SpVgg 1896 Liegnitz
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| Full name | Spielvereinigung 1896 Liegnitz | ||
| place | Liegnitz | ||
| Founded | 1924 | ||
| Dissolved | 1945 | ||
| Club colors | Blue White | ||
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| Top league | District class Lower Silesia | ||
| successes | 1 × Lower Silesian Master : 1926 | ||
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The Spielvereinigung 1896 Liegnitz , or “SpVgg 1896 Liegnitz” for short, was a German football club from Liegnitz in Lower Silesia that existed until 1937.
history
The SpVgg 1896 Liegnitz was created in 1924, when the football department of the ATV Liegnitz split off from the gymnastics club and founded an independent club as part of the “clean divorce” ordered by the umbrella organizations . The independence brought a number of problems for the footballers, who now competed in blue shirts and white pants. The greatest difficulty was the question of space, because the previous venue, the Jahn sports field at the Schützenhaus, belonged to the gymnastics club and was therefore no longer available. The association had to lease a new place far out on Jauerstrasse, behind the district hospital, for expensive money. Initially, the area was nothing more than a gravel pit, which first had to be made playable at high cost. In addition, there were the running costs, so that the club had to go into debt in order to be able to start playing at all.
At least in footballing terms, the Spielvereinigung 1896 seemed to be able to build on its earlier successes after a short dry spell. In the 1925/26 season they won the Lower Silesian title again , but ended up in the Southeast Championship under "also ran". But this title win turned out to be a flash in the pan. The game association continued to play in the Lower Silesian top, but it shouldn't be enough for a long time to honor higher rankings. However, this sporting decline had less to do with the separation from the ATV. Rather, new and strong opponents arose in Liegnitz and other Lower Silesian places. Of course, from 1933 the new Gauliga Schlesien took place without the 96ers - with the result that the long unpaid debts for the now lower-class club could no longer be met. Bankruptcy was foreseeable.
The “rescue” was the renewed merger with the gymnastics club in 1937, now called the “Turn- und Sport-Verein Liegnitz”, or “Tuspo Liegnitz” for short, which later became the NSTG Liegnitz .
successes
- Lower Silesian champion and participant in the southeast finals : 1925/26
literature
- Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
- German sports club for football statistics: "Football in Silesia 1900 / 01–1932 / 33", DSFS 2007.
- Various materials from the Liegnitzer Heimatstube in Wuppertal.