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Wormatia worms
Basic data
Surname	Association for lawn games Wormatia 08 Worms eV
Seat	Worms , Rhineland-Palatinate
founding	May 23, 1908
Colours	Red White
president	Jochen Schneider
Website	wormatia.de
First soccer team
Head coach	Kristjan Glibo
Venue	EEA arena
Places	5,624
league	Oberliga Rhineland-Palatinate / Saar
2018/19	16th place ▼ ( Regionalliga Südwest )
home Away

The Association for Lawn Games Wormatia 08 Worms , or Wormatia Worms for short , is a football club from southwest Germany. The club from Worms played mostly first class until 1963, was one of the founding members of the 2nd Bundesliga in 1974 and now plays in the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz / Saar . Wormatia Worms was the first German soccer club to advertise its shirts in 1967 .

timeline

Founding history

The founding history of the association as a diagram

The club for lawn games Wormatia 08 Worms was founded on May 23, 1908 in the restaurant "Hopfenblüte" as the sports club Wormatia 08. The club was only accepted into the South German Football Association in spring 1909. The first venue was the "Aul", a field in the so-called "Indian Quarter" behind the halls of the Cornelius Heyl leather factory. After the merger with FC Teutonia Worms on April 23, 1913, the club played under the name FV Wormatia 08 in the club colors blue-black.

After the company Heyl had announced the evacuation of the "Aul" venue, the merger of FV Wormatia 08 with the relegated VfR 08 Worms to VfR Wormatia 08 took place on October 16, 1922 in the restaurant "Twelve Apostles". The VfR 08 Worms itself was It was not until June 1919 that the two clubs FC Union 1908 and Viktoria 1912 merged and had their own sports field at the welding plant, which now replaced the "Aul" as a venue. The club colors changed to black and white and in 1929 to red and white, which is still valid today.

In 1927/28 the club built the Wormatia Stadium on Alzeyer Straße. In the course of the politically driven merger with the Reichsbahn Turn- und Sportverein to form RTSV Wormatia 08 Worms on January 17, 1939, the venue, known since 1933 as the “Adolf Hitler Stadium”, was extensively rebuilt and expanded as part of a planned larger sports complex.

After the end of the war and a formal re-establishment, the club continued to play under the old name that is still valid today.

1908 to 1922: The beginnings

Wormatia celebrated its first major success in 1912 when it won the Mittelheingau championship in the B class. In the subsequent western district championship without a chance, however, the qualification for the A-class did not succeed. After the First World War , the FV Wormatia was divided into the newly founded first-class district league, where it only occupied lower ranks. With a 2-0 win in the final against FV Biebrich 02 , the club won the Hessen Cup for the first time in 1921. By changing the league structure, Wormatia rose in 1922 to the second-class qualification league.

VfR 08 Worms, which was created in 1919, played in the 1921/22 season together with Wormatia and Alemannia Worms, which was also much more successful nationally, in the district league. As a result of the aforementioned change in the league structure, VfR rose twice as the bottom of the table to the now third-class A-class. In October 1922, the club joined the FV Wormatia in the qualification league and merged to VfR Wormatia 08.

1922 to 1933: After the merger

The merged club was in the 1922/23 season immediately champion of the skill league, but remained second class through the introduction of the district league as the top division. Under the new coach Karl Willnecker in 1923/24 again won the championship in the now district league and also won the Hessen Cup for the second time by beating FSV Bad Kreuznach 4-0. In the promotion round, VfR Wormatia prevailed against Mainz 05 , SV Völklingen and Saar 05 Saarbrücken and rose to the first-class district league.

Player-coach Louis Philippe formed there from 1926 to the soon to be known throughout Southern Interior storm with himself, Ludwig Müller and international Willi Winkler regional top team. This was from 1928 to 1931 Hesse champion four times in a row and was followed by two runner-up championships in 1932 and 1933 . Nationwide, the VfR Wormatia was initially unsuccessful, in the South German Championship 6th place was the best placement in 1928. As runner-up, the Worms finished both (then two-group) championship rounds in third place, which was also not enough for the final round of the German championship.

1933 to 1945: In the Third Reich

Even in the Gauliga Südwest , introduced in 1933 , the Wormatia belonged to the top group until the start of the war. In 1936 , 1937 and 1939 she took part in the final round of the German championship as a Southwest champion with the national players Josef Fath and Jakob Eckert , but missed the semi-finals in each case, in the second attempt only because of the poorer goal quotient . In the newly introduced Tschammer Cup in 1936 , they were eliminated in the semifinals with 1: 5 against VfB Leipzig .

