FC Remscheid

FC Remscheid
Basic data
Surname	Football Club Remscheid e. V.
Seat	Remscheid , North Rhine-Westphalia
founding	October 25, 1908 as BV 08 Lüttringhausen
Colours	Blue and white
president	Lars Althoff
Board	Lars Althoff, Acar Sar, Ralf Niemeyer
Website	fcremscheid.de
First soccer team
Head coach	Marcel Heinemann
Venue	X-ray stadium
Places	12,463
league	Landesliga Niederrhein 1
2019/20	12th place
home Away

The FC Remscheid is a football club from Remscheid . It was created from a merger of BVL 08 Remscheid (originally BV 08 Lüttringhausen) and VfB Marathon 06/08 Remscheid. The former second division team is the most successful club from the Bergisch city and also drew attention to itself as a "cup scare" in the 1980s. Although FC Remscheid was originally founded as a football club, the club now also has a gymnastics department .

Club history

The previous clubs

VfB Marathon Remscheid

→ Main article : VfB 06/08 Remscheid

In 1906 the FC 1906 Remscheid was founded. After the dissolution of the FC in 1914, the club was brought back to life in 1917 as VfB 06 Remscheid. During the Second World War , VfB 06 merged with the 1928 VfL Marathon 1928 Remscheid, which until 1937 was SV Edelstahlwerke Remscheid, the company sports association of Deutsche Edelstahlwerke in Remscheid. The name of the club established in 1944 was VfB Marathon 06 Remscheid. From 1945 the club started as the VfB Marathon Remscheid.

In 1968 the VfB Marathon Remscheid became the first Remscheid team to win the German amateur championship, which is also the greatest success in the club's history. In 1971 the VfB Marathon Remscheid merged with BV 08 Remscheid . Since then the club has been called VfB Remscheid 06/08 .

In the 1978/79 season , VfB entered the first round of the DFB Cup and lost there against the second division club Wormatia Worms .

BV 08 Lüttringhausen or BVL 08 Remscheid

On October 25, 1908, BV 08 Lüttringhausen was founded in the then still independent municipality of Lüttringhausen . On March 2, 1912, the club was included in the West German game association. With the outbreak of the First World War , the sports business was completely stopped. In 1917 a game could take place again for the first time. The club beat FC Solingen 6-2. On September 7, 1919, there were already more than 200 members and seven teams available. In the 1930/31 season, the club rose through a brilliant series of victories in the special league, the then top division in the West German Association. During the Second World War, the club had to relegate to the district class due to staffing needs. In the 1979/80 DFB Cup , the Lüttringhausen -based team reached the third round of the DFB Cup after defeating SpVgg Erkenschwick and Westfalia Herne in the first two rounds . In the 1981/82 season, BV 08 Lüttringhausen managed to move up from the Oberliga to the 2nd Bundesliga . However, they rose two years later from bottom of the table. In the 1983/84 and 1984/85 seasons, the team was eliminated in the first round of the DFB Cup against TuS Schloß Neuhaus and FC Bayern Munich .

On August 9, 1985, BV 08 Lüttringhausen was renamed BVL 08 Remscheid. Under this name they won the German amateur championship against VfR Bürstadt in 1986 and played a good role in the DFB-Pokal after they clearly won 3-0 against Bundesliga club 1. FC Kaiserslautern and then only just lost in the replay against Hannover 96 . In this game, Hermann Wulfmeier scored the first goal of the month for the Remscheider Club. In the 1987/88 season , BVL 08 Remscheid was able to play second-rate for another year.

The merger

However, when BVL 08 Remscheid and VfB Remscheid 06/08 both played in the amateur league in 1988, those responsible decided to merge the two clubs. On July 1, 1990, both clubs were merged to form FC Remscheid. BVL 08 Remscheid was completely absorbed by FC Remscheid, only the men's team was outsourced at VfB Remscheid. The rest of the club has existed since then as VfB 06/08 Remscheid, but has not had a football department since 2008.

The time as FC Remscheid

Sporting boom and renewed second class

From 1991 to 1993, the club managed to play again in the 2nd Bundesliga and even reached a single-digit position in the table in its first year. After the merger of the two second division seasons in 1992, FC Remscheid was always in a relegation battle and finally rose as the penultimate in the amateur Oberliga Nordrhein . The attempted rise again failed the Bergischer Verein and the team had to be content with eighth place. With the introduction of the Regionalliga, the Oberliga Nordrhein was only fourth class. The FC Remscheid, however, succeeded there in the 1995/96 season of promotion to Regionalliga West / Südwest and held a total of three seasons in the class before they had to go back to fourth division as bottom of the table with only ten points.

The fall into the national league

After relegation from the regional league, FC Remscheid began to fall steadily into the amateur classes. After the good fourth place in the major league season 1999/2000, the club was relegated to the association league and could not hold the class there either. Since the 2003/04 season, the Bergische club played in the state league, which was only seventh class with the introduction of the third division .

