Hamburg-Altona Football Association

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The Hamburg-Altona Football Association (HAFB) was founded on October 20, 1894 as the "Hamburg-Altona Football and Cricket Association" . It was one of the first associations of this type in Germany, helped found the DFB and NFV and can be considered the first forerunner of today's Hamburg Football Association . Much earlier, in the winter of 1881/82, the first football match is said to have taken place in Hamburg, as in Berlin, by the British in the cities. Nevertheless, it took years before clubs were founded and the first "competitions" took place.

Founding and chairman

The founders of the HAFB were four associations, represented by Hermann Hambrock ( Altonaer FC from 1893 ), whom the assembly elected 1st chairman, as well as Wilhelm Schaaf and Bruno Krutisch ( Hamburger FC 1888 ), Henry Pape (FC Association 1893) and Emil Stuhlmann ( Borgfelder FC 1894). The meeting took place in the Hotel Schadendorf in Hamburg, at the corner of Steindamm and Große Allee (now Adenauerallee), one of the largest Hamburg hotels in the 19th century. Before the extraordinary Bundestag on December 8, 1894, probably at the end of November, SC Germania joined the HAFB in 1887 . The association set itself the goal of organizing championship games in the two cities. Altona was not yet a district of Hamburg at that time , but an independent Prussian city.

1. Chairman of the HAFB was the captain of Altona 93 , Franz Behr , with short interruptions . When he rose to the position of 2nd chairman of the DFB in 1903 and emigrated to South America in 1904, he was followed by Waldemar von Holten ( Germania ), Walter A. Cordua ( FC Victoria ), Gustav Siegmund (SC Sperber, from August 1906) and finally - as Siegmund moved to East Asia on business - Paul Koretz (Victoria). The later chairman of the North German Football Association was given the task of winding up the HAFB when the regional association was restructured (see below). The word “ cricket ” had already been deleted from the name at the beginning of February 1897, since this sport could hardly prevail anywhere in the German Empire except Berlin .

The number of member associations of the HAFB rose only slowly in the early years, especially since new entrants were confronted with almost as many exits or club dissolutions. In February 1900, the federal government brought eight clubs into the newly founded DFB; Five years later there were nine when the NFV was founded in Hamburg. This gave the federal government two sub-districts, Harburg / Lüneburg (also known as “North Hanover”) and Lübeck , which doubled the number of clubs. In the core area, several other clubs joined in 1906 and in the 1906/07 season, the last under the HAFB name, their total number was already 21, although the subdistrict Lübeck had reoriented towards Kiel.

Championships

Since the HAFB and its five affiliated clubs did not succeed in finding a suitable playing field to host championship games for a year, only friendly games were played in the 1894/95 season. Only in autumn 1895 could the small parade ground be used for point games on Sundays thanks to the concession of the military authorities in Altona.

In 1895/96 the HAFuCB organized the first championship games. The very first league game in Hamburg / Altona took place on September 1, 1895, Altona 93 lost 0: 5 to the FC Association. After the Association of German Football Players , which played the first championship in the German Reich in a cup round in late autumn 1890, and the German Football and Cricket Association in Berlin, which began its championship operation in the Reich capital in 1891/92, and the Thor- and the Berlin Football Association , which played point games for the first time in 1894/95, and the South German Football Union (no championship) founded in 1893 , the HAFuCB became the fifth oldest association overall and the first outside Berlin to hold championship games on German soil.

The five clubs mentioned at the beginning took part in the first round of the championship with two legs. The champions were unbeaten by SC Germania, whose team consisted mainly of foreigners, mostly British, who were familiar with the game and who had just as many points ahead of second in the table in eight games.

In the following season 1896/97 eight teams took part in the championship, of which Association had to withdraw temporarily after the preliminary round after the transfer of several players to other clubs. "Game education" (poaching) remained a constant nuisance for years. Borgfelder FC withdrew completely from the game at the end of the season and left the association. In general, there were always upsets, so the Hamburg FC 1888 left the HAFB after the preliminary round in 1897/98, rejoined in the spring of 1900, and after the end of the 1900/01 season, left again for a few months.

For the season 1897/98 a second division was formed for the first time, the initially eight II. And III. Teams of the top clubs belonged. By 1904/05 at the latest there were four classes, and by 1906/07 there were already six classes, because the larger clubs now registered four, five or even more teams. In contrast, the 1st class was always reserved for the first teams of the clubs, even in later years when the HAFB had become District III of the NFV.

Further course

Since there was still no uniform set of rules in Germany in the pioneering years and regional procedures were followed for years according to their own regulations (playing time of 40 minutes instead of 45 minutes, no penalties, etc.), the HAFB was the first German association to decide on March 21 1897 to adopt the rules of the English Association, " The Football Association ".

At the beginning of the 20th century, the first clubs in Hamburg and Altona slowly began to create their own, closed spaces, not least to be able to collect entrance fees, which was previously impossible. The SC Germania changed its venue to the Rennbahn Mühlenkamp and the St. Georger FC played at the Lübecker Tor and had two more seats on the Rönnhaidstraße in Barmbek . The FC Victoria changed from Heiligengeistfeld to Grindelberg, Altona 93 to Bahrenfelder racetrack , FC St. Georg 1895 again, this time to Sierichstraße, and Hamburger FC Velodrome at Rothenbaum .

