Attendance: 2.690
Cost: 10 Euro (covered grandstand)
Programme: 1 Euro
Massive lines to get in
And this was all that was open
Choose your path wisely
Some funky sculptures
Hard work went into that, and the wind tore it to shreds
Todays teams
A few Chemie fans
View from the top of the Stehplatz. Not bad!
The grandstand and sitzplatz
View from inside the wooden grandstand
The away fans in orange
Break a seat, pay 100 Euros!
CLUB HISTORY: (wiki)
FC Sachsen Leipzig was a German football club from Leipzig, Saxony. The roots of the club go back to 1899 and the founding of Britannia Leipzig. Following World War I, a 1919 merger with FC Hertha 05 Leipzig created Leipziger Sportverein 1899. Another predecessor side, SV Tura Leipzig, was formed in 1932 and just six years later, in 1938, joined with 1899 to create Tura 1899 Leipzig. The club was dissolved in 2011.
Of these early clubs, only Britannia was of any note competitively, playing in senior level city competition from 1908 to 1910. They re-emerged there in 1922 as SV, but finished at the bottom of the table the next season.
German football was reorganised in 1933 under the Third Reich into 16 premier divisions. Newcomer Tura 32 had been competing in the top flight Gauliga Sachsen since 1936 and following its merger with SV, continued in the top flight as SV Tura 1899. The team escaped relegation in 1939 only because of the restructuring of the Gauliga Sachsen into two divisions. However, by 1942 the club's continued lacklustre performance saw them in last place and relegated from the top flight. They earned a return in 1943, but World War II made play untenable and the Gauliga Sachsen broke up into a number of small local city-based leagues. Tura merged with SpVgg Leipzig to briefly form the wartime side KSG Tura / SpVgg Leizig.
Logos of Sachsen's earliest predecessors Britannia, Tura 32 and Tura 99
Following the war a number of new sports and football clubs were formed, often built around the cores of pre-war clubs: SG Leipzig-Leutzsch was the closest descendant of the old Tura side. In March 1949, Leutzsch, SG Lindenau-Hafen, SG Lindenau-Aue, SG Leipzig-Mitte, and SG Böhlitz-Ehrenberg were united to form ZSG Industrie Leipzig. In August the next year, the club was renamed BSG Chemie Leipzig.
Chemie was dissolved in September 1954 when its players were assigned to Lokomotive Leipzig. In 1963, East German football was re-organized with a view towards fostering the development of talent for the country's national side. This time Lok was disassembled to help re-create the club BSG Chemie Leipzig. At the end of May 1990, the club was renamed FC Grün-Weiß Leipzig and in quick succession merged with SV Chemie Böhlen (formerly BSG Chemie Böhlen), forming the current club in August that year.
The club last competed in the fifth tier Regionalliga Nord and played its home matches at the Alfred-Kunze-Sportpark.
In March 2009, the club had to declare insolvency for a second time in its history, already having done so in 2001. The administrator finally announced in May 2011 that the club would fold on 30 June 2011.
A BSG Chemie Leipzig club which claims the traditions of the old side, especially the spirit of the 1963–64 championship team, has been reformed. The club had to restart at the lowest level, playing in the 3rd Kreisklasse Leipzig – Staffel 1 in 2008–09.
HONOURS:
East German champions: 1951, 1964
East German Cup winners: 1957, 1966
Saxony Cup: 1993, 1994, 1995, 2005
RasenBallsport Leipzig - VfB Germania Halberstadt(3:2) (Regionaliga Nord, 26. November 2011)
0:1 S. Scheidler (65.), 0:2 C. Beck (68.), 1:2 M. Hoffman (81.), 2:2 D. Frahn (84.), 3:2 T. Rockenbach da Silva (86.)
Attendance: 4113
Cost: 10 Euro
Programme: Free with admission
View of the stadium from outside
Many stairs to climb up
Then many to climb down. The grass is the old stadium
View of the pitch pre-game
Buy your merchandise here
And food and drinks there
The flags at the back were all handmade by a steward
Approaching kickoff
Looking towards the guest block
View from the very top of the stadium
Enjoying a birthday beer at the game :-)
Full time and a miraculous victory for the home team
The home fans celebrate
CLUB HISTORY: (wiki)
RB Leipzig is a German association football club based in Leipzig, Saxony. The club is supported by energy drink-maker Red Bull who purchased the license of fifth division side SSV Markranstädt with the intention of advancing the re-modeled club to the top-flight Bundesliga within ten years. In their inaugural season, RB dominated the NOFV-Oberliga Süd (fifth division) in 2009–10 and as a result were promoted as champions to the Regionalliga Nord (fourth division) for the 2010–2011 season.
