SV EK Veilsdorf
The SV Elektro-Keramik Veilsdorf is a multi-discipline sports club in the southern Thuringian municipality of Veilsdorf .
The club, founded in 1990 as the successor to the company sports association Motor Veilsdorf, offers sports such as soccer, athletics, table tennis, fistball and bowling. The Weihbachgrund stadium is available for this purpose, with seating for 5,000 spectators (1,500 seats), a grass pitch and a running track.
Development of the sport of football
After the Second World War, the company sports association (BSG) Chemie Veilsdorf was founded under the sponsorship of the Veilsdorfer Porzellanfabrik. Their first football team rose in 1954 to the third-class football district league Suhl . From 1956 the BSG appeared under the name "Motor". In 1962, the football players were able to celebrate a promotion again, because by winning the district championship they had qualified for the now third-class II. GDR league . Since after the end of the 1962/63 season the second GDR league was dissolved, the Veilsdorfer then played again in the district league, which was now again 3rd division in GDR football. In 1964/65 Motor Veilsdorf reached first place in season 1 of the district league, but lost 6-0 to ASG Vorwärts Meiningen in the final of the district championship .
Then Veilsdorf occupied places in the midfield of the district league for years, before 1975 the district championship could be won again. Motor Veilsdorf was thus qualified directly for the second-rate GDR league . Without players with higher-class experience, the team struggled, with only five wins in 22 league games and a goal difference of 16:28, 1975/76 was the penultimate, but only because the second teams from the league teams in the next Season were no longer eligible to play in the GDR league. The "second" from Jena, Karl-Marx-Stadt and Zwickau therefore relegated or were integrated into the newly created junior league. In the 1976/77 season Veilsdorf could not prevent relegation with only two wins.
Until the end of the GDR football operation in 1990, Veilsdorf was a permanent guest in the Suhl district league from 1988 as BSG Elektro-Keramik. After the introduction of the DFB system in East Germany and the founding of SV Elektro-Keramik, Veilsdorf was represented in the Thuringia regional league until 2001 , after which he was relegated to the Thuringia regional class, the seventh highest in the DFB game since 2008. Up until the 2013/14 season, the club played continuously in the west and south seasons of the state class, then relegated to the Erfurt-Sömmerda district league, in which Veilsdorf is currently playing (as of 2015/16 season).
League overview:
- until 1954 district class Suhl
- 1954–1962 district league Suhl
- 1962/63 Second GDR League
- 1963-1975 District League Suhl
- 1975–1977 GDR League
- 1977–1990 District League Suhl
- 1990–2001 State League Thuringia
- 2001–2014 state class Thuringia
- since 2014 district league South Thuringia