teams should be spun off into an OWL team in order to ensure higher-class football in the region in the future.

Financial crisis years (2014 to 2017)

In September 2014, the mini-job center in Bielefeld filed for insolvency against the association through the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See due to unpaid social security contributions amounting to 23,540 euros. FC Gütersloh 2000 made no contributions for the first seven months of the year. The impending bankruptcy was averted in October 2014. Shortly afterwards, coach Wortmann resigned because he lacked motivation after all the rumors and discussions about the club. Heiko Bonan, a former player of the club, was presented as a coach as his successor . Bonan led the team out of the relegation zone before three points were deducted from the club as a punishment for the late payment of social security contributions. As thirteenth, the relegation was made. The club continued to experience financial difficulties. In autumn 2015, the Gütersloher openly thought about a voluntary withdrawal of the team from the major league for the winter break. The reason was a financing gap of 70,000 euros. At the annual general meeting in December 2015, the withdrawal was rejected.

At the end of the season, ex-coach Bonan and various former players went public about outstanding salaries and put the club under further pressure. In December 2016, President André Niermann announced that the association had to file for bankruptcy due to a funding gap of 50,000 - 60,000 euros and a successfully obtained attachment order for 15,000 euros by the former marketing officer of the association Philipp Frahmke. On January 2, 2017, the 1st chairman, André Niermann, filed an application to open insolvency proceedings at the Bielefeld district court due to the threat of insolvency. The judge responsible put Dr. Reiner Eckert as preliminary insolvency administrator . Heiner Kollmeyer (councilor of the city of Gütersloh), Hermann Korfmacher (chairman of the West German Football Association ), as well as a fan initiative were involved in saving the club . Thanks to donations, the bankruptcy could be delayed until the end of May until the end of the month on May 10th, 2017 that the club would cease operations and liquidate. On May 26, 2017 there was a surprising turnaround. The rescue initiative led by Messrs. Kollmeyer, Korfmacher and Hans-Hermann Kirschner presented new sponsors who are supposed to secure the game for the next three years. The bankruptcy petition was withdrawn.

Return to the old name (since 2017)

At the general meeting on June 13, 2017, a new board was elected and it was decided to delete the year 2000 from the club name. At this point the club was still in debt with 109,000 euros. The team finished the 2017/18 season in 16th place. During the annual general meeting of FC Gütersloh for 2018, Hermann Korfmacher, who supports the board in an advisory capacity, announced that the club was planning to merge with the " Futsal Freakz Gütersloh" (FF Gütersloh), which was completed on July 2, 2018. The association closed the financial year with an increase of around 63,000 euros.

In terms of sport, the Gütersloh team stayed in the league table cellar. At the end of February 2019, trainer Dennis Brinkmann and his brother and sporting director Tim Brinkmann resigned. Under the successor to the coaching position Julian Hesse, the club was saved from relegation after a furious comeback for the team. In October 2019, Hesse's contract was prematurely extended until 2022 after the club was in the top tier of the Oberliga Westfalen. For the 2020/21 season , the former second division professional of the Gütersloh and Dutch international Rob Reekers, who also acted as head coach in Heidewald in the 2003/04 season , became the new sporting director.

Logo history

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  SV Arminia Gütersloh

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  DJK Gütersloh

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  FC Gütersloh

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  FC Gütersloh 2000
  (until August 2010)

Achievements and Statistics

successes

• District cup winners 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019
• In the all-time table of the Oberliga Westfalen, FC Gütersloh 2000 took first place with 1,399 points from 928 games. The services of FC Gütersloh are also taken into account.

Personalities

Squad season 2020/21

goal	Defense	midfield	attack
13 Jarno Peters 01 Patrick Richter 21st Berkay Yilmaz	02 Markus Baum 04th Lars Beuckmann 06th Serdar Erdogmus 15th Marcel gap 16 Tim Manstein 24 Pascal Widdecke	07th Kubilay Arayan ? 18th Sinan Aygun 14th Nico Bartling 17th Samy Benmbarek 20th Iliad Illig 05 André Kording 03 Steffen Müller 10 Jannik Schröder	22nd Nick Flock 11 Fabio Kristkowitz 12 Dimitrios Nemtsis 23 Marcel Rump 08th Eric Yahkem 19th Marco Pollmann 09 Bjorn Schlottke

