FSV locomotive Dresden
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| Full name | FSV locomotive Dresden | ||
| place | Dresden , Dresden district | ||
| Founded | January 12, 1966 | ||
| Dissolved | June 30, 1990 | ||
| Club colors | black-and-white | ||
| Stadion | Sports field on Pieschener Allee | ||
| Top league | GDR League | ||
| successes | 1st place (1977/78) | ||
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The football game association (FSV) Lokomotive Dresden existed from January 6, 1966 to June 30, 1990 and was represented for 18 years in the GDR league , the second division in the country.
history
founding
The FSV Lok Dresden was a product of the sports policy of the GDR . In 1965 it was decided to separate the previous soccer sections from the sports clubs in order to improve the level of GDR soccer and to continue them as independent soccer clubs . In Dresden , the SC unit maintained a soccer team that had played in the GDR Oberliga , the top soccer class, from 1954 to 1962 and won the GDR soccer cup in 1958. At the time of the founding of the football club, the football team of the SC unit was only second class, on the other hand, with the SG Dynamo, another Dresden team was represented in the major league. However, neither the SC unit nor the SG Dynamo formed a football club. On the one hand, the head of the GDR State Security Service, Erich Mielke, did not allow any other FC in the dynamo area besides the Berlin FC Dynamo , and on the other hand, the GDR sports management found the second-rate unit team to be too little potent for an independent football club. In addition, the Dresden audience had to be reassured with the assurance that the SG Dynamo would become the district focus, as elsewhere. So the unit footballers inevitably had to move into the second link.
Under these conditions, on January 6, 1966, the football game association Lokomotive Dresden, or “FSV Lok” for short, was founded with the 16 soccer teams of SC Einheit Dresden and their coaches. Obviously, again with consideration for the football public, the FSV did not have to describe itself as a company sports community , as is otherwise customary , since a BSG automatically had the status of inferiority. In practice, however, the Deutsche Reichsbahn took over the function of a carrier company, as is usual with company sports associations . In addition, the University of Transport was also involved in the sponsorship . At the same time, a BSG Dresden locomotive was represented in the Dresden District League .
Athletic career
At the beginning of the second half series, the FSV locomotive took over the place of the SC unit in the second-class GDR league. Since their relegation in 1962, the unit team had initially tried in vain to get promoted again as quickly as possible, but had to realize after 7th place in the table of the 1964/65 season at the latest that the goal of first class could not be achieved with the available players. As long as the GDR league played with two seasons of 16 teams each, the locomotive team only got places in the midfield, now and then in dangerous proximity to the relegation places. The interest of the spectators was correspondingly low, so that the point games are usually no longer played in the large Heinz Steyer Stadium, as in the days of SC Einheit, but on the sports field on Pieschener Allee, known as “Pie21” for short, with a capacity of just 3,000 spectators were. Only the derbies against Dynamo Dresden (both teams played together in the GDR league in 1968/69) and Stahl Riesa were played in the large arena of the Ostragehege. On September 3, 1967, 10,000 spectators saw the game against Stahl Riesa (1: 2) and on May 11, 1969, 24,000 visitors saw the encounter with Dynamo Dresden (1: 1) in the Heinz-Steyer Stadium. For normal point games, the number of viewers in "Pie21" ranged between 500 and 3,000.
With the introduction of the five-track GDR league for the 1971/72 season, each with only 12 teams and a correspondingly lower level, the FSV Lok was able to assert itself several times at the top and even won the season in 1978. Thus, the team had qualified for the promotion games to the league, but missed the promotion with the last place clearly. The FSV had already drawn attention to itself in the GDR Cup competition when they knocked out the league representative Wismut Aue 1-0 in the preliminary round . The draw for the round of 16 resulted in the local derby against Dynamo Dresden, in which the FSV had no chance with 1: 7 and 0: 4. The FSV contested the successful season with the following line-up:
- Goal: Lutz Findeisen (23 years), Manfred Melzer (21)
- Defense: Frank Ganzera (35), Bernd Grundey (23), Udo Hänsel (23), Kurt Hartung (30), Peter Horn (25), Hubertus Lück (22), Steffen Seidel (24)
- Midfield: Mathias Donix (23), Lothar Güldner (23), Peter Krause (20), Claus Lichtenberger (27), Norbert Schleicher (27)
- Attack: Wolfgang Höfer (22), Steffen Hoyer (20), Siegfried Meise (21), Claus Oehmichen (22), Joachim Pietzko (21), Andreas Prasse (19), Norbert Straßburger (29)
The unusually young team, with an average age of 23.2 years, was coached by the former East German top scorer Harry Arlt . The fact that only Ganzera, Donix and Lichtenberger had upper league experience and no other player later reached the upper league says something about the team's low experience. In the following seasons, the FSV locomotive moved between 2nd and 8th place, until it fell into the third class of the district league in 1984 . In the 1983/84 season, at least 6th place in the table had to be achieved in order to avoid relegation, as the GDR league was only to be played in two seasons in the coming season. The FSV Lok Dresden only achieved 8th place. In the following years it was no longer possible to form a team that would have met higher standards. In 1988 there was even the threat of another crash when the GDR Football Association imposed "work in production" on the players for violating the statutes and as a result nine regular players left the team. With a newly put together team, however, the league could be managed, and so the FSV remained until the end of the GDR football operation in 1990 in the Dresden district league.
End after the turn
When the FSV was no longer supported by Deutsche Bahn after the political change in 1989 and the subsequent economic upheaval in East Germany, they were forced to look for other forms of organization. Ultimately, the FSV Lok gave up its independence and joined the re-founded Dresdner SC on July 1, 1990 as the football department .
New beginning
On February 27, 2009, the Lokomotive Dresden soccer game association was revived in the form of a club. In the 2009/10 season the game was started and the game was played. The first coach of the men's team established in 2009 was Udo Hänsel, who was already a player at FSV Lokomotive Dresden in the 1970s. A women's department has also been set up in recent years. In the 2013/14 season, the women's team was district champion and rose to the 4th division, the Landesliga Sachsen. For the 2015/16 season, the first women's team will qualify for the DFB Cup due to its entry into the state cup final .
people
- Harry Arlt (1926–2014), 1970–1983 coach, played for Rotation / Einheit Dresden from 1951 to 1959 (139 league games)
- Mathias Donix (* 1954), previously with Dynamo Dresden, 4 league games, 28 youth and junior international matches
- Manfred Drewniok (* 1962), joined Stahl Riesa in 1983 (47 league games)
- Frank Ganzera (* 1947), came from Dynamo Dresden in 1976 (133 league games), 13 international matches
- Eduard Geyer (* 1944), went to Dynamo Dresden in 1968 (90 league games), later coach, a. a. at Dynamo Dresden and Energie Cottbus, 1989/90 GDR national coach
- Claus Lichtenberger (* 1950), came from Dynamo Dresden in 1976 (34 league games)
- Hans-Ulrich Thomale (* 1944), joined Stahl Riesa in 1970 (14 league games), later coach a. a. at 1. FC Lok Leipzig, FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt and Hessen Kassel