Lower Austrian Football Association

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Lower Austrian Football Association
(NÖFV)
Logo Niederösterreichischer Fußballverband.png
founding May 16, 1911
Vienna
as the Lower Austrian
Football Association
president Johann Gartner
Clubs (approx.) 510
Teams (approx.) 2200
Competitions 258
Seat St. Poelten , Austria
Homepage www.noefv.at

The Lower Austrian Football Association (NÖFV) is the association of football clubs in the federal state of Lower Austria and carries out its activities on a non-profit basis. The Lower Austrian Football Association is a full member of the Austrian Football Association (ÖFB) and is subject to its statutes

history

The years up to 1911

In Baden, in 1891, professors L. Lechner and H. Jülg introduced the soccer game during the gymnastics lesson in Baden's grammar school, and in the same year it was decided to found the Baden soccer club, in the west of Lower Austria on March 12, 1899 a soccer team from Herzogenburg. A total of 17 football clubs founded the Austrian Football Union in 1900 , which acted as the successor organization to the committee for organizing football competitions . After the disintegration of the Austrian Football Union , the two clubs First Vienna Football Club 1894 and Vienna Cricket and Football Club founded their own Austrian Football Association , to which the clubs from Lower Austria belonged. With Hugo Meisl , a new secretary of the ÖFV was elected in 1905, who later was also the referee and association captain of the wonder team. In 1907, 107 clubs broke the 100 limit, mostly from Vienna and Lower Austria.

1911 - 1938: Foundation of the association until the Nazi era

On May 16, 1911, the association was founded as the Lower Austrian Football Association (NFV), to which the Viennese clubs also belonged. In September of the same year, the first championship started in which eleven Viennese clubs participated. The first champion was SC Rapid in front of the Wiener Sportclub, WAF and WAC. The first domestic championship started on September 3, 1911 and should start with twelve clubs based on the English model . But AC Viktoria Wien merged with the Vienna Sports Association after the fourth round . Even then, the championship had mandatory kick-off times and relegation games were held between the first and second class.

Foundation and dissolution of FBiNÖ and FUAN

In 1914, SC Germania Schwechat was the first provincial champion of Lower Austria . After incidents, Vienna founded a counter-association, the Football Association in Lower Austria (FBiNÖ). This counter-association to the NFV tried to found the Football Union of Austrian Nations (FUAN) as a counter-association to the ÖFV , together with the DFVfB and Český svaz footballový (ČSF) . But two years later, both associations, FBiNÖ and FUAN, disbanded and the clubs that had joined FBiNÖ returned to the Lower Austrian Football Association.

VAFÖ is founded

The collapse of the monarchy and the founding of the First Republic in 1918 created completely new conditions in football. Smaller clubs felt poorly represented by the association during these years and united in an association that was later founded in 1926 as the Free Association of Amateur Football Associations of Austria (VAFÖ) and which had a great influence on Austria as a whole in the 1920s and 1930s Had soccer. This led to an upswing in Lower Austria in 1919 and 30 new clubs were allowed to call themselves provincial champions, but because of this split between the clubs it got so out of hand that the Lower Austrian championship could not be played to the end in 1926.

Division of NÖFV and WFV

Even after the First World War and the destruction of the dual monarchy , Vienna remained the capital of Lower Austria. After lengthy discussions, the “Separation Act” was passed at the end of 1921 and Vienna became its own federal state on January 1, 1922. This also had an impact on the association and on February 15, 1923 it was split into the Vienna Football Association and the Lower Austrian Football Association. The first president of the WFV was Ignaz Abeles , who was the founding president of the Lower Austrian Football Association in 1911. His successor in 1927 was Josef Gerö , under whose leadership the Lower Austrians joined the Vienna Association in 1928. Only five years after the split they were reunited. In 1930, SC Krems was the first Lower Austrian team to secure the title of amateur state champion of Austria. In 1933, the Lower Austria regional group of the VAFÖ, which was based in Vienna, had 161 associations with around 12,000 members. A championship was held in 11 protection groups , the name for the lowest division at the time.

1938 - 1945: Nazi era

Due to the increased spread of football in Lower Austria, increased attempts were made to set up an independent Lower Austrian football association, but the annexation of Austria by Hitler's Germany prevented this for the time being. The ÖFB with its 711 clubs (273 from Vienna and about 200 from Lower Austria) became the Ostmark Football Association .

1945 - 1960: After the Second World War

After the Second World War, a general assembly was called on August 6, 1945 in Tiber Ebert's Badner apartment . With 84 clubs and 3000 active players, despite hunger and hardship, destroyed and neglected sports fields, despite a lack of equipment and arduous journeys with irregular passenger trains or old, dented trucks, a regional championship company soon developed in Lower Austria . Karl Buchhart was elected as association president. Sporttoto, also called Toto today, was introduced in 1949. In 1950, Hans Rauscher was elected as president, who initiated the state league B in addition to the state league A and introduced himself to a state championship for secondary schools, later also called the student league . In 1955 the ÖFB, WFV, Niederösterreichischer Fußballverband and Staatsliga moved to a common building at Mariahilfer Strasse 99 in Vienna, so that the four associations were able to hold meetings and discussions at the same time. In 1958, Wladimir Sekyra followed the unexpectedly deceased Hans Rauscher. In 1959 it was decided in a meeting to introduce the Regionalliga Ost as a new second level as a replacement for the State League B.

