Football in Bielefeld

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Coat of arms of the city of Bielefeld

The football in Bielefeld is since the beginning of the 20th century played. The most famous clubs are Arminia Bielefeld , which played in the Bundesliga for 17 years , and VfB 03 Bielefeld , which reached the finals of the German soccer championship in 1931.

history

Early years

Team photo Arminia Bielefeld (1911)

The city's oldest football club is probably the Bielefelder SK Cheruskia , founded as a fencing club on March 3, 1903 , of which there is a team photo from 1904. This club changed its name to VfB 03 Bielefeld in 1907. One year later, on October 23, 1904, the Frisch Auf Sudbrack club was founded and has been called SC Bielefeld 04/26 since 1972 . On May 3, 1905, the first Bielefeld FC Arminia, the city's most famous footballer today, was founded. Other clubs, some of which still exist today, were founded earlier, but only later received a football department. The SpVg Heepen , founded in 1894 as the Heepen Gymnastics Club , did not have a football team until after the end of the First World War . At TuS Ost Bielefeld, which dates back to 1895, only played football since 1909 or 1910 and Bielefelder SV West, founded in 1897, has only played football since 1920.

In 1906, Arminia Bielefeld was the first club in the city to take part in championship games of the West German Game Association . VfB 03 and SC Ravensberg Bielefeld followed a year later . In terms of sport, the Bielefeld teams were initially overshadowed by various teams from Osnabrück before Arminia won the Westphalia championship for the first time in 1913 and qualified for the final round of the West German championship. In 1922 , Arminia secured the West German Championship for the first time and qualified for the German Championship , where the Bielefeld team failed in the first round 5-0 at FC Wacker Munich . A year later , Arminia defended its West German title with a 4-3 win after extra time over TuRU Düsseldorf .

At the national level , however, the team failed again in round one. After a 2-1 defeat after extra time, SC Union Oberschöneweide prevailed. Walter Claus-Oehler became both Arminia's and Westphalia's first German national player . The Arminia could not build on this success in the remaining 1920s. In 1926 the club moved from the Pottenau sports field to the “Bielefelder Alm” in the western city center. The stadium has been called SchücoArena since 2004 after the construction supplier of the same name acquired the naming rights to the stadium.

In 1930 and 1931 VfB 03 Bielefeld qualified for the West German Championship and in 1931 even became runner-up behind Fortuna Düsseldorf . The "Hüpker" thus qualified for the German championship , where they lost 2: 5 to Hertha BSC in the first round . However, VfB 03 waived some of its regular staff in this game after FC Schalke 04 was banned for violating amateur law .

Third Reich

The 16 Sportgaue from 1933

When the NSDAP came to power , the German league system was reformed. The new top division for the Bielefeld clubs was the Gauliga Westfalen , for which Arminia was the only local team to qualify. The team had to relegate in the first season and did not return until 1938. A year later, VfB 03 also rose, and the most successful period for the Bielefeld clubs began. Arminia was runner-up behind FC Schalke 04 in 1939/40 , and a year later the "Hüpker" team secured third place. The advancing Second World War ensured that the shortage of personnel at both clubs grew. As a result, both clubs merged for the 1943/44 season to form the KSG Bielefeld war game community. Despite the great rivalry between the two clubs, the game community worked, even if the sporting success did not materialize. According to a club history of the Arminia, the supporters of both clubs thought it was "perfectly fine that the Bielefeld football remnants defended themselves against anything that wanted to threaten the football fame of the people of Linenstadt".

