Eschweiler SG

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Eschweiler SG
Full name Eschweiler sports community 1906
place Eschweiler
Founded 1906
Dissolved 2017
Club colors blue yellow
Stadion Patternhof
Top league Association League Middle Rhine
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The Eschweiler Sportgemeinschaft from 1906 was a German sports club from Eschweiler in North Rhine-Westphalia . The sports community had a checkered history of mergers. The founding year referred to the oldest Eschweiler football club "FC Hohenzollern 1906" .

history

The founding of the large Eschweiler Sportgemeinschaft in 1939 was an amalgamation forced by the Nazis "in order to use bundled strength and energy to make the strengths of Eschweiler visible far beyond the borders of the hometown through sporting success". The club therefore adopted the city colors as the club colors: blue and yellow. One of the predecessor clubs was the " Eschweiler Ballspielverein 06 ", which emerged from the clubs FC Hohenzollern 1906 and India . On the other hand, there was the " Sportgemeinschaft Grün-Weiß Eschweiler ", which gradually emerged from FC Borussia Eschweiler 1910 , FC Prussia Eschweiler , FC Viktoria Eschweiler and Sportfreunde Schwarz-Weiß . The large club now ran all of the then popular sports under one roof: in addition to football , handball , gymnastics , athletics , swimming and boxing.

The heyday of Eschweiler football took place between 1920 and 1965: before the Second World War by the kickers of Grün-Weiß, after the war by those of the ESG club. No Eschweiler soccer team has ever got beyond the top amateur class, but there have been successes in the cup, where they occasionally defeated higher-class teams. Grün-Weiß Eschweiler reached the main round of the Cup in the Tschammer Cup in 1938 after victories over SpVgg Köln-Sülz 07 (2: 1), Rhenania Würselen (2: 1) and Bayenthaler SV (3: 2). Here SSV Velbert was initially defeated 3: 1 and Grün-Weiß failed in the following round only narrowly to make it into the round of 16, when they were defeated 1: 2 against SV Waldhof Mannheim in front of 5000 spectators. In 1940, the new SG Eschweiler club made it to the final round of the Tschammer Cup . Among other things, TuS Duisburg was defeated 3: 1 in front of 3,000 spectators in 48/99 , the last sixteen was the final destination: against Schwarz-Weiß Essen, ESG lost 2: 5 in front of 3,000 visitors.

The forced merger with ESG, which was ordered before the war, was not called into question after the war, and the aim was to continue to achieve great sporting success with all of their strengths. In 1946, the games for the Rhine district championship followed together with clubs such as Alemannia Aachen, VfR Cologne , Preußen Dellbrück and BC Kohlscheid, but the ESG fell short of expectations. At the beginning of the 1950s, the club played in the national league, the highest amateur class. 1956 was a crucial year. As the highest amateur class in the Middle Rhine, the Mittelrhein Association League was to be created. The 5th place under coach Hans Pfefferkorn was enough: The ESG was in the association league. In the following years, the ESG played a good role in the association league with alternating placements in the middle of the table. In the 1963/64 season she even made Karl-Heinz Krott the current top scorer. And the good tradition was continued in the West German Cup. In the years 1956, 1959, 1961 there were victories over Alemannia Aachen , Wuppertaler SV , Meidericher SV and Borussia Mönchengladbach .

In the 1960s, the sporting success waned, the Eschweiler sports community only managed to get promoted to the association league again in 1973, but the financial burdens were too great and the club was faced with a large mountain of debt. Nevertheless, the club managed to maintain the amateur level between the association and state league in the following decades; the last promotion to the association league Mittelrhein was celebrated in 2000. The financial authorities again became aware of the sports community, which had to reckon not only with considerable taxes , but also with social security contributions. The attempt with coach Martin Plum in the 2001/02 season to make the impossible possible nonetheless failed. After a few games, the 1st team had to be withdrawn from the game. The large club was dissolved and the individual departments became independent clubs, whereby the club name ESG was largely retained, as was the case with the footballers, whose name is now "Eschweiler Sportgemeinschaft 1906 Fußball eV".

After the debt relief, the football department in District League B started a fresh start. In October 2017, the association confirmed the bankruptcy and dissolved.

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