SG Wallau / Massenheim
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| Full name | Game community Wallau / Massenheim | ||
| Abbreviation (s) | SG WM | ||
| Founded | August 1, 1975 | ||
| Club colors | blue White | ||
| Hall | Wallau country hall | ||
| Places | 800 | ||
| Trainer | Ralf Ludwig | ||
| league | District League (HSG Wallau / Massenheim)
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| Website | www.hsgwm.de | ||
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| Greatest successes | |||
| National |
German champion 1992, 1993 DHB cup winner 1993, 1994 Supercup winner 1994 |
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| International |
IHF Cup Winner 1992 |
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The SG Wallau / Massenheim was an amalgamation of the handball departments of the TV Wallau and the TuS Massenheim. The syndicate became known in the 1990s when it won two German championships and the IHF Cup once. After several insolvencies, TV Wallau temporarily competed in the HSG FrankfurtRheinMain gaming community and as SG Wallau. In 2014, a gaming community was founded again, which competed in the district league as HSG Wallau / Massenheim until 2019. For the 2019/20 season, the HSG Breckenheim Wallau / Massenheim was formed with TV Breckenheim, whose 1st team plays in the Oberliga Hessen.
history
The SG Wallau / Massenheim was created in 1975 through the merger of the handball departments of TV Wallau and TuS Massenheim from the districts of Wallau ( Hofheim am Taunus ) and Massenheim ( Hochheim am Main ). At the beginning of the 1990s it was the most successful German handball club with various national and international titles. In 1998 it was renamed “SG W / M Frankfurt - Die Panther” for marketing reasons. From 2000, the club resumed as SG Wallau / Massenheim. After TuS Massenheim's withdrawal from the gaming community in 2008, SG Wallau continued gaming operations. One year later they joined the HSG FrankfurtRheinMain syndicate. After their dissolution, the team was active again as SG Wallau from 2011. After the bankruptcy, they returned to their origins for the 2014/15 season: HSG Wallau / Massenheim was founded as the successor to the two original parent clubs TV Wallau and TuS Massenheim.
The HSG Wallau / Massenheim plays its home games in the “Ländcheshalle” in Hofheim-Wallau, which can hold around 800 spectators .
1975–1983: The beginnings and march through to the 2nd Bundesliga
The club started - in the first season after it was founded - in 1975/76 in the Main-Taunus district class. At that time, the newly formed team "from the Ländche " lost the decisive home game on February 21, 1976 and thus missed promotion to the district league. In the following seasons, however, coach Norbert Anthes' team started an unexpected march. In 1981, due to a new class division, fourth place in the major league was enough to move into the regional league. Through targeted reinforcements, u. a. with the backcourt director Željko Zovko (28-time Yugoslav national player; later often player-coach), he was promoted to the 2nd division in the 1982/83 season.
1983–1990: First and second Bundesliga
For the "adventure" 2. Bundesliga came to 1983/84 Horst Spengler - one of the world champion of 1978 - as coach after Wallau. Despite some injury concerns, the SG had at least one theoretical chance on the last day of the game to make direct promotion in the first second division season. With a 13:20 defeat by leader Griesheim against Schutterwald and a 35:11 win against relegated Haßloch, the promotion could be celebrated on the evening of May 5, 1984 in the Ländcheshalle, which was completely overcrowded with over 1500 spectators. The SG Wallau-Massenheim had reached the top German league only nine years after it was founded.
However, this was followed by direct descent a year later . In the following second division season, the SG could not play for promotion. In the Walter-Köbel-Halle in Rüsselsheim - in which the SG played their Bundesliga games since 1984 - the team did not lose points, but this was ultimately not enough to participate in the relegation round. In 1987 , the syndicate was promoted to the handball upper house again.
