FC Viktoria Köln

The FC Viktoria Köln (full name: Football Club Viktoria Köln 1904 eV ) is a football club from the right bank district level mountain. The club was founded on 22 June 2010, preceded by the immediate precursor club SCB Viktoria Köln had gone into bankruptcy. The first football team plays since the rise in the year 2012 in the fourth division Regionalliga West. Home ground is the Sportpark Berg height with a capacity of 12,000 seats.

The roots of the club go back to 1904, when the oldest original club was founded with the FC Germania lime. There were numerous mergers - under the club name Prussia Dellbrueck and SC Viktoria Köln they played in the then prime Oberliga West and 1978-1981 in the 2nd Bundesliga Nord, before the connection was lost to the higher-class football.

History

Like all major football clubs Cologne is also the result of several mergers Victoria. The original district teams should grow up to be big clubs with the right to be clubs for the entire city. The Victoria and its predecessor associations, however, always remained representatives of the right side of the Rhine in the minds of its inhabitants. The left-bank football clubs are or were the first FC, ​​the Fortuna and VfL 1899 or their precursors.

Structural evolution

On 29 July 1904, founded with the FC Germania limestone of the oldest original club today Victoria. This merged in 1909, which was founded in 1905 FC lime to lime SV 04 Two years later the merger was followed by the founded in 1906 in Mülheim FC to VfR 1904 Mülheim- lime. After 1910 or 1914, the previously independent cities had been incorporated lime and Mulheim in Cologne, was renamed in 1918 in Cologne VfR 04 rrh.

Another local club is the Mülheim SV 06 This was founded in 1906 as Mülheim ball game club and later merged with the Union FC Mülheim to Mülheim SV 06 On July 29, 1949, Mülheim SV 06 and the VfR Cologne 04 rrh merged. for SC Rapid Cologne, who settled in what is now Sportpark Berg height. On 10 July 1957, the SC Rapid then merged with Prussia Dellbrueck for SC Viktoria Köln. Prussia Dellbrueck was founded on April 6, 1912 as FK Prussia Dellbrueck. In January 1919 it was renamed in 1912 FV Dellbrueck and 1926. Prussia in SC Dellbrueck

On 1 July 1994 merged the SC Viktoria Köln with the SC bridge, founded in 1930 SCB Prussia Cologne. The name Prussia was here remember the original club Prussia Dellbrueck. On 11 June 2002, the renaming of SCB SCB Viktoria Köln in Cologne, Prussia became effective. The SCB Viktoria Köln had to file for bankruptcy on 1 August 2010. Today's FC Viktoria Köln was founded in order to save the youth work of the SCB Viktoria Köln.

Sports development

The VfR Cologne 04 rrh. won in 1926 the West German Championship and failed in the first round of the German Cup with 1:2 at the Berliner SV north - northwest. In the years 1935 and 1937, the VfR secured the championship of the class Gauliga Middle Rhine, failed to imperial level but both times already in the group stage. 1947 the team finished with a 4-1 victory over Rot-Weiss Oberhausen in the championship round of the British Zone in third place. The legal Rheinische were qualified for the 1947 Oberliga West introduced. As Table Penultimate the team were relegated a year later, she missed qualifying for the newly introduced second division.

Equally successful was the Mülheim SV 06, 1934 and 1940 could win the Middle Rhine Gaumeisterschaft. In the play-off for the German championship, the blow came in the group stage. After the war, the Mülheim qualified for the newly created Division II, the club took after the merger with the rrh VfR 04. there under the name SC Rapid Cologne part. The SC Rapid founded as a beacon of hope could during his almost eight years of existence do not meet the expectations. After three years, the team got down from the second division and never returned.

Prussia Dellbrueck was sporting insignificant before the Second World War, after the war, but suddenly dashed forward. Only after the fourth playoff the Prussians from the Oberliga West had to dismount. After the direct re-emergence in 1950 they were sensational runner-up. At the German Championships Kickers Offenbach prevented by a 3-0 win in the replay Dellbrücker the final.