From 1960 until today

In 1962, Karl Beck took over the presidency for Vladimir Sekyra. On March 4, 1967, the new Südstadt Stadium was officially opened in front of 10,000 spectators. In the opening game, FC Admira / Wacker beat Tyrolean club FC Wacker Innsbruck 3-1. In 1968/69 391 clubs and 452 youth teams took part in the game. In the 1973/74 season, the ten league was introduced in Austria and the construction of a NÖFV sports school in Lindabrunn began. In February 1974 the differences between the regional associations and the ÖFB escalated. Combat measures were decided against the ÖFB and the exit was threatened. Because of this pressure, the ÖFB general meeting in April passed the resolution to introduce the Bundesliga and a national league as the second highest level of performance with ten teams each, which also resulted in the discontinuation of the regional leagues.

In the 1985/86 season , the two top leagues with two twelve-leagues and a play-off round consisting of eight teams each (called Upper Play-Off - other names Master Play-Off ; Middle Play-Off; Lower- Play-Off - also known as relegation play-off ). The Regionalliga Ost was reintroduced through an initiative of the Lower Austrian Football Association. At the end of 1985, the NÖFV already comprised 466 clubs. In 1993 , the play-off system was abolished and a ten-league for the first level and a 16-league for the second level with new promotion and relegation regulations were introduced: Now the second-placed had the opportunity to be promoted through relegation.

organization

Office

Managing Director of the Lower Austrian Football Association:

president

After a four-year hiatus, he became President of the NÖFV again in 2016: Johann Gartner In between, the association was headed by Ludwig Binder for four years
After a four-year hiatus, he became President of the NÖFV again in 2016: Johann Gartner
In between, the association was headed by Ludwig Binder for four years

President of the Lower Austrian Football Association:

Committees and commissions

Committees and commissions of the Lower Austrian Football Association are:

  • Main group men (South, Southeast, West, Waldviertel, Northwest, North and one for top football)
  • Group chairman
  • Reserve worker
  • Judgment Committee
  • Control committee
  • Playground committee
  • Referee Committee
  • Women's Football Committee
  • Youth Committee
  • Youth main group chairman
  • School Football Committee
  • Protest presentation
  • Sports department
  • Legal lecture
  • Financial report
  • Youth Department
  • Disciplinary Unit
  • Honorary President
  • Honorary members

Football competitions

Championship for fighting team (men)

The Lower Austrian Football Association holds championships in six performance levels.

Power level league Teams
Austria Lower Austria
4th 1. 1st Lower Austrian National League 16 teams
5. 2. 2nd regional league east 14 teams
2nd State League West 14 teams
6th 3. Regional League North / Northwest 14 teams
Regional League Northwest / Waldviertel 14 teams
Regional League South / Southeast 14 teams
Regional League West 14 teams
7th 4th 1st class north 14 teams
1st class northwest 14 teams
1st class north-west center 14 teams
1st class east 14 teams
1st class south 14 teams
1st class west 14 teams
1st class west-center 14 teams
1st class Waldviertel 14 teams
8th. 5. 2nd class Alpine foothills 12 teams
2nd class Danube 12 teams
2nd class Marchfeld 12 teams
2nd class east 12 teams
2nd class east-center 12 teams
2nd class Pulkaufal 12 teams
2nd class Schmidatal 12 teams
2nd class Steinfeld 12 teams
2nd class Traisental 12 teams
2nd class Triestingtal 12 teams
2nd class Wachau 12 teams
2nd class Waldviertel Süd 12 teams
2nd class Waldviertel Thayatal 12 teams
2nd class change 12 teams
2nd class Weinviertel Nord 12 teams
2nd class Weinviertel Süd 12 teams
2nd class Ybbstal 12 teams
2nd class Yspertal 12 teams
8th. 5. 3rd class Hornerwald 10 teams
3rd class Mistelbach 10 teams
total 448 teams

A total of around 448 teams play in the performance levels. Of course, that varies from season to season.

Championship for reserve teams (men)

The reserve teams of the individual clubs are used in the respective league of the fighting team.

Championship for combat team (women)

The Lower Austrian Football Association holds championships in four performance levels. In the 2016/17 season these are:

Power level league Teams
Austria Lower Austria
3. 1. AK Lower Austria Women Regional League 10 teams
4th 2. Women's regional league industrial district 10 teams
Women's regional league Mostviertel 10 teams
Women's Area League Northwest-Waldviertel 6 teams
Women's regional league Weinviertel 8 teams
4th 2. Women's group south 10 teams
Northwest Women's Group 6 teams
Women's group west 8 teams
total 68 teams

A total of around 68 teams play in the various levels. Of course, that varies from season to season.

Championship in the youth field

In the junior division there are championships for U7 to U18 teams.

Lower Austrian championship cup

The Lower Austrian Football Association also organizes a cup competition . A cup competition for women is not played in Lower Austria.

Teams in the leagues

The following teams will play in Austrian leagues in the 2019/20 season

Men's

Women

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lower Austrian Football Association, Association at a Glance. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .
  2. ^ The history of the Lower Austrian Football Association. (PDF) Retrieved June 11, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Football Association in Lower Austria (FBiNÖ) was also called the Football Association in Lower Austria (FViNÖ), in the then edition of Illustrated Österreichisches Sportblatt there was also the abbreviation FINÖ for Lower Austria Football Association.
  4. ^ Herbert Wesely / Josef Steindl: NÖFV-Chronik von 1911–2011 , Niederösterreichischer Fußballverband, February 16, 2011 (PDF, 1.9 MB).