Entries and exits for the 2020/21 season

Accesses	Departures
Kubil Arayan ( SC Verl II ) Dimitrios Nemtsis ( SC Herford ) Björn Schlottke ( SV Rödinghausen ) Jannik Schröder ( SC Verl )	Berkant Güner (destination unknown) Saban Kaptan ( SC Wiedenbrück ) Lars Schröder (Türkgücü Gütersloh) David Schwesig (end of career) Matthäus Wieckowicz ( FSC Rheda )

Former players

• Manuel Boelstler
• Muhammed Bulut
• Jonas Brammen
• Soeren Brandy
• Manuel Eckel
• Marcus Fischer
• Berkant Güner
• Onel Hernández
• Christian Knappmann
• Janis Kraus
• Gianluca Marzullo
• Marinko Miletić
• Maximilian Oesterhelweg
• Mahir Savranlıoğlu
• Marcel Stutter
• Mike Terranova
• Sebastian Tiszai
• Dirk van der Ven

President

Term of office president 2000-2005 Frank Welsch 2005 Michael Examiner 2005-2008 Norbert Wöstmann 2008 Detlef Burghardt 2008 Martin Schlautmann

Term of office president 2008-2010 Udo Böning 2010-2014 Dr. Bernd Ruhnke 2014-2017 Andre Niermann since 2017 Heiner Kollmeyer & Hans-Hermann Kirschner

Holger Wortmann as FCG trainer 2013

Trainer

Term of office Trainer 2000-2001 Georg Kress 2001-2002 Oliver Ruhnert 2002-2003 Maik Walpurgis 2003-2004 Rob Reekers 2005 Fritz Groesche 2005-2006 Jörg Weber 2006-2007 Thomas Stratos 2007 Jörg Retzer & Wolfgang Grübel

Term of office Trainer 2007-2009 Alfons Beckstedde 2009-2011 Dirk Flock 2012-2014 Holger Wortmann 2014-2016 Heiko Bonan 2016-2018 Fatmir Vata 2018-2019 Dennis Brinkmann since 2019 Julian Hesse

More teams

Second and third team

The second team of FC Gütersloh 2000 had its most successful time in the years from 2000 to 2002 and from 2006 to 2010, when the Gütersloh Reserve competed in the district league. After two relegations in a row, the district league B was the sporting home since 2012, before it went down to the bottom division two years later. After the end of the 2013/14 season, the second team was canceled for cost reasons. For the 2015/16 season, FC Gütersloh reported a second team again in 2000, which started in the C district league. Most of the new team played in the 2014/15 season as the 2nd team of FC Isselhorst in the district league B and switched to FCG as a whole, including the coaching team. However, the team missed the envisaged promotion in District League B. In the 2016/17 season they were promoted to the district league B, and two years later to the district league A. The 3rd team rose to the district league B in the 2018/19 season.

Youth teams

In the junior division, all youth teams compete at district level.

Futsal

On July 2, 2018, the Futsal Friends Gütersloh joined FC Gütersloh. The previously independent club was founded in 2014 as Futsal Freakz Gütersloh . Since the 2019/20 season, the team has been playing under the name FC Gütersloh Futsal Cowboys . The men's team plays in the second-class Oberliga Westfalen. In 2017 the team reached the final of the West German Futsal Cup, which was lost 6-7 to the MCH Futsal Club Sennestadt . With Sandro Jurado Garcia , the Gütersloh futsaler produced a German national player.

The women's team, founded in 2018, won the West German Women's Cup in the year it was founded with a 2-1 final victory over Futsalicious Essen . In the 2018/19 season, the Gütersloherinnen competed in the Futsalliga West .

Women and girls soccer

→ Main article : FSV Gütersloh 2009

In 1984 a women's team was founded at FC Gütersloh. In 2001 the team was promoted to the then second-class Regionalliga West and two years later became champions of this class. In the promotion round to the Bundesliga , however, the team finished last. A year later, the team qualified for the newly introduced 2nd Bundesliga . The greatest success of the department was winning the German championship of the B-Juniors in 2002 with a 2-1 victory at FCR 2001 Duisburg . In 2007 the B-Juniors won the Gütersloh Hallenmasters , the unofficial German indoor championship.

In order to be able to market itself better, the department founded an independent association in the spring of 2009 with the FSV Gütersloh 2009. With the consent of the main club to split off, the FSV was able to take over the place in the 2nd Bundesliga North in 2009. Three years after the split, he was promoted to the Bundesliga , which was followed by direct relegation. With Kristina Gessat , the FSV provided a U-20 world champion in 2010 .

