FC Kreuzlingen

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FC Kreuzlingen
Logo of FC Kreuzlingen
Basic data
Seat Kreuzlingen , Switzerland
founding July 1, 1905
Colours green white
president Daniel Geisselhardt
Website fck1905.ch
First soccer team
Head coach Kürsat Ortancioglu
Venue Sports field harbor area
Places 1200 (200 seats)
league 2nd league interregional (group 6)
2016/17 3rd rank
home

The FC Kreuzlingen is a football club in Switzerland from the city of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau . The first team currently plays in the 2nd Interregional league , the fifth highest league in Switzerland.

League affiliation

  • 1916–1922: Serie C (third highest Swiss division)
  • 1922–1931: Serie B (third highest Swiss division)
  • 1931/1932: 2nd league (third highest Swiss division)
  • 1933–1937: 1st league (second highest Swiss division)
  • 1937/1938: 2nd league (third highest Swiss division)
  • 1938/1939: 1st league (second highest Swiss division)
  • 1939–1944: 2nd league (third highest Swiss division)
  • 1944–1946: 2nd league (fourth highest Swiss division)
  • 1946–1950: 1st league (third highest Swiss division)
  • 1950–1954: 2nd league (fourth highest Swiss division)
  • 1954/1955: 3rd league (fifth highest Swiss division)
  • 1955–1981: 2nd division (fourth highest Swiss division)
  • 1981–1985: 1st league (third highest Swiss division)
  • 1985–1989: 2nd league (fourth highest Swiss division)
  • 1989–1992: 1st league (third highest Swiss division)
  • 1992–1997: 2nd league (fourth highest Swiss division)
  • 1997–2009: 1st league (third highest Swiss division)
  • 2009–2012: 2nd Interregional League (fourth highest Swiss league)
  • 2012–2013: 1st league Classic (fourth highest Swiss league through league reform)
  • since 2013: 2nd interregional league (fifth highest Swiss division)

Since its first league participation in 1916, FC Kreuzlingen played a total of 6 years in the second highest Swiss league, 47 years in the third highest Swiss league, 44 years in the fourth highest and 1 year in the fifth highest Swiss league.

Stadion

FC Kreuzlingen plays its home games on the Hafenareal sports field on Lake Constance . The port area has had a small grandstand since May 2011, which offers standing room as well as 126 uncovered seats. A new clubhouse has been in the harbor area since 2007, and since 2010 there has been an artificial turf field next to the main square. The Kreuzlingen harbor area is right next to the Bodensee-Arena ( ice rink ).

The previous venues

In the course of time several places were used:

  • Summer 1905: old cattle marketplace
  • 1905–1907: Sonnenstrasse
  • 1907–1917: Bahnhofstrasse at the old post office
  • 1917–1925: Seegarten
  • 1925–1931: Egelsee
  • 1931–1959: Stadium on Konstanzerstrasse ("Grenzland-Stadion")
  • 1959–1962: Grüntal (training) / guest right at FC Tägerwilen (championship)
  • 1962–1997: port area
  • 1997-2006: Burgerfeld
  • since 2006: port area

The stadium used by FC Kreuzlingen on Konstanzerstrasse ("Grenzland-Stadion") was awarded the fan award in 2017 by the German Academy for Football Culture (subject: Football Memory of the Year ).

successes

In 1934, FC Kreuzlingen became Swiss champions of the first division with a 3-0 win against Étoile Carouge FC and thus qualified for the highest Swiss league ( National League A ), but refused promotion for financial reasons. The greatest sporting success of the "modern times" was achieved by FC Kreuzlingen in the 1st league season 2003/04 with the qualification for the promotion games in the Challenge League (second highest Swiss league) against FC Baulmes . In the first leg, FC Kreuzlingen lost 2-1 in the port area, the second leg in Baulmes lost the Kreuzlingen 3-2 after extra time.

Further successes: Eastern Swiss champions of the 2nd division (1933, 1946, 1952, 1981), Thurgau champions Serie A (1927, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1943, 1945, 1946), promotion to 1st division (1933, 1938, 1946, 1981, 1989, 1997, 2012).

In the Swiss Cup, FC Kreuzlingen was able to qualify for the 1/16 finals ten times (1933, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1949, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1987, 2001). The greatest success in the 1935/36 season was qualifying for the round of 16 against FC Lugano (1: 4).

National player

The Kreuzlinger Marcel Sandoz came on October 29, 1933 in Bern in the World Cup qualifier Switzerland - Romania as the current FCK player over 90 minutes, it was his only international match. The long-time FCK player Walter Beerli from Kreuzlingen played in the friendly against Yugoslavia on June 11, 1950 (0: 4) and drove with the Swiss national team to the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, in which he was not used.

Fans

Since 1999 FC Kreuzlingen has been supported by a small fan scene ("Whiskey Curve" / "Porteños").

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FC Kreuzlingen and its football pitches (PDF; 264.42 kB)
  2. ^ The gala of the German Academy for Football Culture , supplement to the kicker sports magazine # 86/2017, Olympia-Verlag Nürnberg , October 23, 2017

Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '14 "  N , 9 ° 10' 51"  E ; CH1903:  730 881  /  279591