Founded in May 2009, RasenBallsport Leipzig is the fourth football involvement of Red Bull, which already runs football clubs including Red Bull Salzburg in Salzburg, Austria, the New York Red Bulls and Red Bull Brasil in Campinas, Brazil. The name differs from these other teams' names due to the statutes of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball-Bund) which prescribe how a sponsor's name is used as part of a club's identity. Unlike its other sports teams, the Leipzig club cannot carry the Red Bull name or be fully owned by the company. The German Football Association requires a club to hold 51% of its shares, Red Bull will therefore only be able to acquire 49% of the club. This has also resulted in the somewhat awkward "RasenBallsport" ("Lawn(Pitch) Ball Sporting") name of the club in order to retain at least the initials of Red Bull while at the same time feigning compliance with traditional, descriptive naming schemes of german clubs.
RB Leipzig aims to play first division Bundesliga football within the next eight to ten years. It began with the purchase of the playing licence of fifth division side SSV Markranstädt. The new club retained the Oberliga team as well as all other football teams of SSV and kept on coach Tino Vogel. In 2010, the team moved from their old ground to play their home games in the Zentralstadion which was renamed Red Bull Arena.
It has been speculated that Red Bull will invest 100 million Euros in the club over the next ten years. Instrumental in the deal was Michael Kölmel, owner of the Zentralstadion in Leipzig. Dietrich Mateschitz, owner of Red Bull, openly speaks of the possibility of the club winning a German championship. The last time a team from Leipzig won the German championship was almost one hundred years ago, in 1913, when VfB Leipzig captured the title.
Huub Stevens, former coach of Red Bull Salzburg, stated that he would like to see cooperation between the two clubs, and also suggested a friendly to be played between the two sides in Leipzig.
The investment in SSV Markranstädt by Red Bull is not the company's first attempt to enter the Leipzig football scene. In 2006, it tried to purchase FC Sachsen Leipzig, a club with a rich tradition, but also plagued by constant financial trouble. After months of fan protests which deteriorated into violence, the company abandoned the plan.
Protests also greeted plans to invest in SSV Markranstädt, but to a much lesser extent. Apart from the use of weed killer that damaged the pitch at Stadion am Bad and some destroyed advertising, opposition was non-violent. In a survey carried out by the newspaper Leipziger Volkszeitung, 70% of the questioned residents of Leipzig welcomed the initiative. Public support for action against the involvement was low as football in Leipzig had reached rock-bottom, according to the Alliance of Active Football Fans. FC Sachsen Leipzig had its Regionalliga Nord (IV) licence revoked at the end of the 2008–09 season when the club became insolvent, while local rival Lokomotive Leipzig failed to earn promotion. Neither club has criticised Red Bull's investment, despite all three clubs playing in the same league in 2009–10. Steffan Kubald, chairman of Lokomotive Leipzig, dubbed the club the Bayern Munich of the Oberliga, meaning RB Leipzig is the team to beat.
HONOURS:
NOFV-Oberliga Süd (V) champions: 2010
Saxony Cup winner: 2011
STADIUM HISTORY: (wiki)
The Red Bull Arena, formerly Zentralstadion, located in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, is the premier football facility in the former East Germany. It is the largest football stadium in the former East Germany and has also hosted music concerts as well as football. Various Leipzig football teams have used the stadium as a home stadium, including VfB Leipzig (precursor to 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig) at various points in the 20th century (including large-scale European matches in the 1970s and domestic football in the 1990s). FC Sachsen Leipzig used the stadium as a home ground from time to time between 2004 and 2007, however they moved back to their traditional home, the Alfred-Kunze-Sportpark at the start of the 2008–09 season.
In July 2009, energy drink manufacturer Red Bull took over the license of SSV Markranstädt and renamed the team RasenBallsport Leipzig, in short RB Leipzig. From the outset, the new team outlined their wish to move into the tenant-less Zentralstadion and rename it the "Red Bull Arena". The naming rights were granted on 25 March 2010 and the stadium will be named so for a minimum period of 10 years as of 1 July 2010. The cost for renting the stadium will rise in accordance with the level of football RasenBallsport Leipzig are at. The team has pledged to upgrade the seating, install video advertising boards and make changes to the boxes and the VIP area.
