1. FC Lichtenfels

The first football club Lichtenfels of 1906 is a football club established in 1906 from the Upper Franconian town of Lichtenfels. Besides football, the club also bowling is operated. The footballers play their home games at the Karl- Fleschutz Stadium, which offers 10,000 spectators.

The club gained after he had failed in the promotion round 1939/40, to Gauliga Bavaria to Kickers Würzburg, first national significance when he qualified in 1946 for the then second-class Bavarian League. There the Lichtenfelser occupied for the seasons 1947 and 1948 respectively to the second place in the northern group, which justified in the latter year to participate in the single-track Bavarian League. In the first year Lichtenfelser finished third here.

For the season 1950/51 the introduction of a new second-rate league, a league player contract under the league was decided that also the geographical reference of the Oberliga - reflected - ie clubs from Bavaria, Baden- Württemberg and Hesse. To qualify here was a 5th place in the 1949/50 season required the Lichtenfelser were here but only tenth.

Now in its third-class Bavarian League, which was divided from the season 1953/54, again in North and Südgruppen, reached the Lichtenfelser in the years 1954, 1956 and 1957, again second places. In the season 1959-60 the first FC Lichtenfels was first among the acting player-coach Former Yugoslav World Championship Željko Čajkovski participants. In the final of the Bavarian Championship against the champions of the southern group Lichtenfelser won in Augsburg against Schwaben Augsburg 5-3, but failed in the promotion round to the 2nd Oberliga at Borussia Fulda and the Offenburger FV.

Lichtenfels was this performance in the coming seasons not repeat, but secured in the season 1962/63 the 6th, when it was necessary, at least in seventh, to participate in the re- united Bayern League the following season can. Here is the fourth places in 1966 and 1969 the best final rankings were. 1970, the first FC Lichtenfels was even second, just three points behind FC Wacker München, the zustrebte the last peak in their history and rose to the Regionalliga Süd. Lichtenfels qualified in second but for the Amateur Championship, where, however, in the quarterfinals of VfL Neckarau further ambitions got in the way.

1973, the first FC Lichtenfels rose as 17 after 27 years of continuous membership of the Bavarians League in the national league from. The association could not buttoning of days gone by since then and in 1978 was the first time fünftklassig. Between 1982 and 1988 he was able to hold a few more years in the fourth power level, the national league, in the Lichtenfelser could return to 1998, again in 1991 and 1995.

In the first decade of the 21st century maneuvered the first FC Lichtenfels 6 to 8 power level of German football, between Bezirksoberliga Upper Franconia and county league Coburg.

Well-known players and coaches

Players:

Coach:

  • Josef Pöttinger, about 1949
  • Hans " Urbel " Kraus, 1951-2/1952
  • Željko Čajkovski, 1959-60
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