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| Full name | 1. Fußballclub Frankfurt (Oder) E.V. e.V. | ||
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| Founded | 2 August 1951; 74 years ago (1951-08-02) asSV VP Vorwärts Leipzig | ||
| Ground | Stadion der Freundschaft | ||
| Capacity | 12,000 | ||
| President | Markus Derling | ||
| Manager | Sascha Kloß[1] | ||
| League | Brandenburg-Liga (VI) | ||
| 2024–25 | Brandenburg-Liga, 1st of 17 (champions) | ||
| Website | http://www.fcfrankfurt.de/ | ||
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1. Fußballclub Frankfurt (Oder) E. V. e. V., commonly known as1. FC Frankfurt, is aGerman football club based inFrankfurt (Oder),Brandenburg.[2] The club was founded as thearmy club SV VP Vorwärts Leipzig inLeipzig inEast Germany in 1951. The club won sixEast German championships as ASK Vorwärts Berlin and FC Vorwärts Berlin between 1958 and 1969.
1. FC Frankfurt originally began as the football department of sports clubSV VP Vorwärts Leipzig. The sports club was founded on 2 August 1951 and its first team was admitted to the1951–52 DDR-Oberliga.
One of the characteristics of East German football after World War II, under theSoviet occupation and the socialist East German regime, was the willingness of the authorities to manipulate teams and clubs in various ways for political or other reasons.[3]
The first team of SV Vorwärts der KVP Leipzig was relocated toEast Berlin in 1953 and continued as SV Vorwärts der KVP Berlin[4] The football team that began the1952–53 DDR-Oberliga in Leipzig thus finished the season based in East Berlin. The sports club would undergo several name changes in the following years, before it was finally known as ASK Vorwärts Berlin.
The club began a run of success in 1954 which included anFDGB-Pokal (East German Cup) that year, East German championships in 1958, 1960, 1962, and 1965, as well as losing appearances in the 1956 FDGB-Pokal, and the 1957 and 1959 national finals. Their success continued after the team was again renamed as the football department of ASK Vorwärts Berlin was separated from thesports club and reformed asFC Vorwärts Berlin, one of the new centralizedfootball clubs formed to increase the level of performance throughout the country.Vorwärts won another two championships (1966, 1969) and in 1970 again made a losing appearance in the FDGB-Pokal final. Throughout the entire period from 1951 to 1971, the side played in the DDR Oberliga (top tier).[4]
In 1971, the club was moved again, this time from the capital to Frankfurt an der Oder on the German-Polish border, to replace the local secret police-sponsored sideSG Dynamo, which was then disbanded.
The decision to relocate the club to Frankfurt an der Oder was made by the Ministry for Defence.[5] The main reason for the relocation of FC Vorwärts Berlin out of East Berlin was theFour Power Agreement between theAllied Powers, which envisaged a demilitarized Berlin. FC Vorwärts Berlin was a unit of theNational People's Army. The relocation also aimed to strengthen football in the regional districtBezirk Frankfurt.[6] However, the exact reasons for decision has not been fully clarified.[7] The relocation may also have been the result ofhorse trading.[6][nb 1]
German author Rüdiger Wenzke writes that the relocation was "probably" the result of political intrigues by theMinistry for State Security and theSED.[8] German author Hans Joachim Teichler writes that all speculations end up with the head of the Ministry for State Security and the president ofSV DynamoErich Mielke. Teichler suggest that Mielke "must have somehow" convinced the Minister for National DefenceHeinz Hoffmann that two clubs of the armed organs in Berlin were too many.[9] Mielke regarded FC Vortwärts Berlin as a competitor toBFC Dynamo in the capital. His fellow Politburo member and SED First Secretary inBezirk Frankfurt,Erich Mückenberger, on the other end, anticipated a boost for the Bezirk Frankfurt.[10] Mückenberger had been persistent in his efforts to persuade Defense Minister Hoffmann.[6]
However, the relocation of FC Vorwärts Berlin to Frankfurt an der Oder, followed on the relocation of sports club ASK Vorwärts Berlin to Frankfurt an der Oder.[11] Army sports had become concentrated in Bezirk Frankfurt. ASK Vorwärts Berlin, from which FC Vorwärts Berlin was spun off in 1966, and which had its headquarters in Bezirk Frankfurt, had been delegated to Frankfurt an der Oder in 1969, and was now calledASK Vorwärts Frankfurt.[12] The Presidium of theGerman Gymnastics and Sports Federation (DTSB) had adopted the 1969 Competitive Sports Resolution on 22 April 1969.[nb 2][13] The resolution stated, among other things that: "ASK Vorwärts Berlin, with its headquarters in Frankfurt (Oder), shall gradually be moved to the district capital under the name ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder). The sports club SC Frankfurt (Oder) shall be dissolved."[12] The decision to relocate FC Vorwärts Berlin to Frankfurt an der Oder had been carefully prepared. A delegation from East Berlin had traveled to Frankfurt an der Oder to inspect the location as early as February 1971.[6]
Vorwärts enjoyed another decent run in the 1980s, going to theUEFA Cup four times (where they were twice knocked out by West German clubs, (Werder Bremen andVfB Stuttgart). In 1983 they finished second nationally.[14]
AfterGerman reunification in 1990, the club dropped its affiliation with the army and becameFC Victoria Frankfurt/Oder. After financial problems and re-organization in 1993 the side emerged asFrankfurter FC Viktoria (FFC Viktoria 91). In the early 1990s, they played a couple of seasons in tier III before slipping to division IV and V level play. The side then played in theBrandenburg-Liga (VI) before, on 1 July 2012, merging with MSV Eintracht Frankfurt to become1. FC Frankfurt.[14][2] The new club took overViktoria in the Brandenburg-Liga and was aiming for promotion to the higher leagues. Their first success was winning the league in 2015, earning promotion to theNOFV-Oberliga for the first time in 12 years.