In the course of the idea of ​​a large, general Worms sports club with National Socialist characteristics, which was also promoted in terms of sports policy, Alemannia Worms was accepted in the summer of 1938 and on January 17, 1939, the merger with the RTSV Worms to form the Reichsbahn Turn- und Sportverein Wormatia 08 Worms. The connection broke up during the war years. In 1943 Wormatia Worms got down from the Gauliga, but managed to return immediately before the league game was stopped for the 1944/45 season due to the war.

1945 to 1963: Oberliga Südwest

Wormatia Worms is one of the founding members of the Oberliga Südwest and with Hans Mechnig also provides its record player. In the first few years, the club was mostly part of the chasing group behind the overpowering 1. FC Kaiserslautern and was five times southwest German runner-up (1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1955). As a result, the Worms qualified for the championship finals in 1949 and 1955 , but played no role there. 30,000 spectators against Rot-Weiss Essen in the 1955 finals mean a record number of spectators in the Wormatia Stadium that is still valid today. In the following years Wormatia lost the connection to the top of the table and therefore did not qualify for the football Bundesliga, introduced in 1963, through the twelve-year ranking .

In the DFB Cup , which was held for the first time in 1952/53 , they made it to the semi-finals and failed there at Alemannia Aachen .

1963 to 1974: Regionalliga Südwest

In the Regionalliga Südwest Wormatia initially built on previous successes. Third place in 1963/64 was followed by the runner-up in 1964/65 , which allowed them to participate in the promotion to the Bundesliga. There Wormatia could not prevail, but made life difficult for the later promoted Borussia Mönchengladbach at least in the last game at 1-1 on the Bökelberg . In the following seasons, the Worms got into the relegation battle several times due to financial problems. Investments in the team then ensured a sporting upswing in the early 1970s, which led to successful qualification for the new Second Bundesliga South .

At the beginning of the 1967/68 season , Wormatia was the first German soccer team to advertise its shirts . For three games, the playing attire was labeled "CAT" by the construction machinery manufacturer Caterpillar before the DFB banned such advertising at short notice by changing its statutes.

1974 to 1982: Second Bundesliga / Amateur League

As a founding member, the Worms were relegated in the premier season, both in terms of sport as the penultimate in the table and through license withdrawal from the Second Bundesliga South. 1977 succeeded in the second attempt to rise again through a successful performance in the promotion round . Thanks to some reinforcements, Wormatia was autumn champion in the 1978/79 season , but missed promotion to the Bundesliga as third in the table in the end. Parts of the successful team of coach Eckhard Krautzun had to be sold in winter because the first chairman and supposed patron Winfried Heyn had financed the newcomers with the help of loan fraud and tax evasion. Despite severe financial and image damage, Wormatia played three more years in the second division and only rose in the 1981/82 season in the amateur league southwest.

1982 to 1993: Amateur Oberliga Südwest

After relegation, Wormatia fought in the 1982/83 season to stay in the third division. After a better performance in the two following seasons, the Southwest Championship succeeded in 1985/86 on the last match day with a 4-0 in front of 7,500 spectators against Hassia Bingen . Due to late delivery of license documents, however, the Worms were refused participation in the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga, instead, vice-champion FSV Salmrohr rose. This failure resulted in the resignation of First Chairman Wolfgang Sitter and had a long-term negative effect on the reputation in the region. The runner-up in the following year and the Southwest Cup victories in 1988 (3-0 against SV Edenkoben ) and 1992 (7-0 against TuS Hoppstädten) were the last sporting successes. Growing financial problems finally led to insolvency at the end of the 1992/93 season and relegation to the association league.

1993 to 1998: Association League Southwest

The debt after the descent amounted to 1.5 million marks. Plans to make the football department independent and to renovate the main club failed because a proposed "VfR Wormatia 08 Worms für Fußball eV" should have played in the C-class. In the meantime, however, the gymnastics, table tennis and handball departments had already left the club. The handball players, the oldest division after football, became independent as SC Wormatia Worms. The indebted VfR Wormatia 08 Worms consisted only of the footballers. In April 1994 bankruptcy proceedings were finally opened. The emergency board around Karl-Heinz Hesch and Hans Walter Stein determined a debt level of almost one million marks and kept the game going. As a precaution, however, a substitute club has already been founded with "1. FC Wormatia Worms 1994" (Mainz District Court VR 10948). However, the insolvency administrator succeeded in bringing about a compulsory settlement with a rate of 3% ; At the end of October 1994, VfR Wormatia was free of debt and released from bankruptcy proceedings a month later.

With many young footballers, a slow athletic reconstruction succeeded. After five years in the association league, which is now only fifth after the introduction of the regional league, the Worms team finally celebrated their return to the league as champions under coach Demir Hotić in 1997/98.

