FC Young Fellows Zurich

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Young Fellows Zurich
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Full name FC Young Fellows Juventus
place Zurich
Founded 1903
Dissolved 1992
Club colors black and red
Stadion I.a. Sports field facility Förrlibuck
Top league Series A
successes Runner-up: 1907 , 1923 , 1936
Swiss Cup winners : 1936
Mitropa Cup participants: 1936 , 1937

The FC Young Fellows Zurich was a football club from Zurich . The club, founded in 1903, merged in 1992 with the Società Calcistica Italiana Juventus Zurigo, founded in 1922, in what is now SC YF Juventus Zurich .

history

The first major step into the national limelight was the runner-up in 1907 behind Servette FC from Geneva . The success could be repeated in 1923 , this time behind FC Bern - although FC Bern was later disqualified.

In May 1924, the Young Fellows put the Förrlibuck sports field in Förrlibuckstrasse at the confluence with Herdernstrasse, now called Duttweilerstrasse here. The facility could hold up to 18,000 spectators and was opened with a game against FC Legnano. This was followed by the championship game between the Grasshoppers and FC Blue Stars . The place remained the sporting home of the Young Fellows until 1937.

This was followed by the advance into the final of the Swiss Cup 1926/27, which was lost in April 1926 against the local rival Grasshoppers trained by Dori Kürschner with 1: 3.

In 1933, a founding member of the National League, they stayed for almost half a century, until 1952, as the only club apart from Servette always in the top division.

In March 1936 there were four YF players in the 0-1 win against Ireland in Dublin: goalkeeper Gustav Schlegel , defender Eduard "Edi" Müller , right winger Eugen Diebold and center forward Alessandro Frigerio . The legendary YF coach and former Hungarian national player József "Csibi" Winkler led FCYF to a Cup victory four weeks later with a 2-0 win over Servette FC Genève at the Hardturm Stadium in Zurich . In 1936 the Young Fellows were also runner-up behind Lausanne-Sports . In 1936 and 1937 there were participations in the Mitropapokal . In 1936 it went badly in the pants with results of 0: 3 and 2: 6 against Phöbus FC from Budapest in the first round, while the Young Fellows did very respectably in 1937 : after a 2: 1 away defeat and a 1: 0 at home came the first round against First Vienna FC only after a 0-2 in the playoff that took place in Zurich.

In 1936 Gustav Wiederkehr , carpet dealer and later President of the Swiss Football Association , became UEFA and Vice-President of the FIFA President of the Young Fellows, a position he held until 1949. He led the club, which was professionalized in 1931, which was relatively successful but quite expensive, back to amateurism. YF had the largest youth division during the war and provided most of the teams in the championship. He campaigned for the further training and advancement of his players in the profession, as, for example, the national players Walter Eich and Walter "Wädi" Fink learned.

After the first first division relegation, YF first developed into the elevator team between National League A and B. In 1971, the first division was relegated to the third division. After a last visit to the National League A in 1977/78, the club even rose from the third division for several seasons in the early 1980s.

In 1933, two Brazilian World Cup participants from 1930 and 1957/58 as a Hungarian refugee, the reigning top scorer of the 1954 World Cup, Sándor Kocsis, who scored 7 goals in 11 games at YF before moving to Barcelona, played at Young Fellows Zurich with the Black Miracle Fausto dos Santos and Fernando Giudicelli . Between 1951 and 1953, the German World Cup participant Edmund Conen was the club's player-coach. In the first half of the 1961/62 season , the 1954 world champion Karl Mai, who had come from FC Bayern, improved his pension fund a little with the Young Fellows trained by the Austrian Adolf Patek , who had also come from Bavaria . Patek's successor after relegation in 1963 was the Yugoslav Vujadin Boskov , who made player- coach at YF.

Eternal table

The SC Young Fellows Juventus is currently 15th in the all-time Super League table .

Known players

Albert Schmid (* 1881) became the Young Fellows' first national player in February 1912 when Switzerland lost 4-1 to France at the Stade de Paris . Karl Meyer, Albert Leiber and Hans Ruffle became the next in 1920, 1922 and 1923, respectively. Hermann Kehrli followed in 1926, Kaspar Waldis in 1928 and Karl Gyurkowicz in 1929.

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