FC Kilia Kiel

FC Kilia Kiel
Basic data
Surname	Football club Kilia Kiel from 1902 eV
Seat	Kiel , Schleswig-Holstein
founding	July 23, 1902
Colours	Red White
1. Chairman	Volker Roese
Website	fckilia.de
First soccer team
Head coach	Astrite Meshekrani
Venue	Kilia Stadium
Places	5,500
league	Association League Schleswig-Holstein East
2018/19	12th place
home Away

The football club Kilia Kiel von 1902 eV is a football club from Kiel , whose first men's team will be part of the sixth-class regional league in the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association in the 2020/21 season . Kilia was one of the strongest teams in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein for several decades and was particularly successful in the 1920s. At this time, the Kiel won several relay championships and reached the respective finals when they participated in the North German Football Championship in both 1925 and 1927. With the introduction of the Gauligen, the club initially fell back into the second division, but was able to return to the highest division level between 1941 and 1947 and achieved its best placement immediately after the end of the war with first place in the district championship East B 1945/46 .

In the further post-war period, the Kilia-Elf belonged to the footballing top of Schleswig-Holstein at times and still occupies fourth place in the all-time table of the highest division of the state . After the FC participated in the promotion round to the second-class regional league in 1964 , three decades later it was represented several times in the upper third of the table of the now fourth-class association league and only just missed participation in the promotion round to the Oberliga Nord. With the promotion to the Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein Oberliga in 2001/02 , the Kielers were finally active in a national division for a year before they voluntarily withdrew from the league and have since started in various divisions at the association level. Further successes were the victories in the SHFV Cup in 1990 and 1993, which entitle them to participate in the DFB Cup twice . In addition, the first women's team of the FCK since 2019 belongs to the fourth-class Oberliga Schleswig-Holstein for the first time.

League team

1902–1918: founding years and association disputes

The club was founded in 1902 as a result of internal differences in the 1st Kiel football club from 1900, a predecessor of KSV Holstein . On July 23, 14 young athletes founded the football club Kilia Kiel in protest “against the power exercised by older members and in their eyes misused”. Already at the time of the first Kiel city championship in 1903/04, the new club set up a total of three men's teams, which were represented in the highest, second-highest and third-highest division of the Kieler Ballspielvereine . The first team met on May 29, 1904 in the final of the city championship on FC Holstein 1902 Kiel, the second predecessor club of Holstein Kiel. The encounter on Gutenbergplatz - the home ground of both clubs - was canceled when the score was 0-0 because a Kilia player refused to be expelled from him and remained on the field. The encounter was later rated in favor of Holstein. Kilia's founding years were not least characterized by further disputes at the association level, which led to the establishment of the Kiel Football Association in 1904 . Kilia also belonged to this for a few months before returning to the VKB in January 1905. Despite the initial differences, the KFV functionary Georg P. Blaschke also approached the board of FC Kilia in 1912 as part of his efforts to bundle the footballing forces within the city of Kiel in a large club, which, however, was not interested in a merger.

Although in the first few years of its existence the club always had one of the largest number of members and the best sporting football department in Kiel, success in the form of title wins or participation in further championships should initially be absent. The Holstein rivals proved to be too dominant, even if FVgg Kilia remained first class and from 1907 was also represented in joint play with the clubs from Lübeck. In 1913/14 the North German Football Association established an association-wide league for the first time , in which city rivals Holstein also took part. This finally made it possible for the Kilians to have their first relay championship in the now second-class 1st class , which also gave them the opportunity to qualify for the association-wide North German League via the promotion round. In the duels against the HSV predecessor Hamburger FC 88, the Lübecker TS , Rostock 95 and Britannia Harburg , however, they were not successful - given the beginning of the First World War , however, it was no longer the second edition of the top NFV division. A regular game operation could not be maintained during the subsequent world war years, although games continued to be played at city level under restricted conditions.

