Cologne CfR

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Cologne CfR
Full name Cologne Club for
Lawn Games 1899 e. V.
place Cologne
Founded May 1899
Dissolved July 13, 1937
Club colors green white
Stadion Riehler Radrennbahn
Top league Gauliga Middle Rhine
successes Champion of the Gauliga
Mittelrhein 1936

The Cologne CfR (officially: Cologne Club for Lawn Games 1899 eV ) was a sports club from Cologne . The first soccer team played for four years in the then first-class Gauliga Mittelrhein and twice took part in the Tschammer Cup , the forerunner of the DFB Cup .

history

The club was founded in May 1899 by dissatisfied members of the Cologne gymnastics club as FC Borussia Köln . On June 12, 1901, dissatisfied members of Borussia split off as Kölner BC 01 , which in 1948 became 1. FC Köln . FC Borussia Köln, in turn, took on the name of Kölner CfR on May 3, 1914 . On July 13, 1937, the Cologne-based CfR merged with the Cologne-based SC 1899 to form VfL Cologne 1899 . This association in turn merged on July 1, 2013 with the FSV Köln-Nord 1991 to form the 1st FSV Köln 1899 .

In 1902, FC Borussia was one of the teams that played championship games in West Germany for the first time. After four years of first class, Borussia was relegated and returned four years later. The most successful time as FC Borussia followed. In 1911 and 1912 the Cologne team were runner-up behind Jugend Düren before Borussia won the relay championship in 1913. In the finals of the Rhenish South District Championship, the Cologne team met Union Düsseldorf and parted 3: 3 after extra time . The Düsseldorf team won the replay 2-1 after extra time.

After the end of the First World War , the club, which has meanwhile been renamed Cologne CfR, played consistently in the top division and always achieved top positions, but without seriously playing for the championship. Goalkeeper Karl Zolper completed his first and only international match for the German national team in 1925 . It was not until 1927 that the lawn players secured the Rhine district championship after a 4-1 win in the decider against SV Odenkirchen 07 . The Cologne team reached the West German Championship and met Duisburger SpV , FC Schalke 04 , Fortuna Düsseldorf , SV Kurhessen Kassel , Arminia Bielefeld and Hagener SC 05 . The lawn players finished next to last with a win and a draw.

In the following years the Cologne team slipped back into the middle of the table and only qualified for the newly created Gauliga Mittelrhein in 1933 with a lot of luck. After a year of mediocrity, the lawn players secured the runner-up behind VfR Köln 04 rrh in 1935 . Also in 1935 the club had to give up its sports field on Amsterdamer Strasse after a flood . The club played from the start in the Riehler Radrennbahn and promptly secured the Gaume Championship in the 1935/36 season. The Cologne team qualified for the German championship final , where they met Fortuna Düsseldorf, SV Waldhof 07 and FC Hanau 93 in the group stage .

The first four games were all lost before the lawn athletes won the last two games, which were meaningless for the team. The club took part in the Tschammer Cup twice. In the first round of the 1935 season , the Cologne team failed in the first round 3: 4 after extra time at Hannover 96 . A year later , the CfR met local rivals SSV Vingst 05 and achieved a goalless draw after extra time. In the replay, Vingst clearly won 8: 3. On July 13, 1937, the Cologne CfR merged with the Cologne SC 1899, after both clubs had reached their sporting and economic limits.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Hardy Green , Christian Karn: The big book of German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 270.
  2. ^ A b German Sports Club for Football Statistics : Football in West Germany 1902/03 - 1932/33 . Berlin 2009, p. 9, 47, 51, 58, 131 .
  3. ↑ Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , pp. 143, 146, 154.