FSV Zwickau
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| Full name | Fußball-Sport-Verein Zwickau e.V. | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Die Schwäne (The Swans) | ||
| Founded | 1912 | ||
| Ground | Stadion Zwickau | ||
| Capacity | 10,134[contradictory][citation needed] | ||
| Chairman | Gerhard Neef[citation needed] | ||
| Manager | Rico Schmitt | ||
| League | Regionalliga Nordost | ||
| 2022–23 | 3. Liga, 20th of 20 (relegated) | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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FSV Zwickau is a German association football club located in Zwickau, Saxony. Today's club claims as part of its complex heritage sides that were East Germany's first champions: 1948 Ostzone winners SG Planitz and 1950 DDR-Oberliga champions ZSG Horch Zwickau.
History
In addition to the earliest East German championship sides, current day club FSV Zwickau can name a long list of other local associations among its predecessors.
Planitzer Sportclub
Fußball-Club Planitz was established 27 April 1912 in a village of that name located south of Zwickau. On 28 August that year the team adopted the name Planitzer Sportclub and in 1918 was briefly known as Sportvereinigung Planitz, before again becoming SC on 2 February 1919. The club's first notable appearance was in the playoffs of the regional Mitteldeutschland (Central German) league in 1931 that saw them advance as far as the semi-finals.
Under the Nazis, German football was reorganized in 1933 into sixteen top-flight divisions known as Gauligen. Planitz played in the
Ostzone winners in divided Germany
In the aftermath of World War II, most German organizations, including sports and football clubs, were dissolved by the occupying Allied authorities. In 1945, the club became part of Sportgruppe Planitz, an association made up of several area clubs. Football competition quickly resumed throughout the country and SG emerged as champions of the
In 1950, the club became part of BSG Aktivist Steinkohle Zwickau, another postwar side which had been formed 14 June 1949. Sometime in 1951, part of this club broke away to become BSG Fortschritt Planitz which would in 1990 re-adopt the name SV Planitz. The remainder of Aktivist Steinkohle Zwickau was re-christened BSG Aktivist Karl-Marx Zwickau.
BSG Aktivist Karl-Marx Zwickau
This club also claimed the 1948 Ostzone champions as part of its lineage. They slipped to lower level local competition until re-appearing in the third tier 2. DDR-Liga, Staffel 4 in 1958. They won that division in 1962 were promoted to the DDR-Liga, Staffel Süd (II). After several undistinguished campaigns,[according to whom?] they became part of BSG Motor Zwickau in 1968 which was renamed BSG Sachsenring Zwickau on 1 May that year.
East Germany's first champions
Like many other teams in Soviet-occupied East Germany, Planitz would undergo a number of name changes associating the club with the "socialist work force" in various sectors of the economy in a commonly used propaganda device. They were renamed ZSG Horch Zwickau in 1949 and became part of East Germany's new top-flight circuit, the DDR-Oberliga, for the inaugural 1949–50 season. They emerged as the league's first champions with a disputed victory over SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt on the last day of the season.
The unfortunate[tone] Dresdners had run afoul[tone] of Communist authorities, which regarded the club as being too bourgeois. Zwickau played a viciously[according to whom?] physical game and, abetted by the referee who refused the homeside substitutions and eventually reduced Friedrichstadt to an eight-man squad, "won" the match 5–1. Unhappy, Dresden Friedrichstadt fans invaded the field several times, and at game's end, badly beat a Zwickau player. Mounted police were called in to restore order. Within weeks, the Dresden side was dismantled and the players scattered to other teams: most eventually fled to the west, many to play for Hertha Berlin. What occurred in this match foreshadowed what would become commonplace in East German football, as highly placed politicians or bureaucrats manipulated clubs and matches for various purposes.
ZSG merged with BSG Aktivist Steinkohle Zwickau (established 14 June 1949) in 1950 becoming Betriebbsportgemeinschaft Horch Zwickau. In 1951, the club was re-christened BSG Aktivist Karl-Marx Zwickau. They remained competitive through the early 1950s, but were unable to claim another national championship, as in the following decades they settled into the role[
In 1968, the club merged with BSG Aktivist Karl Marx Zwickau to become BSG Sachsenring Zwickau. They finally took on their current name in 1990.