1919–1945: Participation in the North German Championship and Gauliga seasons

The most successful period in the club's history was to begin for Kilia after the end of the war, with the inauguration of the new main grandstand in 1919, a major step forward in terms of infrastructure. From 1920 onwards, if one disregards the clubs from the then still independent city of Altona, which had always been oriented towards Hamburg, they established themselves as the second force in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein. For eight years you only had to give way to the city rival of KSV Holstein and after a change of mode in 1924 you could also prove your sporting competitiveness nationwide. In 1924/25, the team around top performer Tius Timmke qualified for the North German Championship for the first time and immediately reached the finals after a 1-0 win at Bremer SV . Here the FVgg took last place, but with a 1: 1 in front of 6,000 spectators at the reigning German runner-up from Hamburger SV , they were able to record a respectable success. A year later, the Kiel team met HSV in the preliminary round and missed the final round with a 1: 5, before the greatest success was achieved in the third and final participation in the North German Championship: After a 4: 2 Victory over Altona 93 , the "red shirts" made it into the final round for the second time and left another team behind them with Hannover 96 . Although they did not win any of the other three final round games - behind Holstein Kiel, Hamburger SV and Lübeck BV-Phönix , the Kielers had become the fourth best team in northern Germany this year. At the same time, a Kilia player, Eduard Zaworski, received an invitation from Reich trainer Otto Nerz to a preparatory course for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam , but ultimately failed to make it into the DFB squad.

Despite joining the Kiel FV in 1923 the following year, Kilia was unable to maintain this level: as early as 1928, the club only landed fourth in Schleswig-Holstein behind Union-Teutonia Kiel and the sports association Hohenzollern-Hertha Kiel before he did had to say goodbye permanently to the top of the league. At the latest with the introduction of the Gauliga Nordmark , for which the Kielers did not qualify, the sporting importance of the blue-white-reds decreased considerably. After a failed promotion round participation in 1938, they did not return to first class until 1941 under coach Karl Kabel and held their respective Gauliga seasons until the end of the war.

In the first season Kilia finished eighth of ten teams and would not have been relegated, but the league was divided into three in 1942 anyway, so that Kilia could remain in the top division, now in the Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein . In the 1943/44 season, second place was achieved in this league, where Kilia was only one point behind KSV Holstein and this was the first time in several decades that KSV lost a derby defeat with a 5-3 home game (the away game at KSV, however, ended with a 1: 7 defeat for Kilia). According to different information, since the 1943/44 season or the 1944/45 season Kilia entered a war syndicate together with Union-Teutonia Kiel , which was referred to as both "KSG Kilia Kiel / Union Teutonia Kiel" and "KSG Kiel". This KSG was entered into by Union-Teutonia due to a lack of sports grounds.

1945–1963: Kilia as a founding member of the regional league

After the end of the Second World War, Kilia played in 1945/46 first in the points round for the district championship East B, the top division at the time. As a champion in this class, Kilia was actually qualified for participation in the North German Championship, but was not involved in the action taken by the British military government in the dispute over the nomination between Eckernförder SV (champion), Holstein Kiel (runner-up) and the Kiel Association affected for physical exercises in the East A district and received no start permit; SpVgg Blankenese had already been drawn as opponents . Nonetheless, this season is a specialty in Kiel's football history: For the first and only time to date, FC Kilia, a club other than KSV Holstein, achieved the best placement of all Kiel teams.

Soccer match between Flensburg 08 and FC Kilia Kiel in 1963 in the 1st amateur league, 2: 2

In the following season, the focus was on both qualifying for the Schleswig-Holstein state league and determining the participants in Schleswig-Holstein's new Oberliga Nord, which was to form the top division of the future states of Lower Saxony , Bremen , Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein . With a 3-0 win over Rot-Weiß Niebüll and a 2-1 win against Gut-Heil Neumünster , the blue-white-reds were qualified for the final group , in which the “everyone against everyone” mode two league places were played. At the end of the round Kilia finished fourth behind VfB Lübeck , Holstein Kiel and Itzehoer SV and was also defeated in the two city derbies. A briefly planned increase in the league to fourteen teams, which Kilia would have given another chance to reach the new first division, was discarded. Thus, Kilia had to make do with a place in the eastern relay of the regional league, for which they had already qualified early due to the good performance in the preliminary rounds.