In 1956, the first Zentralstadion opened, at the time it was the biggest stadium in Europe being able to hold 100,000 spectators. However, over the years it fell in to disuse and was costing the city too much to maintain. In 1997, the city of Leipzig decided to build a new stadium within the old stadium, a modern state of the art stadium only for football. The new stadium was built from December 2000 till March 2004.
The Zentralstadion was the only stadium in the former East Germany to host games in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. It hosted four group matches and a round of 16 game in the tournament. A year earlier, it was also one of the venues for the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup and hosted three matches of the tournament, including the third-place match. Since 2005, the Zentralstadion is also regular host of the German League Cup final.
There are bridges built over the old stadium to connect with the new stadium. The roof has an integrated floodlight design and is designed to provide superior acoustics. The grass area is 120 x 80 m, the actual playing field is 105 x 68 m. It has been integrated into the area surrounding the stadium by large amounts of trees and other greenery.
The stadium was one of the venues for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the only one located in the territory of the former East Germany.
Berliner AK 07 - RB Leipzig(0:1) (Regionalliga Nord, 19. November 2011)
0:1 Shala (11.)
Attendence: 621
Cost: 8 Euro
Programme: Sold Out :-(
Entry gates for the away block
Leipzig travel in style
The teams for todays game
The guest block
Ready for kickoff
Leipzig with the free kick outside the box
BAK on the attack this time
View of the pitch at half-time
We Are Berlin!
The grandstand which is still being refurbished
Full time and victory to the visitors
HISTORY: (wiki)
Berliner AK 07 is a German football club based in Berlin. The club was founded in 1907 and has since evolved into a multi-cultural German-Turkish association with ties to professional football in Turkey.
The association was established on 15 December 1907 in the Wedding district of Berlin as an athletics club interested primarily in running. A football department was formed in 1908 which has since remained a largely anonymous side playing in lower tier city competition. In the early 90s AK 07 played in the sixth division Landesliga Berlin and advanced to the Verbandsliga Berlin (V) on the strength of a 1995 championship there. A 1999 Verbandsliga title saw the club further promoted to the Oberliga Nordost-Nord (IV) where they play today. In 2006–07 matched its best ever result at this level with a fourth place finish.
AK 07 merged with BSV Mitte in 2004: Mitte had earlier been formed out of the merger of the ethnically Turkish sides BFC Güneyspor and Fenerbahce Berlin. The re-structured association formed a co-operative relationship with Turkish first division club Ankaraspor in June 2006 which focuses on player development in Germany.
On 6 July 2006 the club adopted the name Berlin Ankaraspor Kulübü 07 and selected Ahmet Gökcek, son of the mayor of Ankara, as Chairman. With the name change the club also abandoned its traditional colours of red and white to don the blue and white kit of Ankaraspor, but later reverted to its old name and colors.
HONOURS:
Landesliga Berlin (VI) champions: 1995
Verbandsliga Berlin (V) champions: 1999
STADIUM HISTORY: (wiki)
The Poststadion is a multi-use stadium in the Moabit district of Berlin, Germany, built in 1929 for the sports club of the German Reichspost at the site of a former Prussian Uhlan parade ground. A designated landmark since 1990, its stands and terrace are currently under reconstruction. The fields are used mostly for regional football and host the home matches of SC Minerva 93 Berlin and SC Union 06 Berlin, since 2008 also of SV Yeşilyurt Berlin and Berlin AK 07.
The stadium today holds 10,000 people and is all-seater. Before, it held up to 45,000 spectators, who on 10 May 1930 saw the German national football team playing 3-3 against England, one of the first encounters of the two teams. Richard Hofmann scored all three goals for Germany before England's David Jack finally equalised.
After the Deutsches Stadion in Charlottenburg had been closed in 1934, the Poststadion became the site of the German championship final. FC Schalke 04 won with 2-1 over 1. FC Nuremberg, who themselves gained the title two years later in a 2-1 match against Fortuna Düsseldorf. The stadium was also used as a boxing arena, when on 7 July 1935 Max Schmeling won against Paulino Uzcudun after twelve rounds.
Several football matches during the 1936 Summer Olympics were held at the Poststadion, where on 7 August outsider Norway in front of 55,000 spectators kicked Germany out of the tournament by a 2-0 win in the quarter finals. The Nazi leadership including Adolf Hitler witnessed the defeat, whereafter team manager Otto Nerz was dismissed and replaced by Sepp Herberger. Major football events afterwards were held at the Olympiastadion.
