Viktoria Ratingen

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The FC Viktoria 04 Ratingen was an English football club workers in the North Rhine-Westphalian municipality Ratingen near Dusseldorf .

history

When English entrepreneurs founded the “Twyfordsche Werke” ceramics factory in Ratingen in 1903 - the forerunner of the still existing Keramag company - they brought numerous skilled workers with them from the island. They not only played football among themselves in their free time, but also founded (probably) in the spring of 1904, FC Viktoria 04 Ratingen, a club that joined the Rheinisch-Westfälischer Spiel-Verband - later the Westdeutscher Spiel-Verband - and affiliated with it Game operations involved.

In the 1905/06 season the Englishmen from Ratingen took part in the West German championship for the first time and secured the championship in the 1st class of the 2nd district, which included the Düsseldorf / M. Gladbach area , ahead of established teams such as FC München-Gladbach , Düsseldorfer FC 99 or the Crefelder FC 95 . At the association championship , however, there was a setback when they only finished third. However, only the two games against Duisburg SpV took place, which ended 0: 9 (in Duisburg) and 0: 1 (in Ratingen) from Ratinger’s perspective. The comparisons with the Cölner FC 1899 were rated as won for the Cologne team, the one with the SuS Schalke 96 were rated as lost for both clubs. Nothing is known anymore about the reasons.

That was almost the end of the football glory of the Ratinger English, who played their games on a large meadow on Düsseldorfer Straße: their best players were "lured away" by the Düsseldorfer FC 99, which promptly won the West German championship the following year. Viktoria Ratingen could not play the season 1906/07 to the end and broke up in 1907.

literature

  • Markus Fiesseler "100 Years of Football in North Rhine-Westphalia - A Chronicle in Tables", Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-128-8
  • "25 years Ratinger Spielvereinigung 04", Ratingen 1929
  • "100 years Ratinger Spielvereinigung Germania 04/19", Ratingen 2004