On June 4, 1899, the first national test of strength between the teams of the HAFB and Berlin (VBB) took place on the Heiligengeistfeld in Hamburg. The city game, which Hamburg and Altona were able to win 6: 1, was attended by over 5,000 spectators, an enormous number for the time when point games usually only took place in front of a few hundred visitors. From 1903 to 1905, the champions of the Hamburg-Altonaer Fußball-Bund took part in the final round of the German soccer championship , from then on this was reserved for the NFV champions.

On April 15, 1905, under pressure from the DFB, the six football associations from Hamburg-Altona, Bremen , Kiel , Hanover , the Duchy of Braunschweig and Mecklenburg merged to form the North German Football Association . Kassel was also temporarily a member of the NFV (until 1906). The first restructuring followed in 1907 after some city associations, namely the HAFB, were not satisfied with the statutes of the NFV and insisted on their independence. It was not until the spring of 1907 that the NFV statutes were changed to the satisfaction of the member associations, and the last still independent city associations dissolved. On August 21, 1907, under Koretz's mediation, the HAFB became District III, Hamburg-Altona, of the NFV.

The Hamburg-Altona Football Association only had local competition in the 1902/03 season, when the Hamburg-Altona Football Club Association existed for a short time .

Master of the HAFB

  • 1895/96 :
    • SC Germania 1887
  • 1896/97 :
    • SC Germania 1887
  • 1897/98 :
    • 1st class: Altonaer FC 93
    • II. Class: unsafe
  • 1898/99 :
    • 1st class: Altona 93
    • II. Class: FC Victoria II.
  • 1899/00 :
    • 1st class: Altona 93
    • II. Class: Victoria II.
  • 1900/01 :
    • 1st class: SC Germania
    • "Ib": Eintracht Altona
    • II. Class: FC Hammonia II.
  • 1901/02 :
    • 1st class: SC Germania 1887
    • "Ib": SC Sperber 1898
    • II. Class: Altona 93 II.
  • 1902/03 :
    • 1st class: Altona 93 (after the play-off)
    • "Ib": FC Victoria
    • II. Class: SC Germania II.
    • "IIb": St. Georger FC 1895 II.
  • 1903/04 :
    • 1st class: SC Germania
    • II. Class: Altona 93 II.
    • III. Class: St. Georger FC II.
    • IV. Class: Altona 93 VI.
  • 1904/05 :
    • 1st class: FC Victoria (after play-off)
    • II. Class: FC Victoria II.
    • III. Class: Altona 93 IIIa
    • IV class: Altona 93 IVa
  • 1905/06 :
    • 1st class: FC Victoria
    • II. Class: Altona 93 IIa
    • III. Class: FC Victoria III.
    • IV class: St. Georger FC IV.
    • Sub-district Lübeck A-Class (2nd division): Lübeck BC 1903
    • Sub-district Lübeck B-Class (3rd division): Lübecker SV 1905 II.
    • Sub-district Harburg / Lüneburg A-Class (3rd division) FC Borussia 1904 Harburg
    • District champion II class: FC Altona 93 IIa (after the play-off)
    • District Master III. Class: Borussia Harburg (after the playoff)
  • 1906/07 :
    • 1st class: FC Victoria
    • II. Class: unknown
    • III. Class: not finished
    • IV. Class: FA in Eimsbütteler TV 1889 II. (Questionable whether finished)
    • V class: unknown
    • VI. Class: unknown
    • Sub-district Lübeck A-Class: Lübeck BC 1903
    • Sub-district Lübeck B-Class: Lübeck BC II.

(This sub-district no longer belonged to the HAFB after a time that was not exactly known)

    • Northern Hanover sub-district A-Class: Lüneburger FK 1901
    • Sykes Cup (first cup competition in the HAFB): FC / SC Victoria, final only in December 1907

In the seasons 1900/01 to 1902/03, the table was divided into an Ia class (four best-placed clubs) and an Ib class (remaining three to five clubs) after the preliminary round. In 1902/03 the same was done in class II.

See also

literature

  • Norbert Carsten: Altona 93. 111 league years in ups and downs . The workshop. Göttingen 2003 ISBN 3-89533-437-5 .
  • Bernd Jankowski, Harald Pistorius, Jens Reimer Prüß : Football in the North. 100 years of the North German Football Association. History, chronicle, names, dates, facts, figures. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-270-X .
  • Werner Skrentny, Jens R. Prüß: Always first class - The history of Hamburger SV . The workshop, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-469-3 .
  • Otto Tötter: A hundred years of German football - HSV . Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-89136-023-1 .
  • Udo Luy: Football in Northern Germany 1988-1914 (Volume 1), self-published, Kleinrinderfeld 2018

References

  1. ↑ Spiel und Sport No. 169 of October 27, 1894, p. 1.
  2. ↑ In contrast, Der Fußball writes in No. 37/1895 on page 287: "All federal competitions are held on the racetrack of the Renn- und Traber-Club, which is rented especially for this purpose." The same had racetracks in Bahrenfeld and at Mühlenkamp.
  3. ↑ More on this in the article North German Football Association .
  4. ↑ Five of the original eight (excluding II. And III.) Teams were withdrawn during the season. Of the three remaining, Altona 93 II had the most points by the end of March (5: 3), but there was still one game to go. Source for this, and for all information on the lower classes: Udo Luy, Fußball in Nordddeutschland 1888-1914 , Kleinrinderfeld 2018, here: page 61