A look at the Kiel city selection from 1947 shows that the Kilia-Elf, put together by chairman Gustav Scharlemann, was one of the strongest teams in Schleswig-Holstein in those years: The squad for a clash with the corresponding selection from the Hanseatic city of Lübeck consisted exclusively of Players from Holstein Kiel and FCK, with KSV providing ten and Kilia with Baars, Franke, Schacht, Cohr, Loose and the later nominated Spitzner six players. In the league game operation there was another qualifying season for the Kilians in 1947/48, as the three-track national league was to be merged into one season. The club was not only considered a sure candidate for reaching the top four necessary for this, but was also traded as one of the two top favorites for the relay championship, alongside the Lübeck BV-Phoenix. Despite initial weaknesses, the Kielers prevailed in this predicted head-to-head race with the Lübeckers and thus received another chance of promotion to the Oberliga Nord. In the decisive last game against Itzehoer SV, however, the footballers from Hasseldieksdammer Weg did not get beyond a 1-1 draw in their own stadium and thus missed the promotion round to the first division.

There was no other way to reach the league in the following years: Although they were initially still in the top half of the table, they had left the championship race early despite further placements in the top half of the table. Although FC Kilia Kiel remained an integral part of the top amateur league, it increasingly developed into a midfield team without higher ambitions, which occasionally had to tremble about staying in the league: in 1956/57 they were actually relegated, due to the rise of VfB Lübeck and the LBV-Phönix got an additional place in the amateur league, which was played out among the three regular relegators and the failed participants in the previous promotion round. Kilia prevailed here in his preliminary group and still held the class with a 5-2 win against VfL Oldesloe in front of 1,800 spectators in Malente . Since the blue-white-reds were largely placed in the middle of the league in the coming years, they became one of two members of the regional league together with Flensburg 08 , who have belonged to the league since it was founded.

1963–1984: From the Regionalliga promotion round to the lower class

With the introduction of the Bundesliga , the amateur league Schleswig-Holstein became third class. Since the strongest clubs from Schleswig-Holstein could not qualify for the Bundesliga and continued to compete in the highest NFV division - which was now located as Regionalliga Nord on the second-highest league level - little changed for the amateur league at first. After several years in midfield, the Kilians set themselves the goal of advancing to the new second division in the first season after the league reform and invested a relatively large amount for this. Under coach Jöhnk, a team was put together on Hasseldieksdammer Weg that quickly advanced to the top of the amateur league. After a good start, the Kiel team reached the autumn championship early on, but after losing several points they fought a close championship race with VfL Oldesloe. In April 1964 there was a direct encounter in front of 2,300 spectators in Kiel, in which the hosts took a 1-0 lead shortly after the restart with an Oldesloer own goal. Although FC Kilia usually had a particularly strong stamina this season, the guests turned the game around in the last twenty minutes and sat at the top of the league.

Even as runner-up, however, the Fördestädter achieved the desired round of promotion to the regional league. Although the Kielers were able to win a total of three out of six games and were on an equal footing with all three competitors, in the end it was only enough for third place, which meant that they would remain in the national league. After the successful team broke up quickly, the Kilians were already involved in the relegation battle as the reigning runner-up and after a close relegation in 1965 had to leave the top division for the first time after the 1965/66 season. At this time there was a threat of a complete sporting crash: in 1968, initially qualified for the newly introduced regional league, the state capitalists were relegated to fifth class in 1973 and only barely held their ground there in the first season after relegation. Even if from then on they belonged again to the stronger teams of the District League East, FC Kilia remained in lower-class football throughout the 1970s and was accordingly no longer one of the strongest clubs in the city.

Against VfL Pinneberg they lost 2: 3 in 1964

It wasn't until the 1980/81 season that the turnaround began under coach Hans-Werner Canal. The FC Kilia not only prevailed in the meanwhile sixth class District League East by a large margin, but also immediately belonged to the top group in the regional league. With several talents from their own youth as well as newcomers from the local rivelen VfB Kiel, the club made the return to the top national league perfect after eighteen years of absence.

