TSG Calbe
| TSG Calbe / Saale eV | |||
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| Surname | Gymnastics and Sports Association Calbe / Saale e. V. |
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| Seat | Calbe / Saale , Saxony-Anhalt | ||
| founding | January 21, 1967 | ||
| Colours | blue White | ||
| president | Rainer Schulze | ||
| Website |
www.tsgcalbe-fussball.de Football: |
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| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Marcel Würlich | ||
| Venue | Hegerstadion | ||
| Places | 5000 | ||
| league | State League Saxony-Anhalt North | ||
| 2017/18 | 6th place | ||
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The TSG Calbe / Saale eV is a multi-utility sports club from Calbe / Saale . With around 1500 members, it is the largest sports community in the Salzland district . In addition to the three main sports canoeing , handball and football , tennis , athletics , chess and table tennis are also played . Active karate, judo and gymnastics . The club uses the Hegerstadion, which has space for 4500 spectators.
Club development
In 1907 the first sports club was founded in Calbe with the Germania association. By 1933, other sports clubs with a men's gymnastics club (MTV), ATSV Freiheit, Eintracht, Rot-Sport and ball game club were established. After the Second World War, all clubs were dissolved. Game operations were continued with the Eintracht Calbe sports community. In 1951, the sports community was taken over by the newly founded company sports community (BSG) Stahl Calbe, which was supported organizationally and financially by the newly built low- shaft furnace. At this time, two other company sports communities were formed: Lok Calbe and Activist Calbe. On January 21, 1967, all three BSG merged to form TSG Calbe. The merger was the result of the development of popular sport in Calbe and the integration of many sports into a common gymnastics and sports community. The new TSG had 300 members at that time. The new carrier company was the Metal Leichtbaukombinat (MLK) Calbe. After 1990, in addition to maintaining the sporting business, new, completely changed structures of the material and financial basis were built; the TSG was converted into a civil association.
Sports departments
Handball
Handball is one of the most successful sports in Calbe. MTV Calbe founded its first men's field handball team as early as 1922. After the Second World War, the BSG unit initially set accents in Calbens field handball. In 1950 she was one of the founding members of the GDR Oberliga (men) and was GDR runner-up in 1952. In the same year, the handball section of the BSG unit joined the newly founded BSG Stahl Calbe. This was GDR champion and cup winner in 1953 and won the championship title again in 1954. The national players Werner Assmann and Kurt Helming emerged from it. After the introduction of indoor handball in the early 1960s, the decline of field handball in Calbe was heralded. From 1967 indoor handball was successfully played in the "Zuckerfabrik" sports hall. TSG Calbe was founded, under whose roof the individual sports departments were organized. In the mid-1980s, the women let the Calbens handball flourish again, in 1985/86 they played for one season in the top division, the GDR league. After the turnaround of 1989, both men and women made it up to the third-class, since 2010 fourth-class league. The women's team even managed to get promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1995, but was not given a license due to a deficient venue and financial problems. In 1999, 2009 and 2010 the women won the state cup. The men became national champions in 2013, 2015 and 2019 and were promoted to the Central German Oberliga in 2013 and 2015.
canoe
In 1930, the Calbe Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Club founded a canoe department that could be maintained until the time of TSG eV. After the Second World War, canoeing made slow progress in Calbe. Canoeing as a heavy athletic sport was banned until 1949. In 1967, however, the Calbe performance base was founded, from which the later successful canoeists Werner Jahn (European championship participant) and Herbert Laabs (1974 world champion) emerged. TSG eV was also able to continue the successful work of canoeists after the fall of the Wall. Thomas Stimpel became the first German champion for TSG in 1993, and Mark Zabel had already started his successful career as a junior world champion as a TSG athlete in 1991 , which he later continued as an Olympic and world champion at SC Magdeburg. In 2002 Erik Lange and Sascha Schmidt from Calben won gold and silver at the Junior World Championship. The canoe department currently has 130 active members who, in addition to canoe racing, also practice other water sports such as motor boating , dragon boating and water hiking. In October 2005 the canoeing department was awarded the bronze star of the sport.
Soccer
With the establishment of Germania Calbe, the era of football began in the city. Until 1945, however, no Calbens soccer team could draw national attention to itself. Even after the Second World War, it was not until 1954 that BSG Stahl Calbe was promoted to the then third-class district league Magdeburg . A year later, the league was only fourth class, in which Calbe was able to hold until 1960. After the end of the 1960 season, the BSG rose again from bottom of the table. After that, Calbe was no longer represented in national football for decades. Even before they were promoted to the district league, BSG Stahl had become known across the country in the GDR Cup competition in 1953/54 when they advanced to the third cup as a fourth division and only lost 6-2 to second division Motor Altenburg.
In 1999 TSG eV was promoted to the then fifth-class association league of Saxony-Anhalt . Until 2006, TSG shuttled as an elevator team between the association and regional league and has been playing in the seventh-class regional league from 2008 since its last relegation in 2006.