1. FC Bitterfeld-Wolfen

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1. FC Bitterfeld-Wolfen
Coat of arms of 1. FC Bitterfeld-Wolfen
Basic data
Surname 1. Bitterfeld-Wolfen football club
Seat Bitterfeld-Wolfen , Saxony-Anhalt
founding 2012
Colours blue White
Website www.1fcbitterfeldwölker.de
First soccer team
Head coach Daniel Trettner
Venue Jahnstadion
Places 5000
league Association League Saxony-Anhalt
2018/19 14th place
home
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The 1. FC Bitterfeld-Wolfen (formerly VfL Eintracht Bitterfeld ) is a football club in the town of Bitterfeld-Wolfen in Saxony-Anhalt . It provides three men's teams as well as eight junior teams of all ages.

history

Structural development

Historical logo of VfL 1911 Bitterfeld .

The history of 1. FC Bitterfeld-Wolfen begins with the establishment of the "Association for Movement Games Bitterfeld" in May 1911. In the same year a merger with the football department of Phönix Bitterfeld to form VfL Bitterfeld took place. By the beginning of the First World War, the number of members rose to over 100. In 1920 the gymnastics club joined VfL in 1848 , so that the number of members increased to more than 500. Club members, supporters and sponsors made it possible to purchase a piece of land on which the club's own sports facility could be inaugurated in 1925.

After the Second World War, the Soviet occupying power dissolved all sports clubs and only allowed sports competitions with loosely organized sports communities at a narrow local level. Such a sports community with the name "Eintracht" also emerged in Bitterfeld. After the introduction of the East German company sports associations (BSG) in 1948, it was taken over by the Bitterfeld Electrochemical Combine and converted into the Bitterfeld Combine. After the establishment of the central chemistry sports association for the BSG supporting companies in the chemical industry, the BSG was renamed Chemie Bitterfeld in 1951. According to the sports policy guidelines, the BSG Chemie set up several sports sections for football, swimming, fencing, bowling, canoeing and sailing, among others.

After the collapse of the system of company sports associations as a result of the economic changes after German reunification, the BSG Chemie Bitterfeld dissolved into several individual clubs. Later some clubs merged again, and so z. For example, through the merger of SG Chemie and FC Blau Weiß Bitterfeld in 1991, initially the FC Blau Weiß / Chemie Bitterfeld. This in turn merged in 1992 with the VfL unit Bitterfeld to VfL Eintracht Bitterfeld. The name "Eintracht" was taken from the sports community of the same name in the 1940s and 50s. In July 2012 the name was changed to 1. FC Bitterfeld-Wolfen.

Development of the sport of football

Bitterfeld football was most successful in the 1930s when VfL Bitterfeld played between 1933 and 1935 in the Gauliga Mitte , one of the 16 top football classes at the time. The new beginning after the Second World War began at district and state level, in 1950 the BSG Kombinat missed promotion to the newly created second-class GDR league with an 8th place in the Landesliga Süd Sachsen-Anhalt . At the end of the 1951/52 season, BSG Chemie reached 7th place in the state league and thus qualified for the new third-class Halle district league . The junior team won the GDR championship after a 2-1 victory over Turbine Erfurt .

The first men's team reached second place in the district league three times between 1953 and 1954, in 1957 they became district champion and rose to the second class of the GDR league, which was third at the time. In the same season, the chemists started a winning run through the GDR Cup competition . They eliminated the two top division (highest GDR division) SC Chemie Halle and SC Turbine Erfurt and thus made it to the quarter-finals. Here they met the league club SC Lok Leipzig, which they wrested a 1-1 draw in Leipzig after extra time, but then lost 3-0 at home. In the second GDR league, the team came in their first season on an excellent second place in their season and was then able to secure the league before 1963 the II. League was dissolved and the final placement 6 meant the return to the district league. Apart from a one-year interlude in the fourth-class district class (1966/67), the BSG Chemie played in the district league until 1975. After that, the team had to relegate to the district class again after a 14th and third from last place, was able to rise again immediately, but rose again immediately and thus remained fourth class until 1988. Chemie Bitterfeld stayed in the district league for the last two years of GDR football.

11th place in the last GDR district league season 1989/90 meant classification in the new district league Saxony-Anhalt. Neither SG Chemie nor their successors up to VfL Eintracht then reached association league level. Until 2005, VfL played for a few years in the then sixth class state league Saxony-Anhalt, then in the state class, which has only been the 8th division since 2008. In the 2008/09 season, VfL Eintracht Bitterfeld again made it to the national league. After a good start to the 2009/2010 season, however, Bitterfeld collapsed in the second half of the season and gambled away the league until the last match day. The team finished the 2010/2011 season in the national class with first place, which enabled an immediate promotion to the regional league.

statistics

  • League overview
    • Gauliga Mitte (1st division): 1933–1935
    • State class / League of Saxony-Anhalt (2nd): 1949–1952
    • II. GDR League (3rd): 1958–1963
    • Regional league Halle (3rd / 4th): 1963–1966, 1967–1975, 1966/67, 1988–1990
    • District class Halle (4th): 1966/67, 1977–1988
    • District League / State Class Saxony-Anhalt (7th): 1991 ff
    • Association League Saxony-Anhalt (6th): 2013-2016
    • State League Saxony-Anhalt (6/7): 2003–2005, 2009/10, 2011–2013
    • State class Saxony-Anhalt (7th / 8th): 2005–2009, 2010/11
  • Participation in the GDR-wide FDGB-Pokal competition
    • 1956: 3 laps
    • 1957: 6 rounds (up to the quarter-finals)
    • 1959, 1962, 1964, 1971: 1 lap
    • 1960, 1961, 1963: 2 laps

Sports facility

The association has the municipal "Fritz-Heinrich-Stadion" in the sports park south in the south of Bitterfeld. It was inaugurated in 1931 as the “Municipal Stadium”. In 1949, the district sports committee Bitterfeld received 80,000 DM for the repair of the Bitterfeld stadium, which was destroyed by the American occupation troops in 1945 and contaminated with explosives. In 1950, the newly designed and expanded stadium was named after the worker sportsman Fritz Heinrich, who was murdered by the Nazis in 1933. In 1952, the facility was renamed the “Chemical Workers Stadium”. In the 1970s, parts of the sports facility fell victim to lignite mining. As of 2008, the stadium has a grass pitch with athletics facilities and is equipped with floodlights. It offers space for 2000 spectators, for whom there is only standing room. Next to the main pitch is an artificial turf pitch , which is mainly used for training and for league games for the reserve team. This is also the main square of the second Bitterfeld club, Sportfreunde Goitzsche.

The Jahnstadion is the current venue for 1. FC Bitterfeld-Wolfen. It has a capacity of 5000 seats, 1200 of which are covered. In addition to two grass pitches and an artificial turf pitch, the stadium includes a bowling alley, a volleyball court, ancillary sports areas, a street soccer facility and cycling rooms . There are no floodlights or a running track.

People of particular importance

  • Otto Werkmeister began his coaching career at BSG Chemie in 1957. Between 1959 and 1966 he trained the upper division club SC Chemie Halle.
  • Heinz Marciniak was a goalkeeper at Chemie Bitterfeld until 1954. He came to SC Dynamo Berlin via SC DHfK Leipzig in 1955, where he played in the major league for a short time.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ We've got the hang of it. City of Bitterfeld-Wolfen, accessed on July 7, 2020 .