Arminia Bielefeld willingly implemented the “ Gleichschaltung” propagated by the new rulers and introduced the Führer principle . Jewish members were expelled from the club and were banned from entering the stadium. Even if VfB 03 also excluded Jewish members such as its later club president and sponsor Walter Goldmann and hung signs on its stadium after Jews were not wanted, Arminia was largely alone in the city with the support of the Nazis. Other clubs held back as far as possible, while in workers' sports clubs such as the FTSV Fichte Bielefeld or the FTSV Brackwede were banned and forcibly dissolved. In the second-class district class, Bielefeld was represented by clubs such as Westfalia Brackwede , SpVgg Schildesche or Bielefelder SpVgg . The BSG Dürkopp Bielefeld in 1941 at least reached the promotion round to the Gauliga, but failed at the SpVgg Herten .

post war period

DFB Cup match Holstein Kiel - Arminia (3: 1), January 22, 1966

After the end of the Second World War , there were administrative changes in Bielefeld football. The Bielefeld football district extended its territory over the city of Bielefeld and the former districts of Bielefeld and Halle (Westphalia) . As the top division, a two-track state league Westphalia was introduced, in which both Arminia and VfB 03 participated. Arminia was relegated at the end of the 1945/46 season , but the "Hüpker" missed qualification for the newly created, first-class Oberliga West a year later . In 1949 the tide turned again when the Arminia marched through from the district class to the league, but missed relegation in the 1949/50 season. Thus, both clubs played from 1950 in the second-class II. Division West, from which VfB 03 1952 and Arminia 1954 said goodbye. Only in the 1955/56 season did the "Hüpker" play second class again.

The highest amateur league was the state league from 1945 and the association league from 1956 . Several Bielefeld clubs reached these leagues such as VfL Schildesche , SV Brackwede , TuS Eintracht Bielefeld and SpVgg Fichte Bielefeld . In 1956, Arminia, VfB 03 and SV Brackwede qualified for the newly created association league. In 1962 , the Arminia was then against BV Brambauer Westfalenmeister and made it to the 2nd division. A year later , the qualification for the newly created Regionalliga West succeeded . Local rivals VfB 03, however, lost the final of the Westphalia Championship against Lüner SV and stayed in the amateur camp.

In the youth field, Arminia Bielefeld caused a sensation in 1961 when the team became West German champions with a 2-1 final victory over Duisburg SpV . Bernd Kirchner and Bernd Naschke scored the goals. A German championship had not yet been played, but the Bielefeld team defeated the then South German champions SpVgg Fürth in a friendly 4-1. Several players from the successful Arminen later moved up to the first team and ensured the most successful qualification for the Regionalliga West in 1963.

After founding the Bundesliga

Historical logos of VfB 03
Historical logos of SpVgg Fichte

Arminia Bielefeld was the only representative of the city in the second-rate Regionalliga West and thus consolidated his leading role. After a third place in the 1966/67 season , the team was runner-up three years later and prevailed in the following round of promotion to the Bundesliga . In the 1970/71 season , the club managed to keep the league. However, one day came out after the last game that Arminia within the Bundesliga scandal of bribery and received the necessary points. The club was initially sentenced to relegation to the association league, but the judgment was weakened and the team played again in the association league from 1972. Two years later, the DSC qualified for the newly created 2nd Bundesliga and in 1978 and 1980 managed to return to the Bundesliga. The highlights were the eighth places in the 1982/83 and 1983/84 seasons . A year later, the Armines were relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga. However, financial problems led to a crash in the Oberliga Westfalen in 1988. In the meantime, the existence of the highly indebted club was at stake. As the first association in Germany, Arminia was able to reorganize itself through a settlement . In addition, Arminia made headlines in 1986 when Gisela Schwerdt became the first woman to chair a professional German football club.

Local rivals VfB 03 Bielefeld knocked on the door of the Regionalliga in 1973. Three years earlier, the club had sold its VfB arena to the trading company Marktkauf and invested the proceeds in the team. With a 2-1 win over Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid , the "Hüpker" champions of Westphalia, but failed in the promotion round to the Regionalliga West. Then the club slipped down to the district league. The SpVgg Fichte Bielefeld also shuttled between the association and regional leagues for a long time. In addition to the "Hüpkern" and SpVgg Fichte, SV Brackwede made it into the Association League. Until 1972, the Brackweder held in the highest amateur league, before the team crashed after three relegations in a row to the district class. From the mid-1980s, Arminia Bielefeld's amateurs also played regularly in the association league. Bielefeld was also represented several times in the now fourth-class state league, such as B. by clubs like TuS Brake , VfL Schildesche, TuS 04 Sudbrack , SpVg Heepen , VfL Ummeln , TuS Dornberg or VfR Wellensiek . In some seasons there was the strange situation that TuS Brake from Bielefeld had to compete against TuS Brake from Lemgo .