In order to keep the class this time, u. a. National player Stephan Schoene (TuRu Düsseldorf) and the Finn Mikael Källman (BK 46 Karis / FIN) signed. Despite poor away record it reached at the end just to remain in the first division. For the 1988/89 season , the successful Croatian coach Velimir Kljaić took up his post in Wallau and immediately reached fifth place in the Bundesliga with the “Ländches team”. The following season the SG finished in 3rd place and failed in the first play-off round at Milbertshofen .
1990–1994: Master years
One year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the SG engaged the former GDR selection players Peter Hofmann and Mike Fuhrig (both previously SC Leipzig ) for the 1990/91 season and strengthened their position among others. a. with the national player Martin Schwalb ( TUSEM Essen ). In addition, the team of coach Velimir Kljaić played for the first time regularly in the ball sports hall built by the city of Frankfurt for 40 million marks (approx. 5000 spectators) from 1990 .
The investments paid off a year later. 1992 was the most successful year in Wallau's club history. In the play-off final, SG Wallau / Massenheim defeated the traditional club SG Leutershausen with 24:17 and thus secured the German handball championship for the first time. In the final of the IHF Cup , the syndicate prevailed against the Belarusian SKA Minsk team and thus also received international honors. Team captain Mikael Källman was the first foreigner to be voted handball player of the year .
For Velimir Kljaić, the future national coach and world champion coach Heiner Brand took a seat in the SG coaching bench in 1992 . The second German championship title was won at the end of the 1992/93 season with a seven-point lead over the second-placed TV Niederwürzbach . With a 24:21 win against Bayer Dormagen in the final of the final round of the DHB Cup , the "Ländchestruppe" also secured the double. The real highlight of the season was the final second leg of the European Champion's Cup held in front of 10,000 spectators in the Frankfurt Festhalle . The 22:18 victory in front of the home crowd was not enough for the big triumph due to the away defeat at the Zagreb ice rink.
In the Bundesliga, the champions and cup winners disappointed a year later: In 1993/94 they were “only” fifth and a clear eleven points behind the new German champions THW Kiel . Heiner Brand threw in the towel at halftime of the season. Burkhard Keller trained Wallau as an interim coach until the end of the season. The team only provided highlights in the DHB Cup . At the "Final Four" held for the first time in 1994 in the Hamburg sports hall, the SG met SG Flensburg-Handewitt in the final and were able to repeat the previous year's victory with a 17:14. In the game for the Supercup between champions and cup winners, the team was also able to assert itself against the newly crowned champions from THW Kiel.
1994–2000: Average Bundesliga years and renaming to SG W / M Frankfurt
In the following seasons, the sporting success was largely absent. Coach Björn Jilsén , a striker in the service of the SG in the second division, played offensive speed handball, but was unable to intervene decisively in the fight for the German championship.
The professional handball was spun off in 1996 to the SG Wallau / Massenheim Spielbetriebs- und Vermarktungs-GmbH. The new company was responsible for the economic administration of the license area.
At the beginning of the 1996/97 season there was a lot of investment in the team. After the departure of Mikael Källman, u. a. the two French world champions Frédéric Volle and Marc Wiltberger as well as the Russian world-class cyclist Dmitri Torgowanow the team. In addition, master maker Velimir Kljaić returned to the coaching bench during the season. At the end of the season it was enough for fourth place; Backcourt player Martin Schwalb was top scorer and handball player of the year .
After a very good start to the 1997/98 season , there were several defeats in the middle of the season, whereupon Velimir Kljaić announced his resignation. Martin Schwalb, who ended his active career after finishing third at the European Championships in 1998, initially took over the coaching position together with Armin Emrich . With sixth place in the table and participation in the semi-finals in the Euro City Cup, the season came to a satisfactory end. In 1998 the name was changed to "SG W / M Frankfurt - Die Panther". The turn to the Main metropolis had marketing-related reasons and should above all interest new sponsors for the club in order to be able to survive economically in the "strongest league in the world" in the long term. In the 1998/99 season the 6th place was taken, a year later the 12th place. The alleged move turned out to be a flop, however, from 2000 onwards they returned to SG Wallau / Massenheim.
