Sports fans Neukieritzsch
The registered club Sportfreunde Neukieritzsch 1921 is a sports club in northwestern Saxony .
History of origin
As early as the 1920s, there were three sports clubs in the small settlement of Bahnhof Kieritzsch, south of Leipzig , with the workers gymnastics club, the German gymnastics association Vater Jahn and the sports association Bahnhof Kieritzsch. Sports association and gymnastics association merged in 1923 to form the association Sportfreunde Bahnhof Kieritzsch, in which mainly football was played.
The clubs fell victim to the occupying powers' ban on clubs after the Second World War, and in their place the athletes in the Neukieritzsch community, which had now formed, were able to found a sports group whose footballers could again participate in regular sports activities. From 1949 it was possible to set up company sports associations (BSG) whose sponsoring companies provided financial support. As a result, the BSG Elektro-MAS was launched in Neukieritzsch. When the ferro-alloy plant in nearby Lippendorf took over the sponsorship shortly afterwards , the BSG was renamed Stahl Lippendorf on August 22, 1950 . When a new power plant began operating in Lippendorf in 1969 and also took over the sponsorship of the BSG, on June 27, 1969, the name was again changed to the Industrial Sports Association (ISG) Lippendorf.
When the political and economic situation changed again in 1990, the previous sponsorship for the company sports association ended. Since independent associations could now be founded in East Germany according to federal German law , the ISG changed into a registered association on December 12, 1991, which took on the name Sportfreunde Neukieritzsch in 1921, recalling the old days. He then offered a wide range of sports, including traditional football and the like. a. also include athletics, volleyball, tennis, judo as well as chess and bowling. With the last two sports mentioned, the club was also able to appear nationwide.
Soccer
Since the 1920s, football has played a prominent role in Kieritzsch-Neukieritzsch, even if the game was initially only played in the lower leagues. This did not change immediately after the Second World War, but BSG Stahl was able to adorn itself with the title of district cup winner in 1952 and 1953 and that of district cup winner in 1954 and 1955. With the 1961/62 season, the team had a squad that subsequently ensured the best football times in Neukieritzsch. First, the season was completed as runner-up in the Leipzig district league and then won the promotion round to the third-class II. GDR league . The following season was a march through, and with the 1st place in the league season 3 Stahl Lippendorf qualified for the second-rate I. GDR league . In the 1963/64 season, however, the team was then shown their limits, and in the end it was only enough for the penultimate place, which meant relegation to the third division. Since the 2nd GDR league had been abolished in the meantime, Stahl now had to compete in the less attractive district league. While in the first two years they could do relatively well with 5th place, a further decline began with the 1966/67 season. If 12th place was enough to stay in the league, a year later with 15th and penultimate place the descent into the district class had to be accepted. There the level of the team could be raised so far that the immediate promotion was possible and until 1974, now as ISG Lippendorf, a place in the district league could be held. After that, the team did not reach the district league until the end of the GDR sport. Even in the DFB game operation , which was introduced in East Germany from 1991, the Neukieritzsch football players did not come out of the lowlands of the lower class. It was not until 2004 that the Sportfreunde Neukieritzsch succeeded in advancing to the Leipzig district class (7th league). In the 2016/17 season, the club played in the district league A West. However, the men's division was dissolved at the end of the season.
people
There are also prominent names associated with the Stahl Lippendorf soccer team:
- Rudolf Krause worked as a trainer at Stahl Lippendorf from 1960 to 1962
- Konrad Schaller switched from BSG Stahl to SC Leipzig in 1963 .
- Wolfgang Jahn , player