SpVgg Ratibor 03
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| Full name | Sports Association Ratibor 1903 eV | ||
| place | Ratibor | ||
| Founded | August 27, 1903 | ||
| Dissolved | 1945 | ||
| Club colors | White yellow | ||
| Stadion | 03-Stadion am Birkenwald (10,000) | ||
| Top league | Gauliga Silesia | ||
| successes | Upper Silesian runner-up: 1909 (as FC Ratibor 1903) | ||
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The SpVgg Ratibor 03 was a German football club from Ratibor in Upper Silesia. The city is now part of Poland and is called Racibórz .
history
The club was launched on August 27, 1903 as Ratiborer FC (RFC) and was the first football club in Upper Silesia . The initiative to found it came from a native of Ratibor named Fritz Seidel, who had worked in Wroclaw and got to know the sport of football there. In the time before the First World War, the RFC played in red shirts and white trousers, initially on Schützenhausplatz and on Kaulschen Wiese behind the brewery, and later on the Schlossgarten square. The club sought contact with footballers outside of their hometown at an early stage. He is listed in the DFB yearbook 1906 as an individual member of the DFB and at the same time was already playing competitions against the clubs Diana and Prussia from the neighboring city of Katowice . From 1906 he was one of the first clubs to form the Upper Silesia district in the Southeast German Football Association . With 40 to 50 members, the RFC was the largest and most powerful local association until World War I. In the Upper Silesia region, however, the competition, especially from Katowice, was clearly superior.
Around 1910 it was renamed Sportvereinigung Ratibor .
After the end of the war, however, the supremacy of the footballers from "03", now in white shirts and yellow shorts, over their local rivals wavered for around a decade. Above all, space problems made the white-yellow to create. The venue had to be changed several times before the club, now called SpVgg 03, built its own "03-Stadion am Birkenwald" in 1926 in the Ostrog district at the former hussar barracks not far from the Oder. This venue on Schlossstrasse was the only sports field in Ratibor to have standing trusses, plus excessive curves for cycling races. It held about 10,000 spectators.
Thanks to the new stadium and the associated financial opportunities, the 03-Elf again took over control in Racibórz from 1930 - just in time to be assigned to the new top class, the Gauliga Schlesien , when the Nazis reorganized football in 1933 . Although the white and yellow could not keep up with the Upper Silesian top teams Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz , Beuthen 09 and Preußen Hindenburg , thanks to their home strength they made places in the middle of the table again and again until 1936/37.
In the 1936/37 season, the Ratiborans could no longer maintain the level of play and were the last to be relegated. Although the club returned to the top class after only one year and finished the 1938/39 season with a respectable 7th place, when the Second World War began a few months later , he voluntarily withdrew from the Gauliga due to a lack of players, and even ended the game operation. The white-yellows did not accept an offer from local rival Prussia Ratibor to form a war game community with them, since they could still have put together a competitive team. They should never take part in Upper Silesian gaming again: in 1945, after the war that Germany had lost, the oldest club in the region went out when Ratibor - like all of Silesia and Upper Silesia - was awarded to Poland.
successes
- Upper Silesian runner-up: 1909 (as FC Ratibor 1903 )
- 1 × Master Gau Ratibor: 1909 (as FC Ratibor 1903 )
Known players
- Arthur Bialas (as a teenager)
- Franz Bialas (as a teenager)
- Max Schirschin
- Karl Siemko
literature
- Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
- Georg Kachel: "Ratibor - City and Country on the Upper Oder".
- DFB yearbook 1906
Individual evidence
- ↑ fussball-woche.de: Fortune anchor in the shadow of the smelly huts
- ↑ Der Oberschlesischer Wanderer, August 28, 1933, No. 201, p. 10 - "30th anniversary of the sports association Ratibor 03"
- ↑ Regional: - GERMANY - LEAGUE FINAL TABLES 1910/11
- ^ District Upper Silesia 1909 1st class
- ↑ mostkowiszalency.fora.pl (Polish)
