SV Groitzsch 1861
The SV Groitzsch 1861 e. V. is a sports club in the small town of Groitzsch, south of Leipzig . In 2009 he ran twelve sports departments for badminton , fistball , soccer , ju-jutsu , canoe , bowling , chess , tennis , table tennis , gymnastics , volleyball and a marching band . His sports facility is the Schletterstraße sports field with two soccer fields, an athletics and tennis facility.
Club history
The history of SV Groitzsch began with the founding of the Groitzsch gymnastics club in 1861. From it, the workers' sports club Freie Turnerschaft Groitzsch emerged in 1907 . He has been practicing gymnastics, soccer, handball, fistball, raffle and drum ball since the 1920s . In 1933 the association was dissolved by the National Socialists . The football tradition was then continued solely by the 04 Groitzsch sports club founded in 1904 .
After the Second World War , SV 04 was also dissolved as part of the general ban on sports clubs in the Soviet occupation zone . Sports activities continued in provisionally organized sports communities. In Groitzsch, former members of the Free Gymnastics Association founded such a SG, which in 1947 already had 353 members. After the East German sports business was reorganized on the basis of company sports associations (BSG) from 1948 , the Groitzscher Schuhfabrik Bella founded the BSG Progress Groitzsch , which was joined in 1956 by SG Groitzsch and a second BSG called Rotation . The Groß-BSG has formed 19 sports sections in the course of its existence.
After the economic changes caused by the political change in 1989, the shoe factory stopped funding for the BSG. As a result, BSG members founded the registered club SV Groitzsch 1861 on November 25, 1990 , which took over most of the BSG's sports fields.
Development of the football department
The Free Gymnastics Association was represented with its soccer team in the games of the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association (ATSB). There she played from 1919 until her dissolution in 1933 in the 2a class of the ATSB Leipzig. SV 04 Groitzsch was in the 2nd class of the Gau Nordwestsachsen / Groß-Leipzig, the 3rd division of the Leipzig Football Association, until 1933. After a new league system was introduced by the National Socialists, SV 04 came into the 2nd district class in Leipzig. In 1939 it was promoted to the 1st district class and in the 1944/45 season the sports club played in the “Saxon War Class - Sports District Leipzig Battlefield”. In season 1, the Groitzscher came fourth out of six teams.
After the Second World War, SG Groitzsch began in the Leipzig district class and did not qualify for the Leipzig district league until 1948, at that time one of the numerous East German state classes that led to the determination of the first Eastern Zone Master. With the introduction of the new league system in the GDR in 1952, SG Groitzsch began in the Leipzig district class, from which it rose to the 4th league district Leipzig in 1954. Despite the Groitzsch merger in 1956, the BSG progress had to descend again in 1958 in the district class. It was not until ten years later that he returned to the district class in 1968, and in 1971 Groitzsch was promoted to the third-class Leipzig district league for four years . This was followed by five years again in the fourth class, in 1980 the descent into the district class, in 1981 another three years in the district class and in 1984 the final descent into the district class until the end of the GDR football system.
In 1976, BSG Progress Groitzsch won the Leipzig district soccer cup and thus qualified for the GDR-wide FDGB soccer cup competition 1976/77. In the first round, Groitzsch had to face the second division team Chemie Böhlen at home. The BSG progress, playing two leagues lower this season, clearly lost 2: 6 and retired from the rest of the cup.
In the DFB game system introduced in 1990, SV Groitzsch played mainly in the Leipzig district class. Only between 1995 and 2004 was the club based in the Leipzig district class (7th league) for five years. SV Groitzsch has been represented in the regional league A , the regional league Borna / Geithain , since 2004 .