Sunday, May 29, 2011

Reinickendorfer Fuchse

Sportplatz Freiheitsweg (Capacity 3.000)

Reinickendorfer Fuchse - 1.FC Union II (1:2) (Oberliga Nord 29. May 2011)
1:0 M. Haubitz (62.), 1:1 Soltanpour (67.), 1:2 Antunovic (89.)

Attendence: 173
Cost: 8 Euro
Programme: Nil


Cost cutting meant 13 yr old tickets were used
 
The entrance gates
 
Typical prices for a 5th league game
 
Pretty view from behind the goals with the flags waving
 
View of the pitch
 
Corner to the Fuches
 
A decent crowd on the stehplatz
 
A novel name for the drink stand
 
You're nice and close to the action all around the ground
 
Another view of the pitch looking across to the gallery
 
It's card time
 
Union seemed quite happy to hit the lead!!!!
 
They didn't bother changing the score after Union's 2nd 
CLUB HISTORY: (wiki)
Reinickendorfer Füchse are a German association football club based in Reinickendorf, a western district of in Berlin. The football side is part of a larger sports association that has departments for basketball, bowling, boxing, gymnastics, handball, ice hockey, swimming, tennis, table tennis, and volleyball.
The club was established 28 January 1891 as the gymnastics club Turn Verein Reinickendorf. To honour the memory of Adolf Dorner, who played a leading role in promoting gymnastics within German schools, the club was re-named Turnverein Dorner in September 1893. As the association grew to include departments for other sports it became Turn- und Sportverein Dorner.
In November 1937 TSV Dorner joined Reinickendorfer Fußball Club Halley-Concordia and the Reinickendorfer Hockeyclub to create Turn- und Rasensportverein Reinickendorf. RFC Halley-Concordia was the product of the 1925 union between Reinickendorfer FC Halley 1910 and Concordia 95. This club made a brief two season appearance in top-flight Berlin competition in 1929–1931.
In the aftermath of World War II most associations in the country, including sports and football clubs, were dissolved by occupying Allied authorities. Most of the former membership of Tura was re-organized as SG Reinickendorf Ost in late 1945, while the footballers formed SG Felsenbeck. In April 1947 SG Reinickendorf Ost gave rise to today's club, Berliner Turn- und Sportverein von 1891 Reinickendorfer Füchse. Felsenbeck became RFC Halley – Borussia in July 1948 and on 1 December the same year, joined BSTV.
The club rose up out of lower level local competition to third division play in the Amateurliga Berlin (III) in 1958. After the formation in 1963 of the Bundesliga, Germany's first professional football league, Reinickendorf joined the new second division Regionalliga Berlin on the strength of a third place finish. A lower table side there, the team was relegated after a 16th place finish in 1969. They continued to play as a third tier side for nearly three decades, finally slipping out of what had become the Regionalliga Nordost (III) to the Oberliga Nordost-Nord (IV) in 1998. During that time Die Füchse captured two Amateur Oberliga Berlin (III) titles, in 1989 and 1990, but performed poorly in the subsequent promotion rounds for the 2. Bundesliga.
In seven seasons in the Oberliga Nordost-Nord, Reinickendorf generally earned ordinary results until finally being sent down to the Verbandsliga Berlin (V) in 2005, where they played until 2008, earning promotion back to the NOFV-Oberliga Nord.
Throughout the 90s and into the new millennium the team has enjoyed some success in cup competition winning Berlin's Paul Rusch Cup in 1997 and 2003 in addition to making two other losing cup final appearances.

HONOURS:
Amateur Oberliga Berlin (III) champions: 1989, 1990
Paul Rusch Pokal (Paul Rusch/Berlin Cup) winner: 1997, 2003
Berliner Pokal (Berlin Cup) finalist: 1992
Paul Rusch Pokal (Paul Rusch/Berlin Cup) finalist: 2002

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

SC Union-Südost

Sportanlage Treseburger Ufer (capacity 1.000)

SC Union-Südost - FC Liria (3:1) (Berlin Bezirksliga St.2, 25. May 2011)
1:0 Unterhofer (15.), 1:1 F.Hoxha (20.), 2:1 Pischke (60.), 3:1 Pischke (77.)

Attendence: 34
Cost: Free
Programme: Nil


Entrance to the ground
 
The changerooms
 
Teams for today
 
View of the field
 
Aerial action
 
Not the most even pitch - check the RHS
 
Corner to Union Sudost
 
Liria with a free kick
 
Keepers view of the action
 
Another view of the pitch
 
Thats one dead keeper!

Monday, May 23, 2011

Fortuna Pankow Ü40

Kissingen Stadion KR1 (Capacity 500)

Fortuna Pankow 1 - WFC Corso/Vineta (1:2) (Berlin 7er Altliga Bezirksliga St.1, 23. May 2011)

Attendence: 25
Cost: Free
Programme: Nil

Restaurant at the entrance gates

Sprinting away

Plenty of spite in the game

A few keen spectators were on hand

Probably the best player on the field

Oh come on!!!

Crossing the ball in

Celebrating the winning goal

View of the field

Keepers view of the action

Sunday, May 15, 2011

FC Ingolstadt 04

Audi Sportpark (Capacity 15.445)

FC Ingolstadt 04 - VfL Osnabrück (0:1) (2.Bundesliga, 15. May 2011)
0:1 Sebastian Tyrala (35.)

Attendence: 9.549
Cost: 8.80 EURO
Programme: Not purchased



Approaching the stadium
 
The outside beer garden
 
Nice, new and modern Food stalls
 
The wheelchair supporters group!!
 