On May 24, 2009, FC Remscheid, as the national league champion, was promoted to a higher league again after 13 years. The club thus entered the sixth class Niederrheinliga in the 2009/10 season . Only a year later, after much turbulence in the team and on the board level, the FCR rose again to the national league. In the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons, the Remscheid team won several times against higher-class teams in the Lower Rhine Cup. In August 2012, FCR beat the then regional division Wuppertaler SV 1-0.

In September 2015, the former Bundesliga professional Thorsten Legat was hired as head coach for media coverage. There was no success; after his resignation in May 2016, the FCR even rose to the district league at the end of the season. After a change in the board and office structure, the club succeeded in the following season 2016/17, five game days before the end of the season, the direct promotion to the Lower Rhine regional league in front of the former league club 1. FC Wülfrath and SV Union Velbert .

successes

Championship successes

• Seasons in the 2nd Bundesliga: 1982 to 1984 as BV 08 Lüttringhausen , 1987/88 as BVL Remscheid and 1991 to 1993 as FC Remscheid
• German amateur champion: 1968 (as VfB Marathon 06 ), 1986 (as BVL 08 Remscheid )
• Champion of the Oberliga Nordrhein: 1982, 1987 and 1991
• Champion of the Association League Niederrhein: 1974
• Champion of the Landesliga Niederrhein: 2009
• Champion of the Lower Rhine District League: 2017

Cup successes

• DFB-Pokal participation in the seasons: 1977/78 (1st main round), 1978/79 (1st main round), 1979/80 (3rd main round), 1983/84 (1st main round), 1984/85 (1st main round) Main round), 1986/87 (2nd main round), 1988/89 (1st main round), 1990/91 (round of 16), 1991/92 (3rd main round), 1992/93 (3rd main round), 1993/94 ( 1st main round), 1994/95 (1st main round)
• Winner of the Lower Rhine Cup: 1990, 1991, 1994
• Winner of the Remscheid District Cup: 2011, 2014 and 2015

Player and coach of the football department

Second team

FC Remscheid II plays in the district league B Remscheid (IX) in the 2016/17 season. In the club's second team, mainly young players who move here after the A-youth play. The home games are played on Jahnplatz (artificial turf). In the current season, the team is being looked after by coach Mike Kupfer.

Youth teams

Most youth teams play mainly in the performance classes. They form the substructure of the Lower Rhine League, the second highest division for juniors. In some seasons, the club also manages to register teams for the Lower Rhine League. The club has a total of 18 youth teams that play their home games on Jahnplatz in Lüttringhausen.

Women's team

Since the 2012/13 season, FC Remscheid has provided a women's team again after many years. The team around coach Markus Schulz and Peter Bomm switched from Hastener TV to FC Remscheid a few weeks before the end of the 2011/12 season. In the very first year they made it to the Niederrhein district league. In the following year, the team reached second place in the indoor Lower Rhine Cup and also qualified for the Association Cup 2014/15 by winning the district cup against the regional division TG Hilgen. In the 2015/16 season, FC Remscheid was first in the table to be promoted to the Lower Rhine regional league. In the 2017/18 season, FC Remscheid canceled its women's team from the Lower Rhine regional league due to personnel shortages. The team is now relegated to the district league.

The team plays its home games on Jahnplatz in Remscheid-Lüttringhausen. The later national player Gaby Dlugi-Winterberg began her playing career at BV 08 Lütringhausen in 1970 .

Significant former players

• Uwe Bialon - played for BV 08 Lüttringhausen in the second Bundesliga and scored four goals there.
• Alban Bushi - the Albanian top scorer played for FC Remscheid in the 1994 season.
• Pietro Callea - second Bundesliga from 1991 to 1993 and promotion to the regional league in 1996
• Cataldo Cozza - played in his youth at FC Remscheid and was under contract with the then second division club Dynamo Dresden .
• Oliver Ebersbach - played eight games for FC Remscheid in the 2nd Bundesliga in 1992/93 and scored one goal there.
• Andreas Fischer - played for BVL 08 Remscheid in the second Bundesliga and then moved to Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Hamburger SV .
• Dirk Flock - played his first professional season at FC Remscheid in the 1992/93 season.
• Andreas Gaber - came to FCR after relegation to the league and then moved to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim .
• Michael Griehsbach - scored two goals for Remscheider in 27 second division games.
• Ingmar Putz - former second division and regional division player.
• Yahiro Kazama - Japanese international, played for BVL 08 Remscheid from 1985 to 1988.
• Andreas Köhler - scored both goals in the final of the 1986 German Amateur Championship against VfR Bürstadt.
• Uwe Neuhaus - played for BVL 08 Remscheid in the 1988/89 season and then moved to SG Wattenscheid 09 . From 2007 to 2014 he was the coach of the second division club 1. FC Union Berlin . From 2015 coach at Dynamo Dresden and since 2019 with Arminia Bielefeld .
• Detlef Pirsig - made it to the second class with BV Lüttringhausen in 1982/83. He later made promotion to this league as a coach with FC Remscheid.
• Carsten Pröpper - competed for FC Remscheid in the 2nd Bundesliga.
• Frank Schön - the former FC Schalke 04 player made it to the Lower Rhine League with FCR
• Lothar Steinhauer - scored twelve goals in 32 games in the second division and was coach of the first team at FC Remscheid for several years.
• Thomas Vtic played four games in the 2nd Bundesliga for FC Remscheid in 1992/93.

