football club
1. Fußball-Club Kaiserslautern e. V., besides known as 1. FCK, FCK or 1. FC Kaiserslautern ( german pronunciation : [ ʔɛf t͡seː kaɪ̯zɐsˈlaʊ̯tɐn ] ), is a german sports club based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition to football, the club besides operates in several other sports.
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On 2 June 1900, Germania 1896 and FG Kaiserslautern merged to create FC 1900. In 1909, the club went on to join FC Palatia ( founded in 1901 ) and FC Bavaria ( founded in 1902 ) to form FV 1900 Kaiserslautern. In 1929, they merged with SV Phönix to become FV Phönix-Kaiserslautern before ultimately taking on their current name in 1933. As a establish member of the Bundesliga, FCK played from 1963 to 1996 continuous in the top division. It has won four german championships, two DFB-Pokals, and one DFL-Supercup, and historically is among the most successful football clubs in Germany, presently occupying eleventh place in the all-time Bundesliga table. The club ‘s external performances include reaching the Champions League quarter-finals in 1999 deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as two participations in the UEFA Cup semi-finals. Their first league title in the Bundesliga era was won in 1991. Kaiserslautern then won the german championship in the 1997–98 season as a newly promoted team, which is alone in german football. After a six-year spell in the moment grade, in 2018 they were relegated to the 3. Liga for the first time. Since 1920, Kaiserslautern ‘s stadium has been the Fritz-Walter-Stadion, named after Fritz Walter, the captain of the west german national team who won the world cup in 1954. Walter spent his stallion career at Kaiserslautern .
history [edit ]
early years to World War II [edit ]
Two of the clubhouse ‘s predecessors, Bavaria and FC 1900 Kaiserslautern, were partially of the Westkreis-Liga ( I ) when this league was formed in 1908, with the latter winning the beginning league. From 1909 through 1918, the new FV Kaiserslautern performed well, finishing runner-up in 1910 and 1912. The team reached tier-one in the newfangled Kreisliga Saar in 1919, the Kreisliga Pfalz in 1920 and the Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar in 1931 and spent the rest of the 1930s bouncing up and down between the Bezirksliga and the amphetamine level Gauliga Südwest, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the re-organization of german football under the Third Reich. [ 1 ] The golf club ‘s performance was everyday in the years leading up to World War II, but improved after 1939. They captured the Gauliga Südwest/Staffel Saarpfalz championship, but lost the overall division title to Staffel Mainhessen winners Kickers Offenbach. In the 1941–42 season the Gauliga Südwest was split into the Gauliga Hessen-Nassau and the Gauliga Westmark, and Kaiserslautern took the Westmark title, going on to play for the inaugural fourth dimension in the national final rounds. They were decisively put out 3–9 by eventual champions Schalke 04, the dominant side in this era of german football. [ 1 ] The performance of the team slipped and they finished last in their division in 1944. The come class saw the crumble of league play in this part of Germany as the Third Reich crumbled under the advance of Allied armies. [ 1 ]
Postwar play [edit ]
historic chart of Kaiserslautern league performance after WWII After the war, Southwestern Germany was separate of the occupation zone held by the french. Teams there were organized into northern and southerly divisions and played to determine which of them would join the new Oberliga being put together. french authorities were slow to loosen their control over play in their zones of occupation – and in the Saarland in particular – Teams in the french areas took longer to join the re-established german home league than in other parts of the nation. 1. FC Kaiserslautern resumed play in the Oberliga Südwest in 1945 and finished the season equitable one point behind 1. FC Saarbrücken. The following season, they easily won the Gruppe Nord in 1947 due in large separate due to the toy of Fritz Walter and his brother Ottmar – the couple scored 46 goals between them, more than any other entire team .