1984–2001: Return to the Association League and promotion to the Oberliga

In the association league, too, the soaring of the footballers from Hasseldieksdammer Weg seemed to continue. In the first half of their first season after promotion, they established themselves in the top tier of the league and attracted the greatest spectator interest of all clubs in Schleswig-Holstein. After the team had been involved in the championship fight with Itzehoer SV and Eutin 08 for a long time , they weakened at the end of the season and finally came in third. Like twenty years before, Kilia did not manage to keep the successful team together: In 1985, Tobias Homp had to leave the Hamburger SV and Thomas Warncke to KSV Holstein, and a year later the promotion coach Canal left the club. Due to the departures, the Kielers did not succeed in repeating the good placement from the first association league season. Unlike in the 1960s, however, they re-established themselves permanently in the top division of the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association.

In 1990, when FCK won the SHFV Cup, it won its first title since the state of Schleswig-Holstein was founded and was therefore able to take part in the 1990/91 DFB Cup , where they lost 4-1 to FC St. Pauli . In the league, too, the "red shirts" should again have realistic chances of promotion to third division in 1991/92: Under coach Hans-Gerd Schildt they remained undefeated for a long time and went into the top game in the league on matchday 10 with 18: 0 points -Favorites VfB Lübeck. In front of 3,100 spectators at Lübeck's Lohmühle, the Kielers took a 1-0 lead but ultimately suffered their first defeat of the season (1: 3). Following the top game, it set more defeats, as a result of which not only the championship, but also participation in the promotion round to the league behind VfB Lübeck and VfB Kiel missed. At the same time, the enthusiasm of the Kiel soccer audience had declined noticeably, so that the number of viewers had gradually adapted to the association league average since 1985.

Two years later, by winning the SHFV Cup again, the club qualified for the DFB Cup a second time and lost 8-0 to SC Freiburg . In everyday life in the league, Kilia slipped into the mediocrity of the association league despite the brief return of successful coach Hans-Werner Canal and missed qualification for the newly founded Oberliga Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein in 1994. In the years to come, they remained in the midfield of the now fifth-class league, before the team managed to advance back into the top group of the now fifth-class league under former Holstein player Frank Drews at the beginning of the 2000s. In 2001 the team came third in the association league and was allowed to take part in the promotion games against Hamburg runner-up Altona 93, which they won in the second leg after a penalty shoot-out. Since at the same time Holstein Kiel moved up into the regional league, Kilia was qualified for the league through this success.

Since 2001: Kilia as an elevator team between the upper league and the district level

For the first time since 1919, the state capital were again active in a national league and also traveled to games outside the Schleswig-Holstein state borders. Although they achieved quite a few successes and were able to secure the sporting league quite confidently, the season was characterized by low audience interest and financial problems. The latter caused the club's board of directors to withdraw the men's team at the end of the 2001/02 season. From 2002 the Kielers were again regularly in the midfield of the fifth-rate association league, with the Schleswig-Holstein football association league in 2005/06 achieving the best results since relegation to the league with third place. In 2008/09 the association league was renamed the Schleswig-Holstein League after the Oberliga Nord was dissolved .

The first season after the renaming ended Kilia Kiel on a relegation place and from then on developed into the elevator team : In 2009/10 the club first played in the sixth class Association League North-East , but also took penultimate place in the second season and was with the Relegation to the district league reached a preliminary sporting low point. In 2013/14 Kilia started in the opposite direction, in that FC first won the championship of the Kiel District League and won the title in the Nord-Ost Association League early the following year. In the Schleswig-Holstein League you spent two years and was then passed through again within just two years in the seventh division, which was now called Association League East after a league reform . There they kept the league affiliation only extremely barely and thus prevented the first relegation to the eighth league. In the following season, the 2019/20 season, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the Kielers were on the way up again and took first place in the final ranking according to the quotient rule.

In 2020 Kilia will start in the sixth class state league, which will be held in three seasons for the first time due to the pandemic. In addition to the usual Schleswig and Holstein seasons, there is also a central regional league , which includes FC Kilia.

League affiliation

FC Kilia Kiel is one of the clubs with the longest membership in the top division of the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association and, with more than 1,800 points collected (conversion according to the three-point rule), occupies fourth place in the league table behind the Heider SV , Flensburg 08 and the VfR Neumünster . The league was not only subject to numerous name changes, but was also at different times at the second (until 1963), third (until 1974), fourth (until 1994) or fifth (since 1994) league level.