2000–2004: The "young wild ones"
In the year 2000 a very young and inexperienced team attracted attention with respectable successes. Due to ongoing financial difficulties, at the beginning of the new millennium, the club had to rely more on its own youth and the sighting of young players with prospects. Trainer Martin Schwalb led a. a. Players like Steffen Weber , Christian Rose , Gregor Werum , Jan-Olaf Immel , Pascal Hens and Dominik Klein on the national and international stage.
After the surprise entry into the final four for the DHB Cup in Hamburg in 2000 , the media quickly started talking about the "young and wild ones". A year later, the team also started in the Bundesliga and secured fourth place in the table ahead of champions and cup winners THW Kiel in the 2000/01 season . In the following season, the "Ländchestruppe" also made it to the semi-finals of the EHF Cup .
However, the euphoria did not turn into long-term success. The young team could not meet the high expectations in the seasons 2002/03 and 2003/04 with ninth place each.
2004–2005: bankruptcy and forced relegation
2005 turned out to be the blackest year in the gambling community's 30-year history. After an unexpected lack of sponsorship funds in autumn 2004, the club, which was already financially troubled, faced insolvency. Although the management of the SG has not been able to pay players' salaries since January 2005, the team performed courageously until the end of the season and secured at least 10th place in relegation.
The gaming operations and marketing company, however, meanwhile had a debt burden of an estimated 1.27 million euros. For weeks the association tried to find new donors to avert the impending bankruptcy . The sale of "licensor" T-shirts and a benefit game in front of 2,500 spectators in the Frankfurt ball sports hall against long-time rival THW Kiel were not enough to save the game. The Wallauers received no new license for the handball Bundesliga, the economic sponsoring company had to file for bankruptcy. The SG Wallau / Massenheim had to withdraw from the Bundesliga game operations at the end of the season and try a new start with the second team in the Regionalliga-Südwest .
2005-2007: Regionalliga
The group of players on which the club was able to count on its new start in the third-highest handball division consisted of experienced regional league players from the SG “Regio-Team” and some young talents from the A-youth who had won the German youth championship the year before . Only Sebastian Linder , Captain Mathias Beer, Markus Rossmeier and Fabian Bohnert had experience in the 1st or 2nd league. The goal for the 2005/06 season was direct resurgence.
First of all, SG Wallau / Massenheim lived up to its role as the season favorite and remained without any point loss until matchday 15. In the Parzival sports hall, however, the team of coach Jörg Schulze lost to the promotion competitor TV Kirchzell . The decision to move up should not be made until the season finale on May 20, 2006. In front of over 1000 spectators at Wallauer Ländcheshalle, there was again a clear 30:40 defeat against the team from Kirchzell. As second in the table, the team initially remained in the Regionalliga Südwest.
Under the new SG coach Carsten Bengs , SG had an unfavorable start to the season with two defeats in the following 2006/07 season. After a race to catch up with 24 wins in a row, the SG took over the championship lead for the first time with a clear 30:22 win against TSG Groß-Bieberau with three games to go . A week later, the "Regio-Team" was able to secure the Southwest German Championship away from TSG Haßloch and thus celebrate their return to the Bundesliga handball.
2007–2009: Second Bundesliga, end of the syndicate
The start of the 2007/08 season of the 2nd Bundesliga was mixed for the young team. At the beginning of the season only strengthened by goalscorer Wilm Hetkamp from relegated TV Kirchzell and junior national player Steffen Fäth , the SG started the first half of the season with five defeats in a row. After a “golden October”, the team initially seemed acclimatized and was able to come up with victories in Eisenach and against TSG Friesenheim in particular . After fluctuating performance and another series of defeats, Wallau dismissed coach Carsten Bengs in November 2007 and hired former player Mike Fuhrig , who had previously looked after the A-youth, as coach. At his side, the club management around managing director Hans-Dieter Großkurth put Bengs' predecessor Jörg Schulze as the sporting director. The new coaching team succeeded in establishing the team in the midfield of the table, with the team particularly attracting attention with their successes against the third-placed team from Willstätt and the ambitious HSC Coburg . In the final table, the newcomer was able to place himself on a safe 8th place.
