FC Solothurn
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Solothurn football club | ||
| Seat | Solothurn , Switzerland | ||
| founding | July 1, 1901 | ||
| president | Samuel Scheidegger | ||
| Website | fcsolothurn.ch | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Dariusz Skrzypczak | ||
| Venue | Solothurn stadium | ||
| Places | 6300 | ||
| league | 1st league (group 2) | ||
| 2017/18 | 1st rank | ||
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The FC Solothurn is a football club from the city of Solothurn . The club was founded on July 1, 1901 and currently plays in the first division, the fourth highest Swiss league.
history
In terms of football, the 1920s were among the most impressive in the history of FC Solothurn. FC Solothurn played in Serie A, the top Swiss league at the time. When the new division system with the national league and 1st to 4th league was introduced in 1931/32, FC Solothurn just missed the national league and since then has played in the 1st league with a few stays in the National League B.
In 1988/89 Hanspeter Latour was the full-time coach of the 1st team. This was the beginning of a very successful time for FC Solothurn. In 1996/97 FC Solothurn reached 6th place in the promotion round to National League A with 14 points, 11 of them against NLA clubs.
The 1997/98 season is the most successful of the FCS so far. The club was able to qualify again for the promotion round to National League A and failed there with 21 points only in the very last game against FC Basel . 36,500 viewers in the “ Joggeli ” and approx. 300,000 watched the direct broadcast on SF DRS .
This was followed by two difficult NLB seasons and in 2001 relegation to the first division.
Stadion
After it was founded in 1901, one of the club's main difficulties was to find suitable football terrain. In Solothurn and Zuchwil, many different fields were used as playgrounds. In 1930 the club acquired 30,000 m² of land in "Brühl", west of Solothurn. The Solothurn stadium was inaugurated here on August 9, 1931. It consisted of the main square, surrounded on three sides by standing ramps, and a wooden grandstand building with cloakrooms and a restaurant to the west. Subsequently, there were 4 grass pitches as training grounds.
In 1973, at a time of great financial hardship, FC Solothurn sold its stadium with 5 football fields in the 11-storey residential zone at a fraction of the value to the community of Solothurn. This undertook to cover the maintenance and to grant the FCS the right to use it. A few years later, the city built the new Brühl school building on the area of 2 soccer fields.
In 1992/93 a grandstand was added with additional cloakrooms and various rooms. In 2003 the new grandstand east was built, equipped with 1,361 bucket seats from the old «Maladière», the stadium of Neuchâtel Xamax .
Since 2009, the Solothurn stadium to the west of the grandstand has had an artificial turf field that is homologated for championship games.
The Solothurn stadium has 533 covered seats, 1363 uncovered seats and 4400 standing places and thus a capacity of 6300 places. The stadium record of 6,750 spectators was set on March 1, 1998 against FC Basel .
successes
- 5th place promotion / relegation round NLA / B 1997/98
- 6th place promotion / relegation round NLA / B 1996/97
- Vice champion NLB and promotion round NLA / B 1994/95
- Watch cup winner 1998
Well-known former coaches / players
Former players can be found in the category: Person (FC Solothurn) .