Sportfreunde Gladbeck
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| Full name | Sportfreunde 1920 Gladbeck e. V. |
| place | Gladbeck , North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Founded | January 1, 1920 |
| Dissolved | 1968 |
| Club colors | green white |
| Stadion | Gladbeck Stadium |
| Top league | II West Division |
| successes | Promotion to 2nd Division West 1957 |
The Sportfreunde Gladbeck were a sports club from Gladbeck in the Recklinghausen district . The first soccer team belonged to the II. West Division , at that time the second highest division, for six years .
history
On January 6, 1920 the club was founded as VfR Gladbeck-Süd . However, January 1, 1920 was given as the official founding date. In 1923 the VfR merged with the football department of TV 1912 Gladbeck and was now called Sportfreunde Gladbeck-Süd . Nine years later the club name was shortened to Sportfreunde Gladbeck . In 1968 the club merged with the SuS Rosenhügel club, founded on June 8, 1952, to form 1. FC Gladbeck.
Sporting development
The Gladbeck-based company celebrated its first successes in the 1943/44 season when the team reached the promotion round to the Gauliga Westfalen . There they finished last in their group without winning points. Four years later, the Sportfreunde became runner-up in the Gelsenkirchen district class behind VfL Resse 08 and, via the following round of promotion, made it to the Landesliga Westfalen , which was the highest amateur league in Westphalia at the time. There the Gladbeck first played against relegation. In 1953 , the team could only ensure relegation through a 2-1 playoff win over SpVgg Rheine .
Three years later the Sportfreunde secured the championship of the Landesligagruppe 4 with a 2-1 playoff win over Germania Datteln and achieved third place at the Westphalia Championship behind the Dortmund SC 95 and the Sportfreunde Siegen . At the same time, the people of Gladbeck qualified for the newly created Association League Westphalia , where the sports fans were champions of Group 2 straight away . In the finals of the Westphalia Championship, the team was defeated by SpVg Beckum . Since both the Beckum and the Mittelrheinmeister Stolberger SV renounced the promotion to the II. Division West, the Sportfreunde Gladbeck moved up.
Against all prophecies of doom , the sports fans were able to stay in this league for six years and attracted an average of up to 5,500 spectators to the Gladbeck stadium . In the seasons 1959/60 and 1960/61 , the best placements were achieved with eighth place. Only in 1961/62 did the team come into serious danger of relegation. In the 1962/63 season it was about qualifying for the newly created Regionalliga West , for which the first eight teams should qualify. For this, the sports fans were in a promising position before the last game day.
On the last day of the match, the Gladbeck-based team welcomed their direct competitor SV Sodingen . First Gladbeck's Ernst Brünglinghaus missed a penalty before the guests could win 2-0. Two points behind eighth place, which was taken by Duisburg SpV , Sportfreunde finished eleventh and were relegated. In 1965, the Gladbeck team rose as a knocked-off bottom of the table from the association league and missed the rise in both 1967 and 1968 as runner-up behind Prussia Hochlarmark and Eintracht Ahaus . In 1968 the Sportfreunde merged with SuS Rosenhügel to form 1. FC Gladbeck.
Successor club 1. FC Gladbeck
In the first few years after the merger, 1. FC played for promotion to the association league. In 1969 the Gladbeck runners-up behind SC Hassel , but lost the decisive promotion round match against Sportfreunde Siegen with 0: 2. It got even more dramatic a year later when 1. FC ended the season tied with Hansa Scholven and SV Warendorf . The scheduled decision-making round ended with a stalemate , so that the decision was made by lottery in favor of Gladbeck. After a 4-1 win over SV Netphen , the decision was made in the game against TuS Hattingen that 1. FC lost 2-1 despite having a majority.
The Gladbeckers went downhill in the period that followed. In 1971 the team was relegated from the regional league and in 1978 had to join the regional league. In the 1997/98 season, the club returned to the regional league before 1. FC returned to the Gelsenkirchen District League B in 2000 after three relegations in a row . After a short district league guest game in the 2011/12 season, the Gladbeck-based team are back in the district league A. The club disbanded on June 30, 2016. The members then joined the SuS Schwarz-Blau Gladbeck association . With Detlef Krella , Pierre-Michel Lasogga and Volkan Ünlü , 1. FC Gladbeck produced three future professionals.
Personalities
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Hardy Green , Christian Karn: The big book of German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 181.
- ↑ Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , p. 248.
- ^ German Sports Club for Soccer Statistics : Soccer in West Germany 1945-1952 . Hövelhof 2011, p. 73, 79 .
- ^ German Sports Club for Soccer Statistics: Soccer in West Germany 1952-1958 . Hövelhof 2012, p. 24 .
- ↑ a b Ralf Piorr (Hrsg.): The pot is round - The lexicon of Revier football: The clubs . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-356-9 , p. 107-108 .
- ^ FC Gladbeck. Tables Archive.info, accessed on May 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Thomas Dieckhoff: FC Gladbeck dissolves on June 30th. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , accessed on March 16, 2016 .