1998 to 2008: Oberliga Südwest

Promotion trainer Hotić resigned in January 1999 after the entry of a friendly investor, which was rejected at the general meeting. Successor Robert Jung could not establish the team sustainably in the league and retired at the end of the 2000/01 season . The subsequent cooperation with players' agent ROGON brought hardly any sporting benefit, the hapless Lutz Hofmann and his successor Peter Rubeck could not prevent the sporting descent in 2001/02 : In the relegation, the association league amateurs of 1. FC Saarbrücken were defeated on penalties. Ultimately, Wormatia was still allowed to stay in the top division and benefited from the announced (but ultimately not carried out) merger of second division Waldhof Mannheim and regional division VfR Mannheim . Because this meant that VfR no longer received a license, the regional division 1. FC Kaiserslautern Amateure was able to keep the class, and the relegated leagues in the leagues below were reduced accordingly.

Under the impression of the alleged relegation, however, the summer of 2002 marked a turning point in the club and a new, young management team took over. The euphoria triggered by player- coach Dirk Anders led to a long competition in the promotion battle 2002/03 and to two good third places. Max Reichenberger and Stefan Ertl could not build on that in the 2004/05 season, but Alois Schwartz (July 2005 to December 2006) led the team back into the top group. Under their successor Bernhard Trares , the Worms won the Southwest Cup in 2007 in front of 3,700 spectators, with a 1-0 win against Schwartz 'new club 1. FC Kaiserslautern II. 2007/08 they spent the winter break in a heavily occupied league as leaders and qualified third for the new three-track regional league .

2008 to 2018: Regional league

In the first season of 2008/09 the first regional league victory was not achieved until the 9th match day. But even after that, the Worms did not manage to leave the relegation ranks. When the important home game against pursuers 1. FC Kleve was lost 2-1, Bernhard Trares was on leave on April 28, 2009 and replaced by Jürgen Klotz, who had been coach of the second team until then. The team presented itself better, eight points from the last seven games were not enough to keep the league. This was only possible because of the financially conditioned withdrawal of FSV Lu-Oggersheim from the regional league, in which Wormatia even had a certain share; In the final of the Südwestpokal the Worms beat Oggersheim 5-1, which prevented the FSV from participating in the DFB Cup.

The 2009/10 season started promisingly with the respectable 0: 1 in the DFB Cup against second division team SpVgg Greuther Fürth , although the goal was only conceded in the final minute of extra time. In the league managed under coach Sascha Koch , together with seven players from Oggersheim, but only one victory in the first 14 games. Koch was released on November 20, 2009, whereupon Jürgen Klotz took over again. After the winter break things went better with six wins, but that was only enough for the penultimate place in the table. Nevertheless, the Worms were able to celebrate relegation again. As a result of the refused regional league license for Waldhof Mannheim , Rot-Weiss Essen and the Bonner SC , even the bottom of the table Eintracht Trier did not have to relegate.

For the 2010/11 season Wormatia moved to the Regionalliga Süd. After a botched start to the season with just one win out of eight games, Ronald Borchers took over the coaching position on September 27, 2010 and led the Worms to their first sporting relegation in the regional league.

In the 2011/12 season , the upward trend under Borchers was confirmed. At no time were they in danger of relegation and thanks to a strong second half of the season they were able to establish themselves in the top group with only two defeats. The season was crowned by winning the Southwest Cup with a 4-1 win over FK Pirmasens .

In 2012/13 Wormatia drew nationwide attention with the surprising 2-1 victory in the DFB Cup against second division Hertha BSC . In the second round, the second division club 1. FC Köln were only beaten 3: 4 on penalties. In the new Regionalliga Südwest they were ranked in the middle of the field after the first half of the season. Due to internal differences, Ronald Borchers was dismissed on December 6, 2012 before the start of the winter break and replaced by Stefan Emmerling on December 21 . The Worms came again close to the relegation ranks and finished in 12th place.

Significantly reinforced with higher-class experienced players such as Srdjan Baljak and Carsten Sträßer , Wormatia was one of the favorites for promotion in the 2013/14 season . With eight draws in ten games, however, the start of the season failed and following the defeat at SVN Zweibrücken Emmerling resigned on September 29, 2013. Successor Hans-Jürgen Boysen was released on March 11, 2014 after ten games without a win and elimination from the association's cup. U23 coach Sascha Eller, who had already been in office on an interim basis before Boysen, took over and led the team to stay in the league, but for the third time at the “green table” . Only through the dissolution of the U23 from Eintracht Frankfurt , the waiver of promotion from the Oberliga Hessen, the insolvency of SSV Ulm in 1846 and the promotions of Mainz 05 II and SG Sonnenhof Großaspach to the third division, 16th place (and even 17th place) was enough to stay in the league.

