SC 07 Bürgel
The SC 07 Bürgel is a football club from the Offenbach district of Bürgel . It was founded in 1907 and was one of the leading teams in southern Hesse for the first two decades of its existence. In the years after the Second World War, they lost touch with the regional elite and have since played in the lower leagues of the football community.
history
The Sport-Club 1907 Bürgel was founded on May 18, 1907 on an initiative of eight young men, when the clubs in Offenbach and Frankfurt had already gained several years of experience in the still young sport. At that time there were already two teams in the village in the Mainbogen, but they did not belong to any association. The SC Bürgel managed to catch up with the regional elite within just a few years. In May 1908, the club was accepted into the South German Football Association, and as early as 1911, the SC 07 rose as champions of the B class after a 1-0 win in the decider against SpVgg Griesheim 02 in the top division of the time, the A class of the northern district of South German Football Association. There they played in the 1911/12 season against, among others, the long-established neighbors Kickers Offenbach and the Frankfurter FV , the predecessor club of Eintracht , and were able to play in this top division of the clubs until the outbreak of the First World War, which temporarily interrupted the game from Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Hanau and Offenbach stop.
After the war, the Bürgelers were among the founding members of the "Kreisliga Südmain", the new top division, and were one of the leading clubs in the early 1920s. On the pitch on Rumpenheimer Strasse, SC Bürgel did not lose a single league game from 1920 to 1923, but were only runner-up three times in these four years, so that it was never enough to achieve national success. After the round in 1922, they narrowly missed the Südmain championship, in the decisive game against VfL Neu-Isenburg , which was played in front of a record crowd of 8,000 spectators, the SCB lost 2-1 and thus missed the relay championship and the championship final . In 1923, a league reform meant that the team had to compete in the now much stronger "District League Main". The SCB finished last at the end of the 1924/25 round and was relegated to the second division. Two years later, in order to bundle local forces, they joined forces with SpVgg 1911 Bürgel to form 1. FC Blau-Weiß 07 . With combined forces, a club house was built on Rumpenheimer Strasse in 1928, and this merger also proved to be successful from a sporting point of view. In the season after the 25th anniversary, 1932/33, blue-white reached the promotion round to the district class, was able to prevail there and would ultimately have been promoted again to the top division. But the introduction of the Gauligen as the new "upper house" in football for the 1933/34 round prevented the return to the first class. In 1936 the club adopted the old name Sport-Club again in 1907 . The game could be maintained until 1942, but the team did not achieve any notable successes.
After the Second World War , championship games were played again from spring 1946. In 1949, when they were promoted to the second amateur league in Hessen, the SC Bürgel team, led by player-coach Rudi Reinhard, fought once again to get into the upper divisions. But when they were relegated from the 2nd amateur league Hessen in 1954, these ambitions were finally history, successes were only celebrated at the local level. In 1961 the SC 07 defeated the neighbor Germania Bieber in the final of the district cup and in 1967 they returned to the group league for three years, the second highest division in Hesse at the time. Since then, the SC 07 has moved in the regional classes of the football district.
Venue
The founders of the association used a pit from which a construction company extracted material for the production of bricks as a training and play area. For association games, however, you had to move to other places until the own place was inaugurated after several renovations and extensions in May 1912 and could be used for the home games of the Northern District League. In 1928 the first clubhouse was built on the site. The original building burned down in July 1963 and was replaced by a new building.
literature
- Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Hesse. Between FC Alsbach, Eintracht Frankfurt and Tuspo Ziegenhain. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-244-0 , p. 232.
- 100 years Sport-Club 07 eV (Festschrift), Offenbach-Bürgel 2007, ( online )