Overview of the league level on which FC Kilia has been operating since it was founded

successes

• 1927: Fourth place in the North German championship
• 1948, 1964: Vice national champion of the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association
• 1990, 1993: Victory in the Schleswig-Holstein State Cup

Known players

• Willy Hamann , made famous by the so-called "Hamann Affair". Originally from Eckernförde, shortly after the war active with Kilia, then with SpVgg Weiden and then in 1947/48, after the Eckernförder SV Hamann's application had previously rejected, five-time league player with Holstein Kiel. The points that Holstein got in the games with Hamann were subsequently withdrawn after eight months of back and forth, as Hamann had never signed off from Kilia after the final statement of the "North German Football Committee", briefly after Weiden as a so-called "zone jumper" at night and in fog went and after returning to the north was still eligible to play for Kilia. Holstein kept this secret when applying for a passport and thus obtained the eligibility to play. After deducting the points, Holstein (and not Hannover 96, whose functionaries were the driving force behind the conviction of Holstein) was relegated in 1947/48, after just eight games in the 1948/49 season, Holstein was therefore excluded from the current league round, but was by one Increase from 13 to 16 teams in the following season again classified in the upper league.
• Tobias Homp , later Bundesliga player
• Hubert Rupprecht , later major league player at Holstein Kiel and VfL Osnabrück (1947–1963)
• Sidney Sam , German national player, played for Kilia's youth until 2003.
• Harry Schmidt , left wing and still active as a spectator today
• Hans Söhnker , actor, played for Kilia until he left Kiel (1924) and occasionally later.

More teams

Women

The first women's team of FC Kilia Kiel has been in the fourth-class Oberliga Schleswig-Holstein since 2019/20. The Kilia women have continuously worked their way up in the five previous seasons: After the undisputed district class championship 2014/15, they took the opportunity in 2017 to move up to the national league as part of a league reform. After a close relegation, the runner-up in the Schleswig regional league and the associated promotion to the upper league, in which they finished ninth according to the quotient evaluation, were already successful in 2019.

Men's

In the men's area, FC Kilia has usually had several teams registered for play since it was founded. After starting with three men's teams at the time of the first Kiel championship, the club was also one of three reserve teams in 1909 - when there were already six divisions and numerous new clubs in Kiel (in addition to Holstein and the 1. KFV), which were represented at the second highest league level. After the Second World War, the respective second team of the blue-white-reds remained without major success and never got beyond the district level.

youth

The youth teams of FC Kilia have mainly belonged to the district or district game classes since the 2000s. Historically, however, the club's youth work played an important role both within the state capital and in phases at the state level and resulted in several later professional footballers. In the post-war period, the greatest success was achieved in 1959, when the Kilians A-Juniors became the best team in Schleswig-Holstein with a 2-0 win against VfB Lübeck and were allowed to represent the state association at the North German finals. With a 3-1 victory over the Bremen representative TSV Wulsdorf , they also reached the final there, which only a few teams from the SHFV achieved over the decades. In the final against Eintracht Braunschweig , the Kielers were clearly underdogs and had to admit defeat 1: 4 after a 0-0 break. The team included the later long-time FCK coach Hans Werner Canal and Fritz Süverkrüp .

Club environment

Stadion

Until 1913, the club played its home games on Gutenbergplatz. For several years until the opening of the municipal sports and playground on Eckernförde Chaussee ( today Nordmarksportfeld ), Gutenbergplatz was also the home ground of local competitors Holstein Kiel and, for a short time, also for its later merger partner 1. KFV. In 1913 Kilia finally moved to Hasseldieksdammer Weg in what is now the Südfriedhof district , where the FC is still based. The sports field was inaugurated with a game against B 1903 Copenhagen , which the Danes won 3-1. In 1919 the club built a grandstand on Kilia-Platz for 25,000 gold marks , which was a peculiarity for the time. The seat grandstand was inaugurated on June 9, 1919 with a game between the blue-white-reds against Duisburg SpV , which the hosts won 3-0. The Kilia grandstand is one of the oldest still existing football field grandstands in Germany.

