Viktoria Allenstein

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Viktoria Allenstein
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Full name Sports club Viktoria Allenstein 1916 e. V.
place Allenstein
Founded 1916
Dissolved 1945
Club colors Black-and-white
Stadion Jakobstal municipal sports field
Top league Gauliga East Prussia
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The SV Viktoria Allenstein was a German sports club from the East Prussian city ​​of Allenstein (today Olsztyn ). The football department played five seasons in the first-class East Prussian Gauliga .

history

After the club was founded in 1916, Viktoria Allenstein played in the league system of the Baltic Lawn and Winter Sports Association (BRWV). In 1920/21 the club was able to win the Southeast Prussian District League for the first time and thus qualified for the East Prussian finals. There the club failed in the elimination round at SV Masovia Lyck with 1: 2. After the VfB Osterode dominated the district league in the coming seasons, the district league was won for the second time in 1923/24 in front of local rivals SV Allenstein and SV Hindenburg Allenstein . In the East Prussian finals, the club reached the final after a 4-1 win in the decider against SV Sensburg in 1929 , but had to admit defeat 2: 5 to the series winner VfB Königsberg . Also in 1924/25 Allenstein reached the finals of the East Prussian football finals as district champion of Southeast Prussia, but VfB Königsberg was again stronger, Allenstein lost 2: 4. A similar picture emerged in the 1925/26 season , in the round- robin tournament of the East Prussian finals, Viktoria Allenstein only lost the game against Könisgberg, so that in the end the runner-up title of East Prussia was again won. What was new in this season, however, was that for the first time the runner-up from East Prussia was allowed to take part in the Baltic football final. In this, Viktoria Allenstein came fourth out of six participants. Due to the successes at the district level, Allenstein qualified for the top East Prussian league, which was newly introduced from the 1926/27 season . During the four years of the existence of this league, the club achieved mostly midfield placements, but could not prevail against the strong Königsberg clubs for the East Prussian championship title. In 1930/31 there was another restructuring of the league operations, from the East Prussian league three equal leagues emerged. Viktoria Allenstein played from then on in the Division III South , which could be won in 1931. In the subsequent East Prussian finals, Allenstein was last without a win.

When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the football associations were dissolved and replaced by Sportgaue . The four best clubs from Division III South for the originally planned 1933/34 season qualified for the first-class Gauliga East Prussia . By the third place in the table Viktoria Allenstein reached the qualification for Gauliga East Prussia 1933/34 . In the Gauliga, Allenstein did not get beyond mediocrity. In the 1934/35 season , the club benefited from the increase in the league from two to four seasons (divided according to the districts of East Prussia), otherwise it would have been relegated to the second-rate district class. From the 1935/36 season Viktoria Allenstein played in the Allenstein district within the Gauliga East Prussia, but where SV Hindenburg Allenstein and SV Masovia Lyck dominated the game. As a result, third place in the 1935/36 season was the best final result. After the Gauliga was reduced from 28 to ten teams after the 1937/38 season , the fourth place in the table in the Allenstein district was not enough for SV Allenstein , so that the club was relegated to the second division. In the 1939/40 season , the club formed a war syndicate with SV Allenstein and played in the first class for another year. Participation in the Gauliga promotion games in 1940 can be seen as the last highlight in the club's history; however, the promotion game against Prussia Mlawa was lost with 0: 7.

After the Second World War , the formerly German Allenstein was annexed by the Soviet Union and placed under Polish administration . The SV Viktoria Allenstein , like all other German clubs and facilities, forcing dissolved.

successes

swell

  • DSFS : Football in the Baltic Sports Association, Part 1: 1903/04 - 1932/33 . DSFS, 2018.
  • 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 .
  • Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hardy Greens : The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2