Eintracht Braunschweig

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Eintracht Braunschweig
Full name Braunschweiger Turn- und
Sportverein Eintracht von 1895
Nickname(s) Die Löwen (The Lions)
Founded 15 December 1895 (1895-12-15)
Ground Eintracht-Stadion,
Braunschweig
Ground Capacity 23,325
Chairman Sebastian Ebel
Sporting director Marc Arnold
Coach Torsten Lieberknecht
League Bundesliga
2012–13 2. Bundesliga, 2nd (promoted)
Website Club home page
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours
Current season

Braunschweiger Turn- und Sportverein Eintracht von 1895, commonly known as Eintracht Braunschweig (German pronunciation: [ˈʔaɪ̯ntʁaxt ˈbʁaʊ̯nʃvaɪ̯k]) or BTSV [beː teː ʔɛs faʊ̯], is a German association football and sports club based in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. The club was one of the founding members of the Bundesliga in 1963 and won the national title in 1967. Braunschweig play in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system.

Since 1923 Eintracht Braunschweig plays at the Eintracht-Stadion. The club shares a rivalry with fellow Lower Saxon side Hannover 96. In addition to the football division, Eintracht has departments for several other sports, of which historically the field hockey department has been the most successful.

History

Foundation and early years

Eintracht Braunschweig was founded as the football and cricket club FuCC Eintracht 1895 in 1895, became FC Eintracht von 1895 in 1906, and changed its name again into SV Eintracht in 1920.

The team has a colorful history and it quickly became one of northern Germany's favorite sides. In 1900 Eintracht Braunschweig was among the founding members of the German Football Association. They enjoyed success early on, playing in the upper tier league, winning the Northern German championship in 1908 and 1913, and placing three players on the German national team by 1914. Under the Third Reich the team played in the Gauliga Niedersachsen and managed two appearances in the national final rounds. In 1942–43, Eintracht Braunschweig went into the national championship play-offs as one of the main favorites.[1] The team under manager Georg "Schorsch" Knöpfle had just won the newly formed Gauliga Südhannover-Braunschweig with a record of 17 wins and one draw in 18 games, scoring 146 goals in the process. After a convincing 5–1 win over Victoria Hamburg in the first round, the draw saw the club paired with the other big favorites for the title, Helmut Schön's Dresdner SC. Dresden won the game held in Dresden with 4–0 and subsequently went on to win the German championship with an undefeated season.[2]

Post-war football

Walter Schmidt, one of the team's key players during the 1960s, pictured in the Eintracht-Stadion in 2009.

As part of the denazification of Germany after World War II the British authorities dissolved all previously existing sports clubs in Braunschweig and demanded the creation of a single, united sports club for the city. Because of this Eintracht Braunschweig was merged into the new club TSV Braunschweig on 2 November 1945. TSV Braunschweig finally took on the club's current name, Braunschweiger TSV Eintracht von 1895 on 1 April 1949.

The club continued to play in the top division, now the Oberliga Nord after the war, with the exception of a single season (1952–53) spent in tier II. The side was touched by tragedy in 1949 when goalkeeper Gustav Fähland died of internal bleeding a few days after being injured during a game in a collision with a Werder Bremen striker.[3] Another appearance in the final round of the national championship came in 1958.

Bundesliga football 1963 to 1985

Paul Breitner (left), Eintracht Braunschweig's most prominent signing during the 1970s.

Eintracht Braunschweig's consistently high standard of play and financial stability helped it to become one of the sixteen teams selected out of a group of forty-six applicants for play in the Bundesliga, the new federal professional league formed in 1963. Once again the side enjoyed early success, capturing the national title in the 1966–67 season under manager Helmuth Johannsen with solid defensive play. That championship team gave up only 27 goals against, which stood as a Bundesliga record until bettered by Werder Bremen in 1988. Another ten players joined the national side from the team, mostly through the 60's and 70's.

