Wurzburg Dragons
| Wurzburg Dragons | |||
| Full name | Sportclub Würzburg e. V. | ||
| place | Wurzburg , Bavaria | ||
| Founded | 2nd December 1974 | ||
| Dissolved | June 2020 | ||
| Club colors | Orange-gray | ||
| Stadion | Heuchelhof Sports Park ( location ) | ||
| Top league | Regional league south | ||
| successes | Bayern league champions 2019 | ||
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The Würzburg Dragons were a club for junior women and women’s football , organized in the main club Sportclub Würzburg . For its youth and educational work in the field of junior women and women’s football, the club won several prizes and offered competitive football for juniors from U8 to women's teams.
history
The main club SC Würzburg was founded as SC Heuchelhof in 1974 as a district club and renamed Sportclub Würzburg on May 17, 2018. The department for junior women and women’s football was created in 2010 with a first trial training session in which just four girls took part. Since then, girls' football in the club had grown steadily and comprised more than 140 active players from U8 ( G youth ) to U17 ( B youth ) and, from the 2016/17 season, women. (see class division in sport ; as of September 2016). In 2012, based on the sponsor Dragon Sport, girls' and women's football was initially renamed Heuchelhof-Dragons, and from 2018 Würzburg-Dragons. Since then, the club's girls' and women's football has been known regionally and nationally under the name “Würzburg Dragons”.
In 2020, the girls' and women's football division was separated from SC Würzburg and founded as an independent club under the umbrella of FC Würzburger Kickers . From the 2020/21 season, Dragons football will be run as FC Würzburger Kickers Girls and Women’s Football Association. This ended the ten-year history of female football at SC Würzburg Heuchelhof.
particularities
According to a study by the Bavarian Football Association, the Würzburg Dragons were the only club in all of Bavaria that had an U8 and U10 team in which only girls played and which only competed against boys' teams in the league.
Profile building in competitive football
The Würzburg-Dragons achieve their first national successes with players from the U12 junior women, who won the Bavarian School Championship in 2017 with the Wirsberg Gymnasium and came tenth in the German School Championship. The U13 juniors can also achieve third place at the Bavarian Indoor Championships a year later. In July 2018, the performance teams of the former women's second division ETSV Würzburg were added. The ETSV had to dissolve its department for girls' and women’s football for financial reasons and has transferred the divisions of the U17 women and women (both Bayernliga) to the Würzburg-Dragons.
Honourings and prices
The Heuchelhof Dragons have received several national prizes for this concept for promoting sport and education for girls with a migration background:
- 2012 - "Selected Location 2012" in the competition " 365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas "
- 2012 - Award "Quantensprung 2020" as an innovative club by the Bavarian State Sports Association
- 2013 - Football culture prize “Learning impulse” from the German Academy for Football Culture
- 2013 - Integration award from the government of Lower Franconia
- 2014 - SportRegio Prize from PSD Bank Nuremberg
- 2014 - MainPost honorary award "Setting a Sign"
- 2014 - Julius Hirch Prize of the DFB
- 2015 - Phineo seal of effectiveness
- 2015 - Big star in bronze of the DOSB and Bavarian audience award of the stars of sport
Furthermore, the Würzburg Dragons have already made it onto the shortlist of the integration prize awarded by the German Football Association twice . The club received the Sepp Herberger Medal of the DFB for all its youth work and the Julius Hirsch Prize of the DFB in 2014 for its work against racism .
Patronage and sponsorship
In 2012 the Würzburg Dragons were honored with the “Selected Location” award by the former national player and world champion Steffi Jones . Since 2013, the Bundestag Vice- President Claudia Roth , the WDR presenter Shary Reeves (“ Wissen macht Ah! ”) And the presenter Nele Schenker, known from Sport1 and Telekom-Sport, have taken on the patronage of the Dragons.
“ No matter where you come from - for SC Würzburg you are simply a team! You are important to your district association! It's clear that as a former Bundesliga player I support this project. "
“ With their integration concept, the Würzburg-Dragons have shown what a holistic approach can look like. It was rightly so that the German Academy for Football Culture received the education award. "
The social projects of the Würzburg Dragons were u. a. Funded by the Sparkasse Mainfranken, the VR Bank Würzburg, the Dirk Nowitzki Foundation, the Lions Club, the women's networks Zonta and Soroptimist International and numerous private supporters. Furthermore, the Würzburg Dragons support association integration through sport of the German Olympic Sports Confederation .
Cooperation partner
For the targeted promotion of talented girls, the Würzburg Dragons, together with three other clubs and the sports center of the University of Würzburg, founded the youth development center for junior women in Lower Franconia , which has been promoting talented women since the 2013/14 season. From 2017 onwards, the Würzburg Dragons worked closely with women's football at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and VfL Wolfsburg to promote female players . To promote learning, the association cooperated with educational research at the University of Würzburg. In the area of daycare and school groups, the Dragons worked together with the educational institutions in the district.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Young talent center for junior women in Lower Franconia. NFZ Unterfranken, accessed on January 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Chair of Empirical Educational Research. (No longer available online.) University of Würzburg , archived from the original on January 10, 2016 ; Retrieved January 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
