Eintracht Nordhorn
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| Surname | Sports club Eintracht Nordhorn e. V. |
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| Seat | Nordhorn , Lower Saxony | ||
| founding | December 29, 1945 | ||
| Colours | wine red-white | ||
| Website | eintracht-nordhorn.de | ||
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| Venue | Eintracht Stadium on Heideweg | ||
| Places | 7,500 | ||
| league | District League Weser / Ems 3 | ||
| 2019/20 | 4th Place | ||
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Eintracht Nordhorn (officially: Sportverein Eintracht Nordhorn e.V. ) is a football club from Nordhorn in the Grafschaft Bentheim district . The first soccer team played for five years in the then first-class Oberliga Nord . Since relegation in 2014, the team competed in the Weser / Ems 3 regional league, before the club merged with the Turkish club Nordhorn to form SV Eintracht TV Nordhorn in 2015 , but then renamed itself back. The former handball department merged with HSG Nordhorn on June 1, 1981 .
history
Early years (1945 to 1954)
The club was founded on December 29, 1945 as SV Nordhorn . This club was a collective successor to the clubs Sparta , VfL Nordhorn , Vorwärts Nordhorn and TV Nordhorn , which were re-established a short time later. In 1947 SV Nordhorn became today's SV Eintracht Nordhorn. In 1953, SV Concordia Nordhorn split off from Eintracht, but returned to its parent club four years later.
The football department experienced an upswing thanks to Ernst Fuhry , who came from Worms . In the 1930s, in his adopted home Berlin, Fuhry had built up a team of orphans who were known throughout the Reich as "Spartans". After the end of the war, he brought numerous players from this team to Nordhorn and activated the youth work. After a 1-0 win in the playoff against SG Bünde 08 , Eintracht rose in 1947 to the then second-class Landesliga Westfalen .
After two years in the middle of the table, Eintracht rose again from the state league in 1950. A year later, the Bentheim football district moved to the Lower Saxony Football Association following a decision by the DFB . The harmony was then divided into the second-class amateur league Lower Saxony- West. There the Nordhorns immediately became runner-up behind VfB Oldenburg and qualified for the German amateur championship after the play-offs against TuS Celle , where they lost to Cronenberger SC in the quarter-finals .
In 1953, Eintracht secured the relay championship, but, as in the previous year, waived the league promotion round, as coach Fuhry referred to the contract player statute applicable in the league as a Trojan horse . In the amateur championship , the team failed at Homberger SpV . A year later, Eintracht dominated the league at will and scored 128 goals this season. Nevertheless, the club again renounced the promotion round. The renewed renunciation met with sharp criticism from the supporters and the press, who feared a breakup of the successful team. When Eintracht became champions again in 1955 and beat the reigning German champions Hannover 96 in a friendly 4-1, Fuhry finally gave in. In the following round of promotion, the team made the promotion perfect with a 4: 3 victory over VfB Lübeck .
Between first and third class (1955 to 1975)
The club management initially applied in vain to be allowed to compete as amateurs in the Oberliga Nord . In the first half of the 1955/56 season, Eintracht played furiously and defied Hamburger SV a 1-1. After the first half of the season, the team was in fourth place, before striker Heinz Conradi broke his leg and the team fell back to twelfth place. Nevertheless, the club reached its sporting zenith. There were several reasons why the team could no longer build on this success. Most of the top performers had already passed their 30s and external newcomers disrupted the club's atmosphere. In March 1957 coach Fuhry was dismissed while the team did not get beyond the relegation campaign. At the end of the 1958/59 season , Eintracht finally rose together with VfL Wolfsburg .
In the following season, the Nordhorns missed qualification for the promotion round after a 1: 2 play-off defeat against Arminia Hannover . A year later, with a lot of luck, the ascent was achieved again. In the qualifying games for the promotion round against Teutonia Uelzen , Eintracht prevailed by tossing a coin , as both games ended in a draw. After a 5-0 win over SV Friedrichsort , the promotion was then made perfect. With only four wins and 95 goals conceded, things went straight down again. Only 348 spectators attended the home game against FC St. Pauli on April 8, 1962.
A year later, as fourth in the table, the qualification for the newly created Regionalliga Nord was missed. In 1964, the team easily reached the single-track state league of Lower Saxony , where they did not get beyond mediocrity or relegation battle. In 1969 the team reached the Lower Saxony Cup final , which was lost 7-0 to Einbecker SV 05 . With a little luck, Eintracht reached the promotion round to the regional league two years later. Before that, the team beat Kickers Emden 3: 2 after extra time and then TuS Haste 01 5: 4 after penalties . In the promotion round, the Nordhorn failed at OSV Hannover .