For the 2014/15 season , the budget was significantly reduced, the team was rejuvenated and the company's own junior departments were more involved. Under Sascha Eller, who is also popular with the fans, Wormatia landed in fifth place in the table despite problems after the winter break and thanks to a final sprint of six wins in a row.

In the 2015/16 season , the field in the EWR Arena was renovated, which is why the Worms had to play the first eight home games in the suburb of Pfeddersheim and in Ludwigshafen. After a botched start to the season with two wins from ten games, Eller resigned on September 29, 2015 and was replaced by assistant coach Steven Jones. Thanks to a good second half of the season, the team finished in 9th place after having only occupied a double-digit place in the table on 32 of 34 match days.

Under Steven Jones, VfR Wormatia was able to improve in 2016/17 and ended up in 6th place in the table. The season ended in the finals of the Southwest Cup, which surprisingly lost 1: 2 in Pirmasens against SV Morlautern and thus the hoped-for entry into the DFB Cup missed. They made up for this in the following season and beat association league team Alemannia Waldalgesheim 2-1 after extra time in the local EWR arena in the final . Shortly before, after ups and downs, relegation was secured and 13th place in the 2017/18 final table was achieved.

Sporting successes

Historical club coat of arms

Coat of arms until 2010

championship

Wormatia celebrated a total of sixteen championships and nine runner-up championships in its club history. As a result, she qualified eleven times for a championship finals.

• Champion of the C-Class Middle Rhine (1): 1910
• Champion of the B-Class Middle Rhine (1): 1914
• Master of the Competence League Rheinhessen-Saar / District League Rhein-Main (2): 1923, 1924
• Champion of the District League Main / Hessen Group Hessen (4): 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931
• Vice champion of the District League Main / Hessen Group Hessen (2): 1932, 1933
• Master of the Gauliga Südwest (3): 1936, 1937, 1939
• Champion of the Worms District League (1): 1944
• Runner-up in the Oberliga Südwest (5): 1947, 1949, 1950 (each group North), 1951, 1955
• Vice champion of the Regionalliga Südwest (1): 1963
• Champion of the 1st Amateur League Southwest (2): 1976, 1977
• Champion of the Amateur Oberliga Südwest (1): 1986
• Vice champion of the amateur league Southwest (1): 1987
• Champion of the Association League Southwest (1): 1998
• Final round for the South German Championship (6): 1928 , 1929 , 1930 , 1931 , 1932 , 1933
• Final round for the German championship (5): 1936 , 1937 , 1939 , 1949 , 1955

Ascent

In the club's history, a total of five promotions and an additional two qualifications for newly introduced divisions. You failed three times in a promotion round. This is opposed to a total of four relegations (graduations due to league reforms not taken into account).

• Promotion to the B-Class Middle Rhine: 1910
• Promotion round to the A-Class Middle Rhine (western district championship): 1914
• Promotion to the district league Rheinhessen / Saar: 1924
• Promotion to the Gauliga Hessen-Nassau: 1944
• Promotion round to the Bundesliga: 1965
• Qualification for the 2nd Bundesliga South: 1974
• Promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga: 1976
• Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga South: 1977
• Promotion to the Oberliga Südwest: 1998
• Qualification for the Regionalliga West: 2008

Cup

Wormatia won a total of nine association cup wins and made it to the finals five more times.

• Hessen Cup winner (2): 1921, 1924
• Southwest Cup winners (7): 1976, 1988, 1992, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2018
• Southwest Cup Finalist (5): 1957, 1985, 1999, 2017, 2019
• Tschammer- / DFB-Pokal participations (23): including round of 16 in 1937 , 1965 , 1983 and semi-finals in 1936 , 1953

League affiliation

Since the end of the First World War, Wormatia Worms played in the following leagues (I, II, III, IV, V = highest, second, third, fourth, fifth highest division). Overall, you were first class for 40 years, second class for 20 years, third class for 13 years, fourth class for 22 years and fifth class for 4 years (as of summer 2019).