The club was hit by tragedy again during the winter break of the 1968–69 season, when forward Jürgen Moll, aged 29 at the time, and his wife died in a car accident. Two charity matches were played for the benefit of the Molls' children, the first featured West Germany's 1954 FIFA World Cup winning squad in the line-up of the tournament's final, the second saw a combined squad of Eintracht Braunschweig and rivals Hannover 96 take on a Bundesliga all-star team.[4]

The club found itself embroiled in the Bundesliga scandal of 1971, but with a somewhat unusual twist. A number of players accepted payments totaling 40,000 DM – not to underperform and so lose or tie a game, but rather, to put out an extra effort to win. Ultimately, two players were suspended and another ten were fined.

In 1973, in the face of some opposition from the league, Braunschweig became the first Bundesliga side to sport a sponsor logo on their jerseys - that of Wolfenbüttel-based liquor producer Jägermeister. The move paid the team 100,000 DM and introduced a new way of doing business to football that is worth millions today. Other clubs quickly followed suit. Braunschweig's game against Schalke 04 on 24 March 1973 became the first-ever Bundesliga match to feature a club having sponsorship on its jersey.[5] Jägermeister continued to sponsor the club until 1987, although a later attempt to rename the team Eintracht Jägermeister was finally refused by the German Football Association in 1983.[6]

Eintracht Braunschweig just missed a second title in 1977 when they finished third, one point back of champion Borussia Mönchengladbach and just behind second place finisher FC Schalke 04 on goal difference. The club made news after the season by signing 1974 FIFA World Cup winner Paul Breitner from Real Madrid for a transfer fee of 1,6 million DM. However, Breitner did not fit into the team at all and was sold to Bayern Munich after just one season.[7]

Lutz Eigendorf (left)

The side counted a casualty in the Cold War in the death of Lutz Eigendorf, who fled East Germany in 1979, where he played for Dynamo Berlin, to come to the west to play for 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Shortly after his transfer to Braunschweig in 1983, he died in a motor vehicle accident which was revealed in 2000 as the assassination of a "traitor" arranged by the Stasi, East Germany's secret police.[8][9]

The club played in the Bundesliga through to the mid-80's having been relegated just twice, playing in the second division in 1973–74 and again in 1980–81. During their run of 322 games in the Bundesliga from 1963 to 1973 they set a record that still stands by not seeing a single player red-carded. In 1984–85 Eintracht Braunschweig was relegated from the Bundesliga for the third time.

Decline

Regionalliga home game against VfB Lübeck in 1998.

Since the 1985–86 season the side has played at the tier II and III levels. In 1987, Braunschweig managed to set a mark even as they were demoted. They are the only team ever to have been relegated with a positive goal differential: 52 goals for and 47 against. After having been stuck in the Regionalliga for most of the 1990s, Eintracht Braunschweig moved constantly between the 2. Bundesliga and the Regionalliga during the 2000s. At the end of the 2007–2008 Regionalliga season the club was facing a severe crisis, both financially and on the field: Eintracht was in serious danger of missing out on qualification for Germany's new nationwide third-tier league 3. Liga, which would have meant Braunschweig's first ever relegation to the 4th level of the German football league system.

Recent history

However, with their new manager Torsten Lieberknecht, who had only taken over the job a few weeks before,[10] Eintracht Braunschweig managed to qualify for the 3. Liga on the last matchday of the season. Moreover, under Lieberknecht and also newly appointed director of football Marc Arnold, the club continued to steadily improve throughout the next few seasons; a resurgence on and off the field that was widely recognized by the German media.[11][12][13][14][15][16] In 2010–11 the team won promotion back into the 2. Bundesliga as champions of the 3. Liga. There Eintracht Braunschweig re-established themselves quickly, finishing the 2011–12 season comfortably mid-table. 2012–13 should prove even more successful: on the second matchday Braunschweig took over a direct promotion spot and kept it for the rest of the season. On the 31st matchday the club secured its return to the Bundesliga after 28 years in the second and third divisions with a 1–0 away win over FC Ingolstadt 04.

Crest and colours

Colours

Traditionally Eintracht Braunschweig plays their home games in the colours blue and yellow. Those colours are derived from the flag of the Duchy of Brunswick.

1963–1964
1964–1966
1966–1971
1971–1981
1981–1987

Crest

The club's crest contains a red lion on white ground. This symbol is derived from the coat of arms of the city of Braunschweig, which in turn is based on the insignia of Henry the Lion. The club badge went through various different versions during its history, most of the time however it consisted of a circular badge in blue and yellow, with a red lion on a white shield in the center of the circle.

