Würzburger Kickers

Würzburger Kickers
society
Surname	Football Club Würzburger Kickers e. V.
Seat	Wurzburg , Bavaria
founding	17th November 1907
Colours	Red White
Members	1,100 (July 1, 2017)
president	Daniel Sauer
Football company
Surname	FC Würzburger Kickers AG
Website	wuerzburger-kickers.de
First team
Head coach	Michael Schiele
Venue	Flyeralarm Arena
Places	13,090
league	2nd Bundesliga
2019/20	2nd place ▲ ( 3rd league )
home Away Alternatively

The football club Würzburger Kickers e. V. (short Würzburger Kickers or FWK ) is a football club from the Lower Franconian district capital Würzburg . The club was founded in 1907 and the club colors have been white and red ever since; the nickname Rothosen is derived from this. The club plays its home games in the club's own Flyeralarm Arena on Würzburger Dallenberg.

After successful years in the top classes at the beginning of the 20th century, the club played for one season in the 2nd Bundesliga South in 1977/78 before the first team was at home in amateur football for a long time. The last great successes of Kickers were winning the Bavarian Cup in 2014, 2016 and 2019 and the Bavarian Amateur Championship 2015. For the season 2016/17 was the club - after two rises in a row - back in after 38 years 2. Bundesliga represented , however, did not make it through to relegation. On July 4, 2020 , they were promoted again on the last day of the match with a penalty from captain Sebastian Schuppan in the third minute of stoppage time (a total of 8 minutes of stoppage time).

Since 2014, the professional department has been outsourced to a stock corporation , in which the association holds 51 percent and Flyeralarm Future Labs GmbH holds 49 percent.

history

The founding years after 1907

The FC Würzburger Kickers was founded on November 17th, 1907 by high school students. The chairman of the young association was Georg Beer, who was replaced shortly afterwards by Alfred Günzburger. In 1908 the first local derby was won 5-0 against FV 04 Würzburg . As early as the following year, 1909, the Kickers moved for the first time when they left their previous home ground on Würzburg Galgenberg and moved into the place on Randersackerer Straße. The venue at Galgenberg had meanwhile also used the FV Würzburg 04. The city rival, which emerged three years before the Kickers and went bankrupt in 1981, was also outstripped in terms of the league for the first time in 1912 when the FWK moved into the Eastern District League for the 1912/13 season . In what was then the top division, the Kickers competed against the big clubs from Nuremberg, Munich and Fürth, such as 1. FC Nürnberg , FC Bayern Munich , SpVgg Fürth or TV Munich 1860 , and achieved sixth of eight places. The placement ensured that they remained in the top division.

The time was marked by the First World War and several changes to the league order and the game system around the southern German soccer championship. By 1916, the champions of the Eastern District League qualified for the finals for the title of the South German Football Association , from the 1916/17 season onwards the decision on how to progress was made in the final round. In the first year after the rule reform, the Kickers were able to reach the semi-finals, but lost them to SpVgg Fürth.

Nevertheless, FC Würzburger Kickers was able to establish itself at the highest level for the time being and dominate football in north-west Bavaria.

1920s to World War II

Until the Second World War , the "Red-Whites" from Dallenberg continued to be a decisive force in Würzburg football, although they were overtaken by the FV 04 from the late 1920s onwards, which from 1927 had been in the top class for several years. Even at the beginning of the 1920s, the Kickers were successful in the top divisions, regularly missing out on the finals for the North Bavarian and, consequently, the South German soccer championship due to the dominance of 1. FC Nürnberg and SpVgg Fürth.

A new reform of the league system, instead of ten district leagues, five first-class southern German district leagues emerged from the 1923/24 season , it became much more difficult for the kickers to assert themselves in the top division and to play for the southern German championship. After relegation in 1923 , the league consisted of eight teams from all over Bavaria. Only a new reform for the 1927/28 season made it possible for the club to move up to the football club, because the Bavarian regional league, which was now first-class, played two tracks, with a northern and a southern group. Nevertheless, it took three years for the FWK to rise again and in 1930 to catch up with the city rival FV 04, which had already risen in 1927. One of the outstanding players at that time was the Austrian Gustav Wieser . In addition, the Kickers played a number of friendly matches in Germany and abroad.

In 1928, VfL Würzburg joined the club, which then played for two years as FC Würzburger Kickers VfL . In 1930 they returned to the traditional name of FC Würzburger Kickers.