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success in the 1950s and submission to the Bundesliga [edit ]
This marked the beginning of the club ‘s dominance of the Oberliga Südwest as they went on to capture the division title eleven times over the next twelve seasons. FCK advanced to Germany ‘s beginning post-war national concluding in 1948, but lost 1–2 to 1. FC Nürnberg. Kaiserslautern became a presence on the national scenery through the early 1950s, capturing their inaugural german championship in 1951 with a 2–1 victory of their own, this fourth dimension over Preußen Münster. They won a second deed in 1953, followed by two losing final appearances in 1954 and 1955. The golf club besides sent five players to the national english for the 1954 FIFA World Cup, which West Germany won in what became popularly known as “ The Miracle of Bern “. Kaiserslautern ‘s operation fell off late in the ten and into the early 1960s, the only highlight being an progress to the 1961 DFB-Pokal final, where they lost 0–2 to Werder Bremen. The side recovered its form in clock to again win their division on the eve of the formation in 1963 of the Bundesliga, Germany ‘s modern professional football league. This secured them one of the 16 places in the new top flight circuit. however, the club ‘s next honor would be some time in coming : they made fail german Cup final appearances in 1972, 1976, and 1981 and were UEFA Cup semi-finalists in 1982 ( losing narrowly to eventual winners IFK Göteborg ) before finally winning the domestic Cup in 1990. They followed up the adjacent temper with their first Bundesliga championship .
fall from the top flight [edit ]
1. FCK won a second german Cup in 1996, but that victory was soured since the team had been relegated to 2. Bundesliga with a 16th-place stopping point equitable one week before the Cup concluding. At the time, Kaiserslautern was one of alone four of the master 16 teams that had played in each Bundesliga season since the origin of the league, having never been relegated. This group besides included Eintracht Frankfurt ( who went depressed in the same season ), 1. FC Köln ( down in 1998 ), and “ the Dinosaur ”, Hamburger SV, whose go ended in 2018. [ 2 ] The Red Devils came storming back with an accomplishment singular in Bundesliga history – and very rare across the major european football leagues – by winning promotion from the 2. Bundesliga at the first undertake in 1997, and immediately going on to win the national championship under seasoned coach Otto Rehhagel. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] They besides played in the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League, where they topped a group comprising PSV, Benfica and HJK Helsinki but were eliminated in the quarter-finals by compatriots Bayern Munich, who besides took back the domestic style ( FCK finished 5th ). The club, however, found itself in serious perturb soon after. Despite coming close to a UEFA Cup final in 2001, Kaiserslautern soon found itself on the verge of bankruptcy and at the center of controversy being played out publicly. The club ‘s management – Jürgen Friedrich, Robert Wieschemann and Gerhard Herzog – were forced out. A new team president of the united states, Rene C. Jäggi, sold the debt-ridden Fritz-Walter-Stadion to an entity owned by the Land Rheinland-Pfalz and the city of Kaiserslautern, thus saving the clubhouse from fiscal calamity, while a new coach, Erik Gerets, led a run after the winter break dance that moved the footballers out of last place and saved them from relegation. The golf club started the 2003–04 season under the burden of a three-point punishment imposed by the German Football Association for its fiscal misdeeds. After a bumble beginning to the season, Gerets was fired and replaced by Kurt Jara. Jara was unpopular with the FCK faithful for his defensive football doctrine, but with him at the helm, the club had a safe season. Jara, however, quit the put before the season ended, citing irreconcilable differences with baseball club management .
In 2005, Michael Henke, who served as long-time assistant to Germany ‘s most successful coach Ottmar Hitzfeld, became passenger car. FCK was initially successful, but then suffered a string of reverses and crashed to the bottom of the board. Henke was fired, and FCK alumnus Wolfgang Wolf took up the trainer ‘s role. Wolf brought in many young, home-grown players, but despite winning over fans and experts alike, the 2005–06 season ended in failure as FCK was once again relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after a nine-year stay at the clear fledge. They finished the 2006–07 season in sixth place in the 2. Bundesliga, seven points out of the promotion places. On 20 May 2007, the club announced the norwegian coach Kjetil Rekdal, once with belgian side Lierse, as their fresh head coach. Rekdal took over the reins on 1 July. Due to very bad results ( the club being in 16th station in the standings with only three wins in 19 games ), Rekdal was sacked and replaced by Milan Šašić in February 2008. In April 2008, the club hired Stefan Kuntz as president, and with new leadership at the helm, managed to save themselves from relegation to the new 3. Liga with a succeed over already promoted 1. FC Köln on the final day of the 2007–08 season .
