Frankfurter FV Sportfreunde 04
The Frankfurter FV Sportfreunde 04 is a football club from the Frankfurt district of Gallus . It was founded in 1904 under the name Frankfurter FC Britannia and renamed after the First World War. The supraregional successes of the FFV go back some time: As FC Britannia you could compete for a few years as a first division club in the Maingau district with the renowned local clubs, and after the First World War and in the 1932/33 season you were again in the "upper house" of the at that time still small-scale ligament system. After the Second World War, the Sportfreunde reached their zenith in the 1955/56 season when they played in the first amateur league in Hessen . The "Speuzer", as the team is called, have been playing in the regional classes of the Frankfurt soccer district since the 1960s.
history
The club was founded on May 15, 1904 under the name Frankfurter FC Britannia . At this point in time, several football clubs had already been established in the city, and there was also a team in the Gallus, Frankfurt FC 1902 , that practiced the still young sport. However, FC Britannia proved to be extraordinarily strong, displacing FFC 1902, which soon merged with a predecessor club of what would later become Rot-Weiss Frankfurt , as the strongest force in the district and already played in the top division three years after it was founded, from 1907 . Although FC Britannia did not occupy top positions in the Northern District League of the South German Football Association , it was able to keep up for a long time in the field of the big clubs from Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Offenbach and Hanau. Only after the 1911/12 season , when the number of teams in the Northern District League was reduced to eight, one had to say goodbye to the first class.
After the loss of the First World War, the name "Britannia" was no longer up-to-date, and the club renamed itself to pressure from public opinion in Frankfurt in the spring of 1919 after it had competed in the cup final of the Nordkreis on February 9, 1919 under the old name Football club Sportfreunde 1904 around. Due to the reorganization of the divisions, the team has now been divided back into the top division. In the final table of the Nordmain District League, which roughly comprised the Frankfurt / Friedberg / Hanau area, the club took fourth place after the 1919/20 season behind the Frankfurter FV (predecessor of Eintracht ), the FSV Frankfurt and the VfR 01 (predecessor of Red-white ). The leagues were redesigned again and again in the following years, and because of this, the FFV Sportfreunde found itself again in the second division in 1923. In the 1920s, the nickname "Speuzer" arose for the members of the association, which is still in use today. It probably comes from an innkeeper at the club house, who was happy to give the players a round of bars after victories, but at the same time warned: "Awwer speuzt mer net arguably the bar full."
By the Second World War, however, they managed to return to the top division and the club would have held the class with an 8th place after the 1932/33 season of the Main-Hessen district league, had the football leagues not been reformed again in 1933 would be, because as third from bottom of the district league you were not qualified for the new Gauliga Südwest . After the war, the Sportfreunde first started in the second-class Landesliga Hessen, but again one slipped through league reforms in the third or fourth level. Under coach Karl Klug, the championship of the 2nd amateur league and promotion to the 1st amateur league Hessen succeeded in 1954/55 . The FFV Sportfreunde could not keep up with the much more financially stronger clubs and was relegated after only one year. The goal of "resurgence" was missed despite significant foreign signings, and in the 1960s the "Speuzer" gradually slipped into the lower amateur classes. The first men's team has been playing in the Frankfurt regional league for several years.
In the district association, special efforts have been made to work with young people for decades. In 1966 the A-youth became Hessen champions. In the 1960s and 1970s, the later Bundesliga players Ernst Abbé (Eintracht, KSC) and Hans-Peter Boy (Eintracht, FSV) emerged from the youth of the FFV, in the more recent past are Michael Thurk (Mainz, Eintracht, Augsburg) and Patric Klandt (FSV) well-known names in professional football who learned to play football from sports fans. The later "cup hero" Wolfgang Schäfer began in the senior division at FFV and returned after his professional career as a player-coach. In the 2015/16 season the A-Juniors play in the group league Frankfurt and the B-, C- and E-Juniors in the Kreisliga A. The E-Juniors won the Frankfurt District Cup in 2012/13, the A-Juniors lost in 2014 / 15 in the final of the Frankfurt Regional Cup for the offspring of FSV Frankfurt.
With the "Speuzer Cup", which has developed from the traditional "Speuzer Whitsun Tournament", youth tournaments with a supraregional field of participants are held on the FFV site every year. In addition, the “FFV Sportfreunde youth team” organizes the “Tolerance-Respect-Fairplay Indoor Tournaments” for various age groups in winter. For this commitment, the youth team was awarded the Remain in Memory Prize of the Frankfurt Fan Project in 2015.
Venue
The sports field and club house of FFV Sportfreunde 04 are located in the western part of Mainzer Landstrasse on the A 5 , Mainzer Landstrasse. 480
literature
- Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Hesse. Between FC Alsbach, Eintracht Frankfurt and Tuspo Ziegenhain. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-244-0 , p. 256.
Web links
- Association website
- 110 years of Speuzer - we congratulate! (PDF, frankfurt.de)