AS Strasbourg
The AS Strasbourg (French Association Sportive de Strasbourg or AS Strasbourg ) is a football club founded in 1890 as Strasbourg FK in Strasbourg, Alsace . In the early days of football in the German Empire around the turn of the century, the team was one of the most successful in the south of the country under the name of Straßburger FV and won the South German Championship in 1900 . Today basketball and athletics are played alongside soccer.
history
The club was founded on May 19, 1890 by pupils and students as a Strasbourg football club , but regular games were only introduced when Walther Bensemann joined in 1892. On June 4, 1893 one was a founding member of the South-West German Football Union . The founding of the association went back to the initiative of the captain of the Strasbourg, the later founder of the sports newspaper Der Kicker , Walther Bensemann. At that time there was no national league competition in southern Germany, but thanks to Bensemann's numerous contacts, there were still encounters with teams from other cities. With Walther Bensemann, Gustav Manning and Ivo Schricker , some important pioneers of football in Germany were among the team's players in the early years . A highlight was a 10-0 win against Karlsruher FV in March 1897, in which Ivo Schricker scored seven goals.
The first football association in southern Germany to host a championship was the Association of Southern German Football Associations (VSFV), founded in 1897 . In the first round, which, like the following, was played in the knockout system , the Strasbourgers were eliminated against the later champions Freiburg FC . On December 24, 1898, the Strasbourg FC merged with the SC Cerelitas to form the Strasbourg FV , which won the South German Championship in 1900. In the final, the opponent was Karlsruher FV, who in the following years became the VSFV's "series champion". However, there was not yet a nationwide final round at that time. In January 1900, Strasbourg was one of the 86 clubs at the founding meeting of the German Football Association . When he played a German championship for the first time in 1902/03 and a league game was set up for the first time at VSFV in 1903/04 , the great days of the Strasbourg FV were already over. This season the team was able to win the championship in Oberrheingau, but then failed in the quarter-finals of the southern German finals. From 1909 to 1912 they reported back for three years in the top southern German league, and goalkeeper Eberhardt Illmer was called up to an international match for the German national team in 1909 .
After the end of the First World War , the old realm of Alsace-Lorraine was dissolved and the area belonged to France from then on. The Strasbourg FV became the Association Sportive de Strasbourg , or AS Strasbourg for short, through a merger with FC Donar in 1920 . This attempted to build on earlier successes, but could not step out of the second class even under the French flag. Between 1920 and 1932 five players played for the French national football team . During the Second World War, the club was once again incorporated into German gaming operations under the name of SV Strasbourg in 1890 and held for one season (1940/41) in the top division, the Gauliga Alsace .
Until the introduction of professionalism (1932 ), AS fought successfully with the Racing Club from the suburb of Neudorf and, at least until the mid-1920s, with the SC Red Star for supremacy in Strasbourg football. Since 1919/20 she has reached the national main round of the French Cup almost every year and often survived the first round. Since the Second World War, however, AS Strasbourg has only occasionally appeared nationwide. It is true that in the 1950s and 1960s they won several Alsatian championships (1961, 1966, 1970) and cup titles (1954, 1965, 1966), and AS Strasbourg presented OGC Nice in the second round of the Coupe de France 1968/69 almost a leg: After a 1-1 draw after extra time, ASS was only defeated by the first division team in the replay. But the last major successes - Division IV championship in 1982/83, Alsatian Cup winner 1983 and the last participation in the main cup in 1985/86 - were a few decades ago. In the last few decades, however, the team has not appeared nationwide and plays in the lower French divisions. The home games have been played since 14 May 2006 in the Stade de la Rotonde in the Cronembourg district.
National player
- Eberhardt Illmer (Germany 1909) 1 game
- Alfred Roth (France 1920) 1 game
- Émile Friess (France 1922) 2 games
- Pierre Seyler (France 1928) 2 games
- Maurice Banide (France 1929) 3 games
- Émile Scharwath (France 1932) 7 games
literature
- Spiel und Sport (Berlin), various editions born in 1894 & 1895, accessed on October 30, 2016 at sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de
- Charles Bartissol, Christophe: Les racines du football français (= Sports. ISSN 0761-4608 ). PAC, Paris 1983, pp. 221-229.
- Hardy Grüne , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 454.
- 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. 15.
- Gustave Jeffke: 100 ans de football en Alsace (Volume 2). Ligue d'Alsace de Football Association LAFA, Strasbourg 2002, ISBN 2-9112-1913-9 .