FC Vorwärts Berlin and its forerunners in Berlin were not related to the historical football clubBerliner FC Vorwärts 1890. The name "Vorwärts" was in common use in East Germany for teams associated with security organs, notably the East German army.
The "E.V." in the present club name stands for the names of the two predecessors "Eintracht" and "Viktoria" respectively.
| Date | Full name | Short name |
|---|---|---|
| 2 August 1951 | Sportvereinigung Volkspolizei Vorwärts Leipzig | SV VP Vorwärts Leipzig |
| 27 April 1952 | Sportvereinigung Vorwärts der Hauptverwaltung Ausbildung Leipzig | SV Vorwärts der HVA Leipzig |
| 2 November 1952 | Sportvereinigung Vorwärts der Kasernierten Volkspolizei Leipzig | SV Vorwärts der KVP Leipzig |
| 3 April 1953 | Sportvereinigung Vorwärts der Kasernierten Volkspolizei Berlin | SV Vorwärts der KVP Berlin |
| 27 September 1953 | Zentraler Sportklub Vorwärts der Kasernierten Volkspolizei Berlin | ZSK Vorwärts der KVP Berlin |
| 7 March 1954 | Zentraler Sportklub Vorwärts Berlin | ZSK Vorwärts Berlin |
| 31 October 1956 | Zentraler Armeesportklub Vorwärts Berlin | ZASK Vorwärts Berlin |
| 1 February 1957 | Armeesportklub Vorwärts Berlin | ASK Vorwärts Berlin |
| 18 January 1966 | Fußballclub Vorwärts Berlin | FC Vorwärts Berlin |
| 14 August 1971 | FC Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder) | FC Vorwärts Frankfurt |
| 7 February 1991 | FC Victoria 91 Frankfurt (Oder) e.V. | FC Victoria 91 |
| 29 August 1992 | Frankfurter FC Viktoria 91 e.V. | FFC Viktoria 91 |
| 1 July 2012 | 1. FC Frankfurt (Oder) E. V. e.V. | 1. FC Frankfurt |
| Season | Competition | Round | Country | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959–60 | European Cup | First round |  | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–3 |
| 1960–61 | European Cup Winners' Cup | First round |  | Rudá Hvězda Brno | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–3 |
| 1961–62 | European Cup | Preliminary round |  | Linfield | 3–0 | —[a] | 3–0 |
| First round |  | Rangers | 1–2 | 1–4 | 2–6 | ||
| 1962–63 | European Cup | Preliminary round | | Dukla Prague | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0–4 |
| 1966–67 | European Cup | Preliminary round |  | Waterford | 6–1 | 6–0 | 12–1 |
| First round |  | Górnik Zabrze | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 (replay) | ||
| 1970–71 | European Cup Winners' Cup | First round |  | Bologna | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 (a) |
| Second round |  | Benfica | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–2 (5–3p) | ||
| Quarter Finals |  | PSV | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 | ||
| 1974–75 | UEFA Cup | First round | | Juventus | 2–1 | 0–3 | 2–4 |
| 1980–81 | UEFA Cup | First round | | Ballymena United | 3–0 | 1–2 | 4–2 |
| Second round |  | VfB Stuttgart | 1–2 | 1–5 | 2–7 | ||
| 1982–83 | UEFA Cup | First round | | Werder Bremen | 1–3 | 2–0 | 3–3 (a) |
| 1983–84 | UEFA Cup | First round | | Nottingham Forest | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–3 |
| 1984–85 | UEFA Cup | First round | | PSV | 2–0 | 0–3 | 2–3 |
Letztlich landen alle Spekulationen immer wieder bei MfS-Chef Erich Mielke, der den Verteidigungsminister Heinz Hoffmann irgendwie überzeugt haben musste, dass zwei Clubs der "bewaffneten Organe" in Berlin zuviel waren.
Doch im Rahmen des Umzugs des ASK nach Frankfurt (Oder) 1971 wurde auch der FC Vorwärts in die Grenzstadt delegiert.
Der auf dem Territorium des Bezirkes Frankfurt (Oder) stationierte ASK Vorwärts Berlin ist unter dem Namen ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder) schrittweise in die Bezirkshauptstadt zu verlegen. Der Sportklub SC Frankfurt (Oder) ist aufzulösen.
