Ludwigsfelder FC

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Ludwigsfelder FC
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Basic data
Surname Ludwigsfelder Fußballclub eV
Seat Ludwigsfelde , Brandenburg
founding May 30, 1996
Website ludwigsfelder-fc.de
First soccer team
Head coach Aaron Muller
Venue Forest stadium
Places 7500
league Oberliga Nordost Süd
2019/20 13th place
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The Ludwigsfelder FC is a football club in the Brandenburg industrial city Ludwigsfelde , south of Berlin. It was founded on May 30, 1996, the club colors are red and white.

historical development

The history of the association goes back to 1938. At that time, the Ludwigsfeld businessman Erich Vogler founded the VFB Ludwigsfelde, which was renamed Rot-Weiß Ludwigsfelde in 1939. This association existed until 1945, before it was finally dissolved at the end of 1945 at the end of the Second World War due to Directive No. 23 of the Allied Control Council of the Occupying Powers and at the instigation of the Soviet military administration . From 1946, sports competitions were allowed in the Soviet occupation zone on a limited local level and the formation of loosely organized sports communities (SG) was permitted. In Ludwigsfelde, the SG Vorwärts Ludwigsfelde was established again in 1946 on the initiative of Erich Vogler.

Logo of BSG Motor

After the East German sports structure was reorganized to the system of company sports associations (BSG) from 1948 , the Ludwigsfelder agricultural machine rental station (MAS) took over SG Vorwärts in 1952 and formed the BSG Traktor Ludwigsfelde. In a short time the BSG carrier companies and with it the name of BSG changed to Aufbau (1952) and Motor (1953). The BSG Motor Ludwigsfelde finally existed until the end of the GDR and developed into a sports center with numerous sports sections. It was carried by the industrial works IWL, later IFA-Automobilwerk . Sports such as handball, athletics, cycling and judo were offered. World boxing champion Henry Maske was trained at BSG Motor, and the football section had a successful second division team in the late 1980s.

When the economic situation in East Germany changed fundamentally after the political change in 1989 , the IFA plant stopped its logistical and financial support for the BSG. Then in 1990 the BSG was founded in the civil association SG Motor Ludwigsfelde, which initially continued the previous sports operation. In the following years, various sports departments gradually split off and founded their own clubs. The football department separated from the SG in 1996 and founded the Ludwigsfelder football club on May 30, 1996.

Sporting development

Up until the 1960s, Ludwigsfeld football played no role nationwide. It was not until 1963 that BSG Motor succeeded in becoming third-class in the GDR football game operation through promotion to the Potsdam district league . Since the district league was reduced from two to one season after the 1963/64 season, the 10th place in Ludwigsfeld was not enough to qualify for the next season. After two years in the district class, Motor rose again to the district league and was then able to assert itself there for the next few years. 1974 Motor Ludwigsfelde became district champion and at the same time qualified for the second-rate GDR league . Again, a 10th place in the twelve teams comprehensive season B was not enough for relegation, so that from 1975/76 had to be played again in the district league. In the years 1984 to 1986 the BSG won the district championship title three times in a row. In the meantime, the championship no longer automatically led to promotion, the district champions had to complete a promotion round. In 1984 and 1985 the Ludwigsfelder failed, but in 1986 they won their promotion round and rose to the GDR league for the second time.

With the former goalkeeper of the junior and junior national team Matthias Prieß as well as the former GDR Oberliga players Ronny Dau (Stahl Brandenburg), Heiner Thomas (1. FC Magdeburg, 1. FC Union Berlin) and Herbert Kuscha (1. FC Union Berlin) the team had strengthened so much that this time relegation was secured. Through further reinforcements in 1987 with Eckhart Märzke (Hansa Rostock, Brandenburg), Ingo Kimmritz (Brandenburg) and in 1988 with Heiko Lahn (Union) as well as in 1989 with the national player Norbert Rudolph , BSG Motor succeeded in making it into the GDR league until 1990 to claim. After relegation in 1990, the newly founded SG Motor spent the last year of GDR soccer games in the Potsdam district league.

In the GDR soccer cup , Motor Ludwigsfelde was represented in six competitions between 1968 and 1990. The BSG was most successful in 1988/89 when it reached the quarterfinals. It was only there that she was defeated 1: 4 by the top division club FC Karl-Marx-Stadt. In 1975 Motor reached the second lap, otherwise it was always over after the first appearance.

After the introduction of the DFB game operations in East Germany, SG Motor started in the 1991/92 season in the then fifth-class Brandenburg State League. It took six years before Ludwigsfelder FC, which had been newly founded a year earlier , made it into the association league in 1997 . The LFC played there for seven years, until 2004 they were promoted to the then fourth-class, since 2008 fifth-class Oberliga Nordost . In 2003 the LFC won the Brandenburg Cup and qualified for the 2003/04 DFB Cup . There the Ludwigsfelder were eliminated in the first round after a 1: 9 home defeat against the Bundesliga club and later cup winner Werder Bremen. Andreas Fricke scored the goal for the LFC in the 80th minute to make it 1: 7. In 2011 the LFC rose from the Oberliga and in 2013 from the Brandenburgliga to the seventh-class regional league. In 2016, the LFC succeeded again in being promoted to the Brandenburg League. In 2018 the LFC became national champions and once again rose to the Oberliga Nordost Süd.

Stadion

Ludwigsfelder FC uses the municipal forest stadium, a multi-purpose sports facility located in the north of the city. The soccer area has two natural grass and one artificial grass pitch. The audience capacity is 7500. The covered grandstand, which was completed in 2010, has 368 seats. The stadium was built in 1941 on what was then the factory premises of Daimler-Benz Flugmotoren GmbH and was named Waldstadion even then.

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