After reunification

Arminia rose to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2013.

Arminia was bobbing in the Oberliga Westfalen for six years before a sporting renaissance began in the mid-1990s. This is closely linked to the name Rüdiger Lamm , which attracted numerous experienced Bundesliga players to the Alm. After two promotions in a row, Arminia, now called Arminia Vielegeld , returned to the Bundesliga in 1996. The "blues" were again an elevator team between the first and second Bundesliga, before the team was able to establish itself in the elite league between 2004 and 2009. The expansion of the east stand, which was significantly more expensive than planned, brought the club into major financial difficulties again. Again the club was close to bankruptcy and slipped twice into the third division . From 2015 Arminia established itself in the 2nd Bundesliga and after the stadium was sold to the OWL Alliance in November 2019 , the club was restructured.

Both VfB 03 and SpVgg Fichte were lift teams between the association and regional leagues in the 1990s. On July 1, 1999, the clubs finally merged to form VfB Fichte Bielefeld , which was initially successful. Between 2001 and 2006, the team played in the Oberliga Westfalen and played for a long time in the 2003/04 season for promotion to the regional league. During the season, the former national player Uli Stein helped out three times. Financial problems meant that after relegation in 2006, the club was back to the elevator team between the Westphalia and state leagues. The "Hüpker" took part in the DFB-Pokal 2008/09 and lost in the first round with 1: 8 against Borussia Mönchengladbach .

The Arminia amateur team rose to the regional league for one year in 2004 and 2010. In 2014 the DSC amateurs were again champions of the Oberliga Westfalen, but were not allowed to move up to the regional league due to the relegation of their own professional team. For financial reasons, the team was disbanded in 2018. From Bielefeld's point of view, SV Gadderbaum in 1995 and TuS Jöllenbeck in 2002 also made the leap into the association and Westphalia league. Both clubs had to relegate after only one year. In addition to VfL Theesen 2011, TuS Dornberg in particular was more successful .

Supported by a sponsor group under the leadership of the former Sat. 1 news anchor Hans-Hermann Gockel , the club rose from the district league C to the NRW league within a few years , where it won a 2-0 win at the former European cup participant KFC Uerdingen 05 . Two more years followed in the Oberliga Westfalen, before financial problems led to a crash in the district league. In the meantime, the ex-national player David Odonkor worked as a coach in Dornberg. VfL Theesen, on the other hand, made a name for itself through its youth work. In the 2013/14 season , the Theesener played in the A-Junioren-Bundesliga , but had to be relegated directly as the bottom of the table.

Special football

Workers soccer

Logo of the Arbeiter-Turn- und Sportbund

During the years of the Weimar Republic , several Bielefeld clubs belonged to the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association (ATSB). Clubs from Bielefeld belonged to the 11th district (north-west Germany), which in addition to East Westphalia-Lippe, the Weser-Ems region and Bremen belonged. The Bielefeld clubs belonged to the 4th district of the district. In 1914, TV Jahn Bielefeld , today Union 02 Bielefeld , was in the final of the district championship against FT Bremerhaven . However, the final was canceled because of the First World War . In 1929 the FTSV Fichte Bielefeld and two years later the FTSV Brackwede qualified as district champions for the final round of the German championship. Fichte failed in the first round in 1929 with 2: 3 at SC Lorbeer Hamburg , while Brackweder failed in 1931 with 1:12 at the same opponent.

The national team of the ATSB played an international match in Bielefeld. On June 28, 1929, 7,746 spectators on the sports field West , which was located behind the north stand of the SchücoArena, saw a 2-2 draw against Austria's selection . Three players from Bielefeld clubs completed international matches for the German ATSB selection. Herbert Schmidt completed at least 25 international matches and took part in the 1931 Workers' Olympics in Vienna , where the German team came second. Other German national players from Bielefeld were Jack Holtkamp and Karl Beckmann , who each came on two missions. In addition to the rather social-democratic workers' football in the ATSB, there was also the fighting community for red sports units , or red sports , close to the communists . This was established in 1930. It is not known whether and which Bielefeld clubs belonged to this organization.