In the 1973/74 season, the club killed itself. In four games, Eintracht used four instead of the allowed three foreigners, which deducted seven points from the Nordhorns. With these points, Eintracht would have reached the qualifying round only new, third-class Oberliga Nord instead of Union Salzgitter . After all, Eintracht won the Lower Saxony Cup with a 4-3 victory after extra time over 1. FC Wunstorf . A year later, the Nordhorn rose to the Oberliga Nord. When they took part in the DFB Cup for the first time , Eintracht beat Westend 01 Berlin 2-1 and failed in the second round after a 2-0 draw at Bayer 04 Leverkusen .
Between regional and association league (1975 to 2000)
In the Oberliga Nord, Eintracht did not get beyond midfield positions and was often viewed as a gray mouse . The ninth places in the 1975/76 and 1976/77 seasons were the greatest successes of this era. Finally, the Nordhorns had to accept relegation to the Lower Saxony Association League in 1981 , where they initially also played against relegation. In 1984, the Eintracht reached as runner-up behind the SV Atlas Delmenhorst the league promotion round, where the Nordhorns, however, failed at the Hummelsbütteler SV .
Four years later, Heinz Westerink took over the coaching position and in 1990 led his team into the promotion round. There they failed initially at TuS Celle. However, when both VfB Oldenburg and TSV Havelse rose to the 2nd Bundesliga , Eintracht also rose to the top division. After the team in the 1990/91 season only managed to stay in the league due to the better goal difference against Concordia Hamburg, relegation followed two years later. As third from bottom of the 1993/94 association league season, Eintracht missed the newly created Oberliga Niedersachsen / Bremen . The ascent there was made up only a year later.
In the 1996/97 season, the Nordhorn were champions of the league and thus rose to the Regionalliga Nord. Under the coach Sefcet Lajqi, the team, reinforced by some Albanian players, sensationally achieved fifth place in the 1998/99 season . Despite its sporting success, Eintracht was overshadowed by the HSG Nordhorn handball club, which was formed through the merger of the Eintracht handball departments and Sparta Nordhorn. In 2000, Eintracht missed the double-track regional league.
Years until the merger (2000 to 2015)
In the 2001/02 season, the Nordhorn were runner-up behind VfB Oldenburg. Two years later, Eintracht was runner-up only because of the poorer goal difference compared to the amateurs of VfL Wolfsburg. In the meantime, up to seven Dutch players were in the service of the club, of which the striker Gert Goolkate was Germany's most successful league player of the season with 44 goals this season. Four years later, the Nordhorn won the Lower Saxony Cup for the second time and from then on played in the Lower Saxony- West Oberliga . In 2010, Eintracht qualified for the now single-track Oberliga Niedersachsen.
In October 2011 it was announced that Eintracht is aiming for a merger with local rivals Vorwärts Nordhorn . Two months later, Eintracht had to file for bankruptcy due to a debt of 250,000 euros . The procedure was opened in February 2012, whereby the team from the league had to be relegated. On July 18, 2012, the creditors agreed to the insolvency plan, which enabled a new start with an almost completely new team in the Landesliga Weser-Ems. As bottom of the table, Eintracht rose in 2014 to the district league.
Brief renaming and return to the old name (since 2015)
For the 2015/16 season, Eintracht merged with the Turkish club Nordhorn initially to form SV Eintracht TV Nordhorn , but then renamed itself back to its original name. This club played in the district league.
Stadion
Eintracht Nordhorn played their home games in the Eintracht Stadium on Heideweg with a capacity of 7,500 spectators. The new main grandstand, which was inaugurated in 2007, has around 2,000 covered seats. The stadium was inaugurated on August 18, 1954 and was called Bernhard-Niehues-Kampfbahn until the early 1990s . The attendance record was set on October 2, 1955, when 18,000 people wanted to see Eintracht's home game against Hamburger SV. In the 1955/56 season, the highest average attendance in the club's history, which is still valid today, was achieved with 6,733. Today the stadium is used by the Nordhorn Vikings footballers.
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literature
- Hardy Grüne , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 356.
- 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. 227.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dark points: thugs in the shower room . Spiegel, June 29, 1955. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
- ↑ nordwestsport.de: After Kickers Emden, Eintracht Nordhorn is now also celebrating the opening of insolvency proceedings ( 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.
- ↑ eintracht-nordhorn.de: http://www.eintracht-nordhorn.de/eintracht/sve-news/958-glaeubiger-haben-insolvenzplan-an.html ( 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.
- ^ Grafschafter Nachrichten.de: Eintracht and Turkish Association merge