Stadion

Heidewaldstadion, taken from the grandstand

→ Main article : Heidewaldstadion

The home ground of FC Gütersloh is the Heidewaldstadion in the Sundern district . The stadium was opened in 1933 and was called the Adolf-Hitler- Kampfbahn until 1945 . From July 2017 to August 2019 the stadium was called Energieversum Stadion im Heidewald , while it has been called Ohlendorf Stadion im Heidewald since 2020 . In 1972 the stadium was converted into a football stadium with 15,000 seats for two million marks . The last renovation took place in 1997. Today it has a capacity of 12,500. The main grandstand offers 1,150 covered seats.

In August 2017, the association sold the naming rights to Energieversum, a Gütersloh-based company in the field of photovoltaics . The contract ran for two years from 2017 to 2019. The FCG predecessors SVA, DJK and FC Gütersloh already used the stadium, as did the women's football club FSV Gütersloh in 2009.

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ FC Gütersloh first club with a seal of quality. Neue Westfälische , accessed on September 1, 2013 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Hardy Green , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 193.
4. ↑ Good for the ego. Spiegel Online , accessed May 12, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Uwe Caspar: "FCG wrote football history!" Westfalen-Blatt , accessed on November 6, 2015 . 
6. ↑ The final whistle for a traditional club. (No longer available online.) FC Gütersloh, archived from the original on March 26, 2013 ; Retrieved July 23, 2013 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Uwe Kramme: FC Gütersloh - Chaotic consequence of financial crises. FuPa, accessed May 12, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Udo Muras: Player search by newspaper advertisement. Die Welt , accessed July 7, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Sven: The merger between Wiedenbrück and Gütersloh failed. Lotte Fan Club, accessed June 16, 2013 . 
10. ↑ Elmar Redemann: FCG and ESV set top league record! RevierSport , accessed October 28, 2013 . 
11. ^ Philipp Bülter: Discussions ended: Wortmann stays. RevierSport, accessed June 15, 2014 . 
12. ↑ Philipp Bülter: New board strives for "OWL-Team". RevierSport, accessed July 3, 2014 . 
13. ↑ Wolfgang Temme: bankruptcy application shocks FCG. Neue Westfälische , accessed on September 10, 2014 . 
14. ↑ FC Gütersloh averts the bankruptcy. The bell , September 30, 2014, accessed September 30, 2014 . 
15. ^ Henning Tillmann: FC Gütersloh signs Bonan. Westfälische Nachrichten , accessed on February 27, 2019 . 
16. ↑ FCG has to pay and loses three points. The bell, April 30, 2015, accessed May 1, 2015 . 
17. ↑ Marian Laske: This is how Gütersloh wants to fill the 70,000 euro hole. RevierSport, accessed July 3, 2014 . 
18. ↑ Gütersloh is broke, the chairman resigns. RevierSport, accessed December 28, 2016 . 
19. ↑ Rescue failed: FCG is dissolved. FuPa, accessed February 27, 2019 . 
20. ↑ FC Gütersloh saved from bankruptcy. The bell, accessed February 27, 2019 . 
21. ↑ Uwe Kramme: FC Gütersloh has a new board. FuPa, accessed June 16, 2017 . 
22. ↑ Officially: FF Gütersloh join FC Gütersloh! FuPa, accessed February 27, 2019 . 
23. ↑ Dennis Bleck: FC Gütersloh: Major division celebrates »resurrection«. FuPa, accessed June 16, 2018 . 
24. ↑ Brinkmanns have resigned. RevierSport, accessed February 27, 2019 . 
25. ↑ Julian Hesse is the new coach of FC Gütersloh. FC Gütersloh, accessed on May 22, 2020 . 
26. ↑ FC Gütersloh extends the contract with coach Julian Hesse. FC Gütersloh, accessed on May 22, 2020 . 
27. ↑ Rob Reekers becomes sporting director at FC Gütersloh. FC Gütersloh, accessed on May 22, 2020 . 
28. ↑ Uwe Kramme: New start at FC Gütersloh. Neue Westfälische, accessed December 20, 2015 . 
29. ↑ After 6: 7 - MCH Sennestadt celebrates cup success! FuPa, accessed July 2, 2018 . 
30. ↑ Dennis Rother: FF Gütersloh women win Futsal Cup! FuPa, accessed July 2, 2018 . 
31. ↑ Uwe Kramme: Heidewaldstadion is now called Energieversum Stadion. FuPa, accessed August 2, 2017 . 

Web links

Commons : FC Gütersloh 2000  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Association website
• Statistics page of the association
• Overview of the FCG fan pages on the Internet at fussball-owl.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 30 ″  N , 8 ° 23 ′ 18 ″  E