Free Gymnastics Association Braunschweig

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FT Braunschweig
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Basic data
Surname Free Turnerschaft
Braunschweig e. V.
Seat Braunschweig , Lower Saxony
founding September 2, 1903
Colours brown-white
Website ft-braunschweig.de
First soccer team
Venue Prince Park Stadium
Places 3,500
league Oberliga Lower Saxony
2019/20 13th place
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Free Gymnastics Association Braunschweig , occasionally also New Free Gymnastics Association , is a sports club from Braunschweig . The first soccer team played in the highest amateur league in Lower Saxony for 14 years before being promoted to the Regionalliga Nord for the first time in 2014.

history

The Braunschweig Free Gymnastics Association was originally founded on September 2, 1903 as a workers gymnastics club . With the purchase of the Richmond Sports Park on Salzdahlumer Strasse in 1929, the club got into a financial crisis, at the end of which the club was struck from the club register on January 7, 1933 . Two weeks later, the Free Sports Club Braunschweig was founded as the successor and was banned by the National Socialists on March 30, 1933 . After the Second World War , former FTB members joined the newly founded TSV Braunschweig . When the members of Eintracht Braunschweig joined the association, the Braunschweig Free Gymnastics Association was re-established. The reason for this was the closeness of Eintracht to the Nazi regime. The new sporting home of the club was the Prinz-Albrecht-Park in the eastern ring area .

Soccer

In 1949 FTB was one of the founding members of the third class amateur league 4 . After the runner-up in 1951, the gymnasts became champions a year later and made the leap into the Lower Saxony East amateur league in the promotion round . On August 31, 1952, the Free Turner met local rivals Eintracht and lost 3-0 in front of 7,000 spectators. Two years later, FTB rose again from the amateur league, where the team was mostly in the upper half of the table until the league was dissolved in 1964. This was followed by twelve years in the fourth-class Association League East , where the club also mostly completed the respective seasons in the upper midfield.

After almost twenty years at the district level, FTB rose to the Braunschweig regional league in 1994 and made it to the Lower Saxony league in 1997 after a 4-1 win in the decider against the second team of the Lüneburg SK . The league was missed, but the Free Turner returned to the Lower Saxony League in 2000. In 2003 the runner-up behind SSV Vorsfelde was celebrated. It wasn't until the end of the 2000s that the performance curve showed a downward trend and in 2010, when the team came thirteenth, they missed qualifying for the single-track Oberliga Niedersachsen . After three seasons in the Braunschweig regional league, FTB returned to the major league in 2013.

On April 21, 2014, the gymnasts reached the final of the Lower Saxony Cup with a 1-0 win against VfB Oldenburg and thus qualified for the first time for the first main round of the DFB Cup , in which they competed against Bundesliga club 1. FC Köln and lost 4-0. The semifinals were played in front of 6,350 spectators in Braunschweig's Eintracht Stadium . The subsequent final, which is irrelevant for the participation in the DFB-Pokal, lost the Free Turner 1-2 against BSV Rehden .

The team finished the league season 2013/14 as runner-up and qualified for the promotion round to Regionalliga Nord , in which FTB met VfB Lübeck and Bremer SV . After a 1: 5 defeat in Lübeck and a 4: 0 home win against Bremen, the Free Turner took 2nd place in the promotion round, which was enough for their first promotion to the fourth-class Regionalliga Nord . There, however, the team had no chance and was relegated from the bottom of the table. The low point of the season was a 10:10 home defeat against the second team of Hamburger SV . In 2017 , the Braunschweiger then had to go down to the state league and managed to rise again two years later.

successes

  • Promotion to the Regionalliga Nord: 2014
  • Promotion to the Lower Saxony Oberliga: 2013
  • Promotion to the Lower Saxony amateur league: 1952
  • Qualification for the DFB Cup 2014/15
  • Champion Landesliga Braunschweig: 2000, 2013, 2019

basketball

The basketball department founded a syndicate with MTV Braunschweig in 1978 , which rose to the first basketball league. In 2000 the license was passed on to a professional sports company , which now competes in the top division under the name Basketball Löwen Braunschweig . The SG Braunschweig itself played second class for a long time afterwards. Since the merger of the regional divisions of the 2nd basketball league in 2007 into Pro A and Pro B , Spot Up Medien Baskets Braunschweig has played in the third-class Pro B.

Personalities

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Kurt Hoffmeister: 150 Years of Sport in Braunschweig , Braunschweig 1982, p. 249
  2. ^ Kurt Hoffmeister: 150 Years of Sport in Braunschweig , Braunschweig 1982, p. 93
  3. Free gymnasts qualify for the DFB Cup , accessed on April 21, 2014.

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