In the recent past, the above-mentioned historical grandstand was saved from further deterioration with own funds and donations, among other things the roof could be re-covered. In May 2013, two more (mobile) seating grandstands were built next to the historic one, as well as a seating grandstand on the back straight, as the first division football team of the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes play their Bundesliga games in the Kilia Stadium. However, the two mobile stands next to the historic one were removed for the time being at the end of the Hurricanes season.

pendant

Although Kilia was almost always in the shadow of the Holstein city rivals, the club was sometimes very popular with the spectators. In the early 1950s, it was not uncommon for several thousand spectators to attend the games of the regional league. Although the number of spectators in all amateur league clubs showed a sharp decline for the first time, especially in the 1960s, four-digit attendance numbers were still not uncommon at the time of the fourth-class association league: against Eutin 08 in October 1984 around 4,000 spectators followed the game at Hasseldieksdammer Weg, in 1984, 1986 and 1992, among other things, the home games against VfB Lübeck had more than 1,000 spectators.

At that time, the Kilia men were not only able to outperform their city rivals from VfB Kiel and occasionally the higher class KSV Holstein in terms of spectator interest, but were also way ahead in the national comparison. By the beginning of the 1990s at the latest, however, there was a steady decline in the number of spectators, so that even in the only season in national football - the 2001/02 league season - only around 200 paying guests watched the home games in Kiel.

Rivalries

In view of the founding history, there was a bitter rivalry with the predecessors of KSV Holstein in the first decade of the twentieth century, against which there were sometimes extremely heated derby matches. However, it quickly became apparent that Kilia would not keep up with the later "storks" in terms of sport in the long run. In the direct encounters, the footballers from Hasseldieksdammer Weg won points only very rarely, and with regard to the final placement - apart from the immediate post-war season 1945/46 - they were always placed behind Holstein. After there were only a few league matches between Kilia and Holstein as a result of the introduction of the Gauligen, the last games of the two clubs took place at the same league level in the finals of the Schleswig-Holstein state championship in 1946/47 . Only in the mid-1980s did it seem conceivable for a short time that Kilia could catch up with KSV. Despite the different league affiliations, there was still a certain rivalry between Kilia and Holstein in the post-war decades, but its importance became increasingly less. Meanwhile, the second team of the KSV also separate several divisions from the FCK, with the Soccer-Schleswig-Holstein-Liga 2016/17 being the last meeting so far.

Furthermore, the city duels against other Kiel clubs ensured particularly high numbers of spectators and sometimes extremely competitive duels, in which the main focus was on the role of city-internal number two. Since this position in the state capital was controversial among several different clubs over the decades, there was no longer any rivalry that was to stand out among these city derbies. Behind Holstein Kiel and - since 2009 - the second representative of KSV, Kilia is the second most successful Kiel football club with fourteen seasons in the top two, ahead of SV Friedrichsort (thirteen seasons) and VfB Kiel (ten seasons). Since the sporting descent of FC Kilia, other clashes within the state capital have been referred to as city derby, but in terms of sporting importance and audience interest, they are no longer of comparable relevance as in previous decades.

Overview of the second most successful team in the city of Kiel since 1945

literature

• Football Club Kilia from 1902 (publisher): 75 years of FC Kilia Kiel. Festschrift of FC Kilia Kiel from 1902 , Kiel 1977
• Football Club Kilia from 1902 (publisher): 85 years of FC Kilia from 1902 , Kiel 1987
• Hardy Green, Christian Karn: FC Kilia Kiel in: The big book of German football clubs . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , page 265
• Hardy Greens: Greatest pride: tradition and youth . in: Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 , pages 48-49.

