SV Arminia Hanover

Arminia Hanover
Basic data
Surname	Sports club Arminia e. V. Hanover
Seat	Hanover , Lower Saxony
founding	April 12, 1910
Colours	Green-white-green
Website	arminiahannover.de
First soccer team
Head coach	Skerdi Bejzade
Venue	Rudolf Kalweit Stadium
Places	approx. 16,000
league	Oberliga Lower Saxony
2019/20	11th place
home Away

The SV Arminia Hannover (officially: Sportverein Arminia eV Hannover ) is a sports club with a large football department in Hanover . The club was founded on May 1, 1910 and has about 800 members in the football, futsal , American football , inline skater hockey , table tennis and poker departments . The club colors are green-white-green.

The first soccer team has been playing in the fifth-class soccer league of Lower Saxony since its promotion in 2014 . In the 1920s and 1930s , Arminia took part in the finals for the German championship three times and then played in the first-class Gauliga Lower Saxony and Oberliga Nord . In 1967 and 1968, the team failed in the promotion round to the Bundesliga , in the 1970s Arminia played four years in the 2nd Bundesliga North .

The venue is the Rudolf Kalweit Stadium on Bischofsholer Damm in the Bult district . Contrary to the club colors, the Arminia players are known as the “blues”, which is related to an association-related peculiarity from the early days of German football.

history

Early years (1910 to 1933)

View from the Waterloo Column to the square around 1900

On May 1, 1910, a dozen high school students, business apprentices and clerks founded the FC Arminia Hannover at the foot of the Waterloo Column . This played for two years at Waterlooplatz , before the club moved into the so-called "Black Square" on the Kleine Bult, the parade ground of the Uhlan regiment. In the same year the club joined the North German Football Association . At that time there was a regulation in Hanover that each jersey color could only be worn by one club. The green preferred by Arminia was awarded to the 1897 foot sports club , a forerunner of today's HSC . Arminia first played in "silver gray" with the letters "FCA" for FC Arminia on the chest. In 1913, after the merger of the Hanoverian Football Club from 1896 and the BV Hannovera 1898 to form the Hanoverian Sports Club from 1896, the game color blue of the BV Hannovera became available, for which Arminia successfully competed and which is still played today.

In 1915 the club rose to the Hanover city league and immediately secured the championship with a 3-2 win over local rivals Eintracht . On August 23, 1918, Arminia merged with rugby playing SV Merkur 1898 to form SV Arminia-Merkur von 1898 Hannover . Merkur brought the space on Bischofsholer Damm, which was converted into a stadium, into the merger, which has been Arminia's home since then. In February 1920 the SV Arminia-Merkur became the SV Arminia again. In 1920 Arminia moved into the finals for the North German championship for the first time and reached the final after 3-1 victories over Geestemünder SC and ABTS Bremen .

There Arminia managed a 2-1 win after extra time over Borussia Harburg . An anecdote says that the Harburgers were irritated by a plane that flew over the field during extra time. For the first time the North German championship title went to Hanover. In the quarter-finals of the German championship , the "blues" failed 2-1 after extra time against outsider Titania Stettin . The later national player Eduard Wolpers became a tragic figure, who missed a penalty when the score was 1-1 . Despite the failure, Arminia rose to the local number one and lured his supporters to the stadium in an unusual way. Instead of hanging up posters, the club flag was hoisted on the downtown Kröpcke on match days .

With the exception of the 1926/27 season, Arminia took part in the North German championship year after year, but was mostly in the shadow of the Hamburg clubs. Only in 1930 did the team play for the German championship again; On the last day of the match, she secured the North German runner -up with a 5-1 win over Hamburger SV . In the round of 16 at the Reich level, the “blues” had to bow to the upstart Schalke 04 with 2: 6 in the neutral Bochum .

Three years later, the Armines were able to qualify for the German championship for the third time. Under the English coach William Townley , the "Bischofsholer" were again North German runners-up after a 3-0 play-off win against Eimsbüttel TV . At the national level, a sensational 2-1 win after extra time at Dresdner SC was achieved in the round of 16 . In the quarter-finals, the Armines were eliminated after a 3-0 defeat against eventual champions Fortuna Düsseldorf .

Arminia during the National Socialism (1933 to 1945)

After Adolf Hitler came to power , Arminia fell into the shadow of local rivals 96. Although neither clubs were opposed to the new regime, the 96 benefited from closer personal contacts with party officials. In terms of sport, the “blues” were among the founding members of the newly established Gauliga Niedersachsen , where the team only missed the championship in the first season because of the poorer goal quotient against Werder Bremen . Three years later, Arminia won the runner-up again.

