| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1935-05-13)13 May 1935 (age 90) | ||
| Place of birth | Wöllstadt, Germany[1] | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| FC Nieder-Wöllstadt | |||
| –1955 | VfB Friedberg | ||
| 1955–1959 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 79 | (52) |
| 1959–1962 | 1860 Munich | 41 | (20) |
| 1962–1967 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 80 | (34) |
| 1967 | SSVg Velbert | ||
| International career | |||
| Germany B | |||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Eckehard Feigenspan (born 13 May 1935) is a German former professionalfootballer who played as aforward.[2] He wascapped twice for theGermany B national team.
The 19-year-old striker Feigenspan moved in 1954 from FC Nieder-Wöllstadt toVfB Friedberg in thefirst amateur league of Hessen. After only one season, he received an offer fromEintracht Frankfurt and eventually signed in 1955 at theEagles for theirOberliga South campaign. At match day two, he debuted at the 5–3 away win atStuttgarter Kickers. Together withErich Bäumler,Hans Weilbächer,Richard Kress andAlfred Pfaff he formed the attack at Eintracht. In his first season 1955–56 he could appear in 13 matches, netting five goals. In his fourth season at Frankfurt, 1958–59,Paul Oßwald's Eintracht won theSouthern German championship, hence reached the final round of theGerman championship and then thefinal match. To this successEkko Feigenspan contributed 21 goals in 27 matches. In the final round the Oßwald team won all six matches againstWerder Bremen,FK Pirmasens and1. FC Köln with Feigenspan he scoring nine more goals. In the final match on 28 June 1959 in Berlin, he could score three additional goals to the 5–3 win after overtime against rivalsKickers Offenbach. His offensive partners were Richard Kress,István Sztáni, Alfred Pfaff andDieter Lindner. After the championship win, he moved to1860 München because he wanted to continue his engineering studies. In 79 Oberliga appearances for Eintracht he scored 52 goals.
Germany managerSepp Herberger tested Feigenspan on 3 October and 8 November 1959 twice in theB squad against Switzerland and Hungary, but since Feigenspan had never caught a regular spot at theLions from Munich in three seasons, he was notcapped anymore.Alfred Heiß,Hans Küppers,Rudi Brunnenmeier andJohann Auernhammer were first choice striker for managerMax Merkel, so Feigenspan left 1860 in the summer of 1962 after 41 Oberliga appearances and 20 goals for the Western German clubRot-Weiß Essen playing in die2nd Oberliga West. In the last season of the old league system (regional Oberligas)RWE reached the sixth rank and qualified for the second tier (Regionalliga West) for the 1963–64 season. After finishing as tenth and seventh in 1964 and 1965 respectively, Essen reached underFritz Pliska the second place in 1965–66, qualifying for the promotion round for theBundesliga, whileFortuna Düsseldorf won the Regionalliga West andAlemannia Aachen finished third. In three seasons in the Regionalliga Feigenspan netted 34 times in 80 appearances. In the promotion round theRed and whites prevailed with 8–4 points beforeFC St. Pauli. In four out of six matches the 31-year-old Feigenspan appeared. Further attackers wereHeinz-Dieter Hasebrink,Willi Koslowski,Willi Lippens,Helmut Littek andHerbert Weinberg. On the first Bundesliga match day of the 1966–67 season, on 20 August 1966, Feigenspan made his last match for Essen, when they lost againstMSV Duisburg 0–2. "Ekko“ made up the defender pair withAdolf Steinig.
In the summer of 1967, Feigenspan moved back to amateur football, joiningSSVg Velbert.