Web links

• Official website of the association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Jessen: Eternal table of the Schleswig-Holstein League (1948 to 2019) . In: VfB Lübeck: A century of football history in the Hanseatic city . Die Werkstatt GmbH, July 31, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , p. 266.
2. ↑ 85 years of FC Kilia from 1902. Ed. By FC Kilia Kiel, page 9. Quoted from: The field of football. A social and cultural historical study of the beginnings of football in Schleswig-Holstein 1890-1914 (doctoral thesis by Dr. Tim Cassel )
3. ↑ Kieler Latest News, June 1, 1904. Quoted from: The field of football. A social and cultural historical study of the beginnings of football in Schleswig-Holstein 1890-1914 (doctoral thesis by Dr. Tim Cassel )
4. ↑ The field of football. A social and cultural historical study of the beginnings of football in Schleswig-Holstein 1890-1914 , page 219
5. ^ ^{A b} Reinhard Gusner: Roller coaster ride through 113 years. In: kn-online.de. June 17, 2015, accessed August 5, 2020 . 
6. ^ Christian Jessen: 1897 to 1919: When football also reached Lübeck . In: VfB Lübeck: A century of football history in the Hanseatic city . Die Werkstatt GmbH, July 31, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , p. 6.
7. ↑ In addition to the political affiliation of the city of Altona to Schleswig-Holstein, it should also be taken into account that the independent Hanseatic city of Lübeck and the Principality of Lübeck ( Eutin ) also did not belong to the Prussian province.
8. ↑ UT's own venue, Professor-Peters-Platz resembled “a lunar crater landscape due to several bomb attacks” ( archive link ( memento of the original from February 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check Original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ) 
9. ↑ Stefan Wendt: Small steps, big leaps: the rebuilding of sport in Schleswig-Holstein after the Second World War 1945-1955 . Wachholtz, 1999, ISBN 978-3-529-02489-4 , p. 47.
10. ↑ Kiel football triumph as a conclusion In: Schleswig-Holsteinische Sport-Nachrichten of September 27, 1947, quoted from: Peter Stäcker - Sportgeschichte VfL Oldesloe
11. ↑ 3rd promotion game Kilia Kiel - VfL Oldesloe 5: 2 (2: 1) in: Stormarner Tageblatt of August 11, 1957, quoted from: Peter Stäcker - Sportgeschichte VfL Oldesloe
12. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Hardy Greens: Greatest pride: tradition and youth . In: Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 , pages 48-49.
13. ↑ Kilia Kiel - VfL Oldesloe 1: 3 (0: 0) in: Sport-Megaphon from April 5, 1964, quoted from: Peter Stäcker - Sportgeschichte VfL Oldesloe
14. ↑ Christian Jessen: No swing with Jätschmann - ascent lap far away . In: VfB Lübeck: A century of football history in the Hanseatic city . Die Werkstatt GmbH, July 31, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , pp. 148–149.
15. ↑ quotient regulation
16. ↑ Editorial team Sportbuzzer: Preliminary classification of the national soccer leagues. In: sportbuzzer.de. July 29, 2020, accessed August 2, 2020 . 
17. ↑ on the so-called "Hamann Affair" see also the article "Who has the passport" in Spiegel from November 27, 1948 online
18. ↑ placement according to quotient evaluation; ten points were scored during the season.
19. ↑ table on fussball.de
20. ↑ Andrè Haase: FC Kilia Kiel Women: Unexpected chance of promotion used. In: sportbuzzer.de. November 12, 2017, accessed August 3, 2020 . 
21. ↑ ^{a b} Hardy Greens: FC Kilia celebrates its 110th anniversary. In: shz.de. July 23, 2012, accessed August 2, 2020 . 
22. ↑ With the Lübeck BV-Phönix, for example, only one SHFV championship made it into the final (1964) in the ten following seasons. In addition, with their victory in the same year, the Lübeckers are still the only team from the regional association to have the best A-youth on the North German level.
23. ↑ Hans Vogel: The way to the North German championship of our "special youth". In: Vereinnachrichten BTSV Eintracht Braunschweig von 1895 eV , Volume 48, Number 8 (August 1959), Page 2
24. ↑ List of the final at peter-staecker.de
25. ↑ ^{a b} Reinhard Gusner: FC Kilia Kiel celebrates the 100th birthday of the grandstand. In: sportbuzzer.de. June 6, 2019, accessed August 2, 2020 . 
26. ↑ Compare, among other things, the list of audience numbers in 1967/68
27. ↑ Reinhard Gusner: FC Kilia Kiel suffers historical derby debacle against red-black. In: sportbuzzer.de. September 10, 2018, accessed August 1, 2020 . 

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