The Kickers were able to stay in the top division until the South German Football Association was dissolved in 1933 when the National Socialists came to power and played in the 16 Gauligen nationwide . When they were introduced, the Kickers were not taken into account and only rose to the top division in 1940. After a year, there was renewed descent, followed by resurgence in 1942. From 1943, the FWK operated together with the FV as the Würzburg War Games Association (KSG Würzburg) until the war-related cessation of gaming operations in the Gauliga.

During the war, the stadium on Randersackerer Strasse was completely destroyed by a bomb attack.

Post-war period and establishment in the Bavarian League

After the Second World War, TSV Würzburg joined FC Würzburger Kickers and the club then appeared as SC Würzburger Kickers. First, the Kickers played in the 1945/46 season in the national league, the second highest division at the time. After this was two-pronged in the following season, the Kickers rose in 1947 from the Landesliga Nord. As early as 1950, the rise from the II. Lower Franconian Amateur League followed in the now third-class Bavarian Amateur League, where promptly a sixth place was achieved and where the top third of the table was also reached in the following years. However, the club did not show any serious ambitions to move up to professional football and to build on previous successes. The Kickers played with great consistency in the Bavarian League, which the club was promoted to in 1950. Until 1977, when they were promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga, the Kickers played in the third-tier Bayernliga for 27 years. Mostly single-digit placements were achieved, but the rise was always missed until 1977.

From 1956, in time for the 50th anniversary of its founding, the club appeared again as FC Würzburger Kickers.

The way to the 2nd Bundesliga

Seasonal balances 1990–2000
season	League (class)	space	Ascent / descent
1989/90	Regional League North (IV)	01.
1990/91	Bayern League (III)	17th
1991/92	Regional League North (IV)	04th
1992/93	Regional League North (IV)	11.
1993/94	Regional League North (IV)	15th
1994/95	National League North (V)	09.
1995/96	National League North (V)	07th
1996/97	National League North (V)	01.
1997/98	Bayern League (IV)	16.
1998/99	National League North (V)	09.
1999/00	National League North (V)	05.

While the club had established itself as a fixture in the Bavarian League, the newly built stadium on Dallenberg was opened in the summer of 1967 . At this point in time only the roofed main grandstand was completed, the rest of the stadium was expanded in the following years.

The team ended their rounds in the Bayern League mostly before their city rivals FV 04, but in 1975/76 they came second in the table, thus one place before the Kickers, the second division promotion after the waiver of the champions FC Wacker Munich . A year later, in the 1976/77 season , however, the Dallenberg team became champions of the Bayern League and followed their local rivals into the second division. After only one year, at the end of the 1977/78 season, relegation and return to amateur football in the Bavarian League was again.

In the usual Bayern League Kickers held up until 1983, when relegation from the third division to the regional league was due, although a third place in the league could be achieved the year before.

1980s to 2011

Seasonal balances from 2001
season	League (class)	space	Ascent / descent
2000/01	National League North (V)	08th.
2001/02	National League North (V)	17th
2002/03	District Oberliga (VI)	13.
2003/04	District League (VII)	01.
2004/05	District Oberliga (VI)	01.
2005/06	National League North (V)	06th
2006/07	National League North (V)	06th
2007/08	National League North (V)	02.
2008/09	Bayern League (V)	18th
2009/10	Regional League North (VI)	04th
2010/11	Regional League North (VI)	05.
2011/12	Regional League North (VI)	01.
2012/13	Regionalliga Bayern (IV)	10.
2013/14	Regionalliga Bayern (IV)	11.
2014/15	Regionalliga Bayern (IV)	01.
2015/16	3rd division (III)	03.
2016/17	2nd Bundesliga (II)	17th
2017/18	3rd division (III)	05.
2018/19	3rd division (III)	05.
2019/20	3rd division (III)	02.
2011/12: double promotion

After relegation from the Bayern League to the regional leagues, the Würzburg team disappeared more and more often in the lowlands of amateur football. By 2011, the FWK only made three guest appearances - each one year - in the Bavarian League. 1990/91 was just like 1997/98 and 2007/08 the rise again the direct descent after only one season. In the 1990s, the Kickers audience had to be satisfied with the Landesliga Nord , as they did after the Bayernliga relegation in 1983 .

