Sports fans Salzgitter

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Sports fans Salzgitter
Club logo
Full name Sports club Sportfreunde
Salzgitter eV
place Salzgitter , Lower Saxony
Founded 1941
Dissolved unknown
Club colors
Stadion Sportfreunde Stadium
Top league Amateur Oberliga Niedersachsen (men)
Regionalliga Nord (women)
successes

Sportfreunde Salzgitter was a sports club from the Salzgitter district of Lebenstedt . The first men's soccer team played for 16 years in the highest amateur league in Lower Saxony and took part in the DFB Cup three times . The first women's soccer team played in the Regionalliga Nord for two years .

history

In the middle of the Second World War , VfL Lebenstedt was founded in 1941 , whose football department was named Sportfreunde Lebenstedt a year later . In 1965 it became Sportfreunde Salzgitter. Before that, the Fortuna Lebenstedt club split off from the Sportfreunde in 1954 . In 1999 the Sportfreunde split up into three clubs. The footballers stayed under their names. The rowing department founded the rowing club on Salzgittersee , while the remaining departments brought the SC Salzgitter Sportfreunde into being.

Men's soccer

In 1949 the Sportfreunde were one of the founding members of the Amateur League 4 . Four years later, the team was runner-up behind local rivals SV Union . Finally, the Sportfreunde became champions in 1958 and made it into the then second-class amateur league Lower Saxony- East. At the same time, the club became a cup scare. In 1957, 1961, 1964 and 1975 the Lower Saxony Cup was won. In the North German Cup, Hannover 96 was eliminated by drawing lots . In 1961, the sports fans went back to the amateur league.

The return to the Upper House of Lower Saxony succeeded in 1963. Due to a league reform, however, the sports fans promptly rose again and rose again in 1965 as the first champion of the newly created Association League East . This time too, the team missed relegation. Only after the renewed rise in 1970 was it possible to establish oneself in the Upper House of Lower Saxony for a longer period of time. In 1972 the promotion round to Regionalliga Nord was narrowly missed in fifth place , three years later the best placement in the club's history came in fourth.

In the 1975/76 season , Sportfreunde took part in the DFB Cup for the second time since 1961. In the first round, the team lost to SV Weiskirchen with 0: 1. A year later , the Sportfreunde prevailed against Hülser FC 2-1 , before the amateurs of FC Bayern Munich caused the Salzgitter team to be eliminated in round two with a 2-1 win. In 1977 the team was relegated from the regional league and slipped two years later because of another league reform at the district level. It was not until 1985 that they returned to the Braunschweig regional league and in 1994 they were promoted to the East Lower Saxony league .

For the 1997/98 season, the main sponsor withdrew and the Sportfreunde were knocked off with a total of seven points and were passed through to the district league a year later. In 2002, the team was relegated with only three points from the district league, before relegation from the district class followed a year later with just one point. At VfB Peine , the sports fans lost 0:17. In 2008 the company was promoted to the Salzgitter district performance class . A year later, the team was deregistered and has not participated in the game since then.

With Peter Kleeschätzky , Peter Lux and Martin Przondziono, the Sportfreunde produced three Bundesliga players.

Women's soccer

The first women's team of the Sportfreunde played between 1993 and 1995 in the then second-rate Regionalliga Nord. After a ninth place in the 1993/94 season, relegation followed a year later as a knocked-off bottom of the table. The team remained without a win and only reached two draws. In the 2008/2009 season, the women's team was district league champions, but they rose twice in the following two years, so that they now play in the district league. In 2010 the entire team moved to MTV Lichtenberg.

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. 370.