When local rivals 96 won the German championship in 1938, the Armines were on a sporting slide. In terms of sport, the "Bischofsholer" were relegated in the 1938/39 season due to the poorer goal quotient compared to the MSV Lüneburg before a decision at the Green Table ensured they were relegated . No referee appeared for the Arminia game at ASV Blumenthal . The clubs played a friendly game , which Blumenthal won 4-0. Suddenly the game should be rated with this result, which the Hanoverians protested against. A replay was scheduled, against which the Blumenthalers protested. Finally, the Reichsfachamt football decided that the game would not be repeated and that Arminia would not be relegated. By the end of World War II , Arminia could not get beyond midfield positions. One of the few highlights of this period was an 11-1 derby win over Hannover 96 in the 1943/44 season.

Elevator years after the war (1945 to 1963)

Josef Posipal

On October 2, 1945, the SV Arminia was dissolved and re-established as SV Bischofshol . The old name was adopted again in December of the same year. Reinforced by some players from Berlin such as Fritz Apel , the team qualified in 1947 for the newly created first-class Oberliga Nord . In the very first season , the Arminen around the eventual world champion Josef Posipal reached sixth place, while the 96ers had to relegate. The hope of a change of power in the city was not fulfilled for Arminia, since 96 returned to the league without a fight for the 1949/50 season.

Arminia didn't get beyond midfield in terms of sport. The biggest day of this era was a 10-2 victory over Hamburger SV on snow-covered ground. At the end of the season, Fritz Apel and Werner Heitkamp from FC St. Pauli were top scorer in the Oberliga Nord with 21 goals this season. After the "blues" in the following season 1954/55 had only been able to hold on to a 6-1 victory over St. Pauli in the league, the team missed the runner-up a year later by just one point. In 1957 the relegation from the league followed. On the last day of the match, the Armines led 2-0 against their direct rivals VfL Wolfsburg at halftime, but the team lost 5-2.

As champions of the Lower Saxony- West amateur league, which included a 10-0 win over Falke Steinfeld , Arminia qualified for the promotion round, in which the team had no chance. 1959 was missing in the league promotion round only one point on Eintracht Osnabrück . Instead, the “blues” reached the final of the German amateur championship , which was lost 3-2 to FC Singen 04 in neutral Offenburg . In 1961, the team spectacularly missed the Lower Saxony championship ; a 1: 5 defeat at Leu Braunschweig was followed by a 7: 4 victory on their own place. In the league promotion round, the Hanoverians forced a deciding game on the last day of play with a 5-1 win over their direct competitor Bremer SV , which the Bremen team won 4-1.

A year later finally succeeded in the league promotion. Even in the amateur top division season, the team was hungry for goals with 124 goals scored. Kickers Emden , for example, was defeated 14-0. In the promotion round, the "blues" remained without losing points and rose. On November 11, 1962, Arminia welcomed 62,000 spectators to the home game against Hamburger SV in the Lower Saxony Stadium.

Regional league years (1963 to 1974)

From 1963 Arminia belonged to the second-class Regionalliga Nord . There, the team took third place in the opening season under the 31-year-old coach Horst Witzler . Because the club was in debt with around 200,000 marks , Arminia had to let performers such as the later national player Lothar Ulsaß go. Nevertheless, the "blues" remained in the top third of the league and were able to celebrate a 10-0 victory over lawn sport Harburg in the 1964/65 season.

A year later, the club's chairman Paul Georg Berghoff invested heavily in the team and issued the slogan “Either we will become champions - or we will return the license”. With a 0-0 draw against St. Pauli on the last day of the match, Arminia became champion, but missed promotion due to injuries. During the following season 1967/68 one did not get going because of internal quarrels. Only when this turbulence was resolved did the team return to their form and secure the new championship with a 2-0 victory over VfB Oldenburg . What was curious was that Arminia became the championship leader for the first time on the last day of the match.

Even in the second attempt it did not work with the Bundesliga promotion. The offensively harmless team was bottom of the table and ridiculed in the press as a storm of rabbits . President Berghoff died in October 1968, and the team slipped again into mediocrity. Three years later, rumors surfaced that the club's management was planning to withdraw from the regional league. From 1971 Arminia was also harassed by the upstart OSV Hannover . In 1974, the "blues" missed the newly introduced 2nd Bundesliga , the introduction of which Arminias had been campaigning for years.

In the 2nd Bundesliga and back (1974 to 1982)

Under the leadership of the new chairman Otto Höxtermann , Arminia wanted to escape the third class. Coach Gerd Bohnsack was poached from the OSV and signed for the storm Karl-Heinz Mrosko . After a thrilling title race, Arminia was runner-up behind VfB Oldenburg, but failed in the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga to Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Union Solingen . A year later the “blues” were more successful. After the championship in the Oberliga Nord, after a 6-0 win over Union 06 Berlin, they were promoted .

Now the Bischofsholer wanted to take over the local leadership position from 96. However, the team did not get beyond positions in the lower third of the table. After they were able to save themselves from relegation in the 1977/78 season with a 1-1 draw against Preußen Münster , the “blues” reached their sporting zenith a year later . With rank 12, Arminia was able to achieve a better final placement than the 96 for the last time. However, the descent followed; three coach changes during the season and chaotic conditions on the board caused a sporty decline. The penultimate round Arminia lost the namesake of Bielefeld with 0:11 - this is still the heaviest defeat in the history of the 2nd Bundesliga. The club, which was in debt with 1.1 million marks, faced an uncertain future.

In the following league season Arminia had to tremble again for relegation. In 1982 the "Blue" runners-up behind the amateurs from Werder Bremen and moved up into the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga. On the last day of the match, Arminia missed the promotion with a 1: 5 defeat against BV Lüttringhausen in the neutral Münster , as TuS Schloß Neuhaus overtook the Bischofsholern with a 1: 1 against Tennis Borussia Berlin.

Creeping decline (1982 to 1997)

During the 1980s, Arminia attracted attention more through internal squabbles than through sporting successes. It sank increasingly in the middle of the Oberliga Nord, and the number of spectators steadily declined. In 1987 there was another runner-up, this time behind SV Meppen . In the promotion round only one victory succeeded when SpVgg Erkenschwick was defeated 3-0.

After the missed ascent, the “blues” were in danger of relegation. One of the few sporting highlights of this time was the 1989/90 DFB Cup season , in which Bundesliga club FC 08 Homburg was defeated 2-1 and in the second round with a 2-4 draw against 1. FC Köln . A year later , the club, now in debt with 1.5 million marks, rose from bottom of the table in the Lower Saxony Association League .

In 1994 the team qualified for the newly created Oberliga Niedersachsen / Bremen , in which the team only secured relegation with a strong second half. Due to the rise of Sportfreunde Ricklingen in the regional league , Arminia was only the sporting number three in town from 1996 onwards. Under the new coach Rainer Behrends , the "Blue" 1997 championship league championship behind Eintracht Nordhorn . In the relegation games for the regional league promotion, the team prevailed against Heider SV and was again third class.

From the regional to the state league (1997 to 2011)

There Arminia met local rivals 96 again, in which Arminia came to a 4-3 victory in the second half of the season in front of 9,925 spectators. Markus Erdmann was the top scorer of the Regionalliga Nord with 34 goals this season and had a large share in sixth place. In the next season, the team found itself in a relegation battle and in 2000 missed the two-pronged regional league. Back in the Oberliga Niedersachsen / Bremen, the team narrowly missed the championship. The deficit on champions 1. SC Göttingen 05 was three points . While the club recovered financially, Arminia slipped into mediocrity. Nevertheless, she was able to qualify in 2004 for the re-introduced single-track Oberliga Nord. There, too, the team did not get beyond midfield positions.

On May 15, 2007 the board of directors filed for insolvency at the Hanover District Court . This was withdrawn in July, as the association and the insolvency administrator succeeded in persuading the creditors to waive or settle the debt and thus discharge the association. However, SV Arminia did not receive a license for the 2007/08 season and was therefore relegated to the Niedersachsenliga West , which was renamed the Oberliga Niedersachsen in 2008 . As the fourth in the table, the “blues” were relegated to the sixth-class regional league in Hanover due to a league reduction .

There the team immediately became champions, but had to contest a relegation round due to the merging of the two league seasons. With a 2-1 win on the last day of the match against SC Langenhagen , Arminia was immediately promoted again. Since the Oberliga Niedersachsen was reduced from 20 to 18 teams for the 2011/12 season, six teams had to be relegated at the end of the season. The Armines finished sixth from last and hoped in vain for license withdrawals for other clubs. Since Kickers Emden was only granted the license at the last second and had to file for bankruptcy only six months later, the Hanoverians sued the association.

Present (since 2011)

With the championship in the Landesliga Hannover in the 2013/14 season, however, the return to the Oberliga Niedersachsen was successful. Two years later , Arminia only saved themselves on the last day of the game with a 2-1 win over Eintracht Northeim . Subsequently, Arminia was able to establish itself in the Lower Saxony Oberliga and reached sixth place in the 2018/19 season .

successes

• North German football champion 1920
• Champion of the Regionalliga Nord 1967, 1968
• Champion of the Oberliga Nord 1976
• Lower Saxony champions 1959, 1962

Personalities

Bruno Akrapović (1988–1990) Fritz Apel (1947–1955) Dame Diouf (2007) Justus Eccarius (1951–1955) Gerhard Elfert (until 1965) Martin Giesel (1979-1983) Michael Gue (1981-1984) Paul Janke (2009-2011)

Karl-Heinz Mrosko (1974–1979 as a player; 1983–1985 and 1989–1990 as a coach) Werner Olk (1956–1960) Jupp Posipal (1946–1949) Joachim Thimm (1957–1961) Lothar Ulsaß (1960–1964) Dennis Weiland (1998–1999, 2009–2010) Eduard Wolpers (1920-1940) Klaus Wunder (1969–1971)

More teams

Second team

The most successful period of Arminia Hannover's second team began with promotion to the Lower Saxony amateur league in 1963. A year later, they qualified for the third-class Lower Saxony state league . There the team took third place in the 1967/68 season behind SV Meppen and VfV Hildesheim , so they qualified for the German amateur championship. In the second round, the Arminen were able to prevail against 1. FC Pforzheim before failing in the quarter-finals at the Remscheid Marathon .

A year later, Arminia's amateurs were runner-up in the national league behind Leu Braunschweig and again took part in the amateur championship. In the second round, the "blues" prevailed against VfL Pinneberg and met SV Göppingen in the quarter-finals . The first leg in Göppingen was lost 7-0, Arminia won the second leg in their own stadium "only" 5-0. In 1973 Arminia was relegated from the regional league and was promptly passed through to the regional league. Since relegation in 2010, she played in the 1st district class in Hanover City. However, no second team has been registered since 2014.

Youth football

The male A-youth of Arminia Hannover was able to qualify twice for the German football championship of the A-Juniors . While the little Arminen failed in the first round at 1. FC Köln in 1978 , the semi-finals were reached two years later . Here came the end after victories over Rot-Weiss Essen and Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin by FC Schalke 04.

The male B-youth took part in the German championships three times . When she first participated in 1979 , Arminia reached the semi-finals via Fortuna Düsseldorf and Borussia Dortmund , in which Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin was able to prevail. A year later , Arminia first prevailed against Concordia Hamburg and failed in the quarterfinals at Fortuna Düsseldorf. When they last participated in 1982 , the end came in the first round against VfR Neumünster .

Women's soccer

In 1977 the SV Arminia women's team won the Lower Saxony Cup . Since being promoted in 2011, the team has played in the Hanover district league. Three years later, Arminia's women were runner-up behind SG Mellendorf / Resse .

Other sports

In addition to soccer, the club also plays American football ( Hannover Spartans ), futsal , handball , inline skater hockey , poker , tennis and table tennis . The tennis division was founded as early as 1918, while the now defunct departments for hockey , batting and athletics were added to the program. The coat of arms of HC Hannover still reminds us that the hockey players founded their own club with it in 1923. The table tennis department was added between 1925 and 1930. From 1931 there was a women's department. In 1970 women became active again in the club and also formed a team in the club's parade discipline. After the rise of the women's soccer team in 1990/91 in the district league and the district championship, you joined a game community with Lehrter SV in 1992/93. After a season, however, the game was suspended because not enough players came together. The youngest departments of the club are the American football department, which succeeded the insolvent Hannover Musketeers as Arminia Spartans in 2006 and offers this sport an attractive sports field with the Rudolf Kalweit Stadium and, since 2009, the inline skate hockey department Hannover Hotshots and since 2010 the futsal department. Since October 1, 2012, SV Arminia Hannover has been the first club in Germany to introduce an independent poker division in addition to the already established sports.

literature

• Bernd Jankowski, Harald Pistorius, Jens Reimer Prüß : Football in the North. 100 years of the North German Football Association. History, chronicle, names, dates, facts, figures. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-270-X .
• Horst Voigt: SV Arminia Hannover. Sutton, Erfurt 2003, ISBN 3-89702-524-8 .
• Christian Wolter: On the history of the football stadiums in Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . New episode. Vol. 60, 2006, pp. 5-52.

Web links

• arminiahannover.de
• Fan Club 77
• hannover-spartans.com - American football department
• sv-arminia-hannover.de - table tennis department

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 , pp. 301-304.
2. ↑ Cf. Grüne (2004), p. 125.
3. ↑ 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. 180.
4. ↑ See Grüne (1996), p. 247.
5. ^ Hardy Green, Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 213.
6. ↑ See Grüne (1996), p. 339.
7. ↑ Cf. Grüne (1996), p. 399.
8. ↑ Chain reaction from Koblenz to Hanover , noz.de from February 2, 2012.
9. ↑ http://www.fussball.de/verein/sv-arminia-hannover-niedersachsen/-/id/00ES8GN7A400000CVV0AG08LVUPGND5I#!/section/clubTeams
10. ↑ nfv-www.de: The women's national cup , nfv-www.de. (accessed on March 6, 2013)