FC Wil 1900

The FC Wil is a Swiss football club, which was founded in 1900. He has been in the city of Wil in the canton of St. Gallen is located.

  • 2.1 prehistory
  • 2.2 Rise of the lowlands in the NLB
  • 2.3 Participation in the Super League
  • 2.4 The FC Wil today

Club Data

Achievements

  • Swiss Cup: 2004
  • NLB Champion: 2 ( 1998, 2001 )
  • Rise in the NLA: 2002

History

History

Prehistory

In the 1920s, the round number 1900 is selected from oral traditions as a foundation year. The football was dragged around 1900 by two knitters interns from England to Wil and won with the older students and apprentices rapidly in importance and it has been kicked on evenings and Sundays. By 1990, held the FC Wil, with a brief stint in the second division 1922/23 and 1952/53 and 1953 /54, mainly in the second league.

Rise of the lowlands in the NLB

Quite a few well-known trainer started her career at FC Wil and made ​​there stopover, including Christian Gross 1988-1993 or Hanspeter Latour and Marcel Koller around the turn of the millennium. The subsequent GC, Tottenham Hotspur and FC Basel coach Christian Gross has brought the FC Wil 1991 by the 2nd league ( fourth-highest division) within two seasons in the NLB ( second highest division). They took 1992/93 even for the promotion places in the NLA part and managed to qualify to 2002 a total of four times for the promotion round to the NLA, but missed each ascent. With Uli Forte, who in 2009 brought the FC St. Gallen back in the Axpo Super League, once again missed the FC Wil 2008 only about the climb.

In the NLB times from 1994 to 1997 Pierre -André Schürmann coached the team Wiler. He was followed for two years Marcel Koller. Under him, the FC Wil 1998 reached the Cup semi-final. In the 1998/99 season was Wil NLB champion. DC then moved to FC St. Gallen Koller, followed him for the promotion round Hanspeter Latour. The Wiler remained in the NLB. After Latour nine months later moved to FC Thun, followed him Claude Ryf. He was replaced by Heinz Peischl in July 2001. Under him, the FC Wil was able to rise for the first time in their history in the top flight.

Participation in the Super League

In 2002, the FC Wil rose under Heinz Peischl in the top flight NLA, today's Super League, and reached the final round of the NLA. In 2003, the FC Wil for the first time in an international contest ( Intertoto Cup ). For headlines of the team FC Wil made ​​in November 2002 when she local rivals FC St. Gallen defeated as a geek with a goals ratio of 11:3, which NLA record meant.

The FC Wil was mainly thanks to its former President Andreas harbor, which put a lot of money in the FC Wil, successfully. Port mentioned outward always, the money would " not be named ending investors " of. He had, however, some 51 million Swiss francs UBS misappropriated his employer, of which around 10 to 11 million to FC Wil flowed. The theft flew a week after the 11:3 victory. 2006 Andreas harbor was sentenced to five years in prison and to repay the sum veruntreuuten. The FC Wil has not been involved in the process, since it is assumed that the remaining board members knew nothing about it. UBS decided not to return calls by the FC Wil.

Once again stopped off some rest, took over the Ukrainian investor Igor Belanow, a former player of the Soviet national team and European Footballer of the Year in 1986, in the summer of 2003, the majority of shares in FC Wil AG and changed almost the whole crew out. These facts so far produced almost only negative headlines (finance, frequent coaching change ). The AG was founded by him and his followers, was quickly in the probate proceedings. However, the club FC Wil was not at risk.

With the acquisition Martin Andermatt was released in August 2003. Belanow sat Oleksandr Sawarow, a former Soviet International, as a coach. Since he did not possess the UEFA license, he was officially in December by Joachim Müller, formerly of FC Karl- Marx-Stadt ( Chemnitz FC ) replaced. Sawarow was sports director.

Müller was only three months later, replaced by Tomas Matejcek in February 2004. The players complained about Matejceks extreme training methods and complained to Belanow. This Matejcek dismissed and brought back Joachim Müller. As assistant to him was the former Swiss international Stephan Lehmann aside. Belanow withdrew and in the FC Wil peace returned.

Under the duo Müller / Lehmann FC Wil surprisingly won the Swiss Cup. The first Cup Final attendance they defeated the Grasshoppers Zurich 3-2. This is so far the biggest success in the whole club history and paved the FC Wil the first access to the Uefa Cup. But in the same year the FC Wil ( formerly NLB ) rises after an unsuccessful series after the Cup victory again in the Challenge League from.

The Wil FC today

From the summer of 2004 was called the coach Walter Hörmann, who previously coached FC Vaduz, Liechtenstein national football team and the SV Austria Salzburg.

The FC Wil failed in the fall of 2004 just in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup against the Slovak club FK Dukla Banská Bystrica. In the championship, it began with a 5-2 home success against FC Wohlen, but then crashed the team. The Wiler reaped many defeats and Wil landed after the season in the rear ranks of the Challenge League.

In the season 2005/ 06 towards Hörmann has been replaced by Maurizio Jacobacci who previously coached FC Baden. A season later, Uli Forte, which, after two successful years in 2008 surprisingly moved to St. Gallen.

In the season 2006/07 FC Wil reached the Cuphalbfinal after a win against Young Boys ( 2-1 ) from the Super League. In this quarter-final of FC Wil has less to make up the deficit with a player. The semi-final against Basel (1:3) FC lost. Nevertheless, the FC Wil was named due to the exploits against Young Boys from the Cup 's main sponsor for Swisscom Cup Team of the Year.

The season 2007/ 08 ended the FC Wil in 3rd place, only 2 points behind the 1st place from FC Vaduz, thus a possible promotion place was just missed. Since then coach Uli Forte moved to FC St. Gallen, many players were getting restless and also changed the club. As a new coach Dieter Munster man was hired, who also brought the FC Wil on the 3rd place, but they were 19 points behind second -placed FC Lugano.

In recent years, the FC Wil established in the middle of the Challenge League.

Well-known former players

  • Charles Amoah
  • Davide Callà
  • Leandro Fonseca
  • Stéphane Gillet, Luxembourg national team
  • Marco Hammerli
  • Daniel Imhof, Canadian national team
  • Luiz Filho Jairo
  • Dario Lezcano
  • Mauro Lustrinelli Swiss international
  • Francisco Neri
  • Mart Poom, Estonia's national team
  • Michel Renggli
  • Luiz Rogério da Silva
  • Moustapha Salifou, national player from Togo
  • Agent Sawu, national player from Zimbabwe
  • Fabian Schär, Swiss international
  • Silvio
  • Marc Zellweger, former Swiss international
  • Elsad Zverotić national player from Montenegro

Coach

  • 2003-2003 Martin Andermatt (March- August)
  • 2003-2003 Olexander Sawarow ( August to December )
  • 2003-2004 Joachim Müller ( December-February )
  • 2004-2004 Tomas Matejcek and Stephan Lehmann (February-March )
  • 2004-2004 Joachim Müller and Stephan Lehmann (March- July),
  • 2004-2005 Walter Hörmann
  • 2005-2006 Maurizio Jacobacci
  • 2006-2008 Uli Forte
  • 2008-2009 Dieter Munster man
  • Ryszard Komornicki 2009-2010 ( until Sept. 2010)
  • 2010 Today Axel Thoma (from October 2010 )
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