1. FC Greiz
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | 1. Greiz eV football club | ||
| Seat | Greiz | ||
| founding | 1990 | ||
| Colours | green yellow | ||
| president | Frank Brettfeld | ||
| Website | www.fc-greiz.de | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Martin Donath | ||
| Venue | Tempelwald sports field | ||
| Places | 2000 | ||
| league | State class Thuringia relay east | ||
| 2018/19 | 1st place (regional league East Thuringia) | ||
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The 1. FC Greiz is a football club in the East Thuringian district and industrial town Greiz .
history
Before World War II
The football players of the Greiz Turnerschaft founded an independent club on May 12, 1920, the 1. FC Greiz. At first still playing under simple circumstances on the Greizer Schützenplatz or the Zeddelwiesen, a strong team quickly developed, which in 1930 became the Easter champion. With the help of the unemployed and with the participation of the Greizer football fans, a club-owned venue was created in 1931 and 1932 with the Tempelwaldsportplatz. It was inaugurated on August 28, 1932 with a game against the Leipzig top club Wacker Leipzig , which Greizer won 2-0. After the end of the Second World War, 1. FC Greiz was dissolved due to a directive of the occupying powers in 1945.
Disintegration into individual company sports associations
From 1946, sports competitions by loosely organized sports communities were initially only permitted at district level in East Germany. In Greiz, which then had 45,000 inhabitants, several such communities emerged with names such as Greiz-Stadt, Greiz-Mitte, Greiz-Ost. In the course of the reorganization of sport in East Germany on the basis of so-called company sports communities (BSG), the BSG Vorwärts Greiz was founded in 1949. There were several restructurings and mergers until 1955, until finally, in 1959, when the company sports associations chemistry and textiles were merged, the long-term BSG Progress Greiz was formed. Under the name of Einheit Greiz, the football players were promoted to the Gera district league in 1952 , at that time the third-highest division in GDR football. The district championship was won as Chemie Greiz in 1958.
One BSG, second division, three names
The merger to form BSG Progress brought further successes for the football section, winning the district cup in 1961 and moving up from the now fourth-class district league to the GDR League II in 1962 . This was dissolved after the 1962/63 season, the 9th place meant the return to the district league. The BSG progress remained there with the exception of the 1967/68 season (relegation to the district class) until 1971. In that year, the second-rate GDR league was increased from two to five seasons, and the district runners-up were also eligible for promotion to fill the field of participants. This included progress Greiz. The BSG had thus achieved its best result during the time of GDR football, because after just one year the team was relegated to 10th place among eleven teams in 1972. Between 1972 and 1986 Greiz was constantly represented in the district league Gera, with the exception of the two 2nd places in 1968 and 1973 mostly in the lower half of the table. In 1973 a name change was made again, with a clear reference to the sponsoring company , the BSG was now called Greika Greiz. In 1980 a grass pitch could finally be put into operation. In 1984 a new local rival appeared with the old name in the district league, until 1988 a BSG chemistry competed with BSG Greika again. As is customary, both communities merged in July 1988 to form the Greiz industrial sports community.
Foundation of 1. FC Greiz
ISG Greiz ended the last regional league season of the GDR soccer game operation in 1990 with 5th place. During this year, the system of company sports associations collapsed due to the new economic conditions after the political change in 1989 , and sport had to be reorganized in East Germany. The members of the football section of the ISG then founded the club FC Greiz in 1990, which on September 30, 1994 took on its traditional name 1. FC Greiz. From 1991 to 1997 the Greizer played in the regional league Thuringia (from 1994 5th league). After nine years of national class, there was another crash in 2006 in the seventh class district league. Before that, 1. FC had entered into a syndicate with an old friend, SV Chemie Greiz. In 2011 the 1st FC / Chemistry became champion of the regional class relay 1 and thus rose to the seventh class East.
Logo history
1. FC Greiz (1920-1945)
BSG Progress Greiz
BSG Greika Greiz (1973–1988)
FC Greiz (1990-1994)
1. FC Greiz (current)
Known players
Two later GDR national players began their football careers in Greiz:
- Rainer Schlutter , who started at Chemie Greiz, went to the Carl Zeiss predecessor SC Motor Jena in 1963, played 235 league games, 5 international matches
- Konrad Weise , moved from Progress Greiz to FC Carl Zeiss Jena in 1966, played 310 league games, 86 A international games, gold medal at the 1976 Olympics
Two players went the opposite way:
- Jürgen Bähringer , came in 1988 after 350 league games, an A international game and the 1980 Olympic silver medal from FC Karl-Marx-Stadt
- Peter Nestler came in 1984 via Werdau and Gera after 94 league games from Sachsenring Zwickau.
In addition, with Dietmar Scheffel (Dresden unit), Kurt Kosmanek and Harald Krause (both Wismut Gera) other Greizer players came to short league appearances.
Hartmut Rentzsch worked as a coach in 247 league games in Karl-Marx-Stadt and Zwickau from 1985 to 1987 in Greiz.