In 1972, Eintracht Braunschweig scrapped the original crest and replaced it with a new design based on the logo of their sponsor Jägermeister. This was initially done to get around the German FA's ban on shirt sponsors - a loophole in those rules allowed to club to put a very close looking symbol on their shirt as long as it was the club's official crest. In 1986, after Jägermeister stopped the sponsorship of the club, Eintracht Braunschweig adopted a new, diamond shaped logo containing the traditional red lion as well as the club's colours blue and yellow.

In 2011 the club members voted to return to the club's more traditional round crest. In March 2012 the club then presented the new version of the crest, which was adopted as the official logo at the start of the 2012–13 season.[17]

Stadium

Eintracht-Stadion, before the construction of the new north stand in 2009/10.

Eintracht Braunschweig plays at the Eintracht-Stadion in Braunschweig, built in 1923. Currently the stadium has a capacity of ca. 25,000, during the 1960s it held up to 38,000 people.[18] Before the construction of the Eintracht-Stadion, the club played its home games at Sportplatz an der Helmstedter Straße, which held 3,000 people.[18]

Supporters

Eintracht Braunschweig supporters in 2013.

Despite spending recent years in the lower divisions, the club's fan support has remained strong: with 21,396 per game Eintracht Braunschweig had the 24th highest average attendance of any sports team in Germany during the 2011–12 season.[19]

Eintracht Braunschweig has a strong rivalry with Hannover 96,[20][21][22] while friendly fan relations exist with 1. FC Magdeburg, SV Waldhof Mannheim, and FC Basel.

Recent seasons

Year Division Position
1999–2000 Regionalliga Nord (III) 3rd
2000–01 Regionalliga Nord 8th
2001–02 Regionalliga Nord 2nd (promoted)
2002–03 2. Bundesliga (II) 15th (relegated)
2003–04 Regionalliga Nord (III) 6th
2004–05 Regionalliga Nord 1st (promoted)
2005–06 2. Bundesliga (II) 12th
2006–07 2. Bundesliga 18th (relegated)
2007–08 Regionalliga Nord (III) 10th
2008–09 3. Liga (III) 13th
2009–10 3. Liga 4th
2010–11 3. Liga 1st (promoted)
2011–12 2. Bundesliga (II) 8th
2012–13 2. Bundesliga 2nd (promoted)

League history

Between 1904 and 1985 Eintracht Braunschweig spent all but three seasons in Germany's top division. Between 1985 and 2013, the club then alternated between the second and third level of the German league pyramid, before returning to the top flight for the first time in 28 years at the end of the 2012–13 season.

Honours

League

First division

1No championship played in 1914 and 1915.

Lower divisions

2Includes 2. Bundesliga Nord (1974–81).

Cup

International

  • Intertoto Cup:
    • Group winners (7): 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1979

European record

Match day poster for the 1967–68 European Cup quarter-finals play-off versus Juventus in Berne.
Season Competition Round Nation Club Home Away Aggregate Result
1967–68 European Cup 1st round
Albania
Dinamo Tirana
(w/o)
Win
2nd round
Austria
Rapid Vienna 2–0 0–1
2–1
Win
Quarter-finals
Italy
Juventus 3–2 0–1
3–31
Loss
1971–72 UEFA Cup 1st round
Northern Ireland
Glentoran 6–1 1–0
7–1
Win
2nd round
Spain
Atlético Bilbao 2–1 2–2
4–3
Win
3rd round
Hungary
Ferencváros 1–1 2–5
3–6
Loss
1976–77 UEFA Cup 1st round
Denmark
Holbæk B&I 7–0 0–1
7–1
Win
2nd round
Spain
RCD Español 2–1 0–2
2–3
Loss
1977–78 UEFA Cup 1st round
Soviet Union
Dinamo Kiev 0–0 1–1
1–12
Win
2nd round
Norway
IK Start 4–0 0–1
4–1
Win
3rd round
Netherlands
PSV Eindhoven 1–2 0–2
1–4
Loss