Fans celebrating the club ‘s promotion right before the first Bundesliga home game in four years, which was held against rivals Bayern Munich Šašić lasted about the entire 2008–09 season but was dismissed on 4 May 2009 after run of poor results in the second half of the season, and three days after a 1–5 defeat by Hansa Rostock. Alois Schwartz was named interim coach and he managed the club to a seventh-place finish on the season. The cabaret finally hired Marco Kurz as head coach. Under Kurz, the club secured forwarding to the 1. Bundesliga on 25 April 2010 after four years in the irregular league. At the start of the 2010–11 season, newly promoted 1. FCK had a promise two-straight wins, including a 2–0 victory over the previous year ‘s Bundesliga champions, Bayern Munich. however, after a hard-fought 2–1 kill at Mainz 05 and a 5–0 beating at eventual season champions, Borussia Dortmund, the club began to struggle and fell back to just ahead of the relegation zone. The club then had a inadequate start to the second base half of the season – dropping into the relegation partition for several weeks – but managed to coalesce and finally earned seven victories in their last ten-spot matches, recording only two defeats and a single draw. They ended this run with four straight victories to finish the temper at the one-seventh place. The come season, 2011–12, the club finished in the bottom eighteenth place and after lone two seasons in the top escape, were relegated to the 2. Bundesliga. They remained in that division until 2018, being relegated to the third base tier for the first time in club history .
Reserve team [edit ]
The club ‘s allow team, 1. FC Kaiserslautern II, played as 1. FC Kaiserslautern Amateure until 2005. It made a first appearance in the tier three Amateurliga Südwest in 1957. It won a league backing in 1960 and 1968 but was not entitled to promotion to master level. In 1978, when the Oberliga Südwest was introduced the team qualified for this raw league which it would belong to, with the exception of the 1982–83 season, until 1992. It won promotion back to the Oberliga in 1994 and became a yo-yo team between this league and the Regionalliga above, a league newly introduced in 1994. The team was relegated from the latter in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2007 but each time won promotion back to the league. Since 2012, it has belonged to the Regionalliga Südwest. The team has besides won the Southwestern Cup on three occasions, in 1979, 1997 and 2008. Through this competition, 1. FC Kaiserslautern II qualified for the DFB-Pokal on three occasions, reaching the second circle doubly and being drawn against their own beginning team in 1997–98 where they lost 5–0 .
holocene seasons [edit ]
- As of 18 May 2019[6]
Season
Division
Rank
P
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
DFB-Pokal
UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup
UEFA Cup/Europa League
UEFA Champions League
1989–90
Bundesliga
12
34
10
11
13
42
55
−13
31:37
winner
—
—
—
1990–91
Bundesliga
1
34
19
10
5
72
45
+27
48:20
2R
1R
—
—
1991–92
Bundesliga
5
34
17
10
11
58
42
+16
44:24
QF
—
—
2R
1992–93
Bundesliga
8
34
13
9
12
50
40
+10
35:33
2R
—
3R
—
1993–94
Bundesliga
2
34
18
7
9
64
36
+28
43:25
QF
—
—
—
1994–95
Bundesliga
4
34
17
12
5
58
41
+17
46:22
SF
—
2R
—
1995–96
Bundesliga
16
34
6
18
10
31
37
−6
36
winner
—
2R
—
1996–97
2. Bundesliga
1
34
19
11
4
74
28
+46
68
1R
1R
—
—
1997–98
Bundesliga
1
34
19
11
4
63
39
+24
68
3R
—
—
—
1998–99
Bundesliga
5
34
19
6
9
62
37
25
63
2R
—
—
QF
1999–2000
Bundesliga
5
34
15
5
14
54
59
−5
50
3R
—
3R
—
2000–01
Bundesliga
8
34
15
5
14
49
54
−5
50
2R
—
SF
—
2001–02
Bundesliga
7
34
17
5
12
62
53
+9
56
QF
—
—
—
2002–03
Bundesliga
14
34
10
10
14
40
42
−2
40
runner-up
—
—
—
2003–04
Bundesliga
13
34
11
6
17
39
62
−23
36
1R
—
1R
—
2004–05
Bundesliga
12
34
12
6
16
43
52
−9
42
2R
—
—
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—
2005–06
Bundesliga
16
34
8
9
17
47
71
−24
33
3R
—
—
—
2006–07
2. Bundesliga
6
34
13
14
7
48
34
+14
53
1R
—
—
—
2007–08