Sigi hero

Former trainers

BVL 08 Remscheid Lüttringhausen nationality Surname Term of office Friedel Giegeling 1975-1979 Manfred Reichert 1979 Roland Helfsgott 1979 Adi Pinter 1980 Detlef Pirsig 1980-1982 Rudi Sommavilla 1982-1983 Günter Hentschke 1983 Günter Exner 1983-1984 Sigfried Held 1984 Horst Döppenschmidt 1984-1988 Dieter Tartemann 1988-1989 Klaus-Dieter Czizewski 1989 Detlef Pirsig 1989-1990

FC Remscheid nationality Surname Term of office Detlef Pirsig 1990-1993 Dietmar Schacht 1993 Aleksander Mandziara 1993-1994 Udo Winnen 1994 Detlef Pirsig 1994-1998 Klaus Scheer 1998 Sigitas Jakubauskas 1998-2001 Jürgen Wellmann 2001 Fred Bockholt 2001-2002 Jürgen Wellmann 2002-2003 Guido Naumann 2003 Sigitas Jakubauskas 2003 Lothar Steinhauer 2003-2007 Tselko Nikolic 2007-2010 Gerd Kentschke 2010 Stefan Brandt 2010–2012 / Zjelko Nikolic / Sigitas Jakubauskas 2012-2014 Sigitas Jakubauskas 2014–01 / 15 Ingmar Putz 01 / 15-09 / 15 Thorsten Legate 09 / 15–05 / 16

Sports facilities

The previous clubs of FC Remscheid played in different stadiums in Remscheid.

Reinshagen stadium

The Röntgen Stadium in Remscheid-Lennep.

VfB Remscheid 06/08 played its home games in the Reinshagen stadium . Its successor club, the VfB Marathon 1990 Remscheid, still plays here today.

X-ray stadium

BVL 08 Remscheid, on the other hand, played its games first on Jahnplatz in Lüttringhausen and later in Lennep's Röntgen Stadium . In the course of the merger of the two clubs, the stadium was modernized for the 2nd Bundesliga and still serves as the home ground of Remscheid FC. It has a capacity of around 12,000 spectators, making it the largest stadium in Remscheid. There is also a sports field next to the Röntgen Stadium, where the second team of FCR and VfL 07 Lennep play their home games.

Jahnplatz

In addition to the Röntgen Stadium, the club also uses Jahnplatz in Lüttringhausen. This is where the second men's team and most of the youth teams play their games. In 2011, the pitch received artificial turf for 600,000 euros from the economic stimulus package II .

Fans

Despite its low league membership, FC Remscheid has a high fan base. With an average of 400 to 1500 spectators, the club is even ahead of some of the top division clubs. In 2001 the Ultras Remscheid were founded, which have since been renamed "Scene Remscheid". A new fan club, the FCR freaks, has existed since the 2009/10 season. The fans cheer on the team from Block A in the main stand. The trailers originally stood in the uncovered north curve, which is designed for around 2500 spectators. Since an organized fan scene was founded again in early 2001, the covered block A has been used because it has better acoustics.

Fan friendships

A fan friendship that is no longer conceivable today existed between the supporters of SG Union Solingen and the predecessor club of FC Remscheid, BVL 08 Remscheid in the eighties. There have been contacts with Westfalia Herne since the promotion to the Lower Rhine League .

Fan rivalries

The fans of FC Remscheid generally have an aversion to other teams from the Bergisches Land . The rivalry between Wuppertaler SV and Union Solingen is particularly great . Games against these clubs are also known as Bergisches Derby . The three clubs in the major cities in the mountains are the only ones from the region that have ever played in a German professional league.

At the time of play in the regional league, the games against SV 09/35 Wermelskirchen and the former SpVgg were particularly important . Radevormwald (today SC 08 Radevormwald) as particularly explosive.

literature

• Jürgen Somborn: FC Remscheid: A century of football history (s). Ziegler, Remscheid 2008, ISBN 3-940491-00-4 .

swell

1. ↑ Sportbund Remscheid (FC Remscheid)
2. ↑ Remscheider General-Anzeiger: FCR: Nattermann is now leading the way (07.12.2016) [1]
3. ↑ Remscheider General-Anzeiger: FCR rises without having to play (05/04/2017) [2]
4. ↑ Match reports from FC Remscheid.
5. ^ Scene in Remscheid
6. ↑ FCR freaks

Web links

• Website of FC Remscheid