Migrant associations

In the 1970s, the first immigrant associations were formed in Bielefeld. The oldest club founded by migrants in Bielefeld is FC Türk Sport , which was founded in 1976 and is also the most successful. Between 2003 and 2008 and in the 2012/13 season, the team competed in the regional league. In 1979 the SC Bosporus Bielefeld was founded , which in 1987 was the first Bielefeld migrant association to be promoted to the district league. Other clubs in cross-county football were and are the FC Hilal Spor (district league 1995–1997), SuK Bielefeld (district league 2000/01), SV Canlar (regional league 2009/10) and SC Hicret Bielefeld (district league since 2015).

FC Türk Sport received nationwide attention in June 2018 when their home ground was voted Germany's craziest football pitch by NDR satellite magazine Extra 3 . The copper hammer was when it opened in the late 1970s a pure clay court . Over time, natural grass grew along the edges , so that today the pitch is grass from the touchlines to the penalty areas and ash in the middle.

Women's soccer

Maren Tellenbröker became a Bundesliga player in Jena.

The most important club in Bielefeld women's football is Arminia Bielefeld . The department was founded in 1975 and for decades only played at the association level. There was an upturn in the mid-2010s when coach Markus Wuckel's team reached the 2nd Bundesliga North in 2015 after two consecutive promotions . Two years later, the team unfortunately failed to qualify for the single-track 2nd Bundesliga. Bielefeld clubs produced several Bundesliga players, such as B. Friederike Abt , Deniz Harbert or Maren Tellenbröker . The national player Lena Goeßling was born in Bielefeld, but learned to play football in Löhne .

The German national team played four times in the Bielefeld SchücoArena. On March 31, 1994, Wales were defeated 12-0. There was a 1-1 draw against China on February 25, 2009 . Romania was defeated 5-0 on May 31, 2012. On November 24, 2017, Germany won 4-0 against France . In 2010, ten games of the U-20 World Cup were played in Bielefeld's SchücoArena. Including the final on August 1, 2010, when hosts Germany prevailed with a 2-0 win in front of 24,633 spectators against Nigeria and won the title.

Recreational soccer

The Wilde Liga Bielefeld was founded on April 21, 1976, making it the oldest recreational soccer league in Germany. The game takes place on the lawns next to the cycling track . There is no referee . The game is played in the three divisions Um die Wurst , Elevator and Souterrain . The first champion of the Wild League was the FlaFla steam hammer . There is also a cup competition. The participating teams have bizarre names like Arminia Bierzelt , Dieter Hoeneß Hirnverband , the other should run or play me the song about the goal . In March 2017, the Bielefeld filmmaker Max Meis published the documentary film Die Würde des Balles or Fußball gegen dieordnung about the Wilde Liga, which he financed through crowdfunding .

Futsal

Team photo MCH Futsal Club Bielefeld-Sennestadt 2015–16

In futsal , the city of Bielefeld is represented with the MCH Futsal Club Bielefeld-Sennestadt and the Black Panthers Bielefeld with two clubs in the first-class Futsal League West . While the Sennestädter is an independent club, the Black Panthers belonged to SV Brackwede until 2019 and then to SV Yek Spor Bielefeld .

The most successful are the Sennestädter, who were champions of the league in 2017 and 2019 . The Sennestädter took part four times in the final round of the German Futsal Championship , whereby they were most successful with the semi-finals in 2016 . With Fouad Aghnima , Hakan Erdem , Sandro Jurado García , Aytürk Geçim , Vidoje Matić and Muhammet Sözer, the club provided several German national players .

Local rivals Black Panthers won the West German Cup in 2016. The biggest success in the league was third place in the 2017/18 season . A year later, the Black Panthers with Nick Mdoreuli put the top scorer in the Futsalliga.

Individual evidence

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