FC Sportfreunde Leipzig
The FC Sport friends Leipzig was a German football club from Leipzig , which existed from 1900 to 1945. Sportpark Connewitz was the home of sports fans .
society
FC Sportfreunde Leipzig was founded on July 30, 1900 and initially took part in the championship of the Leipzig Ball Game Association for a short time. With the dissolution of the VLBV, the Saxons subsequently took part in the championships of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs.
In the seasons 1914/15, 1928/29 and 1930/31, the Sportfreunde won the championship of North West Saxony and Greater Leipzig. In the associated qualifying games for the Central German Championship, the Leipzigers reached the semi-finals in 1929, in which they were defeated by the CBC in 1899 with 1: 7. In 1931 the Sportfreunde failed in the round of 16 against Thuringia Weida. The greatest success in the club's history was reaching the finals in the Central German Cup. Against the clearly favored SpVgg 1899 Leipzig, the Connewitz lost 1: 3.
With the introduction of the Gauliga, the sports fans could no longer build on earlier sporting successes. Only in the Tschammerpokal in 1939 did the Saxons reach the round of 16 via NSTG Warnsdorf and Göttingen 05, in which they were clearly defeated by Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin 2: 9. Before that, Sportfreunde had already won six in the intermediate and main rounds. So u. a. against the Gauligists Fortuna Leipzig 1-0.
Von 1933 bis 1944 spielten die Sportfreunde in der Bezirksklasse bzw. Klasse 1 Leipzig (2 Ebene) und erreichten zumeist Mittelfeldplatzierungen. Im April 1942 musste der 1912 eröffnete Sportpark in Connewitz zur Erweiterung des Gaswerkes aufgegeben werden. Bis zum Kriegsende wurde auf dem Platz des SV Thalysia gespielt und eine neue Anlage in Dölitz geplant.
After the Second World War, the club was dissolved in 1945 and was later not continued in other structures. Possibly. the space problem contributed to this
statistics
- Participation in the Tschammer Cup 1939
- Participation in the Central German Championship: 1928/29, 1930/31
- Central German Cup finalist: 1931
people
- Walter Hempel , 11 times German national soccer player, played for FC Sportfreunde from 1908 to 1912
- Camillo Ugi , 15 times German national soccer player, played for FC Sportfreunde in 1918/19
- Max Grafe , international soccer referee and member of FC Sportfreunde; led the final of the German championship in 1910 .
literature
- Hardy Greens : FC Sportfreunde Leipzig. In: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 , p. 284.