FC Grün-Weiß Piesteritz

The FC Grün-Weiß Piesteritz is a football club in the western district Piesteritz Wittenberg.

FC Grün-Weiß Piesteritz

The FC Grün-Weiß maintains three men teams, an Old - Men - and a tradition team. There are also 10 junior teams. The association is the DFB football school " Felix Magath " attached. As a venue, the stadium is in the public park in the northwest of the district are available. It has a capacity of 4000 standing room and is equipped with a turf field, running track and LED display. Plus, there's a lawn adjacent location and for some years an artificial turf with floodlights.

History

The roots of the club go back to 1919. On April 1 of the year was founded by football fans workers of Piesteritzer nitrogen plant of 1 FC Wacker Piesteritz. The club suffered but in the following years members deficiency and so he merged in 1924 with the TSV Piesteritz the club for lawn sports ( AFR). In the wake of the Nazi Party controlled the sports operations VfR was merged in 1933 with other sports clubs for gymnastics and sports movement (TSB ) Piesteritz. Its football team was relegated in 1938, the second highest German football class.

1946, the club was disbanded at the instigation of the Soviet occupying power. After sports competitions were possible only at the local level in loosely organized sports communities. After the introduction of the system of company sports teams Piesteritzer the nitrogen plant and the rubber factory established on 13 May 1949, the BSG Chemie Piesteritz. They offered a wide range of sports, including football, handball, boxing, table tennis, gymnastics, cycling and canoeing. 1985 was one of the BSG 2970 members. In the early days the table tennis athletes made ​​with the East German championship 1951, the BSG nationwide fame by winning the men's East Championship in 1950 and the luge Walter Feist. While the Handball men temporarily played in the highest DDR Handball class that football players were not beyond the third division.

After the German reunification and the economic changes associated there was for the company sports teams no economic base more. Members of the BSG Chemie then founded in June 1990, the SV Grün-Weiß - Wittenberg Piesteritz with the sports departments football, handball, swimming, gymnastics and judo / karate. In the summer of 2001, the football department resigned from the club and founded on 16 July 2001 with FC Grün-Weiß Piesteritz own club.

Development of football in 1949

The football team of BSG Chemie Piesteritz was one of the founding communities of the 1952 launched third-class district league hall. Three years was able to keep the team in the district league, but then had to descend 1955 in the fifth rate at the time the district class. Only in 1961 managed to return to the county league, in which the BSG Chemie was able to maintain over the next four seasons. When, after the completion of the season 1964/65 the District League was reduced from two to one season, Piesteritz rose again from rank 12 in the now fourth-rate class district. After the re-emergence in 1970 finally returned a constant, and the team was able to end the DDR game operation in 1991 secured the league in the district league. Your best result reached the chemist in the 1979/80 season, which they finished with 2nd place.

1976 celebrated the footballer in the BSG Chemie the greatest success in its history when they won the FA Cup in the district hall after a 1-0 victory over the BSG Fortschritt Weissenfels. So they had the same time qualified for the participation of the GDR football cup competition 1976/77. There they parted on penalties against second division club TSG Groeditz in the first main round.

After the introduction of the DFB - play operation initially played the SV Grün-Weiß, later the FC in the national league of Saxony -Anhalt. 1997 promotion to the then fifth rate Federation League, from 2008 sixth league. After the best result so far in the fifth division was achieved in the 2008/2009 season with second place, succeeded in 2010/11 under coach Uwe Ferl promotion to the Oberliga Nordost. A few days earlier, the team had lost the final of the Saxony-Anhalt Cup against the Halle FC 0-2.

Persons of particular importance

• Wolfgang Lischke began his football career at BSG Chemie before he became the first player in league Dynamo Dresden, and later with Chemie Leipzig 1972.
• Uwe Ferl was in January 2008 coach at FC Grün-Weiß. He played from 1978 to 1985 107 times in the GDR Oberliga (including in Leipzig 1.FC Lok and chemistry).