FC Hard

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Basic data
Surname Hard football club
Seat Hard , Austria
founding June 25, 1922
Colours Blue - white
president Gerald Kleiner
Website fchard.at
First soccer team
Head coach Philipp Eisele
Venue Hard forest stadium
Places 2,550
league Vorarlberg League
2017/18 14th place ( Regionalliga West )
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The FC Hard is an Austrian football club from the town of Hard in Vorarlberg .

history

Founding history and first years

The club was founded on June 25, 1922 as Spielvereinigung (SpVgg) Hard . In 1923 the first friendship round against weaker clubs, which the club was able to win, followed. In 1927 and 1929 they celebrated two victories against Thuringia and Langenargen . Also in 1929, under coach Hans Peterlunger, the club was promoted to the Vorarlberg B-class for the first time. In 1931, the skiing section was incorporated into the club and the new name of the entire club was set to Sportverein Hard . However, the football department retained its previous name. Shortly thereafter, an athletics department was introduced, which soon took part in the Vorarlberg championships. In the course of the expansion, the first female athlete joined the sports club, but there were no women interested in women's football at the time.

Promotion to the Vorarlberg League

In 1933 the former national player Josef Brandstetter ( Rapid Vienna ) came and took the Harder soccer team under his wing once a week. By taking first place in the A-class, the game association was promoted to the Vorarlberg league for the first time in 1933/34, which was then the top division for clubs from the westernmost state. With 14 points from five wins and one draw, the Harder finished fifth behind the tied football department of the Turnerbund Lustenau and ahead of Bludenz and Feldkirch in the 1934/35 season and thus managed to stay in the league without any problems. In the following game year, however, as the bottom of the table with only one point, relegation to the A-class had to be accepted.

In the first post-war season 1945/46 the return to the top Vorarlberg league succeeded in a playoff. In 1947, in the course of the re-establishment (the game had to be stopped before the end of the war), the name was changed to the Hard Football Club . In the 1948/49 season , FC Hard celebrated its best position in the top division to date with third place in the Vorarlberg league after an exciting three-way battle with Austria Lustenau and Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz . In the following game year, the Harder just missed qualifying for the newly introduced Arlbergliga with seventh place . Another year later, the club reached the semi-finals in the national cup for the first time, but failed 5-0 to Austria Lustenau.

The years in the regional league

In 1989, FC Hard won the championship title in the Vorarlbergliga and was promoted to the third-class Regionalliga West for the first time in the club's history . In the first year of 1989/90 , Vorarlberg achieved their greatest success to date with the runner-up title behind the superior FC Salzburg . In the following season, with the first entry into the finals of the state cup competition, another success was achieved, but the final itself was narrowly lost with 0: 1 against VfB Hohenems . In the game year 1991/92 the FC Hard failed with only one point behind FC Puch on promotion to the 2nd division . Vorarlberg also suffered the same fate in the 1994/95 season , only one point behind (with a much better goal difference) to WSG Wattens . In 1998, after a 2-1 win over SC Röthis , the club achieved its only ever win in the state cup.

In the 2001/02 season , FC Hard achieved the club's greatest success to date by winning the title in the Regionalliga West. Unlike in previous years, the champions of the three regional leagues had to fight for promotion or staying in this division in relegation games with the ninth-placed club from the 1st division. The Harder won their home game against Kapfenberger SV 2-0, but failed with a 1: 5 in Kapfenberg. In 2004, Hard failed again at VfB Hohenems in the final of the state cup 4-0.

For the 2004/05 game year , the FC Hard officials, believing that they had no chance, did not apply for a license for the Bundesliga. Contrary to expectations, the club found itself in first place in the table just before the end of the championship and caused a stir in the Austrian football scene. Due to the withdrawal of the license for two Bundesliga clubs and the impossibility of submitting a license for FC Hard, if Harder won the title, the championship in the first division would only have had to be played with nine clubs. With two defeats in the last two rounds, however, the club gambled away the title that was within reach. In the 2005/06 season , FC Hard came third in the table. In the 2006/2007 season, the younger team finished second behind the professional Red Bull Salzburg squad with 60 points and thus became runner-up after they had also secured the autumn championship. The autumn championship title was won in the 2008/2009 season. In the final table, however, the club was only fourth.

As the first team in the history of the Vorarlberg indoor champions , FC Hard under coach Peter Jakubec was able to win the traditional tournament for the third time.

In November 2017, the club announced that due to financial difficulties for the first combat team at the end of the 2017/18 season - after 29 years of uninterrupted membership in the regional league - to request a transfer back to the national association.

titles and achievements

Well-known players and coaches

In its history, FC Hard has repeatedly managed to sign well-known former players as coaches. Including, for example, Josef Brandstätter, Wilhelm Wolf and Radoslav Zlopasa. The Weissenberger brothers - Thomas, Markus and Philipp - also began their football careers at FC Hard. The best known of the three brothers was Markus Weissenberger , who played a few games in the Austrian national team and was able to gain a foothold in the German Bundesliga. Markus played for Arminia Bielefeld, Eintracht Frankfurt and 1860 Munich, among others. But Thomas Weissenberger also made it into the German Bundesliga. In the 1992/93 season he played for 1. FC Nürnberg.

The stadium

The Waldstadion Hard has 750 covered grandstand seats, around 1,000 standing places in the stands and around 800 additional standing places.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Voluntary withdrawal from the Regionalliga West of the Hotel am See FC Hard from the coming 2018/19 season fchard.at, on November 13, 2017, accessed on November 20, 2017