Voivodeship Football Association

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Voivodeship Football Association
( Football Association of the Silesian Voivodeship )
founding July 13, 1922
resolution 1923
region East Upper Silesia
president Handel
Seat Königshütte O / S.

The Voivodeship Football Association , or WFV for short (officially: Football Association of the Voivodship of Silesia ) was a regional football association in East Upper Silesia . It was founded on July 13, 1922 in Königshütte , Upper Silesia by 43 East Upper Silesian associations.

history

Former park hotel in Königshütte.
(Historical place of foundation of the Football Association of the Silesian Voivodeship)

As a result of the division of Upper Silesia , the football district of Upper Silesia was also divided . The division of the Upper Silesian football district was carried out in a meeting held in the Parkhotel in Königshütte, at which the new association for Polish Silesia was founded at the same time. The association has adopted the name "Football Association of the Silesian Voivodeship" and comprises 43 clubs. This means that the Upper Silesian football districts have their own administration. Handel ( Prussia Kattowitz ) was elected chairman of the new association and Hanke (Schwientochlowitz) was elected second chairman. The previous chairman of the Upper Silesian Football Association, Karl Stephan (Kattowitz), was unanimously elected honorary chairman.

The founding members included the following Katowice clubs, FC Preußen , SC Diana , Victoria , Vorwärts and Alte Turnverein ( ATV ), as well as the Association for Lawn Games ( VfR ) and SpVgg 01 Königshütte , SC Zalenze 06 , SC Eiche Domb , the Hohenloher SuSV , the 06 and 09 Myslowitz , the FC 07 Laurahütte and the SuEV Laurahütte , the BBC Bismarckhütte , the VfR Tarnowitz , the SV Neudeck , the SC 1919 Pless , the Silesia Lipine and the SV 1913 Schwientochlowitz .

After the referendum in Upper Silesia, numerous German football clubs in Eastern Upper Silesia, the area that was added to the newly founded Polish state despite a German majority, remained without a football association. Neither the Southeast German Football Association (SOFV) as a member of the German Football Association (DFB), after the lost First World War because of its international recognition, nor the Polish Football Association (PZPN) because of its nationalist politics accepted these clubs as members. Thus they were excluded from all gaming operations.

The WFV was founded in response to this, in order to be able to play football games organized at least among one another. But even these games were massively disrupted or even prevented by Polish insurgents , with the tolerance of the new Polish rulers . The only thing left for the clubs concerned was to join the Polish association.

Only after almost two years of limbo and numerous negotiations between the associations involved (WFV, PZPN and the Polish Upper Silesian Football Association) and the Polonization of the club names did an agreement concluded in January 1924 lead to the admission of all 143 German clubs to the Polish Football Association.

See also

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  • Rudolf Fonfara, club history of 1. FC Kattowitz

Footnotes

  1. ^ Kattowitzer Zeitung, July 17, 1922, p. 5.
  2. ^ Ostdeutsche Morgenpost, July 17, 1922, p. 3.
  3. ↑ Der Oberschlesischer Kurier, July 18, 1922, p. 4.
  4. ^ Kattowitzer Zeitung, July 17, 1922, p. 5.
  5. ^ Ostdeutsche Morgenpost, July 17, 1922, p. 3.
  6. ↑ Der Oberschlesischer Kurier, July 18, 1922, p. 4.
  7. ^ Rudolf Fonfara, club history of 1. FC Kattowitz
  8. ↑ Page No. 40 of the FUJI Football Encyclopedia, ANDENKENBUCH "75th anniversary of the Katowice Football District Association 1920-1995, people, history, facts, authors: Andrzej Gowarzewski and Joachim Waloszek, editors (publisher): GiA Katowice 1996, ISBN 83-902751- 7-1