Olympia Neumünster
Olympia Neumünster is a sports club from Neumünster . The first soccer team played in the highest amateur league in Schleswig-Holstein for eight years . The first women's handball team played in the Regionalliga Nordost for five years .
history
On April 1, 1909, the original cell of the club was founded with SC Olympia Neumünster . In 1936 this merged with MTV 1859 Neumünster to form today's MTSV Olympia Neumünster .
Soccer
The SC Olympia was the oldest football club in the city and reached the top division for the first time in 1919 with promotion to the Holstein district league. From 1921 the club was able to establish itself in the top division and strengthened itself in 1926 with the Norwegian national player Herbert Lunde . Three years later, the Olympics took part in the North German Championship, where the team failed in the first round 2: 4 at Hamburger SV . In 1933, Olympia was not accepted into the Gauliga Nordmark .
It wasn't until after the Second World War that things started to improve again. In 1952 and 1958 they were promoted to the Schleswig-Holstein State League , where the team was only able to hold out for one or two years. In the meantime crashed into the district league, the team missed qualification for the newly created Verbandsliga Nord in 1968 , which was then achieved in 1971. Two years later he became Olympic champion and returned to the national league, where they never got beyond mediocrity.
Olympia became the elevator team . Two relegations in a row led the team in 1980 to the district class , before two promotions in a row Olympia led back to the national league. In 1987 both the A and B youth became national champions. The first team succeeded in renewed promotion to the top division of the country, now known as the association league . There Olympia had to relegate immediately and in 1993 slipped again into the district league. After the club did not provide a team for a few years, a new start in the district class B was undertaken in 2010 , where the team immediately made promotion.
In 2013 Olympia rose to the Association League South-West . Three years later, the club withdrew the team during the current season. With Stefan Schnoor , the club produced a Bundesliga player.
Handball
The handball players made it into the third-class Regionalliga Nordost in 1996 . There the best placement was achieved in the debut season with fourth place. In 2004 the team was relegated and four years later made it again. The handball players joined forces with SV Tungendorf to form SVTO Neumünster . The later chairman of the board of the German Sports Aid Foundation, Hans-Ludwig Grüschow, played for the Olympics in the 1950s.
athletics
The Athletics Department of Olympia brought Werner Bahr a fourfold German champion in the high jump out. Heinz Böthling became German indoor champion in the 3000 meter run in 1960 .
literature
- Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 , p. 64.