Theo Kirchberg

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Theo Kirchberg
Personnel
birthday November 23, 1920
date of death February 7, 2014
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1949 VfL Benrath
1949-1956 Bayer 04 Leverkusen at least 39 (7)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1949-1950 Bayer 04 Leverkusen (player-coach)
1956-1965 Bayer 04 Leverkusen Amat.
1959-1960 → Bayer 04 Leverkusen (interim)
1965-1971 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1 Only league games are given.

Theo Kirchberg (born November 23, 1920 - † February 7, 2014 ) was a German soccer player and coach. As team captain, he rose in the 1950/51 season with Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the first-class Oberliga West . As a coach, he became West Champion with the “Werkself” in 1968 and then narrowly failed in the promotion round to the 1st Bundesliga at the Offenbacher Kickers .

career

In the 1948/49 season the player Theo Kirchberg and his club VfL Benrath succeeded in the Landesliga Niederrhein, Group 2, the championship and thus the qualification for the 1949/50 season for the newly created 2nd League West . Kirchberg moved to Bayer Leverkusen and finished fifth in Group 1 with the team from the Stadion am Stadtpark in the debut round of the 2nd League West. He had completed all 30 league games for his new team and scored nine goals. In his second year as a player in Leverkusen, 1950/51 , he won the championship under coach Raymond Schwab and thus rose to the top of the Oberliga West. Kirchberg had scored 14 goals in 28 league games. From 1951 to 1956 he ran for Leverkusen in the Oberliga West in 39 league games and scored seven goals. After relegation in 1956, the Bayer AG works sports teacher ended his playing career and trained the amateurs of Bayer 04.

In the 1964/65 season he took over from coach Fritz Pliska in March 1965, the 1st team, which fought for relegation in the second -rate regional football league West . With the achieved 16th place and the Bundesliga promotion of Borussia Mönchengladbach the relegation succeeded. In his first full year as a coach in the Regionalliga West, 1965/66, he also fought against relegation again and came in 14th at the end of the round. With the addition of Leo Wilden from 1. FC Köln in 1966/67 the improvement to 10th place in the table succeeded. Nevertheless, winning the championship in the following 1967/68 season had not been seen beforehand. The team from coach Kirchberg had strengthened themselves with players like Karl-Heinz Brücken , Friedhelm Strzelczyk , Hans Benzler , Peter Rübenach and Willi Haag and went into the second half of the season as autumn champions with 25: 9 points. At the end of the round, Leverkusen was the surprise champion in the west and moved into the Bundesliga promotion round. Against the rivals Arminia Hannover, Kickers Offenbach, TuS Neuendorf and Tennis Borussia Berlin, the Kirchberg team finished the promotion round on the ungrateful second place. After the 1971/72 round, Kirchberg finished his coaching work at Bayer in the Regionalliga West with an eighth place.

After his death in 2014, Jürgen Gelsdorf commented on Kirchberg's work on behalf of Bayer 04 Leverkusen as follows: “He was a legendary player and coach and a great person who was committed to the club well into old age. His death touches us very much. "

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theo Kirchberg † . transfermarkt.de , accessed on December 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Bayer 04: Footballers mourn Theo Kirchberg . Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , February 9, 2014, accessed on May 14, 2017
  3. ↑ West Chronicle. Football in West Germany 1945–1952: Westphalia, Lower Rhine, Rhine District (Middle Rhine). German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS), Wiesbaden, 2011, DNB 1016947224 , pp. 141, 188.
personal data
SURNAME Kirchberg, Theo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1920
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2014