Nice pattern in the field
 
The away fans choreography
 
And the home fans waving their garbage bags
 
The teams, plus a few flares
 
Ingolstadt on the attack
 
Osnabruck looking for their second
 
View of the Eastern grandstand
 
Ingolstadt looking for the equaliser
 
Clambering for the pole position at the end of the game

CLUB HISTORY: (wiki)
FC Ingolstadt 04 is a German football club based in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. The club was founded in 2004 out of the merger of the football sides of two other clubs: ESV Ingolstadt and MTV Ingolstadt.

ESV Ingolstadt (Eisenbahner-Sportverein Ingolstadt-Ringsee e.V.) was founded in 1919 as FC Viktoria. Two years later the football players of Turnverein 1861 Ingolstadt joined the club to form VfR Ingolstadt. A number of other clubs from the Ringsee district fused with this club, but to little effect. The club's achievement amounted to not more than a couple of seasons spent in the Gauliga Bayern in 1936–38. After World War II, the club was re-constituted as VfR Ingolstadt, changed its name to Erster Sportverein Ingolstadt (First Sports Club Ingolstadt) in 1951 and then changed it again to its current form in 1953 when "E" came to stand for Eisenbahner to reflect its affiliation with the railway.
ESV Ingolstadt joined the Regionalliga Süd (II) in 1963 when the Bundesliga – Germany's professional football league – was formed. After bouncing between tiers II and III, capped with two seasons spent in 2nd Bundesliga Süd from 1979–81, the club began a descent through tier III to Landesliga Bayern-Süd (IV), last playing in 1993–94. The sports club itself carried on until it went bankrupt in the summer of 2004 and those football players there were left to join FC Ingolstadt 04.

MTV Ingolstadt ( Männer-Turn-Verein von 1881 Ingolstadt) is the city's largest sportsclub with 3,400 members and has an on-and-off relationship with its football side. The club was founded in 1881 and took up football in 1905. The footballers set up a separate club in 1924, but returned to the fold in 1933 at the direction of sports authorities in the Third Reich. After World War II occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in Germany, including sporting associations. The club was re-founded as Städtischer SV Ingolstadt 1881. Their original name was restored in 1948.
MTV spent two seasons in 2.Bundesliga Sud after Amateurliga Bayern champion 1. FC Hassfurt declined promotion in 1978. When ESV faced bankruptcy in 2004, MTV allowed its footballers to leave to help form FC Ingolstadt.

In 2004–05, newly formed FC Ingolstadt began play in the Oberliga Bayern (IV) and managed a credible second-place finish in their first season. Their success continued in 2005–06 when they easily captured the divisional title and won promotion. They finished their debut Regionalliga Süd (III) campaign 2006–07 with a respectable 5th place result. League restructuring was planned for the 2008–09 season with the introduction of a national 3rd division and FC would have to finish their 2007–08 Regionalliga season in the top 10 to qualify. They exceeded that goal by finishing second and advancing to the 2.Fußball-Bundesliga.
Ingolstadt won its debut second division match, but the following months proved less successful for the club and by the mid-winter break they had dropped to 12th place. The latter half of the season proved even worse with the club only realizing 1 win in 18 matches. They finished the season in 17th place and were subsequently relegated to the 3. Liga.
FC delivered a steady performance in third division play and ended their campaign in third place. A new promotion/relegation format accompanied the introduction of the 3. Liga and the club's finish earned them a playoff versus FC Hansa Rostock which had finished in 16th (third last) place in the 2. Bundesliga. Ingolstadt won both legs of the two match playoff and returned to the second division alongside the top two third tier teams which advanced automatically by virtue of their finishes.

HONOURS:

League
Regionalliga Süd (III)
Runners-up: 2008
Bayernliga (IV)
Champions: 2006
Runners-up: 2005
Landesliga Bayern-Süd (V)
Runners-up: 2008
Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern (VI)
Runners-up: 2006

Cup
Bavarian Cup
Runners-up: 2005
Oberbayern Cup
Winner: (3) 2005, 2006, 2007

STADIUM HISTORY: (wiki)
Audi Sport Park is a football stadium based in Ingolstadt on the former site Bayernoil. The cost of construction amounted to about 20 million €. On 12 June 2008, it was decided that the new new venue needed to be built if the club wished to play in the 2.Bundesliga.
In early July the District Government of Upper Bavaria, a planning process for the property was initiated. Within this process it was to be examined to what extent the stadium's impact on nature, water and road construction.In early October, the case was closed and the district government gave the green light for the project. A total of 43 clubs, associations, authorities and communities were consulted.
Construction began on 22 May 2009 in a ceremony in which the club's management and representatives of city and local politics were present. By late August 2009, the first concrete sections on site could be seen in the air.
On 17 and 18 June 2010, the last section, the lawn, was laid. After this, the stadium was transfered over and the project was completed. On 24 July, the stadium was officially opened. At the opening ceremony was held a competition featuring VfL Wolfsburg, FC Augsburg and hosts FC Ingolstadt.
On the 21st May 2011, an international match was held between the German women's national team and North Korea.
The stadium holds 15 445 spectators, spread over 9621 seats and 5824 standing. All seats are completely covered. There is also for the sponsors and partners of the FC Ingolstadt 04, 1,200 business seats and 18 VIP booths. Under the covered grandstands, there are some kiosks and toilets.
The new home of FC Ingolstadt has been built to be expanded when needed. In the first stage to enlarge, 22,000 spectators would be accomodated by raising the roof with three to four rows of seats to be installed. For a further expansion to 30,000 spectators, the club would have to completely remove the roof and add more rows. In addition to the stadium and the two training fields there are plans to construct additional soccer fields for the second team and the youth teams of the club.