The sporting decline followed in the 2001/02 and 2002/03 seasons when, within two years, the relegations to the district league and finally the district league Lower Franconia middle, at that time only the seventh division, had to be started. Due to the sporting downturn, the club was on the verge of bankruptcy and thus not only football but also financial crash. Before relegation from the regional league, the coaching position was taken over by football and table football enthusiast Michael Schaudt, who was to become a special figure in the club under the nickname Coach . With the years 2004 and 2005, the Kickers under coach Schaudt achieved two ascents in a row and thus also the return to the fifth-class Landesliga Nord. Despite his dismissal in 2006, shortly before the end of his contract, the coach stayed with the club in leisure teams, before his death from the muscle disease ALS at the age of 49 in 2012, the club organized an emotional benefit game for ALS in his honor in May 2011 Sick.

In terms of sport, the Kickers were finally able to celebrate promotion to the Bavarian League again after three rounds in the 2007/08 regional league. The kickers division, however, remained the fifth despite promotion due to the simultaneous introduction of the 3rd division as an additional league level. The success of the promotion was short-lived, because only a year later the club was determined to be relegated after an 18th and last place.

Instead of the immediate resurgence, the Kickers consolidated in the now sixth class state league until 2011 and invested in the construction of an artificial turf pitch on the club's own sports grounds. This was used as a training facility by the Ghanaian national team during the 2006 World Cup .

In 2007 the Kickers celebrated the 100th anniversary of the club.

Regional league promotion and state cup victory

After establishing itself in the regional league, the Kickers planned for 2012 to be promoted to the Bayernliga Nord , which was founded in the 2012/13 season and which, after the league reform, became the second-highest Bavarian league under the new Bavarian regional league . With the championship title in the Landesliga Nord 2012, the Kickers were entitled to participate in the regional league relegation. The team under coach Dieter Wirsching was able to prevail in two rounds (bye in the first round) and thus skip the fifth-class Bayernliga.

The Kickers played fourth class for the first time again due to the double promotion from the 2012/13 season after 1998 (then in the Bayern League). By skipping the Bayernliga, the Rothosen also became the highest Würzburg club in their class again in 2012, after local rivals Würzburger FV , who played in the Bayernliga Nord and the successor to Würzburger FV 04, which went bankrupt in 1981, have since failed to qualify for the regional league.

In the first two years in the Regionalliga Bayern, the Würzburger Kickers achieved their goal of the season, relegation, with 10th place (2012/13) and 11th place (2013/14) comparatively confidently. After the club had established itself in the league, the sporting management decided to aim for promotion to the third division within the following three years. For this purpose, the project "3x3" - in three years in the third division was launched.

On May 14, 2014, the Würzburger Kickers succeeded in winning the final of the Toto Cup, which means that the FWK qualified again for the DFB Cup main round after the last time in 1981 . At the same time, winning the cup together with the double promotion in 2012 was the greatest success in the club's recent history.

After the end of the season, successful coach Dieter Wirsching said goodbye, his successor was Bernd Hollerbach at the beginning of the 2014/15 season .

Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga and immediate relegation

Even before the end of the 2013/14 season, the Kickers had the so-called 3 × 3 project - in three years in the third division under the slogan Würzburg needs professionals! started. To this end, the association set up a broad marketing campaign to spark a wave of enthusiasm for the professional football project in the region. This included an advertising film, cooperation with well-known local personalities from politics, sport and society as well as an information pavilion on the market square.

The aim of the concept was to achieve promotion to the 3rd division within three years. At the same time as the sporting development, the environment should gradually be further professionalized. To this end, a budget of at least 1.2 million euros per season was acquired through sponsors, partners and season ticket sales for the following three years. After the required commitments were made, extensive management planning and professionalization in the structures were carried out and initiated. Among other things, a coach was found in the Würzburg and ex-professional Bernd Hollerbach who had once played for the Würzburger Kickers himself and who has already won German championship as assistant coach with Felix Magath .

As part of the campaign, the Sylt beach bar Sansibar was also presented as the new main sponsor of Kickers for one year through Hollerbach's mediation .

In the 2014/15 season, the Würzburger Kickers competed in the Regionalliga Bayern for the third year in a row. In addition, the club had qualified for the first main round of the DFB Cup through its success in the Toto Cup final. Even before the start of the season, there was a major upheaval in all areas of the club in order to achieve the goal of promotion to third division within three years.