Internationally, the club had a good[
German re-unification
After
Honours
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- Championship of the Eastern Zone
- Winners: 1948
- DDR-Oberliga:
- Winners: 1949–50
- FDGB-Pokal:
- Gauliga Sachsen:
- Winners: 1942
- Regionalliga Nordost (IV):
- Winners: 2015–16
- NOFV-Oberliga Süd (V):
- Winners: 1991–92, 1993–94, 2011–12
- Landesliga Sachsen(VI):
- Winners: 2005–06
Players
Current squad
- As of 21 August 2023[3]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Notable players
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- goalkeepers of all time,[according to whom?] spent 17 seasons at Zwickau until retiring in 1981, and then went on to coach the club from 1984 to 1988
- Heinz Satrapa won the DDR-Oberliga scoring title as part of the 1950 championship side before having a long career as a player and coach with various clubs
- Dwayne De Rosario was a successful[according to whom?] player in Major League Soccer and is Canada's leading goal scorer internationally.
- Olegs Karavajevs[vague]
Managers
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European record
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| Season | Competition | Round | County | Club | Total score | 1st game | 2nd game | Name | PUC |
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| 1963/64 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1R |  HUN
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MTK Budapest | 1–2 | 1–0 (T) | 0–2 (U) | Motor | 2.0 |
1967/68
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UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1R |  SSSR
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Torpedo Moskva
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0–1 | 0–0 (U) | 0–1 (T) | 1.0 | |
1975/76
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UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1R |  GRE
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Panathinaikos FC
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2–0 | 0–0 (U) | 2–0 (T) | Sachsenring | 10.0 |
| 1/8 |  ITA
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ACF Fiorentina | 1–1 (5–4 ns) | 0–1 (U) | 1–0 (T) | ||||
| 1/4 |  SCO
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Celtic FC
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2–1 | 1–1 (U) | 1–0 (T) | ||||
| 1/2 |  BEL
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RSC Anderlecht
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0–5 | 0–3 (T) | 0–2 (U) | ||||
| Total UEFA coefficient: 13.0 | |||||||||
Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[1][2]
| Year | Division | Tier | Position |
| 1999–2000 | Regionalliga Nordost | III | 18th ↓ |
| 2000–01 | NOFV-Oberliga Süd | IV | 4th |
| 2001–02 | NOFV-Oberliga Süd | 6th | |
| 2002–03 | NOFV-Oberliga Süd | 6th | |
| 2003–04 | NOFV-Oberliga Süd | 8th | |
| 2004–05 | NOFV-Oberliga Süd | 14th ↓ | |
| 2005–06 | Landesliga Sachsen
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V | 1st ↑ |
| 2006–07 | NOFV-Oberliga Süd | IV | 9th |
| 2007–08 | NOFV-Oberliga Süd | 14th | |
| 2008–09 | NOFV-Oberliga Süd | V | 7th |
| 2009–10 | NOFV-Oberliga Süd | 9th | |
| 2010–11 | NOFV-Oberliga Süd | 9th | |
| 2011–12 | NOFV-Oberliga Süd | 1st ↑ | |
| 2012–13 | Regionalliga Nordost | IV | 3rd |
| 2013–14 | Regionalliga Nordost | 6th | |
| 2014–15 | Regionalliga Nordost | 2nd | |
| 2015–16 | Regionalliga Nordost | 1st ↑ | |
| 2016–17 | 3. Liga | III | 5th |
| 2017–18 | 3. Liga | 15th | |
| 2018–19 | 3. Liga | 7th | |
| 2019–20 | 3. Liga | 16th | |
| 2020–21 | 3. Liga | 10th | |
| 2021–22 | 3. Liga | 10th | |
| 2022–23 | 3. Liga | 19th ↓ | |
| 2023–24 | Regionalliga Nordost | IV |
- With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.[citation needed]
- Key
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Stadium
Since 2016, the club plays in the newly constructed GGZ-Arena in Zwickau's Eckersbach quarter. The stadium's current maximum capacity is 10,000 spectators, though this number could be increased to 15,000 in the event of a promotion to the 2. Bundesliga.[4][5]
References
- ^ a b Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
- ^ a b FSV Zwickau at Fussball.de (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
- ^ "Unsere Profis".
- ^ Berger, Knut (31 May 2016). "Neue Liga, neues Stadion, altes Personal". sportbuzzer.de (in German). Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "Stadion Zwickau". fsv-zwickau.de (in German). Retrieved 19 February 2020.
External links
- Official website
(in German) - The Abseits Guide to German Soccer (archived 26 August 2015)
