Frankfurt FV

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The Frankfurter Fußballverein (Kickers-Victoria) from 1899 , or Frankfurter FV for short , was a football club that was created in 1911 through the merger of the Frankfurt pioneering clubs Frankfurter FC Victoria 1899 and Frankfurter Kickers , and which became part of Frankfurt's Eintracht in 1920. In the nine years of its existence, it played an important role in the northern district of the South German Football Association, and during this time important foundations were laid for the further development of the later merger club Eintracht.

history

Forerunner clubs "Victoria" and "Kickers"

The two clubs FFC Victoria and FVF Kickers , along with other football clubs, were founded in 1899 and fought for supremacy in the northern district of the South German Football Association at the beginning of the 20th century. After initial successes, both had gradually fallen behind. With the FSV Frankfurt a local competitor had emerged in the Bornheim district , which had gradually outstripped both clubs in terms of membership as well as in sporting terms, and in the top division both found themselves in the seasons 1908/09 and 1909 / 10 only in midfield again.

Game operations and development

At the general meetings of Victoria and Kickers in April 1911, a large majority decided to merge, and on May 7, a week before the official date of the merger, they played together for the first time in a friendly against Freiburg FC (2-0) . In the Northern District League they became Northern District Champions immediately in 1911/12 , but failed significantly in the subsequent final round of the Southern German Championship. The summer break in 1912 was dominated by the move to Roseggerstrasse. The soccer club now had a modern sports facility with a soccer field with stands and cinder track as well as reserve fields and a club house. The new course was inaugurated on September 8, 1912 with a game against Quick Den Haag (2-2). The old Victoria site on Eschersheimer Landstrasse was still used by the reserve teams. In the seasons 1912/13 and 1913/14 , the Frankfurt FV defended the Nordkreis title confidently, and in the southern German finals the team performed significantly better than in the debut year and only failed at the Stuttgarter Kickers (1913) or the later German master SpVgg. Fürth (1914). In 1913, a draw in the last game at Kickers would have been enough to bring the southern German crown to the northern district for the first time, but the match ended 0: 1.

After the Frankfurt gymnastics club joined the soccer club in 1913 , the range of sports practiced in the club and the number of members increased again significantly. The club now had more than 800 members, twelve active football teams, two hockey and one cricket team as well as a fencing team and around 100 active track and field athletes. In contrast to the Frankfurt Nordkreis competitors from Bockenheim ( FV Amicitia and 1902 , predecessor of the later SC Rot-Weiß ), Bornheim ( FSV Frankfurt ) or the Gallusviertel ( FC Britannia , later FFV Sportfreunde 04 ), the Frankfurter FV was not a district club, Its social homogeneity consisted rather in the fact that its members came predominantly from the upper middle class and the academic environment, which was expressed in particular in the cultivation of prestigious sports such as hockey or cricket .

The outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914 initially interrupted the game, as the championship rounds were suspended until spring 1915. There were only a few private games, some in the form of war rounds, the proceeds of which were often used for war welfare purposes. After it became clear that the war would drag on longer than initially expected, championship games at the Gau level began again in 1915. The football club won the district championship and in February 1916 also the Gaume championship with a 4-1 victory over Viktoria Neu-Isenburg in the final in autumn 1915. On March 26, 1916, a round of the "Iron Football" association began in Südmaingau, which the FFV also won, but Hanau 93 lost 3-1 in the decider for the North District Championship .

The formation of a powerful team had become more and more difficult up to this point, due to the convocation of the younger generation, a large part of the team was now in the field, and the situation worsened due to holiday bans and restrictions in traffic. The sporting performance was becoming more and more of a minor matter anyway, bad news about members who had fallen at the front and the increasingly poor supply situation for the population came to the fore. After all, football games offered a welcome change. In the spring of 1917, the FSV Frankfurt secured the local championship, in the autumn round the Frankfurter FV lost both games against the FSV, but still managed to win the Südmaingau title. National championship rounds continued to be played only up to the northern district level, but here the team had no chance.

In the first post-war season 1918/19 they took part in the round of the new "Kreisliga Nordmain" and at the end of the season finished with 22-2 points tied with FSV Frankfurt. In two playoffs, both of which went into extra time, they wrestled Local rivals finally settled. The following season the FFV was able to finish with two points ahead of the FSV, but in the subsequent South German finals it was only enough to come in third behind Kickers Offenbach and Waldhof Mannheim.

Merger to form the Frankfurt TuSG Eintracht

In the spring of 1920, the Frankfurter FV merged with the Frankfurt gymnastics community from 1861 . The old club name "Frankfurter FV" remained an official part of the new club for decades. After the merger in 1920 the association was called "Frankfurter Turn- und Sportgemeinde Eintracht (FFV) von 1861" , after the separation from the gymnasts in 1927 until 1969 "Frankfurter Sportgemeinde Eintracht (FFV) von 1899" .

On September 1st, 1920, they said goodbye to Roseggerplatz with a friendly against Malmö FF . A week later, the inauguration of the new facility at the Riederwald was celebrated with a ceremony, which was also attended by “Kicker” founder Walther Bensemann , who then devoted almost two pages to this event in his young magazine. For the first championship home game against the old competitor Germania 94 , 7500 spectators came to the Riederwald.

literature

  • Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and sky striker. The story of Eintracht Frankfurt. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-538-9 (here in particular pp. 33–50)

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