• 1919–1922 (I) District League Palatinate / Hesse
• 1922–1924 (II) Competence League Rheinhessen-Saar / District League Rhein-Main
• 1924–1933 (I) Regional League Rheinhessen-Saar / Main-Hessen
• 1933–1943 (I) Gauliga Südwest / Südwest Staffel Saar-Pfalz / Südwest Staffel Main-Hessen / Hessen-Nassau
• 1943–1944 (II) Worms District League
• 1945–1963 (I) Oberliga Saar-Pfalz-Hessen / Südwest Group North / Southwest
• 1963–1974 (II) Regionalliga Südwest
• 1974–1975 (II) 2nd Bundesliga South
• 1975–1977 (III) 1st Amateur League Southwest
• 1977–1982 (II) 2nd Bundesliga / South
• 1982-1993 (III) Amateur Oberliga Südwest
• 1993–1994 (IV) Association League Southwest
• 1994–1998 (V) Association League Southwest
• 1998-2008 (IV) Oberliga Südwest
• 2008–2019 (IV) Regionalliga West / South / Southwest
• 2019-2020 (V) Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz / Saar

Teams

First team (Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz / Saar)

Squad for the 2019/20 season

(As of August 20, 2019)

No.	Nat.	player	Born	In the squad since	Last club
goal
01		Kevin Urban	July 16, 1996	07/2019	Arminia Ludwigshafen
33		Niklas Reichel	Oct 14, 1995	07/2018	TSV Schott Mainz
Defense
03		Maurizio Macorig	0Apr 8, 1997	08/2019	FSV 08 Bissingen
04th		Tevin yours	10 Mar 1995	07/2018	1. FSV Mainz 05 II
05		Iliad Tzimanis	March 12 1998	07/2019	Astoria Walldorf
08th		Lennart Grimmer	June 18, 1999	07/2019	1. FC Nuremberg II
13		Giorgi Veleanu	Jan. 19, 2000	07/2019	Kickers Offenbach U19
24		Çlirim Reçica	June 29, 1999	07/2019	SV Oberachern
26th		Emmanuel Léonce Kouadio	Dec. 27, 1998	07/2019	TSG Sprockhövel
27		Andrei Ogorodnik	May 29, 1998	07/2019	FSV Jägersburg
31		Heron Miranda	Apr 19, 1990	08/2019	FC Bayern Hof
midfield
06th		Perric Afari	Aug 21, 1997	08/2016	SV Wehen Wiesbaden U19
07th		Filimon Gerezgiher	04th July 2000	07/2019	SV Sandhausen U19
09		Luca Graciotti	Nov 10, 1992	07/2018	SSV Ulm 1846 football
10		Fatih Köksal	0Jan. 7, 1996	07/2019	1. FC Saarbrücken
14th		Geovane Henrique Oliveira Damaceno	19 Sep 1994	07/2019	1. FCA Darmstadt
17th		Sandro Loechelt	Aug 24, 1995	02/2020	SV Waldhof Mannheim
23		Eric Lickert	04th July 1995	07/2019	FC 08 Homburg
34		Pascal Schmidt	May 22, 1999	07/2018	own U19
Storm
18th		Lennart Thum	0June 2, 2001	07/2019	own youth
19th		Jan-Philipp Schünke	22 Aug 2000	07/2019	Ludwigshafener SC U19
25th		Jan Dahlke	Sep 11 1997	07/2019	SV Sandhausen II
30th		Koki Matsumoto	June 19, 1995	01/2018	own U23

Coaching team

Surname	birthday	function	since
Kristjan Glibo	0Apr 1, 1982	Trainer	June 2019
Maximilian Mehring	Apr 15, 1986	Assistant coach	September 2015
Christian Adam	Jan. 26, 1983	Goalkeeping coach	July 2014

Second team (Landesliga Südwest-Ost)

The second team took up the game after the war for the 1952/53 season and played at the time of their cancellation for lack of players in April 1993 in the Landesliga Südwest-Ost. For the 1997/98 season it was re-registered under the designation "1b". Since 2008, the team, which operates internally as "U23", has been back in the Southwest East Regional League.

Youth teams

For the 2019/20 season, the club has 13 youth teams. With the exception of the A youth, all age groups have at least two members; only one U19 is registered here who has been playing in the Regionalliga Südwest since 2011. The U15s also made it to the regional league in 2017, and the U17s did so a year later. This makes Wormatia the leading youth football club in Worms and the surrounding area.

Women & girls soccer

→ Main article : Wormatia Worms (women's football)

From 1971 to 1991 there was already a women's football department, the greatest success of which was the 1974/75 district championship. In autumn 2006 it was re-established with a team that had played in the Association League Southwest since 2009. In 2018, he was promoted to the third-class Regionalliga Südwest , from which one had to relegate after one season. The second team, registered since 2013, plays in the Landesliga Rheinhessen. Since the 2015/16 season there has also been a junior department, some of which has been taken over by SV Leiselheim . A B, C and D junior team is active here for the 2019/20 season.