2. Bundesliga
13
34
9
12
13
37
37
0
39
2R
—
—
—
2008–09
2. Bundesliga
7
34
15
7
12
53
48
+5
52
1R
—
—
—
2009–10
2. Bundesliga
1
34
19
10
5
56
28
+28
67
3R
—
—
—
2010–11
Bundesliga
7
34
13
7
14
48
51
−3
46
QF
—
—
—
2011–12
Bundesliga
18
34
4
11
19
24
54
−30
23
3R
—
—
—
2012–13
2. Bundesliga
3
34
15
13
6
55
33
22
58
2R
—
—
—
2013–14
2. Bundesliga
4
34
15
9
10
55
39
16
54
SF
—
—
—
2014–15
2. Bundesliga
4
34
14
14
6
45
31
14
56
3R
—
—
—
2015–16
2. Bundesliga
10
34
12
9
13
49
47
2
45
2R
—
—
—
2016–17
2. Bundesliga
13
34
10
11
13
29
33
−4
41
1R
—
—
—
2017–18
2. Bundesliga
18
34
9
8
17
42
55
−13
35
2R
—
—
—
2018–19
3. Liga
9
38
13
12
13
49
51
−2
51
1R
—
—
—
2019–20
3. Liga
10
38
14
13
11
59
54
+5
55
3R
—
—
—
2020–21
3. Liga
14
38
8
19
11
47
52
−5
43
1R
—
—
—
- Key
P = Played ; W = Win ; D = Draw ; L = Loss ; F = Goals for ; A = Goals against ; GD = Goal difference ; Pts = Points ; Cup = DFB-Pokal ; CWC = european Cup Winners ‘ Cup ; EL = UEFA Europa League ; CL = UEFA Champions League.
– = not attended ; 1R = 1st orotund ; 2R = 2nd round ; 3R = 3rd round ; 1/8 = Round of sixteen ; QF = Quarter-finals ; SF = Semi-finals .
Honours [edit ]
stadium [edit ]
FCK plays its home fixtures in the Fritz Walter Stadion inaugural built in 1920. The stadium and the adjacent street are named for the actor who brought the club to prominence after the war. The facility is built on the Betzenberg, literally “ Mount Betze ”, a steep sandstone hill. The stadium has a capacity of 49,850 and was a 2006 World Cup venue, hosting four preliminary round and one group of 16-round matches. The adeptness underwent a major renovation for the tournament with addition of new grandstands and a roof .
baseball club polish [edit ]
The “ Westkurve ” in April 2011 Kaiserslautern ‘s Fritz-Walter-Stadion has long been a feared away venue given the fanatic ferocity of Kaiserslautern fans : the most faithful of these supporters are located in the stadium ‘s “ Westkurve ” ( Westside, literally “ West Curve ”, since the stands used to be shaped in a semicircle behind the goals ). Most excellently, Bayern Munich once lost a match here in a charged air by a score of 7–4 after leading 4–1 at the 58th moment. The club has friendly ties to 1860 Munich, VfB Stuttgart, Werder Bremen and Kilmarnock F.C. of Scotland and are biting rivals of Waldhof Mannheim and Bayern Munich. They besides have lesser local anesthetic rivalries with Eintracht Frankfurt and, more recently, with Mainz 05 and Karlsruher SC .
Players [edit ]
stream police squad [edit ]
- As of 8 July 2021[7]
bill : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Out on loan [edit ]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
early players [edit ]
other sports [edit ]
1. FC Kaiserslautern besides has sports departments in athletics, basketball, box, handball, headis, field hockey, running, and triathlon. [ 8 ]
basketball [edit ]
The basketball department was founded in 1952. [ 9 ] The seniors team played in the second gear german Basketball league from 2002 until 2007. In the 2014–15 season, both the male and female elder teams play in the fourth part .
Boxing [edit ]
The box department exists since the times of FV Kaiserslautern. Most outstanding athletes are Silver medalist of the 1964 Summer Olympics Emil Schulz, Bronze medalist of the 1988 Summer Olympics Reiner Gies and, before his professional career, subsequently european giant champion Karl Mildenberger .
erstwhile departments [edit ]
Wheelchair basketball [edit ]
The wheelchair basketball team FCK Rolling Devils was founded in 2009 as a contribution of the club ‘s basketball department and turned into a break department in 2013. [ 10 ] Since 2014, the Rolling Devils play in the first german Wheelchair Basketball Federal League. [ 11 ] In July 2015, the outsource of Rolling Devils into an independent club with 1.FC Kaiserslautern as name patronize took put and the FCK department was suspended at the annual meet of 1.FC Kaiserslautern in December 2015 .
References [edit ]
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