On July 10, 1957 merged Prussia Dellbrueck and the SC Rapid Cologne for SC Viktoria Köln to curb the dominance of the 1st FC Cologne halt. But the Victoria ranked only in the middle of the league. You did not succeed, athletic catch up with the left-bank FC, ​​despite being so well-known coaches and players like Hennes Weisweiler, Erich Ribbeck, Gero Bisanz or Jean Löring employed at this time. In 1962/ 63, the Victoria participated in the Fairs Cup, but failed in the first round at Ferencvaros Budapest.

From 1963 to 1972 and in the 1973/74 season the Victoria played in the then second-rate Regionalliga West. In the season 1974/75 she made the DFB Cup sensation, as they have the Stuttgarter Kickers, the Usinger TSG and Eintracht Braunschweig reached the second round after victories in which Borussia Dortmund was only able to prevail in a replay. From 1978 to 1981, the SC Viktoria played in the Bundesliga 2, afterwards until 1994 in the third-tier Oberliga Nordrhein.

In the 1994/95 season the SCB Prussia Cologne played in the newly created Regional West / Southwest; qualifies the SC Brück had. Despite immediate descent of the association filed with Jörg Beyel the scorer. In the following years the team shuttled between the Oberliga Nordrhein League and the Association of the Middle Rhine. 2010, they were relegated in the national league, the now insolvent club no longer appeared there on, however.

FC Viktoria Köln

Was already on 22 June 2010 with FC Viktoria Köln founded in 1904, a successor organization. In the season 2010/11 this Association took over all the youth teams of the SCB Viktoria including their league affiliation. The newly founded association was supposed to start in the national league, but was demoted by the association in the county league D. On 24 February 2011, the members of FC Viktoria unanimously approved the inclusion of plan seniors football department of FC Junkersdorf in their club. Since this had become in the season 2010/11 Master of the Middle Rhine League, FC Viktoria Köln could compete in the NRW-Liga from the season 2011/12. From this point, the industrialist and patron of the TSV Germania Windeck, Franz -Josef Wernze, who led the club of the county league C in the Regionalliga, in addition to the Victoria also became active.

The reinforced with numerous Windecker players team was one point ahead on the Sportfreunde Siegen master of the NRW-Liga 2011/12 season and made with Mike Wunderlich also the top scorer. In the course of the season was, for example, Rot Weiss Ahlen beaten 9-0. The first season in the Football Regionalliga West ended Viktoria Köln after a start-up phase with eight wins in a row and after two coach changes (Wolfgang Jerat for Heiko Scholz, Ralf Aussem for Jerat ) on the 6th place in the table.

Stadium

Home ground of Victoria Park is the sport -altitude mountain is also known under the name Airport Stadium. The stadium was completely rebuilt in 1929-1931. The first game after the change took place on 20 September 1931 opponent was FC Schalke 04 The main grandstand offers 3,000 covered seats.

For the 2012/13 Regional League season extensive modernization work was carried out. From May to August 2012, the Sportpark Berg height of 1.1m was redeveloped. Among other things, a floodlight system was installed, which will also satisfy the requirements for encounters in higher leagues. The stadium offers after reconstruction space for 6,214 spectators.

During the Confederations Cup in 2005 and during the 2006 World Cup, the national soccer teams took advantage of Tunisia, Japan and France the sports park for workouts. In addition to the stadium, there is also an artificial pitch on which to play the junior teams of Victoria and train.

Personalities

The following individuals were active at the Victoria and their precursors as a player or coach:

  • Matthias Hönerbach
  • Wolfgang Homberg
  • Wolfgang Jerat
  • Willibert Kremer
  • Mariusz Kukielka
  • Lars Leese
  • Heinz Lorenz
  • Jean Löring
  • Flemming Lund
  • Jean Paffrath
  • Hans Sturm
  • Jürgen Sundermann
  • Alexander Voigt
  • Hennes Weisweiler
  • Jack White
  • Sławomir Wojciechowski
  • Tony Woodcock
  • Franz Wunderlich
  • Norbert Ziegler
  • Ron -Robert Zieler

Squad 2013/2014 season

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