Football in Hamburg
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Football in Hamburg has been played in an organized manner since the 1890s and has beendominated by this club almost without exceptionsince the founding of Hamburger SV in 1919. His biggest competitor in the 1930s and early 1940s was Eimsbütteler TV , which won the championship of the Gau- or regional league Nordmark three times in a row between 1934 and 1936 and later twice in 1940 and 1942, and with a total of five titles it won the record between 1934 and 1942 the competition was held nine times. The other four titles were won by HSV, whichsoonafter the Second World War again developed into the undisputed number one in Hamburg football. It was also only after the Second World War that FC St. Pauli developed intoHSV's biggest, albeit rarely nearly equal, rival. The Hamburg Derby today called the meeting between these two clubs, which is however not too often discharged because often different league affiliation. In the second division season 2018/19 there were two derbies again due to the relegation of HSV to the second division; the first duel ended with a 0-0, the second ended with a 4-0 for HSV. The city derbies of the second division season 2019/20, however, were both won 2-0 by FC St. Pauli.
Before the First World War , three other clubs dominated the Hamburg football scene. One of them was SC Germania , founded by British people living in Hamburg, which later merged with Hamburger FC von 1888 and FC Falke 06 to form Hamburger SV and whose founding date September 29, 1887 was officially adopted by HSV. In 1896, Germania was the first winner of the championship organized by the Hamburg-Altona Football Association (HAFB), which the club won five times in the first ten seasons (up to 1905). His biggest competitor was the Altonaer FC from 1893 , which won four events in this first decade and with a total of eight titles was the most successful Hamburg club before the outbreak of the First World War. After Germania could not win another title, the Altona 93 grew up with the FC (later SC) Victoria Hamburg, a new rival, which was able to record five successes between 1905 and 1913.
The beginnings of organized football in Hamburg
For the first time in the 1895/96 season an association championship was held, which was organized by the HAFB (from 1907: District III of the NFV ) and won by SC Germania. The other founding members of this league were Altona 93, the FC Association, Borgfelder FC and Hamburger FC 1888.
Altona 93 and Germania were the only two teams that played continuously at the highest Hamburger grade to season 1912/13, Germania beyond to the HSV-founded in 1919. In 1913/14 a point round for the first time the North German space introduced, however came to a standstill again in the war years; Champion was Altona 93, another three Hamburg and Altona clubs as well as Borussia Harburg belonged to this league.
Clubs came and went, for example the HFC 1888 suspended in 1898 and 1899 and temporarily left the association (exit after the first half of 1897/98 and re-entry for the second half of 1899/00). Two founding clubs withdrew completely from the league: Borgfelder FC after the 1896/97 season and the FC Association two years later.
The team of Altonaer FC 1893, which at times consisted exclusively of German players, and the Germania team, which was mainly made up of players from different countries, were the only two clubs that were able to win the Hamburg City Championship in the first nine years of its existence: Germania was five times successful, the AFC 93 took the remaining four titles.
Over the years, new teams have been added or withdrawn. The best "newcomer" in the years before the First World War was SC (initially FC) Victoria, who joined the league in the 1898/99 season and soon developed into the AFC 93's biggest competitor. Because in the nine years between 1905 and 1913, these two teams made the title exclusively between themselves.
Final round games for the German championship
When an all-German football championship was held for the first time in the 1902/03 season , Altona 93 represented the HAFB and was able to qualify for the semi-finals with an 8-1 win against Magdeburg FC Viktoria 1896 , in which the AFC was defeated by the eventual champions VfB Leipzig . Nevertheless, Altona was able to enjoy the first final game of the German football championship when it was played on May 31, 1903 on the parade ground in Bahrenfeld .
In the following final round of the German soccer championship, Germania 1887 ( 1903/04 season ) and in the three following seasons of SC Victoria represented Hamburg soccer, but also did not make it past the semi-finals (Germania in 1904, Victoria after two elimination in the quarter-finals in 1907 ) like the AFC 1893 on its second attempt in 1909 . Thus in 1912 Holstein Kiel was the only team in the North German Football Association that could win the all-German football championship. The next North German club that succeeded in this was Hamburger SV 1923 (after the title had already been awarded to it at the green table the previous year , but had renounced it). To date, HSV is the only Hamburg club that has won the German soccer championship (six times in total). It is also the only club in Hamburg to have won the DFB Cup (three times ) and the European Champion's Cup ( 1983) and the European Cup Winners' Cup (1977) each .
In addition to HSV, the only "Hamburg" team that took part in the finals in national competitions was LSV Hamburg, which only existed in the war years between 1942 and 1944 . The military team, made up of a number of top-class (including national) players, played in the 1943/44 season of the Hamburg district quasi "out of competition"; because she only lost one point in 18 games, thus scoring 35-1 points and relegating HSV (28-8 points), Victoria (23-13), Altona 93 (20-16) and FC St. Pauli (16- 20) on your marks. In 1943 the LSV reached the final for the Tschammer Cup (2: 3 n. V. against Vienna Wien) and in 1944 the final for the German championship (0: 4 against Dresdner SC ).
In the 1930s and early 1940s, Eimsbütteler TV qualified a total of five times for the final round of the German championship, but failed in all cases in the preliminary round. Between 1948 and 1951, HSV and St. Pauli qualified four times in a row for the finals, but usually failed prematurely. Only FC St. Pauli managed to qualify for the semi-finals once ( 1948 ) during this period , in which the Kiezkicker narrowly failed (2: 3 afterwards) against the eventual champions 1. FC Nürnberg .