1 Juventus beat Eintracht Braunschweig 1–0 in a play-off in Berne, Switzerland to reach the semi-finals.

2 Eintracht Braunschweig progressed to the second round on away goals.

Intertoto Cup record

Players

First-team squad

As of 31 January 2014 (2014-01-31) Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Germany GK Marjan Petković
3 Bosnia and Herzegovina DF Ermin Bičakčić
4 Germany DF Matthias Henn
5 Germany DF Benjamin Kessel
6 Bosnia and Herzegovina MF Damir Vrančić
7 Norway FW Håvard Nielsen (on loan from FC Red Bull Salzburg)
8 Turkey DF Deniz Doğan (vice-captain)
9 Switzerland FW Orhan Ademi
10 Germany MF Mirko Boland
11 Germany MF Jan Hochscheidt
12 Democratic Republic of the Congo FW Domi Kumbela
14 Norway MF Omar Elabdellaoui
15 Germany DF Norman Theuerkauf
17 Germany MF Kevin Kratz
No. Position Player
19 Germany DF Ken Reichel
20 Germany FW Torsten Oehrl
21 Germany DF Jan Washausen
22 Switzerland MF Salim Khelifi
23 Germany MF Jonas Erwig-Drüppel
24 Germany MF Timo Perthel
25 Portugal DF Marcel Correia
26 Iran GK Daniel Davari
27 Germany FW Gianluca Korte
31 Germany MF Marc Pfitzner
32 Germany FW Dennis Kruppke (captain)
33 Germany MF Marco Caligiuri
35 Germany GK Benjamin Later
38 Germany MF Karim Bellarabi (on loan from Bayer 04 Leverkusen)

Players out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
7 Germany MF Björn Kluft (at SV Sandhausen until the end of the season)
13 Germany MF Raffael Korte (at 1. FC Saarbrücken until the end of the season)

Notable former players

The list includes players with at least 250 games or 50 goals for Eintracht Braunschweig's first team, as well as players with at least one cap for their country's national or Olympic football team. However, players who did not receive any of their caps whilst playing for Eintracht Braunschweig are only included if they made at least 10 appearances for the club.

Germany

International

Staff

Current technical staff

Position Name
Head coach Torsten Lieberknecht
Assistant coach Darius Scholtysik
Athletic trainer Jürgen Rische
Goalkeeping coach Alexander Kunze
Sporting director Marc Arnold
Chief physiotherapist Patrick Bick
Physiotherapist Goce Janevski
Physiotherapist Caroline Schweibs
Club doctor Dr. Frank Maier
Team managerHolm Stelzer
Kit and equipment manager/Bus driverChristian Skolik

Manager history

Caretaker managers in italics.

Notable former presidents

The list includes former presidents and chairmen of Eintracht Braunschweig who have their own Wikipedia article.

Records

Reserve and youth teams

Eintracht Braunschweig youth academy.

Reserve team

Eintracht Braunschweig II, historically also referred to as Eintracht Braunschweig Amateure, currently plays in the Regionalliga Nord. The team's current manager is Henning Bürger.

Current squad

As of 1 August 2013 (2013-08-01) Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Germany GK Benjamin Later
2 Germany DF Marcel Schreyer
3 Germany DF Dennis Slamar
4 Germany DF Maurice Fiolka
5 Germany DF Christopher Nachtwey
6 Greece DF Giorgos Machlelis
7 Azerbaijan MF Ilter Tashkin
8 Germany DF Gino Lago-Bentron
9 Germany MF Yannick Rolff
10 Germany DF Pascal Gos
11 Germany FW Jonas Kierdorf
No. Position Player
12 Germany GK Marcel Engelhardt
13 Germany MF Lukas Kierdorf
14 Serbia FW Jovan Grozdanic
15 Germany FW Marvin Ibekwe
16 Germany MF Timo Richter
17 Germany MF Niclas Erlbeck
18 Germany MF Markus Unger
19 Germany MF Marcel Bär
20 Germany MF Nils Göwecke
21 United States MF Omar Castro

