FC Thuringia Weida
| FC Thuringia Weida | |||
| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Football Club Thuringia Weida eV |
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| Seat | Weida , Thuringia | ||
| founding | 1909 | ||
| Colours | yellow black | ||
| Website | www.fctw.info | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | Red Hill Stadium | ||
| Places | 3,000 | ||
| league | Thuringia League | ||
| 2018/19 | 13th place | ||
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The FC Thüringen Weida is a German soccer club from Weida in the district of Greiz . The home of the East Thuringians is the “Roter Hügel” stadium.
historical development
FC Thuringia Weida was founded on April 1st, 1909. As early as 1936, the East Thuringians were promoted to the Gauliga Mitte , at that time one of the 16 highest football leagues. In the very first season, Weida finished second behind SV Dessau 05 . In the Gauliga, the club was able to assert itself often with placements in the upper table area until 1942. In the 1941/42 season, the Weidaer descended together with the FuCC Cricket-Viktoria 1897 Magdeburg . The Thuringians were unable to return to the Gauliga until the end of the war.
After 1945 FC Thuringia fell victim to the club ban imposed by the occupying powers and rigorously enforced by the Soviet Union. The SG Weida, later renamed ZSG Textil und Industrie Weida, was one of the sports clubs approved at the local level. As part of the organization of sports in company sports associations , the BSG progress was founded in Weida. The bowlers were particularly successful (several GDR championship titles), and the soccer team attracted national attention (between 1976 and 1987, with interruptions, it was second class).
When the system of company sports associations collapsed after the political change in 1989 , the old club FC Thuringia was re-established on July 1, 1990.
Development of football after 1945
The SG Weida participated from 1946 to 1948 in the game operations of the Gera district league. For the season 1948/49, the sports community had qualified for the Thuringian state class, but missed participation in the Thuringia championship as 3rd of season 1. In 1950, ZSG Industrie failed to qualify for the newly founded second-rate GDR league in 9th place . Progress Weida was one of the founding teams of the Gera district league in 1952 , in which the team was mostly represented in the upper half of the table until 1958. In 1958, the district championship was won, which was associated with promotion to the 2nd GDR league . The Weidaer had to leave the third-highest division of the GDR at the time after only one season. In the period that followed, Progress Weida operated exclusively at the local level in the Gera district until the mid-1970s . In 1976, the Thuringians managed as third in the district league behind the reserve teams of Wismut Gera and Carl Zeiss Jena, who were not eligible for promotion, to rise to the second-rate GDR league, in which they were able to establish themselves over a total of eight seasons. After the reduction of the league from five to two seasons in 1984, Weida had to relegate back to the district league. 1987 succeeded again in the return to the league, from the progress Weida after only one season together with Kali Werra Tiefenort and the 2nd team of FC Carl Zeiss Jena again relegated. The last district league year as BSG finished the Weidaer in 1989/90 with 9th place.
In the DFB game operations, the FC Thuringia Weida was incorporated into the District League East Thuringia in 1990. In 1993, FC became champions there and rose to the Thuringia regional league. After three years of relegation, 15th place in 1997 meant relegation to the national class. In 2002 they returned to the then fifth-class Thuringian league, the sixth-highest division in the DFB game since 2008, but from which they were relegated in 2010. In 2012, FC Thuringia became champions of the regional class east. On the return to the Thuringian League was waived for financial reasons.
statistics
- Participation in Gauliga Mitte : 1936/37, 1937/38, 1938/39, 1939/40, 1940/41, 1941/42
- Participation in the GDR League: 1976/77 to 1981/82, 1983/84, 1987/88
- Participation in the 2nd GDR League: 1959
- Participation in the Gera district league: 1952/53 to 1958, 1982/83, 1984 to 1987, 1988 to 1990
- Eternal table of the GDR league : 85th place
People of particular importance
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Alfred Beck ,
played for SV Weida before the Second World War , then a first division player in the Federal Republic, an international match for the DFB -
Frank Dünger ,
played for FC Thuringia in the 1990s, and before that he played 157 GDR league games for Zwickau, Riesa and Erfurt -
Lutz Lindemann , from
1983 to 1989 coach at BSG Progress, previously 205 GDR league games for Erfurt and Jena, 21 times GDR national player -
Andreas Munkert ,
played in Weida before the Second World War, for 1. FC Nürnberg and eight times for the German national team -
Gerd Schellenberg ,
1982/83 player at BSG Progress, previously 320 GDR league games for Zwickau and Karl-Marx-Stadt, three-time GDR national player -
Heiko Weber ,
coach at FC Thuringia from 2000 to 2004, previously at FC Carl Zeiss Jena and Preußen Münster
literature
- Hardy Greens : FC Thuringia Weida. In: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .