VfB Zwenkau 02
| VfB Zwenkau 02 | |||
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | VfB Zwenkau 02 eV | ||
| Seat | Zwenkau , Saxony | ||
| founding | 1945 | ||
| Colours | blue White | ||
| Website | http://www.vfbzwenkau.de/ | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | Sports field at the Eichholz | ||
| Places | 2010 | ||
| league | National class north | ||
| 2018/19 | 2nd place | ||
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The VfB Zwenkau 02 is a sports club from Zwenkau , which emerged from the former soccer department of the SG Blau-Weiß Zwenkau sports club . Between 1945 and 1971 the association was called SG Zwenkau , and between 1971 and 1990 BSG Chemie Zwenkau .
In GDR times, the club played as SG Zwenkau in the 1959 season in the II. GDR League . In addition, you could qualify four times for the FDGB Cup under this name . As BSG activist Zwenkau this succeeded two more times.
history
1902–1945: The predecessor club
A VfB Zwenkau was founded on January 19, 1902. In 1918 the club had 270 members, most of them in the football department. Other sports were tennis, swimming, athletics, handball and hockey. The soccer team became champions of the 2nd class of Northwest Saxony in 1920 and rose to 1st class. In 1931 he was promoted to the Gauliga Nordwestsachsen , the top division of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs . Associated with the Luftwaffensportverein Leipzig in a war syndicate, the club played in the Gauliga Sachsen in the 1944/45 season, which was terminated prematurely .
Like all sports clubs in East Germany, it was dissolved after the Second World War at the instigation of the Soviet occupying forces.
Initially, sports competitions were only possible on a limited local level through provisionally founded sports communities (SG). Such a sports community also emerged in Zwenkau, where initially football was mainly played. SG Zwenkau was initially not involved in the process of founding company sports associations that began in 1948 , which meant that there was no official support from a so-called sponsoring company . Nonetheless, sports such as handball, boxing, bowling, tennis, badminton, chess and winter sports developed over the years in the SG Zwenkau, which had around 9,000 inhabitants at that time.
Most of the attention was paid to soccer players. They took part in the championship games in the Leipzig district relay as early as 1946/47. In 1952, SG Zwenkau was one of the founding teams of the new third-class Leipzig district league . In 1958, the Zwenkau district champions were promoted to the second division of the GDR, which was now the third soccer class , but in 1959 they had to return to the district league as the penultimate of their squadron. Later the district league became third class again after the II. League was discontinued, and Zwenkau played there until 1970, before relegation to the fourth class Leipzig district followed.
In 1961, the sports community gave up its previous status, went under the sponsorship of the Böhlen lignite power station and took on the name BSG Aktivist Zwenkau. Gymnastics and fistball were added as new sports sections. Football remained the most active section. While still as SG, Zwenkau was the district cup winners in football in 1957 and 1960. Another cup was won in 1966. The Zwenkau team made it to the district cup final six times up to 1966. Just as often they qualified for the GDR-wide cup competition , in which they were most successful in 1966/67. Until 1960, when two rounds were reached, the Zwenkauer had never made it past the first round. In 1966/67, however, three wins were achieved, with which the BSG activist advanced to the second main round. Only then did an 8-0 defeat at the second team of the Berlin FC Dynamo mean the cup was eliminated. It was also the last game of the Zwenkau in the GDR soccer cup.
| All GDR cup games | ||
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| 1956 | Chemistry Buna Schkopau - SG Zwenkau | 5: 1 |
| 1958 | Chemistry Jena - SG Zwenkau | 4: 2 |
| 1960 | SG Zwenkau - BSG Chemie Schwarzheide | * |
| Activist Geiseltal - SG Zwenkau | 3-0 | |
| 1961/62 | SG Zwenkau - construction in Meißen | ** |
| 1964/65 | Activist Zwenkau - Chemie Zeitz | 0: 1 |
| 1966/67 | Activist Zwenkau - SG Dynamo MK Eisleben | 3: 2 |
| Activist Zwenkau - activist Karl Marx Zwickau | 1: 1 a.d. | |
| Activist Karl Marx Zwickau - activist Zwenkau | 0: 1 | |
| Berlin FC Dynamo II - activist Zwenkau | 8-0 | |
* Result unknown, Zwenkau continued, ** ditto, Zwenkau eliminated
In 1971 there was a change in the company, the chemical combine "Otto Grotewohl" Böhlen took over the BSG and renamed it Chemie Zwenkau. The chemical football players succeeded in 1989 once again promotion to the district league, and were relegated immediately.
During the 1990/91 season, the system of company sports associations collapsed as a result of the economic changes caused by German reunification, and as a result, members of the previous BSG Chemie founded the civil association SG Blau-Weiß Zwenkau on October 20, 1990 . Its football team was classified in the now fourth-class Leipzig district league for the 1990/91 season, where the Zwenkauers could hold out until 1995. In between there was another restructuring, the soccer department left SG Blau-Weiß and founded the new VfB Zwenkau 1902 on January 1, 1992. After a year in the district class, VfB returned in 1999 to the now sixth class district league immediately won the championship. Due to a lack of sponsors, VfB had to forego promotion to the regional league and continued to play in the Leipzig district league, which has been in seventh class since 2008, and the subsequent regional class north. In 2016 they were promoted to the Sachsenliga, in 2018 they were relegated again.
People of particular importance
- Frank Baum , GDR top division player and 17-time GDR national player, played for BSG activist Zwenkau in his youth and for VfB from 1992 to 1995.
- Uwe Zötzsche , GDR top division player and 38-time GDR national player, ended his football career at VfB Zwenkau in 1991.