Before the 2014/15 season, the squad was largely rearranged. From the previous year's team, which won the Bavarian State Cup in May 2014, 14 players left the club, while there are also 14 newcomers. Due to the club's ambitions for promotion, several players with a professional background as well as young players from performance centers were signed by professional teams.

Goalkeeper Robert Wulnikowski

Not least as a result of the previous state cup victory and the ambitious promotion plan, 16 out of 18 coaches of the Bavarian Regional League named the kickers as favorites for the championship. The club received special attention at home and abroad when attacker Christopher Bieber scored a spectacular goal against Wacker Burghausen when he headed 1-0 in a prone position. The corresponding internet video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times. After the first half of the season, the Würzburger Kickers took first place in the Regionalliga Bayern and were thus able to claim the unofficial title of autumn champion .

Northern corner of the stadium and VIP tent during the DFB Cup game against Eintracht Braunschweig under floodlights

In the first main round of the DFB Cup, the kickers met the team of the second division Fortuna Düsseldorf in their own stadium on August 17, 2014 . The Kickers won the game 3-2 after extra time with two goals from Christopher Bieber and Steven Lewerenz 'goal in the 114th minute. The encounter was attended by more than 10,000 spectators. As a second-round opponent, the Kickers were again drawn with Eintracht Braunschweig from the 2nd Bundesliga. In this game too, the Kickers had home rights. The scheduling of the game was taken as an opportunity to equip the home venue with TV-compatible floodlights. In front of a sold-out stadium, the game was just lost 1-0, so that Braunschweig made it to the round of 16 of the DFB Cup.

In the regional league, the Kickers lived up to their role as favorites and finished as champions in 2015, which meant qualifying for promotion to the third division. As an opponent, the Würzburg team was drawn with 1. FC Saarbrücken, the runner-up from the Regionalliga Süd-West . After a narrow 1-0 victory for the Kickers in Saarbrücken, the FWK managed to rise in the second leg. The game was decided by a penalty shootout, as Saarbrücken were 1-0 up after regular time. The promotion project was thus fulfilled within three years in just one season.

On January 27, 2016 the Würzburger Kickers presented the project 3x2 - Würzburg can do more! in front. The aim was to move up to the 2nd Bundesliga within three years . The financial means should u. a. through the sale of 125,000 (population of Würzburg) Bocksbeuteln per season at a price of 19.07 (year of foundation) euros and a long-term commitment to sponsors. On May 8, 2016, the Würzburger Kickers qualified with a 1-1 draw on the penultimate matchday against Holstein Kiel for the relegation games against the 16th of the 2nd Bundesliga. After two wins in relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga against MSV Duisburg , 2-0 in the first leg in Würzburg and 2-1 in the second leg in Duisburg, the club was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga just a few months after the project started. Since the establishment of the 3rd division in 2008, the Würzburger Kickers succeeded as the second team after RB Leipzig to march straight through from the regional league to the second highest division. In the amateur area, however, no club made it into the 2nd Bundesliga faster than the Würzburger Kickers. Since the 2011/12 season, he has been promoted from the regional league (6th division) to the 2nd Bundesliga at the end of the 2015/16 season - four promotions in five years.

After a successful first half of the season with 27 points after 17 games, the Kickers didn't get a single victory in the second half of the season apart from 7 draws and so the season ended with 34 points in 17th place with relegation.

On May 22, 2017, the resignation of Bernd Hollerbach was announced at a press conference called at short notice. Successor as coach was the previous coach of the Schalke U17 Stephan Schmidt . This was released on October 2, 2017. The previous assistant coach Michael Schiele took over the post of head coach. In the end, the season ended in 5th place.

In January 2020 it was announced that Felix Magath will be the sporting director of Flyeralarm Global Soccer for Admira Wacker Mödling and the Würzburger Kickers.

FC Würzburger Kickers AG

Since April 2014 the first team of the Würzburger Kickers has been outsourced from the main club in the form of a stock corporation. This step was decided at a general meeting of the association in order not to make the growing budgets within the framework of the promotion project a risk for the traditional parent association. The aim is to secure the existence of the club even if the licensing team has financial problems. In December 2017, Flyeralarm Future Labs GmbH took over 49 percent of the shares in FC Würzburger Kickers AG.

successes

Significant climbs

• Bayernliga 1977 : Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga
• Landesliga Bayern 2012 North Season : Direct promotion to the Regional League Bavaria
• Regionalliga Bayern 2015 : Promotion to the 3rd division
• 3rd league 2016 : Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga
• 3rd league 2020 : Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga

State Cup victories

• Bavarian Toto Cup 2014 , 2016 , 2019

Season closings

• Semi-finals for the southern German soccer championship 1916/17 in the eastern district

DFB Cup participation

The first team

Season 2020/21

No.	Nat.	player	In the team since	Contract until
goal
01		Fabian Giefer	2020	2022
33		Eric Verstappen	2019	2021
40		Vincent Muller	2019	2021
Defense
03		Niklas Hoffmann	2020	2021
05		Leroy Kwadwo	2019	2021
06th		Tobias Kraulich	2020	2023
14th		Hendrik Hansen	2017	2021
17th		Umut Ünlü U19	2017	2021
19th		Douglas	2020	2021
21st		Luke Hemmerich	2019	2021
22nd		Daniel Hägele	2018	2022
26th		Lion Schweers	2019	2021
28		Arne Feick	2020	2021
34		Frank Ronstadt	2019	2021
38		Robert Herrmann	2019	2022
midfield
12		Patrick Sontheimer	2019	2021
23		Florian Flecker	2020	2022
25th		Dominik Meisel	2017	2021
29		David Kopacz	2020	2023
attack
09		Dominic Baumann	2017	2021
10		Keanu Perennial	2020	2021
11		Saliou Sané	2020	2021
16		Luca Pfeiffer	2019	2021
18th		Maximilian Breunig	2015	2021
As of August 12, 2020

• under contract but not in the squad: Dave Gnaase , Johannes Kraus, Niklas Zulciak

Transfers of the 2020/21 season

As of August 12, 2020

Accesses	Departures
Summer 2020
Douglas (without association) Arne Feick ( 1. FC Heidenheim ) Florian Flecker ( 1. FC Union Berlin ) Fabian Giefer ( FC Augsburg ) David Kopacz ( VfB Stuttgart ) Tobias Kraulich ( 1. FC Nürnberg II ) Lion Schweers ( SV Elversberg ; loanee) Keanu Staude ( Arminia Bielefeld )	Leon Bätge ( VSG Altglienicke ) Jonas David ( Hamburger SV ; loanee) Kevin Frisorger (termination of contract; destination unknown) Yassin Ibrahim ( SV Rödinghausen ) Fabio Kaufmann ( Eintracht Braunschweig ) Simon Rhein ( 1. FC Nürnberg ; loanee) Sebastian Schuppan (end of career) Nico Stephan (1. FC Geesdorf) Albion Vrenezi ( SSV Jahn Regensburg ; loanee) Dominik Widemann ( SG Sonnenhof Großaspach )

Trainers and supervisors

Bernd Hollerbach , head coach from 2014 to 2017.

Surname	function
Coach team
Michael Schiele	Head coach
Rainer Zietsch	Assistant coach
Philipp Eckart	Co-Trainer (Analysis)
Philipp Kunz	Athletic trainer
Robert Wulnikowski	Goalkeeping coach
Tim Stegmann	Assistant to the sports management
Supervisor staff
Norbert Mahler	Team manager
David Braunreuther	Physiotherapist
Max Pechtl	Physiotherapist
Agnieszka Tobiasz-Kolodziej	Physiotherapist
Klaus Orner	supervisor
Rosi Orner	Supervisor
Josef Zimmermann	Team doctor
Dirk Bohm	Team doctor
Martin Jansen	Team doctor
As of July 12, 2019

Former players and personalities

Claus Reitmaier

A particularly outstanding figure in the history of the Würzburger Kickers is Gustav Wieser , who moved to Lower Franconia in 1921, when he had already won five Austrian championship titles and thus underlines the role that the club played at that time. Wieser moved from Rapid Vienna to the Kickers, where he played for two years, before going back to Austria to join Rapids city rivals Vienna Amateur Sports Club .

Other former Würzburger Kickers players include the future coach Bernd Hollerbach , who gained national fame as a Bundesliga player and assistant coach, in particular the goalkeeper Claus Reitmaier and the German national team and Bundesliga players Gerd Zewe and Stefan Reisch . Reisch played at the end of his career in Würzburg and took over the coaching post for the following season 1972/73. During his time at Kickers, the defensive player Erich Kaniber was appointed to several DFB national teams until he continued his career at VfB Stuttgart in 1956 . In the second division season 1977/78 , the later Bundesliga professional Rainer Scholz and the nationally and internationally successful Lothar Emmerich played for the red pants.

In addition, the former DFB and FIFA referee Peter Sippel , who lives in Munich , whistles for FC Würzburger Kickers.

Perspective teams

Second team

The second team played in the Bavarian League until the 2018/19 season, and Rainer Zietsch became head coach in 2018 . For the 2019/20 season, however, the team was canceled in order to focus on the A and B youth teams. The previous third team of the club has now become the new second and competed in the district class.

Third team

A third Kickers team was launched in 2010 and started in the B-Class. After a successful first few years, it played in the A-Class until the 2018/19 season. The Kickers registered a new third team for the 2019/20 season.

Youth department

The promotion of young talent at the Kickers is broadly based with teams in all age groups. The club's U19s ( A-Juniors ) have been playing in the Bavarian League since 2015. Some age groups of the young kickers also compete with several teams in different leagues. To support the training operations and to promote the youngsters, players from the first and second teams supervise the training of the junior teams as trainers. Since 2014, the club has been offering young footballers and everyone else in the club psychological support and opportunities to talk. This should give the young people a point of contact for problems and crisis situations.

In spring 2015 it became known that the Bavarian Football Association is setting up a youth performance center at FC Würzburger Kickers.

Girls and women soccer

Since 2020, the Würzburger Kickers have also been offering girls' and women's football under their brand umbrella. The department for girls 'and women's football of SC Würzburg ( Würzburg Dragons ) has been founded as an independent club and will be represented as FC Würzburger Kickers girls' and women's football from the 2020/21 season. Almost 150 players from U8 to women have been part of the Kickers family since January 1st, 2020. The first women's team plays in the Regionalliga-Süd, the U17 juniors in the regional league.

Venues

The entrance to the Flyeralarm Arena on Dallenberg

The Würzburger Kickers have played at three different home venues in their more than 100-year history. The current venue is the Flyeralarm Arena , formerly the stadium on Dallenberg in Würzburg.

→ Main article : Flyeralarm Arena

Galgenberg (bullet trap)

The first home ground of the Würzburger Kickers after it was founded in 1907 was the stadium on Galgenberg, also known as Kugelfang, in the east of Würzburg. The local rival 1. WFV 04 also played their home games here, the Kickers played there for two years, before the first move took place.

Randersackerer Strasse

From 1909 the Kickers played their home games on Randersackerer Straße in the Würzburg district of Sanderau . The kickers played here until the Second World War, and as a result of the war the grandstands burned out completely. After the war, however, the sports field had to give way to urban development measures in the 1960s when the Sanderau district grew southwards. As a result of this restructuring, it became necessary to find a new home for the Kickers footballers, which is why the Kickers decided to build their own new football stadium on the opposite side of the Main on the Dallenberg.

There is now a supermarket in the area of ​​the former sports field.

Stadium on Dallenberg

The construction of the stadium on the Würzburger Dallenberg began in the 1960s and, in addition to funding from the federal government, the state and the city, was possible thanks to the considerable personal contribution of the members. The stadium was opened with a friendly game on August 15, 1967 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern in front of 8,000 spectators. The entire construction was not completed until much later, when the standing bars around the playing field could be completed in 1975. In Würzburg the stadium is known under the names Kickers Stadium and Dallenberg Stadium .

The stadium at Dallenberg was designed as a pure football stadium and therefore has no athletics facility. As a result, the stands are very close to the field, which allows a good view from all the seats in the stadium and creates an English atmosphere .

The main grandstand is equipped with blocks A to E, each of which contains seats in the lower part and standing room in the upper part (the so-called standing hall ), and is covered over the entire length of the square. The other stands, which surround the entire playing field, are, however, pure standing areas and have no roofing. The shape of the stadium is not exactly square, as the main stand and the back straight run at a slight angle to the field before they become parallel in front of and behind the center line. With this, barely recognizable, octagonal shape, there is space for reserve benches on both sides of the playing field, depending on the purpose.

Behind the grandstand in the north-west of the stadium is a restaurant with a terrace, which offers a view of the field. These include player areas such as changing rooms, a sauna with a dehydration pool and massage rooms as well as changing facilities for the referees. In addition to the main square, the facility has another lawn and an artificial turf field, which are located in the south-east and are equipped with a floodlight. In addition, the office, the club's boxing hall and a small fan shop are located on the premises.

For the 2006 World Cup , the Ghana national team based in Würzburg used the Dallenberg stadium as a training facility. For this purpose, the lawn of the main square was specially renovated with the help of the city administration.

Flyeralarm Arena

Main stand of the Flyeralarm Arena with the lettering FWK

The stadium has been called the Flyeralarm Arena since March 2013 , after the Würzburg-based company Flyeralarm took over sponsorship of the Kickers' home ground until 2016.

After renovations and modernizations, the stadium's capacity for the third division is 10,504 seats, after only 5,000 spectators were allowed to enter due to structural defects. For events such as the DFB Cup games 2014/15, exceptions were necessary to allow more fans access. The original capacity was 14,500 and more spectators, after upgrading for the third division, which includes converting some standing to seats, the former capacity can no longer be achieved.

In order to be able to use the stadium to its full extent on a regular basis in the future, the club and the surrounding area are putting a lot of effort into repairing the venue and improving its structure. The aim is to modernize the Flyeralarm Arena for expanded use in the present and in possible higher-class leagues. For this purpose, a VIP area in tent construction was built on the former tennis court next to the stadium restaurant on the north-west side of the stadium, and the guest access from the parking lot on the east side was restored. In addition, the club set up a new guest sector on the eastern corner of the stadium, which is structurally separated from the rest of the stadium in the form of a fence. Since then, it is no longer possible to walk around the stadium behind the grandstands, especially during so-called safety games. In addition, the grandstands and protective equipment as well as other parts of the facility were brought up to date, especially by fans and members themselves. The need for refurbishment of the stadium with regard to higher-class football continues to be particularly evident in the area of ​​the sanitary facilities and the player access between the changing rooms and the playing field, which has so far crossed the path of the fans from the main entrance, toilet facilities and catering area to the main stand.

In addition, a building permit for the construction of a TV-compatible floodlight system was applied for in this context. The building committee of the city of Würzburg issued this on September 23, 2014, and preliminary work had already begun. The facility was completed in October 2014. This achieved the goal of putting the stadium in a state before the DFB Cup match against Eintracht Braunschweig on October 29, 2014, so that the match, as requested by the DFB, can be held under floodlights. In addition, evening games in the league should also be possible, such as the inauguration game of the new facility against SpVgg Oberfranken Bayreuth . The four masts, the highest of which is 32 meters high, achieve an illuminance of 800 lux , which is sufficient even after moving up to the third division.

In order to support the efforts and financial expenses that FC Würzburger Kickers is investing in the club's own facility, the city council approved a grant of 300,000 euros for further renovation work in November 2014, which will be paid out gradually until 2017. The city thus paid tribute to the club's efforts to adapt the largest stadium in the area to the requirements of the DFB as a footballing flagship of the city, for which the club raised a low seven-digit amount in 2014 alone.

For the day of the relegation second leg to qualify for the third division, the club's fans had managed to rename the stadium for a game in Kickers-Stadion am Dallenberg . This marked the beginning of a campaign, the aim of which was to raise funds for the permanent reintroduction of the traditional stadium name.

Fans

What is remarkable from the point of view of many Kickers fans is that the supporters of the club drove to away games and created a good atmosphere even in years when they were almost irrelevant. In addition, the fans of the B-Block , the core of the active Würzburg fan scene, received attention as part of the nationwide campaign to legalize pyrotechnics - respect emotions . The proposed concept for the initiative, in which numerous groups of the German ultra-movement were involved in order to negotiate with the functionaries of the associations about the legalization of Bengali fires in the curves, goes back to leading figures of the B-block .

The Kickers fans showed their commitment to their club again and again in the form of work assignments at the stadium and the club's own facility, but also through curve choreographies, which were always part of the fan culture, especially in the B-block , despite being in the lower divisions for many years . The choreography for the charity game for people with ALS in 2011, which was based on the motto We had many trainers - but only one coach , and which included pyrotechnics dedicated to those affected by the incurable disease, was particularly emotional Successful coach of the Kickers, Michael Schaudt.

Other sports departments

Boxing

The club has a boxing department founded in 1924, which regularly participates in sporting events with more than a dozen active athletes. A club's own training hall for the boxers is located directly in the stadium, on the western corner of the stands between the main stand and the stadium restaurant.

Table tennis department

The table tennis department of the Würzburger Kickers was founded in 1946. As early as 1954, the men were promoted to the state league, which was still the top division at the time. A year later, the table tennis players hosted the first German ranking tournament and hosted an international match against Austria. In the sixties and seventies the first team played consistently in the Bavarian League or in the State League and was always one of the best Lower Franconian teams. The women even played first class in the southern German league. At the beginning of the eighties, the continuous path towards the Bundesliga began. Landesliga, Bayernliga, Oberliga, Regionalliga and finally promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1994 were the stages of success. Almost sensationally, the Kickers became runner-up right away and even more surprisingly - due to the withdrawal of Berlin - promoted to the 1st Bundesliga. But the ascent came a year too early and, above all, too short-term. The season planning for the second division had already been completed, so there was nothing left to do but compete with a second division group in Europe's elite league. It inevitably happened as it had to: the table tennis kickers were relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga immediately. The International Würzburg City Championships - one of the largest private tournaments in Germany - were held a total of 24 times. Twice the Würzburger Kickers hosted international matches as part of the table tennis European league super division in front of over 2,000 spectators in the S.Oliver Arena. In 1995 the Bavarian Table Tennis Association awarded the highest German ranking tournament TOP-12 to Würzburg in its anniversary year. On March 5, 1996, the table tennis department of the Würzburger Kickers, 40 years after it was founded, became an independent club under the name TTK Würzburger Hofbräu. This paved the way for top quality again. The sporting peak was reached with the German championship in 2005. In addition, the final of the European ETTU Cup was reached twice (2005 and 2007), the German Cup final once (2006) and the quarter-finals of the European Champions League (2008). Due to personnel and financial reasons, the association could no longer be run independently in 2008 and was merged into the two associations TTC Müller Frickenhausen / Würzburg and TTC Kist / Würzburg. The former members of the table tennis department then decided in 2009 to re-establish it. The team is currently playing at district level.

fencing

The kickers fencing department was founded in 1950. In the beginning it was mainly the women who were successful in foil, later, under the direction of trainer Mary Jung, the epee fencers dominated. The epee team was unbeaten in Bavaria from 1962 to 1970, Dieter Jung was even three times German champion and took part in world championships and the Olympic Games in 1968 and 1972 . After several departures, fencing had to be stopped in 2007, but fencing training began again in 2017, this time in the saber discipline.

Former hockey department

The women's hockey team became German champions as HC Würzburger Kickers in 1941, 1952, 1953, 1955 and 1956 . With a total of 5 titles, the Würzburger Kickers are still in fifth place in the German record championship ranking. From 1992 onwards, after the active hockey players of the TG Würzburg had been accepted , the hockey department was renamed HTC Würzburg and became an independent club. The merger under the current name was necessary after the TGW had problems with space and the lack of players in the Kickers men's team.

Former handball department

Between the world wars there was also a handball department of the Würzburger Kickers. This was founded in 1929.

literature

• Rainer Adam: FC Würzburger Kickers e. V. 1907-2007. Würzburg / Sanderau, 2007.
• Steffen Krapf: 111 reasons to love the Würzburger Kickers. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-86265-802-2

Web links

Commons : Würzburger Kickers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the association

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Kicker.de: Club data - Würzburger Kickers
3. ^ Würzburger Kickers: Kickers, club, management of the club . Online at www.wuerzburger-kickers.de. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
4. ↑ Flyeralarm-Arena.de: Flyeralarm Arena
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27. ↑ kicker, Nuremberg, Germany: 3rd league 2017/18, the 38th matchday. Retrieved on July 7, 2018 (German). 
28. ↑ Felix Magath becomes head of Flyeralarm Global Soccer. In: FC FLYERALARM ADMIRA. January 20, 2020, accessed on January 21, 2020 (German). 
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31. ↑ 1st team , wuerzburger-kickers.de
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44. ↑ Benefit game for Michael Schaudt  ( 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. Bavarian Football Association, May 30, 2011, accessed on September 26, 2014.  
45. ↑ Impressive history: everything about the history of the fencing department! Würzburger Kickers, November 15, 2018, accessed on February 5, 2019 . 

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