Black and White Bregenz (1919)

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SW Bregenz
Logo SW Bregenz (2013) .svg
Full name Casino black and white Bregenz
place
Founded June 28, 1919 as FC Bregenz
Dissolved 2007 by bankruptcy
Club colors Black-and-white
Stadion Casino Stadium Bregenz
Top league Bundesliga
successes 5th place in the
Bundesliga 2003/04
home
Away
Template: Infobox historical football club / maintenance / incomplete home
Template: Infobox historical football club / maintenance / incomplete outward
Casino Stadium Bregenz

Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz was an Austrian football club from the provincial capital Bregenz in Vorarlberg . He last played in the 2004/05 season in the Austrian Bundesliga. The association filed for bankruptcy in 2005 and was dissolved in 2007. As a catch basin for the youth players, a successor club was founded in 2005 with SC Bregenz , which was renamed Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz in 2013 .

history

Foundation and first years

On June 28, 1919, FC Bregenz was founded with the club colors black and white, making it the fourth oldest football club in Vorarlberg. In its young history, the club mainly played friendly matches against German and Swiss clubs from the Lake Constance area. In 1927 the Bregenz team competed for the first time in the Vorarlberg A-Class, which was then the highest level in Vorarlberg, and achieved second place. In 1928, FC Bregenz was Vorarlberg champion ahead of FA Turnerbund Lustenau (today SC Austria Lustenau ) and FC Lustenau 07 . In 1930 FC Bregenz only reached fourth place and had to relegate from the A-Class. In 1933 the Bregenz family was top-notch again and was able to stay in the Vorarlberg A-Class until the break in 1938. After Austria was annexed , the Vorarlberg A-class was replaced by the Bodensee-Vorarlberg district class. The best Vorarlberg clubs (including FC Bregenz) now played in a league with clubs such as VfB Friedrichshafen, VfL Lindau, SV Weingarten, FC Lindenberg, and other clubs from Meckenbeuren, Langenargen and Ravensburg from the Altreich. The 1941/42 season was canceled due to the Second World War . All clubs had to stop playing.

After the Second World War

After the end of the war, FC Bregenz was reactivated. However, the association had to choose a new name on the intervention of the French occupying forces. So in 1945 the name was changed to Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz . The club emblem, which was designed by the Bregenz honorary member Hans Kolb, also dates from this year. As early as 1946, Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz was playing in what is now the first class in Vorarlberg, the highest league in the "Ländle". A Vorarlberg League championship was held until 1950 . In 1950 the Arlbergliga was founded by the regional soccer associations of Vorarlberg and Tyrol. After a few championship titles, Bregenz was the first Vorarlberg club to rise to the top division, the state league, in 1954 . There, however, the club could only play for one season and rose again in 1955. In 1960 the Regionalliga West was founded. SW Bregenz played there for years. In the 1970/71 season, the club appeared under the sponsor name SC Olymp Bregenz . In 1973/74, after a merger with the first division promoted FC Rätia Bludenz , the club was briefly known as FC Vorarlberg . 1974/75 the official name was after the new sponsor SC Vorwerk Vorarlberg (Bregenz) . After the merger with Bludenz was dissolved , a new merger with FC Dornbirn 1913 took place from 1979 to 1987 . During this time, the merger association appeared as IG Bregenz / Dornbirn . After Casinos Austria joined the company as the main sponsor, the Bregenz company took on the role of Casino SW Bregenz .

Time in the Bundesliga and bankruptcy

Between 1999 and the 2004/05 season, the club played in the Austrian Bundesliga . In the seasons 2002/2003 and 2004/2005 the team also played internationally in the UI Cup . Opponents included FC Torino , against whom the club was eliminated after a 1-0 away defeat at the Stadio delle Alpi and a 1-1 at home. After that, the club got into increasingly severe financial problems. After the rather mixed 2004/05 season , relegation to the second-rate first division followed . However, the club was denied the license for the following game year due to financial problems. After the fight before the permanent neutral court of arbitration or Senate 5 of the Austrian Bundesliga was lost, SW Bregenz filed for bankruptcy and was therefore dissolved.

Greatest sporting success

  • 13 × Vorarlberger Landesmeister : 1928 as FC Bregenz, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1964, 1966, 1970 as SW
  • 5 × Vorarlberger Landescupieger : 1928 as FC Bregenz, 1950, 1992 as SW
  • 9 × champions of the second level : 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957 (Arlbergliga), 1966, 1970, 1972 (Regionalliga West), 1999 (First Division)
  • 1 × champions of the third level: 1996 (Regionalliga West)
  • 3 × Vorarlberger Landescupfinalist : 1937 as FC Bregenz, 1946, 1953 as SW
  • 3 × Vorarlberg State Cup winners for women: 2005

After being promoted to the Austrian Bundesliga in 1999, Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz was the only Vorarlberg team to remain in the top Austrian division for six years. The 5th place in the 2003/2004 season represents the greatest sporting success of the club and Vorarlberg football to date.

Known players

Austrian national team

 

Legionnaires
Norway

Belgium

Netherlands

DR Congo

Denmark

 

Slovakia

Hungary

Germany

Czech Republic

Women's soccer

The women's team from Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz was founded in the late 1990s and was promoted to the Regionalliga West in 1997, in 2000 the Bregenz women made it to the women's Bundesliga, a year later they were promoted to the Regionalliga West. After Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz, which was founded in 1919, went bankrupt in 2005, SC Bregenz took over the women's team.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Bankruptcy proceedings against Casino SW Bregenz concluded. Vorarlberg Online , February 8, 2008, accessed July 22, 2013 .
  2. ^ "Back In Black": Renaming of SC Bregenz to Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz. Vorarlberg Online , July 9, 2013, accessed May 25, 2014 .