Recent seasons

Year Division Position
2002–03 Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen (IV) 9th
2003–04 Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen 10th (relegated)
2004–05 Niedersachsenliga-Ost (V) 1st (promoted)
2005–06 Oberliga Nord (IV) 11th
2006–07 Oberliga Nord 10th
2007–08 Oberliga Nord 10th (relegated)
2008–09 Oberliga Niedersachsen-Ost (V) 3rd
2009–10 Oberliga Niedersachsen-Ost 1st (promoted)
2010–11 Regionalliga Nord (IV) 16th (relegated)
2011–12 Oberliga Niedersachsen (V) 8th
2012–13 Oberliga Niedersachsen 1st (promoted)

Honours

Youth

The club's Under-17 team currently plays in the Under 17 Bundesliga, the Under-19 team competes in the Under 19 Regionalliga Nord. The club's youth academy is located at the Sportpark Kennel near Schloss Richmond.

Other sports

As a multi sports club Eintracht Braunschweig also has departments for athletics, basketball, chess, darts, field hockey, gymnastics, team handball, swimming and water polo, tennis, and winter sports. The club was especially successful in athletics and swimming from the 1940s until the 1960s, with the club's athletes, among them the then-current 800 metres world record holder Rudolf Harbig, winning over 40 national championships during that period.[24]

Field hockey

Anke Kühn

The field hockey department historically has been one of Eintracht Braunschweig's most successful sections. Eintracht's women's field hockey team has won numerous titles, mostly during the 1970s.

Honours

National

  • German women's championship (outdoor):
    • Champions (6): 1965, 1969, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978
    • Runners-up (2): 1964, 1977
  • German women's championship (indoor):
    • Champions (3): 1973, 1974, 1975
    • Runners-up (4): 1970, 1978, 1983, 2003

International

Notable players

Ice hockey

Eintracht Braunschweig's ice hockey department was founded in 1981. After years in the lower divisions, the team played its first and only season in Germany's second division, then named 1. Liga, in 1997–1998. In 2000 the ice hockey section became independent as Eintracht Braunschweig Eissport e.V., and eventually dissolved in 2003.

Basketball

Eintracht Braunschweig's basketball department was founded in 1956. The club's women's team currently plays in the 2. Damen-Basketball-Bundesliga, the second tier of women's basketball in Germany.

In popular culture

The German 2009 drama film 66/67: Fairplay Is Over (German: 66/67: Fairplay war gestern) tells the story of a group of Eintracht Braunschweig hooligans. The title is a reference to Eintracht's championship winning season 1966–67, as well as the name of the fictional supporters club the characters in the film belong to.[25]

In 2008 the German jazz funk/hip hop band Jazzkantine produced a musical about Eintracht Braunschweig, titled Unser Eintracht, in cooperation with the Staatstheater Braunschweig.[26]

Sources

  • Bläsig, Horst/Leppert, Alex (2010). Ein Roter Löwe auf der Brust - Die Geschichte von Eintracht Braunschweig. Göttingen: Die Werkstatt. ISBN 978-3-89533-675-1. 
  • Döring, Jochen (1995). Helmut, laß die Löwen raus! Triumphe und Tränen, Stars und Skandale. 100 Jahre Fußball, Eintracht Braunschweig. Braunschweig: Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag. 
  • Göttner, Christian (2007). Was geht, Eintracht Braunschweig? Deutscher Fußballmeister 1967. 67 Interviews mit legendären Fußballern. Kassel: Agon-Sportverlag. ISBN 978-3-89784-336-3. 
  • Graßhof, Heinz (1967). Eintracht Braunschweig. Porträt einer Bundesliga-Mannschaft. Braunschweig: Graff und Grenzland. 
  • Peters, Stefan (1998). Eintracht Braunschweig. Die Chronik. Kassel: Agon-Sportverlag. ISBN 978-3-89609-152-9. 
  • Peters, Stefan/Göttner, Christian (2013). 100 Spiele Eintracht. Die emotionalsten Partien der Vereinsgeschichte von Eintracht Braunschweig. Göttingen: Die Werkstatt. ISBN 978-3-7307-0052-5. 
  • Pollmann, Ulrike (1995). In frischer Kraft und selbstbewußt... 100 Jahre Eintracht Braunschweig. Braunschweig: Verlag Michael Kuhle. ISBN 3-923696-72-8. 

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