SpVgg Schupo Liegnitz
The sports association of the Liegnitz police force , or "SpVgg Schupo Liegnitz" for short, was a German football club from Liegnitz in Lower Silesia. Today Liegnitz belongs to Poland and is called Legnica .
history
After the First World War , the Minister of the Interior responsible for the State of Prussia decreed that the police officers had to do sports in order to improve their professional performance. Thus, official sport was introduced in the authorities and institutions of the Prussian police. The decree was the cornerstone for the creation of police sports clubs, which, however, were only accessible to police officers.
The “law enforcement officers” from Liegnitz soon set up a corresponding association. The exact year of foundation is not certain, but from the 1921/22 season onwards they appear as "Schupo Liegnitz" in the tables of the higher football classes in Lower Silesia . The 1924/25 season was to bring great success. The club, which initially enjoyed the right to host "FC Blitz 03 Liegnitz" on Grünthaler Strasse and later played football in the courtyard of the police barracks, won the Lower Silesia Championship . In the following SOFV championship , however, he had to learn the hard way: without a single point and with a goal difference of 4:22, he was clearly inferior to the competition from Forst , Breslau , Beuthen and Sagan and took last place in the final round. He played in higher leagues for two more seasons - until 1927 - after which he disappeared from the scene. What became of the "Schupo Liegnitz" is unknown.
successes
- Lower Silesian champion and participant in the southeast finals : 1924/25
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.
