FC Rätia Bludenz

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FC Rätia Bludenz
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Basic data
Surname FC Fohrenburger Rätia Bludenz
Seat Bludenz , Austria
founding 4th August 1919
Colours Black-and-white
president Stefan Fussenegger (Chairman)
Website raetiabludenz.at
First soccer team
Head coach Bernd Langebner
Venue Sparkassenarena
Places 4,500
league 2nd national class
2018/19 14th place

The FC Rätia Bludenz is an Austrian football club from the Vorarlberg city ​​of Bludenz . Today he plays in the seventh class, 2nd national class. Rätia achieved its greatest success with its promotion to the first-class national league in 1973 , in which the club entered into a syndicate with Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz and appeared as FC Vorarlberg .

Club history

The Bludenzer Verein was founded on August 4, 1919 by Hermann Kepplinger, Rudolf Mayer, Robert Wurm, Oskar Mayer, Lorenz Meyer, Xaver Mäser, Hubert Wolfinger, Otto Depunt, Ferdinand Walser, Otto Säly sen., Max Troppmayr, Josef Fritz, Hans Branner , Alfred Posch and Oskar Hollenstein founded in 1919 under the name FC Bludenz .

Men's soccer

The club was one of the six founding members of the Vorarlberg Football Association in 1920, but it did not join the Vorarlberg League until 1934 , where it only played a subordinate role for a long time. In 1946 the name FC Rätia Bludenz was adopted. In 1950, FC was able to qualify for the new second-class Arlbergliga just before FC Hard as the sixth Vorarlberg team . FC Rätia Bludenz was able to hold out for five seasons before relegation to the regional league in 1955.

As Vorarlberger Landesmeister, the club returned to the second division in 1965. In what is now the Regionalliga West , the Vorarlberg team could not survive and were immediately relegated. A few years as an elevator team followed: In 1969, FC Rätia Bludenz returned to the regional league, but had to relegate in 1971 to be promoted again to the regional league in 1972. In the 1972/73 season , however, the club was surprisingly first in the table as a newcomer, making it only the third Vorarlberg club to march through to the national league. In order to be able to establish itself in the highest Austrian league, the club entered into a syndicate with the regional league club Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz under the name “FC Vorarlberg” .

The first division club had several well-known players with Bruno Pezzey , Helmut Metzler , Erwin Fuchsbichler , Adolf Blutsch and Franz Wolny . 13,000 spectators on August 26, 1973 in the second home game against SK Rapid Wien testified to the great public interest and justified the move to the Bregenz Bodenseestadion . The syndicate won only 5 of 32 games in 1973/74 and was knocked off the last. In the end, only around 500 visitors came to the home games. After FC Vorarlberg only finished 10th out of 14 teams in the second division championship the following season , those responsible decided to dissolve the syndicate again. The FC Rätia Bludenz, again playing under its traditional name, was relegated to the regional league the following year, which was later renamed the Vorarlbergliga .

A success came in the ÖFB Cup 1976/77 with the advance to the second round, in which, however, on May 3, 1977 at the big club FK Austria Wien , which was then known as Spielgemeinschaft Austria Wien / WAC, a bitter 12-0 defeat had to.

In 2011 the club was promoted to the fourth division Vorarlberg League, the top division in Vorarlberg. After eight defeats in a row at the beginning of the season, the 2011/12 season ended in fifth place. In the 2012/13 season, the black and white reached third place.

The 2013/14 season ended the Rätia beaten with 13 points from 26 games in 14th and last place in the Vorarlbergliga, so that you had to go to the fifth-class regional league. There they finished the 2014/15 season in 8th place in the table with 38 points. The reorientation of the club philosophy with the focus on its own youth work resulted in the relegation to the sixth class 1st national class in the 2015/16 season. The Bludenz team finished their first season in this class in 2016/17 in 12th place in the table.

successes
  • 1 × Champion Regionalliga West (2): 1973
  • 1 × Vorarlberg national champion: 1973
  • 3 × Champion Vorarlbergliga (3): 1965, 1969, 1972
  • 1 × Vorarlberg Cup winner : 1977
  • 1 × Vorarlberg indoor cup winner: 1972

Women's soccer

The women's team rose to the Regionalliga West in 2005 and was relegated to the Vorarlberg women's league a year later. After the 2007/08 season, the team was dissolved and the women's section moved to ESV Bludenz. For the 2019/20 season, the club took over the women's department of ESV Bludenz again.

Website

Individual evidence

  1. 2013/14 season, Vorarlbergliga, tables & results. In: vfv.at. Retrieved June 20, 2017 .
  2. 2014/15 season, regional league, tables & results. In: vfv.at. Retrieved June 20, 2017 .
  3. Season 2015/16, regional league, tables & results. In: vfv.at. Retrieved June 20, 2017 .
  4. FC Rätia Bludenz, 2007/08 season, KM-FR, squad. In: fussballoesterreich.at. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
  5. ESV Bludenz, season 2018/19, KM-FR, squad. In: fussballoesterreich.at. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
  6. FC Rätia Bludenz, 2019/20 season, KM-FR, squad. In: fussballoesterreich.at. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .