SV Braunau
The sports association Braunau was a football club from the Upper Austrian district capital Braunau am Inn . On January 31, 2002, the club was forced to cease playing and dissolve for financial reasons. From the 1993/94 season until the club was dissolved, the club played eight and a half seasons in the second-rate first division .
In May of the same year, a football club, FC Braunau, was founded, which continues the tradition of the SVB, but is not its official successor club.
history
SV Braunau was founded in 1919 with the colors black and white in the team room of the Braunau barracks. The first friendly match against SV Ried took place in the summer of this year . In the season 1920/21 the young club won superior to the championship in the 2nd class Gau Salzburg , as one second of three classes of the substructure for the time from the Football Association for Upper Austria and Salzburg aligned League Upper Austria-Salzburg served. The Braunauers who played their home games on the parade ground at that time clearly prevailed against the clubs SV Ried, SV Vöcklabruck , 1. Salzburger SK 1919 Reserve and SK Nordstern Salzburg . In the qualifying games for the relegation against the bottom of the Upper Austria-Salzburg league , Braunau failed with two defeats against the two other Gaume champions Sparta Linz (1: 3) and Freiheit Steyr (0: 3). In addition, SV Braunau played friendly games in the early years, mostly against teams from neighboring Bavaria and the state of Salzburg .
After the game was completely stopped in 1940, SV Braunau was revived in 1945 and took part in a championship for the first time. In 1947 and 1948, he won two championship titles in the regional 2nd class, each ahead of local rivals SV Ried, ATSV Altheim and ATSV Ranshofen . Then the SVB played in the second highest division of the Upper Austrian Association, where they achieved two runner-up titles. 1963 followed the relegation to the third division and a decade characterized by regular promotion and relegation, before you could establish yourself again in the second national league from 1972. After 13 years in this division, promotion to the regional league was achieved in 1985. The Braunauer were able to stay in this league for three years, then relegation followed. But in 1991 the SVB started to march through, first winning the title in the second regional league and, as a climber, immediately winning the national championship title in 1992.
After failing in the promotion relegation middle at the LUV Graz in the season 1991/1992 , in the following season after the second championship title in a row in the Upper Austrian regional league in the play-off against the SAK Klagenfurt and SV Flavia Solva Wagna and moved into professional football for the first time.
| SV Braunau | |
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| Club data | |
| Full name | Sports Association Braunau |
| Founded: | 1919 |
| Association dissolution: | 2002 |
| Club colors: | Black-and-white |
| Last President: | Walter Lugmayr |
| Last trainer: | Radan Lukic |
| Last supplier: | Erima |
| Last league membership: | First division |
| Last placement: | 8th place ( 2000/01 ) |
| Stadion | Grenzlandstadion Braunau |
| Capacity | 7500 |
Professional football
After the club had managed to stay in the league without any problems in the first year of its membership in the 2nd division, despite a team that was almost unchanged except for the ex-international Peter Hrstic in the regional league, the Innviertel team set much higher goals for the 1994/95 game . However, Braunau missed the target place between fifth and eighth by a long way , despite the first high investments in players like Matthias Bleyer or Damir Kneževic . If you were in eighth place after the autumn round, after a slump in the spring you even got into the relegation battle, to which the previous successful coach Ernst Knorrek fell victim in the penultimate round before the championship ended and Ernst Weber was replaced there. Of the two purchases, the disappointing Kneževic was sold back to his home country to HNK Rijeka in winter , Bleyer only met expectations in the last third of the season and was second on the scorers list of the 2nd division. In the end they managed to stay in the league with 11th place in the table.
In the following year , a lot of money was invested in the team with the obligations of the Bundesliga tried players Dietmar Emich and Christian Kraiger in order to put an end to the dominance of the great Innviertel rival SV Ried . With a 4-0 away win against FC Kufstein in the first round of the championship, they were leaders of the 2nd Bundesliga for the first time in the club's history, before they slipped to the bottom of the table after a series of six games without a win and only returned to the fall with a strong final spurt got into midfield of the league. In spring, the club then had to struggle with financial problems for the first time due to the bankruptcy of main sponsor Glorit . In addition, in March 1996, the departure of trainer Weber to the Austrian U-21 national team , whereby the eighth place in the table in the middle of the league could be booked as a success. Striker Bleyer prolonged his good form from the second half of last season and was second on the scorers list with 15 goals this season behind Zoran Toskic from Kufstein .
In the 1996/97 season a new main sponsor had been found in the Sparkasse , but had to cope with the departure of defense chief Gerhard Fellner to VSE St. Pölten and top scorer Bleyer to FC Linz , which could not be replaced over the entire season. The team stagnated, had nothing to do with promotion or relegation and ended the season in seventh place in the table.
In the following season they tried for the first time with the commitment of a total of four Nigerian talents, including the later quarter-finalists of the Olympic football tournament Blessing Kaku in 2000 , to increase the playing level of the team. Above all, defender Louis Udoh turned out to be a stroke of luck and developed into an important part of the second best defense in the league with 27 goals conceded behind First Vienna FC . In the reform year of the 2nd division with the reduction from 16 to ten teams including renaming to the 1st division, Braunau then took fourth place in the table, just eight points behind champions and promoted SK Vorwärts Steyr , the best placement in the club's history.
Despite the departure of Udoh to former league competitor VfB Admira Wacker Mödling in the summer transfer period for the 1998/99 season , Braunau then presented itself again as a defensive team. During the season they only conceded 34 goals, which was also the best in the league. On the other hand, there was a blatant weakness in the offensive, which was expressed by only 31 goals scored by himself. With fifth place in the table you ended up in the league's no man's land.
At the end of the 1990s Braunau was already struggling with a mountain of debt of 3.5 million schillings due to contaminated sites, which forced them to drastically change their purchasing policy. As a result, Braunau developed due to its geographical proximity to a kind of training club for youth players of the SV Salzburg , who were not previously accepted into the professional squad of the Bundesliga club. Until the financial crash in January 2002, Bernd Winkler , Alexander Schriebl , Manfred Pamminger and Gerhard Breitenberger came from Salzburg to Braunau, all of whom advanced to support the team. From 2000 to 2002 they always had the youngest squad in the league alongside the DSV Leoben and also shared the nimbus of the "insurmountable team" from the second-highest division with the Leoben team.
bankruptcy
After FC Linz and Vorwärts Steyr , Braunau, the third traditional Upper Austrian club, slid into financial bankruptcy at the beginning of the new millennium.
At the end of 2000 Braunau could not pay the players' salaries for a long time and was close to the end, which could be prevented in the short term by the establishment of SV Braunau Betriebs-GmbH on February 8, 2001 and the additional 5.5 million schillings from sponsorship money resulting from it . A first rescue attempt with a sponsor from Germany had previously failed.
Nine months later in November of the same year, the former Braunau player and then legal representative of several players filed for bankruptcy due to overindebtedness at the regional court in Ried. Previously, two players had already left their current contract with Braunau after the club only paid part of their salary to players who had set the club a deadline.
On January 30, 2002, the game in Braunau was finally stopped and the club was dissolved. A total of 89 creditors had demanded a total of 35.5 million schillings, whereupon the trustee named a bank guarantee of around six million schillings as a prerequisite for the continued existence of the association. Despite several rescue attempts by President Walter Lugmayer, the bank guarantee could not be raised, which meant that the Bundesliga excluded the club from operating in the league. The league was then played to the end with nine clubs, all second round games of the SVB were rated 0: 3 for the opponent. Nevertheless, the club still occupied the penultimate place in the final table, ahead of FC Lustenau .
Venue
The club played its home games in the local Grenzlandstadion Braunau, which, with a theoretical capacity of 7500 people, ranks among the top 30 of the largest stadiums in Austria.
Former players
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FC Braunau
After the bankruptcy of the SVB, its ideological successor club, FC Braunau, was founded on May 3, 2002. The initiative to found the club came from SVB veteran Herbert Trauner, who had previously spent 42 years in the club and who most recently looked after the SVB amateurs.
When the club was founded, it made it clear that FC Braunau has basically nothing to do with the old club, but that it ties in with the SVB tradition and will also use the club's black and white colors. The Grenzlandstadion Braunau is also used as the venue for its home games.
They are currently playing in the Upper Austrian Regional League West .
successes
- 8 × second division participation : 1993–2002
- 2 × Upper Austrian regional champion : 1992, 1993
- Reaching the quarter-finals in the 1998/99 ÖFB Cup, narrow defeat in front of 5500 spectators against arch rivals SV Ried (0: 1 goal: Anicic)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b FC Braunau ties in with the traditions of the bankruptcy club SV Braunau , Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of April 15, 2002, section: rsp12
- ↑ http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nwi Sports reports from 1920 and 1921 in: Neue Warte am Inn
- ^ LUV Graz in the 2nd Division , APA 0252 5 SI 0200 Sa, June 27, 1992, Resort: Fußball / Österreich
- ↑ Knorrek-Elf celebrates the greatest success in the club's history with 2: 1 in Klagenfurt , Kurier from June 25, 1993, p. 25
- ↑ Josef Huber: The Heroes Were Tired , Football 1995: Official Yearbook of Austrian Football. Vienna 1995, p. 70
- ↑ Josef Huber: The expenses weren't worth it , Football 1996: Official Yearbook of Austrian Football. Vienna 1996, p. 84
- ↑ Braunau is fighting with its contaminated sites , courier from November 4, 2000 page: 26 Department: Sport
- ↑ Investors: 5.5 million for SVB - the youngest team on the pitch , Oberösterreichische Rundschau of March 8, 2001 / No. 10 Page: 42 Department: SPORT Edition: Braunauer Rundschau
- ↑ Sponsor jumped out , Oberösterreichische Rundschau of February 8, 2001 / No. 06 Page: 33 Department: SPORT Edition: Rieder Rundschau
- ↑ Braunau before bankruptcy , Kronen Zeitung of November 21, 2001 page: 49
- ↑ Players leave the association news.at, accessed on October 1, 2010
- ^ SV Braunau: The numbers confirmed , Neues Volksblatt No. 38 of February 14, 2002 Page: 23
- ^ SV Braunau is history , Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung No. 025 of January 30, 2002 Page: 41 Department: Sport
- ^ Only nine teams left in the first division news.at, accessed on October 1, 2010
- ↑ Grenzlandstadion Braunau
- ↑ http://www.weltfussball.de/alle_spiele/aut-oefb-cup-1998-1999/