Hamburg clubs since the introduction of the Bundesliga
With the introduction of the Bundesliga in the 1963/64 season , Hamburger SV was accepted into the top division and was represented in the Bundesliga for 55 years until relegation on the last match day of the 2017/18 season. The only other Hamburg team that was already represented in the Bundesliga is FC St. Pauli, which has played a total of eight seasons there (1977/78, 1988/89 to 1990/91, 1995/96 and 1996/97, 2001 / 02 and 2010/11). The derby balance clearly speaks in favor of HSV, although it is an interesting aspect that St. Pauli has only won two derbies so far, but wins in the very first Bundesliga (2: 0) and the last Bundesliga (1: 0) - each at home law of the HSV (!) - were achieved.
When the Bundesliga was introduced, a broad Hamburg football culture was initially retained in the second -rate regional football league North , in whose opening season 1963/64 six Hamburg teams were represented: St. Pauli (won the championship in the first season and three times later ), Altona 93 (4th place), ASV Bergedorf 85 (8th place), Victoria Hamburg (11th place), Concordia Hamburg (16th place) and HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst (last and thus relegated at the end of the opening season) .
In the following season 1964/65 , in addition to the five remaining Hamburg teams, Rasensport Harburg was also represented in the league, but rose immediately again and in the following season 1965/66 Victoria also had to go to the third division. With the rise of SC Sperber and HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst, six Hamburg clubs were again represented in the Regionalliga Nord in the 1966/67 season . Due to various relegations, only two Hamburg clubs (St. Pauli and Barmbek-Uhlenhorst) were represented in the Regionalliga in the 1972/73 season , which were reinforced in the last Regional League season 1973/74 by the promoted Concordia Hamburg. Although Concordia took a respectable tenth place, it had to accept the downgrade to the third division due to the second Bundesliga that was introduced after the season , while St. Pauli was second and Barmbek-Uhlenhorst was fifth and was accepted into the second division north were allowed to celebrate. Barmbek-Uhlenhorst was already down after a year.
In the second division season 2018/19 , after the relegation of HSV, both FC St. Pauli and HSV are represented in the second division for the first time. The Hamburg city derby on September 30, 2018 in the Volksparkstadion ended in a goalless draw, the second leg in the Millerntorstadion ended with a 4-0 win for HSV. There were also encounters between FC St. Pauli and HSV in the 2019/20 second division season . The games on September 16, 2019 and February 22, 2020 were both won 2-0 by FC St. Pauli. Since HSV missed the promotion to the 1st Bundesliga for the second time, there will be city derbies again next season.
Clubs in Hamburg football based outside of Hamburg
With clubs from the Harburg district in Lower Saxony and the four districts in Schleswig-Holstein bordering Hamburg, clubs located outside of Hamburg are also part of the game operations of the Hamburg Football Association down to the district classes. In the current season 2018/19 these are, for example, in the regional league Eintracht Norderstedt and in the upper league of TSV Buchholz 08 , VfL Pinneberg , Wedeler TSV , SV Rugenbergen and TuS Dassendorf as well as in women's football of FC Union Tornesch , TuS Appen and SC Egenbüttel .
The historically most important sports facilities in Hamburg
The first important sports field in the greater Hamburg area was the parade ground in Altona (more precisely: Bahrenfeld) mentioned at the beginning of the previous chapter, on which the first final of the German soccer championship was played on May 31, 1903.
A few years later, SC Victoria opened the Hoheluft Stadium in the Hamburg district of Eppendorf , which was Hamburg's most modern sports facility in the years before the First World War. The stadium was the venue for the final of the 1912 German soccer championship , in which Holstein Kiel was the first team from the north to take the title. In addition, a total of five international matches for the German national team took place here between 1911 and 1940 . Today the Hoheluft Stadium with its listed grandstand is the most modern amateur stadium in Hamburg and a regular venue for the final of the Hamburg Cup , the winner of which qualifies for participation in the DFB Cup next season. Since the 2008/09 season, the stadium has also been suitable for the regional soccer league and has served as the home ground for the AFC 93 and the second team of FC St. Pauli while it was in the league.
After the opening of the Altona stadium , also located in Bahrenfeld, on September 11, 1925, it quickly gained in importance and was, among other things, the venue for the final of the 1928 German soccer championship , which HSV won (5-2 against Hertha BSC ). After a quarter of a century, the stadium, which was designed for 42,000 spectators, was torn down again and replaced by the larger Volksparkstadion , which opened in 1953 and is owned by HSV and is the only stadium in Germany to host all previous Bundesliga seasons until 2017/18 was. In addition, in 27 cases (between 1953 and 2014) it has served as the home venue for the German national team and was also the venue for both of the soccer world championships held in Germany ( 1974 and 2006 ) and the European soccer championship in 1988 . Two of his encounters that have long been remembered from a German point of view were the defeats in the preliminary group of the 1974 World Cup against the GDR (0: 1) and in the semifinals of the 1988 European Championship against the Netherlands (1: 2).
literature
- Norbert Carsten: Altona 93 - 111 league years in ups and downs . Verlag die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003. ISBN 3-89533-437-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Altona wins the oldest derby in Germany in the second oldest stadium!
- ↑ All champions of the Hamburg-Altonaer Fußball-Bund (with incorrect information about 1905, master was Victoria in the play-off, see Skrentny / Prüß : With the diamond in the heart , Göttingen 2008, page 27)
- ↑ Norbert Carsten: Altona 93 - 111 league years in the up and down , p. 23
- ↑ Norbert Carsten: Altona 93 - 111 league years in the up and down , p. 22