After TuS Massenheim terminated the syndicate in April 2008, the team started the 2008/09 season as SG Wallau and finished 13th in the table.
2009–2011: HSG FrankfurtRheinMain syndicate in the 2nd Bundesliga
At the end of March 2009, SG Wallau withdrew the license application for the 2nd Bundesliga and announced that they would set up a syndicate, HSG FrankfurtRheinMain , together with league competitor TSG Münster , in order to strengthen handball in the Rhine-Main area. Only the 1st team was involved in this syndicate. The former 2nd team continued to play in the Hessenliga as SG Wallau and also took part in the DHB Cup. In 2011 the HSG FrankfurtRheinMain waived a license application for the new single-track 2nd handball Bundesliga and the two clubs played independently again; SG Wallau in the Oberliga Hessen, TSG Münster in the 3rd division.
2011–2014: Oberliga and 3. Liga, bankruptcy
From 2011 to 2013 the first team of SG Wallau played in the Oberliga Hessen. As a league leader with no loss points, promotion to the 3rd League East was achieved in 2013, from which the club voluntarily withdrew at the end of the 2013/14 season.
2014–2019: New start in the district league and further withdrawal
After the bankruptcy of SG Wallau, the local handball sport was reorganized after the 2013/14 season. As a successor, the HSG Wallau / Massenheim was founded as a syndicate of the clubs TV Wallau and TuS Massenheim. The new HSG began playing in the District League A. When there were no longer enough players available for the 2017/18 season, the team was withdrawn, so that the syndicate only started with one team in the District League C, from which they were promoted to the B class in 2018.
The A-Jugend achieved promotion to the A-Jugend-Bundesliga in the 2016/17 season , where they were also represented in the 2018/19 season .
Since 2019: Game community HSG Breckenheim Wallau / Massenheim
For the 2019/20 season, the HSG Breckenheim Wallau / Massenheim was founded with the neighboring TV Breckenheim , both in the youth and active areas. The first team plays in the fourth-class Oberliga Hessen .
Well-known former players
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Trainer
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Supervisors and physiotherapists
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Youth work
In addition to men's handball, the SG Wallau (still in a youth game community with TuS Massenheim) is primarily involved in promoting young talent and was honored in April 2008 by the Hessian Sports Fund for its exemplary youth work.
The SG Wallau can also boast some sporting successes in the youth handball division. The A-Youth was last German Youth Champion in 2005, the C-Youth 2007 Southwest German Champion and the B-Youth 2009 also Southwest German Champion and thus made it to the quarter-finals of the German Championship, where they beat the eventual German Champion SG Flensburg-Handewitt eliminated the competition.
Web links
- official website
- Current articles in the Wiesbadener Kurier
- HSG Frankfurt RheinMain syndicate with TSG Münster
Individual evidence
- ↑ SG Wallau and TSG Münster announce merger , article in the Wiesbadener Tagblatt from March 25, 2009 ( 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. , accessed April 2, 2009
- ↑ handball-world.com: Management confirmed: SG Wallau withdraws from the 3rd division on May 4, 2014, accessed on July 16, 2014
- ↑ The future of handball in the Ländchen begins anew wiesbadenaktuell.de, May 25, 2014, accessed on April 17, 2016.
- ↑ The HSG Wallau / Massenheim withdraws its 1st men's team Press release from the HSG Wallau / Massenheim, in: Handball-Zeitung, September 6, 2017, accessed on November 27, 2017.
- ↑ A-youth of HSG Wallau / Massenheim buys Bundesliga ticket wiesbadenaktuell.de, May 29, 2017, accessed on July 9, 2017.
- ↑ A duo becomes a trio. Joint press release of the TV Breckenheim handball department and the HSG Wallau / Massenheim, January 14, 2019.