Old men

The AH department consists of the Ü32, the Ü40 and the Ü50. The over 40s (on a large field) and over 50s (on a small field) form a game community with the TuS Hochheim. The Ü32 consists of numerous former players from the first and second teams and won the district cup in 2012, 2015 and 2016. In 2015 they also became Southwest Champion, qualifying for the German Altherren-Supercup, the unofficial German championship, and finishing in ninth place among 40 participants.

Former players

National player

• Harald Braner (born August 19, 1943), 2 amateur internationals, 2 goals
• Jakob Eckert (born September 19, 1916 † June 5, 1940), 1 A international match, no goal
• Josef Fath (* December 27, 1911 † August 11, 1985), 13 senior international matches, 7 goals
• Hans Mechnig (born January 3, 1929 † January 22, 2016), 2 B internationals, no goal
• Willi Winkler (* August 24, 1903 † May 12, 1967), 1 A international match, no goal

Other well-known players

Rüdiger Abramczik Józef Adamiec Daniel Addo Markus Aerdken Dirk Anders Michael Anicic George Arthur Aaron Biagioli Volker Berg Karl "Bubi" Blankenberger Georg Bogert Udo Böhs Lothar Buchmann Walter Dächert Gerd Dier Stefan Ertl Bernd Fetkenheuer Rudi Fischer

Marcel Gebhardt Sebastian Glasner Emanuel Günther Walfried Günther Fritz Hammer Lorenz Horr Norbert Hönnscheidt Norbert Janzon Rudi Kargus Hannes Kern Benjamin Kessel Matthes Kiefer Peter Klag Jürgen Klotz Rudolf "Hutzel" Kraft Stephan Kuhnert Bernd Laube Franz Lehr

Horst Löb Wilfried Lösch Heinz Lubanski Bodo Mattern Helmut Müller Ludwig Muller Jürgen Nachtmann Ludwig Philipp Josef Pirrung Petar Radenković Volker Radtke Armin Reichel Ludwig Sattler Heiner Schmieh Dieter Schroth Oskar Schweizer Hans-Dieter Seelmann

Richard Sehrt Willi Selbert Werner Seubert Marco Stark Norbert Starzak Dragoslav Stepanović Slavko Stojanovic Reinhold Straus Horst-Dieter Strich Wolfgang Wittemaier Hans Wulf Andrew Wooten Helmut Zahn Hans-Dieter Zahnleiter Thomas Zander

Fan friendships and rivalries

There is a fan friendship between the Ultras of VfR Wormatia and those of Waldhof Mannheim, which the club also takes up, for example by producing a fan scarf. Another fan group cultivates friendship with fans of TuS Koblenz . There have been friendly contacts with the English club St Albans City since 2014 , triggered by the town twinning between Worms and St Albans .

The rivals are traditionally 1. FC Kaiserslautern, FSV Mainz 05 and Eintracht Trier. The question of the title of the oldest city in Germany has always played a role here, which (among other things) Trier and Worms claim for themselves. Since their relegation from the league at the time, however, the rivalry with the Worms suburb TSG Pfeddersheim, with which they had to share the Wormatia stadium in the 90s, has cooled down. There are also aversions to 1. FC Saarbrücken and FC 08 Homburg .

Venues

Aul, Schüsslers Loch, sports field at the welding plant (until 1927)

Wormatia's founding members played in a field in the "Aul" district that belonged to Heyl'schen Lederwerke . The club founded as SC Wormatia played its first games there. In November 1909 Wormatia moved to its first own sports field, a field called "Schüttlers Loch" on Frankenthalerstraße, which no longer exists today, also in the south of the city. After the First World War, the club returned to the Aul and stayed there until 1922. However, due to the leather works' own needs, the space had to be cleared and they moved to the sports field of the merger partner VfR 08 Worms at the welding works in the eastern end of the city south of the slaughterhouse on the Rhine. This new venue had only been created in the previous year on a former gravel dump and was completely fenced off.

The presumed record number of spectators at the welding plant are 4,000 visitors to the friendly match against the then German champions 1. FC Nürnberg on February 27, 1926 (1: 1).

Wormatia Stadium (since 1928)

Main grandstand of the EEA Arena (2012)

→ Main article : EEA arena

Growing sporting success made it necessary a few years later to move from the sports field at the welding plant, this time to the west of the city. The club acquired a bankrupt cycling track on Alzeyer Straße, which was only built in 1924, and built the Wormatia Stadium there in 1927/28 for 18,000 spectators. During the First World War, the site housed a prisoner-of-war camp and then a transit camp for the French army, the barracks and barbed wire fencing of which were not cleared until the early 1920s. All that remained was the commandant's building, which today serves as the club's clubhouse. The first game was a game of the southern German championship against the Stuttgarter Kickers in front of 6,000 spectators on January 1, 1928 (3-2). In 1939, a generous renovation / new building was followed by expansion to 25,000 seats. The Wormatia Stadium, known as the "EWR Arena" since 2011, is still approved for around 5,600 spectators after being promoted to the regional league.

