FC Giessen
| FC Giessen | |||
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | FC Giessen 1927 Teutonia / 1900 VfB eV |
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| Seat | Pohlheim , Hesse | ||
| founding | November 1, 1927 | ||
| Colours | Red White | ||
| 1. Chairman | Dominik Fischer | ||
| Website | fc-giessen.com | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Daniyel Cimen | ||
| Venue | Waldstadion Giessen | ||
| Places | 4,999 | ||
| league | Regionalliga southwest | ||
| 2019/20 | 15th place | ||
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The FC Gießen (officially: FC Gießen 1927 Teutonia / 1900 VfB eV , formerly Sportclub Teutonia 1927 Watzenborn-Steinberg eV ) is a sports club from Gießen and the Pohlheim district of Watzenborn-Steinberg in the district of Gießen . The club offers football and tennis . The original club "SC Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg" was renamed in the course of the admission of the men's soccer teams of VfB Gießen to "FC Gießen" on July 1, 2018 and received a new logo and new club colors.
The first soccer team has been playing in the Regionalliga Südwest since the 2019/20 season .
history
Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg
The club was founded on November 1, 1927 as FC Teutonia Steinberg and originally had the club colors blue-yellow. At the beginning of the 1930s, the club name was changed to FC Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg and the current club colors green and white were adopted. In 1937 the club reached the second-rate district class and a year later caused a sensation in the cup. The qualification for the Tschammerpokal , the forerunner of the DFB-Pokal , was missed. The game against Borussia Fulda was canceled. For unknown reasons, Borussia then took part in the Tschammer Cup. In 1939 the Teutons became district champions and reached the promotion round to the then first-class Gauliga Hessen , where the team, however, failed at TSV 1860 Hanau . After the end of the Second World War , the Watzenborner played in the 1946/47 season in the Landesliga Hessen, which was then the highest amateur class and from 1948 in the 2nd amateur league. Four years later, the team became champions of their season, but failed in the decider for promotion to the 1st amateur league Hesse with 0-1 at SpVgg Bad Homburg . Four years later, Teutonia again missed promotion, this time against Germania Marburg . At the end of the 1950s, the club experienced a sporty decline that led the Watzenborn in 1961 to the B-Class. Apart from a district league guest game in the 1970s, the team was only active at the district level until the 1990s. In 1995 he was promoted to the district league, which was followed two years later by the jump to the district league Gießen / Marburg.
There, in the relegation round, the march into the regional league center was missed only because of the worse goal difference . In 2003, the Teutonia had to relegate after a league reform, but managed the direct promotion and a year later the first qualification for the Hessen Cup . Also in 2006, the Watzenborn rose as runner-up in the regional league in the state league, from which the team had to relegate two years later. In 2011 the Teutons rose to the second highest Hessian league, now known as the association league. After the team was only just able to avoid relegation in 2014, Teutonia became champions a year later and rose to the Hessen League. The entrepreneur Jörg Fischer is behind the upswing of the association. The sporting upswing also continued in the Hessenliga and Teutonia went into the winter break as the league leader in the Hessenliga 2015/16 . The season was also ended as the front runner, so that Teutonia played as a climber in the Southwest Football Regionalliga in 2016/17 . After only one season, the direct relegation followed. After a turbulent season as a relegated regional league, Teutonia finished 4th in the Hessen league in 2017/18.
VfB Giessen
VfB Gießen was created on May 17, 1956 through the merger of VfB 08 Gießen with SpVgg 1900 Gießen . After it was founded, the club took over from VfB 08 in the third-class amateur league Hessen. In this, the Giessen were champions in the 1962/63 season , but were not allowed to rise due to a league reform and the introduction of the regional league as the second highest division. In 1964, 1972 and 1979 VfB Gießen won the Hessen Cup. In the 1979/80 season , Giessen took part in the DFB Cup for the first and only time, but failed in the first round with 2: 4 at FC 08 Homburg . In 1982 VfB Gießen was relegated from the Oberliga Hessen and slipped down to the district league. In 1995 the Giessen returned to the Oberliga Hessen and made headlines nationwide by signing the 1990 world champion Uwe Bein .
The desired promotion to the regional league was missed and in 2001 the club withdrew from the league for financial reasons. It was not until 2002 that VfB Gießen made a new start in the district league B and played in the Verbandsliga Mitte, the second highest amateur league in Hesse, from 2009 to 2017. The football players of VfB Gießen participated in the 1996/97 season, the German Cup of women in part and failed after a bye in the first round with 0: 4 at SC Sand . The later world champion from 2003 Nia Künzer played as a teenager at VfB Giessen.
FC Giessen
Since July 1, 2018, the club has been playing in the Hessenliga as FC Gießen in the new club colors red and white. At the end of the 2018/19 season , FC Gießen became champions of the Hessen League and rose to the Regionalliga Südwest . From June 11 to October 2019, Franz Gerber was the sporting director of FC Gießen. Since the 2019/20 season of the Regionalliga Südwest had to be terminated prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, it was agreed not to identify relegated players. The FC Giessen finished 15th in the final table.
Squad of the 2018/19 season
| No. | Nat. | Surname | Born |
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| goal | |||
| 1 |
 
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Tolga Sahin | |
| 31 |
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Stephen Jackel | |
| Defense | |||
| 4th |
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Kevin Nennhuber | |
| 5 |
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Christopher Schadeberg | |
| 15th |
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Matthias Henn | |
| 18th |
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Christopher Spang | |
| 22nd |
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Ricardo Antonaci | |
| 23 |
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Oliver Laux | |
| 24 |
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Vaclav Koutny | |
| 25th |
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Alban Lekaj | |
| 27 |
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Andrej Markovic | |
| midfield | |||
| 6th |
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Johannes Hofmann | |
| 7th |
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Brian Mukasa | |
| 8th |
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Timo Çeçen | |
| 13 |
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Michael Fink | |
| 17th |
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Tim Korzuschek | |
| 21st |
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Sercan Pancar | |
| attack | |||
| 9 |
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Markus Müller | |
| 10 |
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Cem Kara | |
| 11 |
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Barbaros Koyuncu | |
| 14th |
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Damjan Marceta | |
| 19th |
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Mirkan Kara | |
| 20th |
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Noah Michel | |
Venues
The home ground of the first team of FC Gießen is the Waldstadion in Gießen with a capacity of 4,999 spectators. The second team and the youth of the club play on the sports field An der Neumühle in Watzenborn-Steinberg , which is also the training facility for all teams. During the 2016/17 regional league season , Teutonia played in the Wetzlar stadium .
Web links
- ↑ 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. 181.
- ↑ Karsten Zipp: "I want to get away from this church tower thinking". Gießener Anzeiger , accessed on April 27, 2016 .
- ^ Hardy Green, Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 193.
- ↑ hessenschau de, Frankfurt Germany: Football Hessen League: Gießen is promoted to the regional league. May 4, 2019, accessed on May 4, 2019 (German).
- ↑ flo: FC Gießen presents its new sporting director! In: FC Giessen. June 11, 2019, accessed on June 11, 2019 (German).
- ↑ FC Gießen: Big change is imminent - And Gerber joins RW Erfurt giessener-allgemeine.de, accessed on May 13, 2020
- ^ Sven Nordmann: FC Giessen in red and white. Gießener Anzeiger, accessed on March 23, 2018 .