FC Union Neumünster

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FC Union Neumünster
Union Neumünster logo
Full name Football Club Union
Neumünster from 1920 e. V.
place Neumunster
Founded 1920 / 1945
Dissolved 1996
Club colors black-and-white
Stadion
Top league Schleswig-Holstein State League
successes Participation in the DFB Cup 1979/80

The FC Union Neumünster was a sports club from Neumünster . The first soccer team took part in the DFB Cup once and played in the highest amateur league in Schleswig-Holstein for seven years .

history

The club was founded in 1920 and was one of the best-playing teams in Schleswig-Holstein workers' football . In 1926 Union qualified as champions of the north German ATSB circuit for the German championship , but failed there in the first round due to a 5-1 defeat at SV Weser 08 Bremen . In 1933, the FC Union was banned after the National Socialists came to power . After the end of the Second World War , FC Union was re-established in 1945 and three years later was one of the founding members of the single-track Schleswig-Holstein State League . After just two seasons, the Unioners had to relegate.

After the team failed in the promotion round in 1953, they returned to the Schleswig-Holstein upper house a year later. There the team got only four wins in the 1954/55 season and they had to accept 153 goals. In the derby at local rivals VfR , the Unioners even lost 0:14. Back in the 2. Amateur League East , the team developed into an eternal runner-up in the early 1960s and won four runners-up championships between 1962 and 1968. In 1968 the Unioners were one of the founding members of the Verbandsliga Nord . After the runner-up in 1973, he was promoted to the Schleswig-Holstein state league a year later.

In 1979 the Unioners were fourth and qualified for the DFB Cup for the first time. There they lost in the first round to the sports fans DJK Freiburg with 0: 2. A year later, the Unioners came down from the Upper House of Schleswig-Holstein. In 1983 it went back to the district league, where the team was passed straight through to the district class. The FC Union became the elevator team between the district class and the district league and merged on June 1, 1996 with the police SV Neumünster to PSV Union Neumünster .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 , p. 64.
  2. ↑ Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , p. 94.
  3. ^ Christian Wolter : Workers' football in Berlin and Brandenburg 1910-1933 . Arete Verlag, Hildesheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-942468-49-7 (results of the ATSB championship games from 1919 to 1933).

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