The visitor record is 30,000 spectators thanks to the additional grandstands, each achieved in the Oberliga Südwest against 1. FC Kaiserslautern on April 10, 1950 (1: 1) and during the final round of the German championship against Rot-Weiss Essen on May 30, 1955 (1 : 3). Depending on the source, only 25,000 or 28,000 spectators are given for both games.

Former departments

In addition to football, Wormatia once offered other sports. In the course of insolvency, the impending bankruptcy proceedings and the intended re-establishment of a "VfR Wormatia 08 Worms für Fußball eV", all other departments left the club in 1993. Since then, VfR Wormatia has been a pure football club.

Handball (1925 to 1993)

After the footballers, handball players were once the oldest and most important (sports) department of the club. It was founded in 1925 with a women's team, the first in the Hessen region. A men's team did not follow until three years later, three years later a youth team. After the Second World War, handball players made up the strongest division of the club with 118 members; in 1983 there were 260 members in nine teams. The first men's and women's teams played most of the time association league, in addition to numerous championships for all teams at the district level, the greatest sporting success was reaching the men's final at the Gaume Championship in 1934. Field and indoor handball were played until 1975, after which the regional association only organized its games still for the hall. The former field handball field directly behind the club house is now an artificial turf field for footballers. In 1993 the handball players left the club and founded the SC Wormatia Worms together with the gymnastics department. Since 2005, SC Wormatia has been part of the handball game community HSG Worms, which was founded by Eintracht Herrnsheim and TV Leiselheim in 2000.

Hockey (1938 to early 1990s)

When Jahn / Alemannia 99 joined forces in 1938, the Alemannia hockey department, known as "black and white", was transferred to Wormatia. The game was played on the field and in the hall. At first there was a boys 'and a girls' team, after the war the youth work was only rebuilt from 1962 onwards. From 1973 to 1979 the hockey team HSG Worms was formed in the youth sector together with the TG Worms, and the games were played in the Kerschensteiner sports hall. As a result, the girls became champions of Rhineland-Palatinate / Saar several times, took part in the field in the preliminary round of the German championship in 1974 and qualified for this in 1976 via the southern German championship. The boys' team took part in the preliminary round of the German field championship in 1977. There was also a cooperation with the TG for the adults (a men's and a women's team). There was an independent youth work again from 1982. The department had a certain outsider role in the club, the continuation of which was repeatedly in question. It probably dissolved in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Weight training (1938 to 1945)

The short-lived department was created in 1938 when the "Hagen Worms" strength sports club, which was affiliated with Jahn Schwarz-Weiß Alemannia, was transferred. These included the disciplines of wrestling, weightlifting, lawn power sports and sports acrobatics (artistic power sports), the latter possibly also being an older, independent department together with boxing. The weightlifters were Rheinhessen masters from 1937 to 1939, and there were also several individual wrestling titles at district and gaume championships. As the "Kraftsportverein 1905", the department was re-established in 1946 as an independent association.

Table tennis (1949 to 1993)

The table tennis department was founded in 1949. In 1954 a large part of the dissolved table tennis department of Blau-Weiß Worms joined the Wormatia. The game was played in the gym of the Karmeliter-Schule, with mainly local success, and from 1978 in that of the old Gauß-Gymnasium. In 1983 the department had 50 active members in three men's and three youth teams. In 1993 the table tennis players left and joined the ESV Worms.

Ladies gymnastics (1981 to 1993)

It was founded on October 1, 1981 by "some women whose husbands were just as closely connected to Wormatia" . In addition to general gymnastics, there was a focus on jazz dance and aerobics . The 30 or so members trained first in the clubhouse and later in the gym of the Westendschule. In 1993, the department resigned and founded the SC Wormatia Worms together with the handball players.

athletics

In contrast, the history of the athletics department is difficult to understand, probably because it was designed for recreational sports. The re-establishment after World War II was announced in the club news for March / April 1956. At the same point in June 1962 it was reported that the department "has since fallen asleep again because there were not enough interested parties and employees".

