Sportfreunde Ricklingen

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Current club coat of arms of Sportfreunde Ricklingen
Sportfreunde Ricklingen
Basic data
Surname Sportfreunde Ricklingen
from 1906 e. V.
Seat Hannover-Ricklingen ,
Lower Saxony
founding 1906
Colours blue White
1. Chairman Dieter Maetz
Website www.sf-ricklingen.de
First soccer team
Head coach nb
Venue Beekestadion
Places 3,000
league District League Region Hannover
2019/20 1st place (1st district class, season 4)  

The Sportfreunde Ricklingen from 1906 e. V. , often also known by the abbreviation SF Ricklingen , are a sports club from Hanover-Ricklingen . The club's soccer team plays its home games in the Beekestadion . Between 1996 and 1999 the Sportfreunde played in the third-class Regionalliga Nord . In addition to football, the club still also offers aerobics / gymnastics , Prellball and tennis at.

history

Foundation, prohibition, rebuilding (1906 to 1950)

The club was founded in 1906 as the Free Gymnastics Association in Ricklingen and joined the Workers' Gymnastics Association in the same year . From 1913 the club was expanded to include a football and handball department. In the 1920s, the club's athletes regularly took part in workers' gymnastics festivals. In 1930 the Ricklingers became champions of the 11th district with a 4: 1 final victory over the Free Sports Association Lehe and qualified for the final round of the German football championship of the Workers 'Gymnastics and Sports Association, which emerged from the Workers ' Gymnastics Association . There, the Ricklinger lost in the first round to the later runner-up Bahrenfelder SV 3: 4 after extra time .

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the club was banned, and many athletes joined other clubs or were unofficially active. So there was also a football team under the cover name "dust cloud". When the Second World War ended, several former club members tried to rebuild. The military administration allowed the reestablishment in October 1945, and the rugby club FV 1897 Linden had to cede the club grounds taken over in 1933. On November 4, 1945, the association was then re-established under its current name. Karl Behnsen became chairman, who was in charge of the association until 1969 and also represented the district at the Lower Saxony Association . In the following years football became the club's main sport.

First successes and decline (1950 to 1986)

In 1950 the Sportfreunde rose to the third class amateur league 3 . Four years later, the A-youth of the Sportfreunde Lower Saxony Cup winners. After these players moved up into the first team, the Ricklingers were runner-up in 1955 behind FC Stadthagen . Two years later the Sportfreunde secured the championship and finished the promotion round to the Lower Saxony amateur league level on points with the SVG Göttingen 07 . The direct encounter on the last matchday in Göttingen ended 3: 3. The decider in the neutral Alfeld was then lost with 0: 1.

A year later, the team around the future national player Lothar Ulsaß made up for promotion. With a 9-0 win over VfR Osterode 08 , the Ricklingers made the promotion perfect on the last matchday. In 1960 the sports fans only secured relegation after the playoffs against the amateurs of Eintracht Braunschweig and against Borussia Hildesheim . Four years later , the team missed the qualification for the single-track Lower Saxony state league as the penultimate and rose through the league reform from the second-highest division to the fourth-class Association League South . In November 1968, the club possessed the first in Lower Saxony a soccer goal from aluminum .

In terms of sport, the sports fans in the association league did not get beyond midfield. The greatest successes were the fourth places in the 1970/71 and 1971/72 seasons. In the 1975/76 season, the team even reached third place, before relegation to the district league followed a year later. In the meantime, Sportfreunde won the Hanover District Cup in 1965 with a 3-2 final win at SV Linden 07 . In 1980 he was promoted to the Hanover regional league . Three years later, the Sportfreunde were runner-up there, one point behind TSV Burgdorf .

The Behrend era (1986 to 1996)

Club grounds of SF Ricklingen (2013)

In the summer of 1986, the former second division player Rainer Behrends took over the training of Ricklinger. Just two years later, the Sportfreunde were again runner-up in the regional league, this time behind SC Harsum . In 1989 they were promoted to the Landesliga West due to a goal difference that was two goals better than Sparta Langenhagen . The Ricklinger were also among the top teams in the regional league and only missed promotion in 1991 because of the poorer goal difference against the amateurs of Hannover 96 .

This was made up for in the 1992/93 season. The team remained undefeated and defeated OSV Hannover 10-0. The two strikers Friedo Schwuchow and Gerald Krause together scored 62 goals. In 1992 and 1993, Sportfreunde also won the Lower Saxony Cup and thus qualified for the DFB Cup . In the 1992/93 cup season , after a bye in the first round and a 5-4 win after extra time over SC Verl in round two, the team only failed in the third round with 0-2 at Chemnitzer FC . A year later came the end in round two after a narrow 1-0 defeat against MSV Duisburg . Here, too, the Ricklingers had a bye in the first round.

In 1994 the team around the youth national players Dennis Weiland and Christian Gilica qualified for the newly created Oberliga Niedersachsen / Bremen . Two years later , the Sportfreunde became champions of the Oberliga and thus made it to the Regionalliga Nord. With this, the Ricklingers replaced SV Arminia as the sporting number two in the city. Coach Behrends returned to that Arminia at the end of the season. One of the guarantors of success was a manager Hartmut Hoppe, who brought numerous talented young players to the sports club. On the other hand, the family atmosphere in the club was emphasized.

Regional league and decline (1996 to 2007)

Alternative club crest that was used in particular during the times of the regional league.

The new Ricklinger coach was Dieter Schatzschneider , the most successful goalscorer in the history of the 2nd Bundesliga. Under his leadership, the Sportfreunde achieved eleventh place in the 1996/97 season . The highlight of the season were the derbies against Hannover 96. On September 27, 1996, the Ricklingers recorded a 2-0 defeat at their home game at the Niedersachsenstadion , but with 23,446 spectators they had their record attendance, which is still valid today. The 96 won the second leg 4-0.

At the end of the season there was a row between coach Schatzschneider and manager Hoppe. The latter left the club after a falling out with chairman Friedel Most, who then had to struggle with falling sponsorship income. In 1998 it was enough to rank 13, before a year later relegation from bottom of the table could no longer be avoided. In autumn 1999 the players threatened a strike because they had not paid their expense allowances, and the media speculated about a voluntary withdrawal to the district league. A bankruptcy could be averted by the waiver of some creditors.

In retrospect, the then chairman Friedel Most described the three years of the Regionalliga as a "mistake, as this league in Hanover cannot actually be financed with a neighbor like Hanover 96". In the league season 1999/2000 , the Sportfreunde were passed through as the bottom of the table in the Lower Saxony league. Two years later it went down to the Landesliga Hannover . In the 2003/04 and 2006/07 seasons, the Ricklinger returned to the Lower Saxony League for one year each.

Present (since 2007)

After the Sportfreunde again reached fourth place in the Hanover regional league in the 2008/09 season , the still big financial problems caused a sporting crash in the following years. After two relegations in a row, the Ricklinger joined the Hannover-Stadt district league in 2011. Three years later, the leap into the seventh-class district league Hannover 2 succeeded through the promotion round. In 2016, sports fans went back down to the district league, where the Ricklingers were passed through to the first district league in the following season 2016/17. It was not until 2020 that they were promoted to the district league.

successes

Stadion

The Beekestadion

Sportfreunde Ricklingen play their home games in the Beekestadion. The Beekestadion has space for 3,000 spectators, of which around 1,900 are covered. However, only around 2,000 spaces are currently available. The game is played on natural grass . During the regional league years of Sportfreunde, some home games were played in the Niedersachsenstadion . This usually affected the derbies against Hannover 96 but also games against Eintracht Braunschweig .

Between 2012 and 2016, the second team from Hannover 96 also played in the Beekestadion before they returned to the renovated Eilenriedestadion . Sportfreunde has shared the stadium with the Hanover Grizzlies American football team since 2017 .

Personalities

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hardy Green , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 400.
  2. ^ Christian Wolter : ATSB championship 1930 complete. Arbeiterfussball.de, accessed on July 25, 2019 .
  3. ^ Christian Wolter: Workers' football in Berlin and Brandenburg 1910-1933 . Arete Verlag, Hildesheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-942468-49-7 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 , p. 329.
  5. ^ German Sports Club for Soccer Statistics : Soccer in Northern Germany 1945-1974 . Lehrte 2004, p. 115, 124 .
  6. ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (Ed.): Football in Lower Saxony 1964 - 1979 . Taught 2008, p. 89, 102, 154, 167, 205 .
  7. ^ A b c German sports club for soccer statistics: Soccer in the Hanover district 1979-2006 . Taught 2012, p. 42, 102, 114, 137, 161 .