Wacker 04 Berlin
Wacker 04 Berlin (officially: Sport-Club Wacker 04 e.V. Reinickendorf ) was a sports club from the Berlin district of Reinickendorf . The first soccer team played in the 2nd Bundesliga for four years in the 1970s . The association was dissolved in 1994 due to bankruptcy .
history
The club was founded on July 25, 1904 as Reinickendorfer FC West 04 . Four years later, it merged with Tegeler FC Hohenzollern, which was founded in 1905 . This merger took place in two stages. First, on July 8, 1908, Reinickendorfer FC West 04 merged with part of Tegeler FC Hohenzollern to form Reinickendorfer FC Wacker 04 . On September 18, 1908, the merger with the rest of the Tegeler FC Hohenzollern to form SC Wacker 04 Tegel was completed. In 1920 this merged with the club SC Corso 99 to form SC Wacker-Corso 99 Berlin . In the same year the merger was reversed. In 1945, SC Wacker 04 Tegel was dissolved and re-established as SG Reinickendorf-West . On March 13, 1949 it became Wacker 04 Berlin.
Until 1945
In 1917, Wacker Tegel was promoted to the top division in Berlin for the first time, from which the team immediately relegated. After the immediate rise again, Wacker was runner-up behind Union Oberschöneweide . It was only from 1921 that the team was able to establish itself permanently in the Berlin upper house and in 1923 provided Fritz Bache, a national player . The greatest success of the era was the runner-up in season A in 1929 behind Hertha BSC . Four years later, the club was included in the newly created Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg , from which the team immediately relegated. After the direct resurgence, the Wacker-Elf reached their most successful cup season in 1936. In the Tschammerpokal , the team first defeated Altona 93 and Victoria Hamburg , before losing to Werder Bremen in the third round . In 1937 , Wacker achieved the best placement in the Gauliga with third place behind Hertha BSC and Berliner SV 92 . Two years later, the team rose again and immediately returned to the top division. Curiously, Wacker played the first games of the 1940/41 season , although the promotion round of the previous season was not yet over.
1945 to 1974
After the Second World War , the SG Reinickendorf-West reached the Berlin City League in 1946 and came third there in 1947. In the following years, Wacker did not get beyond midfield placements. In the mid-1950s, the team fought relegation, which took place in 1956. The immediate resurgence succeeded, and Wacker continued to play between midfield and relegation battle. From 1963 the club played in the second-rate Berlin Regionalliga . There Wacker was one of the top teams, but regularly missed the first two places that entitle them to promotion to the Bundesliga . In 1971 it was enough for the runner-up thanks to 38 goals this season from top scorer Manfred Kipp . In the promotion round, however, Wacker had no chance and achieved only one victory with the 3-2 over 1. FC Nürnberg . A year later , the team secured the Berlin championship for the first time, but failed again in the promotion round. The association chairman Fritz Herz then complained about a deficit of 22,000 marks that had arisen from the trips. In the summer of 1972, the club took part in the League Cup, where they met Hamburger SV , FC St. Pauli and Hertha BSC. Wacker won his home game against Hertha and the away game at HSV. Wacker also failed prematurely in the third participation in the Bundesliga promotion round.
In 1974 Wacker was runner-up behind TeBe Berlin and successfully started the promotion round. A 1-0 win at 1. FC Saarbrücken was followed by a 5-0 win over 1. FC Nürnberg. According to the kicker , the Nuremberg team was “well served” with the result, as Wacker “missed a number of good chances”. A 1-1 draw at SG Wattenscheid 09 followed before the top game against Eintracht Braunschweig on May 19, 1974 . Three days before the game, goalkeeper Peter Scholich , defender Bernd Sobeck and playmaker Hans-Peter Mielke were injured in a collision during training . Despite a 1-0 lead, the Braunschweig team prevailed 3-1. 25,000 spectators in the Poststadion made for the highest number of spectators in Wacker history. Nuremberg retaliated with a 9-1 in the second leg. Nevertheless, Wacker achieved the best promotion round record in the club's history with 7: 9 points.
1974 to 1994
In 1974 Wacker was one of the founding members of the 2nd Bundesliga. There the team did not get beyond midfield positions at first, but caused some surprises. Wacker was able to win twice against Borussia Dortmund . For the 2nd Bundesliga, Wacker had to move to the Poststadion again, as the local Wackerplatz had neither field fences nor separate showers for the referees . In 1977 , the team was relegated as the third last. After the Bonner SC was withdrawn , the better placed 1. SC Göttingen 05 decided not to move up. The DFB then offered Wacker the right of replacement, but the club waived in favor of SG Union Solingen . Unbeaten Wacker secured the championship in the Oberliga Berlin in 1978 and prevailed in the following round of promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga. As bottom of the table, Wacker said goodbye to professional football in 1979 . After all, Wacker was able to host the games on Wackerplatz in the 1978/79 season after appropriate modifications . Two years later the club went down to the national league. It was not until 1987 that they were promoted to the league again. After two fourth places followed placements in the midfield. After reunification , Wacker was integrated into the Oberliga Nordost , from which the team was relegated directly. A year later, the financially troubled club almost got passed into the national league. On June 2, 1994 the association was dissolved.
After bankruptcy
The members of Wacker then joined the long-standing local rival BFC Alemannia 90 . As a concession to Wacker, the Alemannia footballers initially competed as SG Wacker-Alemannia and from 1998 as BFC Alemannia 90-Wacker . However, the name Wacker did not appear in the register of associations . Since the 2013/14 season, Alemannia has been competing without the addition of Wacker .
successes
- Champion of the Regionalliga Berlin 1972
- Champion of the Oberliga Berlin 1978
- Berlin Cup winners 1950, 1968, 1972
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Hardy Green , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 66.
- ↑ Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , p. 199.
- ↑ a b c d Hardy Greens: A training accident cost the Bundesliga . In: Zeitspiel, No. 10, page 45
- ↑ Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 , p. 81.
- ↑ Grüne (1997), p. 104.
- ↑ Bernd Karkossa: "Alemannia-Wacker never existed". (No longer available online.) Football Week, formerly the original ; accessed on March 28, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