Singing (1923 to 1960s)

The only non-sports department existed from 1923. "To promote sociability and cohesion within the club" , active Wormatia footballers and board members called a double quartet into being. The department had its appearance at all social events of the association, but also at municipal and carnival events. The name "Nibelungen Quartet" was used until all quartets were dissolved by a government decision in 1933. From this point on, the vocal department was colloquially called the "Wormatia Quartet". The department had a very good reputation and performed not only in Worms, but also at away football matches and several times at radio singing in Stuttgart and Kaiserslautern. Due to a lack of young talent, the singing department dissolved in the course of the 1960s, with a few short-lived attempts to reactivate it in the decades that followed.

literature

• Matthias Bachmann, Stephan Bachmann: VfR Wormatia 08 Worms . Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2003, ISBN 3-89702-600-7 .

Web links

Commons : Wormatia Worms  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ ^{a b} wormatia.de: Chronicle: 1.1.3 Merger efforts and the First World War. Retrieved September 10, 2015 . 
3. ↑ wormatia.de: Chronicle: 2.1 The Fusion. Retrieved September 10, 2015 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} wormatia.de: Chronicle: 3.3 Reichsbahn TSV Wormatia 08 Worms. Retrieved September 10, 2015 . 
5. ↑ wormatia.de: Chronicle: Founding diagram . Retrieved September 10, 2015 . 
6. ↑ wormatia.de: Chronicle: 1.1.4 After the end of the war until the merger. Retrieved September 10, 2015 . 
7. ↑ wormatia.de: Chronicle: 1.2 The association for lawn games 08. Retrieved on September 10, 2015 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} wormatia.de: Season archive . Retrieved September 21, 2015 . 
9. ↑ wormatia.de: Chronicle: 2.2 Championship and promotion to the district league in 1924. Retrieved on September 16, 2015 . 
10. ↑ wormatia.de: Chronicle: 2.4 series champion and permanent guest at the Süddeutsche. Retrieved September 16, 2015 . 
11. ↑ wormatia.de: Chronicle: 3.2 Among Germany's best. Retrieved September 21, 2015 . 
12. ↑ wormatia.de: Chronicle: 3.4 Wormatia in the Second World War. Retrieved September 21, 2015 . 
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14. ↑ wormatia.de: Chronicle: 5.5 New enthusiasm. Retrieved February 5, 2016 . 
15. ↑ wormatia.de: Chronicle: 5.3 Worms advertising pioneers. Retrieved September 10, 2015 . 
16. ↑ wormatia.de: Chronicle: 6.1 Wormatia miscalculates. Retrieved February 2, 2016 . 
17. ↑ wormatia.de: Chronicle: 6.3.2 The Heyn affair: The price of success. Retrieved February 2, 2016 . 
18. ↑ Season archive - U23. In: www.wormatia.de. Retrieved July 14, 2016 . 
19. ↑ Women's football at Wormatia - information on the department. In: www.wormatia.de. Retrieved July 14, 2016 . 
20. ↑ The "old men" at VfR Wormatia - information on the department. In: www.wormatia.de. Retrieved July 14, 2016 . 
21. ↑ wormatia.de: Stadium history: The Aul, Schüssler's hole and the place at the welding plant, accessed on July 29, 2011.
22. ↑ wormatia.de: Stadium data. Retrieved October 9, 2012 . 
23. ^ Adolf Riedel: Festschrift for 40 years. VfR Wormatia 08 Worms passed . Ed .: Festival committee of the VfR Wormatia 08 eV Worms. Worms 1948, p. 26-28 .
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25. ↑ Klaus Busch, Adi Gispert, Otto Konnermann, Ernst Neidig, Jürgen Wienberg: Festschrift 75 years VfR Wormatia Worms . Ed .: VfR Wormatia 08 Worms. Worms 1983, p. 139-145 .
26. ^ Karl-Heinz Spahn: Festschrift 100 Years of the Kraftsportverein 1905 . Worms 2005.
27. ↑ Otto Konnermann: Anniversary Publication 50 Years VfR Wormatia 08 . Ed .: VfR Wormatia 08 Worms. Worms 1958, p. 91 .
28. ↑ Klaus Busch, Adi Gispert, Otto Konnermann, Ernst Neidig, Jürgen Wienberg: Festschrift 75 years VfR Wormatia Worms . Ed .: VfR Wormatia 08 Worms. Worms 1983, p. 147 f .
29. ↑ Kirsten Sittel: Festschrift 75 years VfR Wormatia Worms . Ed .: VfR Wormatia 08 Worms. Worms 1983, p. 120 .
30. ↑ hard Committee of VfR Wormatia 08 Worms eV (ed.): Festschrift for 40jähr. VfR Wormatia 08 Worms passed . Worms 1948, p. 32 .
31. ↑ Otto Konnermann: Anniversary Publication 50 Years VfR Wormatia 08 . Ed .: VfR Wormatia 08 Worms. Worms 1958, p. 95-97 .