1. FC Kaiserslautern
Full name	1. Fussball-Club Kaiserslautern
Nickname(s)	Die roten Teufel (the Red Devils)
Founded	June 2, 1900
Ground	Fritz Walter Stadion Kaiserslautern Germany
Capacity	48,500
Chairman	Erwin Göbel
Manager	Kjetil Rekdal
League	2. Bundesliga
2006-07	2. Bundesliga, 6th
Home colours Away colours

1. Fussball-Club Kaiserslautern, also known as Kaiserslautern, 1. FCK or simply FCK, is a German football club based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. On June 2, 1900, Germania 1896 and FG Kaiserslautern merged to create FC 1900. In 1909, the club went on to join FC Palatia (founded in 1901) and FC Bavaria (founded in 1902) to form FV 1900 Kaiserslautern. In 1929 they merged with SV Phönix to become FV Phönix-Kaiserslautern before finally taking on their current name three years later. Image File history File links FC_Kaiserslautern. ... Red Devils may refer to: Red Devils (Parachute Regiment), nickname for the UKs Parachute Regiment and name of their parachute display team The Red Devils (band), 1920s Hawaiian band featuring King Ben Nawahi Red Devils (stunt team), a Belgian Air Force aerobatics team Red Devils (Serbian football), the nickname... is the 153rd day of the year (154th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ... Fritz Walter Stadion in Kaiserslautern is a soccer stadium that will host the 2006 World Cup and is the home stadium of 1. ... This is the article about the city, for the district see Kaiserslautern (district)   is a city in southwest Germany, located in the Bundesland of Rheinland-Pfalz at the edge of the Palatine Forest (Pfälzer Wald). ... Rungnado May Day Stadium is the worlds largest football stadium. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Norway. ... Kjetil André Rekdal (born November 6, 1968) is a Norwegian football coach and a former player. ... The 2nd Bundesliga is the Second Division of German soccer. ... FC Hansa Rostock Eintracht Braunschweig FC Carl Zeiss Jena FC Erzgebirge Aue MSV Duisburg Rot-Weiß Essen SC Paderborn 07 1. ... The 2nd Bundesliga is the Second Division of German soccer. ... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Kit_body_cucitureb. ... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ... This is a list of football clubs in Germany. ... This is the article about the city, for the district see Kaiserslautern (district)   is a city in southwest Germany, located in the Bundesland of Rheinland-Pfalz at the edge of the Palatine Forest (Pfälzer Wald). ... The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. ... is the 153rd day of the year (154th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ...

History

Early years to WWII

The team passed largely unremarked through its early years and spent the 30's bouncing up and down between the Bezirksliga and the upper level Gauliga Südwest, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...

The club's performance was indifferent in the years leading up to World War II, but improved after 1939. They captured the Gauliga Südwest/Staffel Saarpfalz title, but lost the overall division title to Staffel Mainhessen winners Kickers Offenbach. In the 1941-42 season the Gauliga Südwest was split into the Gauliga Hessen-Nassau and the Gauliga Westmark, and Kaiserslautern took the Westmark title, going on to play for the first time in the national final rounds. They were decisively put out 3:9 by eventual champions FC Schalke 04, the dominant side in this era of German football. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kickers Offenbach is a German football club in Offenbach am Main, Hessen. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... FC Schalke 04 is a German football club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. ...

The performance of the team slipped and they finished last in their division in 1944. The following year saw the collapse of league play in this part of Germany as the Reich crumbled under the advance of Allied armies. 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

Postwar play

After the war, southwestern Germany was part of the occupation zone held by the French. Teams there were organized into northern and southern divisions and played to determine which of them would join the new Oberliga being put together. French authorities were slow to loose their control over play in their zones of occupation – in the Saarland in particular – and teams in those areas were longer in joining the re-established German national league. 1. FC Kaiserslautern resumed play in the Oberliga Südwest in 1945 and finished the season just one point behind 1.FC Saarbrücken. The next season they easily won the Gruppe Nord in 1947 due in large part due to the play of Fritz Walter and his brother Ottmar: the duo scored 46 goals between them – more than any other single team. Location Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DEC Capital Saarbrücken Minister-President Peter Müller (CDU) Governing party CDU Votes in Bundesrat 3 (from 69) Basic statistics Area  2,569 km² (992 sq mi) Population 1,044,000 (11/2006)[1]  - Density 406 /km... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Fritz Walter (October 31, 1920 – June 17, 2002) was one of the most popular German football players. ... Ottmar Walter (born March 3, 1924) is a former German footballer. ...

Historical logos of 1. FC and its predecessors. PC Palatia ca. 1901, FV Kaiserslautern (2) ca. 1909-1929, SV Phönix ca. 1910-1929, FV Phönix ca. 1929-1931, and 1. FC 1932-1955(?) and 1955(?)-1969.

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Success in the '50s and entry to the Bundesliga

This marked the beginning of the club's dominance of the Oberliga Südwest as they went on to capture the division title eleven times over the next twelve seasons. FCK advanced to Germany's first post-war national final in 1948, but lost 1:2 to 1. FC Nürnberg. 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... 1. ...

Kaiserslautern became a presence on the national scene through the early 50's, capturing their first German championship in 1951 with a 2:1 victory of their own, this time over Preussen Münster. They won a second title in 1953, followed by two losing final appearances in 1954 and 1955. The club also sent five players to the national side for the 1954 World Cup which West Germany won in what became popularly known as The Miracle of Bern. Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Preussen Münster is a German football club based in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia. ... Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Qualifying countries The 1954 Football World Cup was held in Switzerland. ... The Miracle of Bern film poster The Miracle of Bern (German title: Das Wunder von Bern) is a 2003 film by Sönke Wortmann, which tells the story of the unexpected West German victory in the 1954 World Cup Final in Bern, Switzerland, on July 4, 1954, and the story...

Kaiserslautern's performance fell off late in the decade and into the early 60's, highlighted only by an advance to the 1961 German Cup final, where they lost 0:2 to Werder Bremen. The side recovered its form in time to again win their division on the eve of the formation in 1963 of the Bundesliga, Germany's new professional football league. This secured them one of sixteen places in the new top flight circuit. However, the club's next honours would be some time in coming: they made failed German Cup final appearances in 1972, 1976, and 1981 before finally winning in the Cup in 1990. They followed up the next season with their first Bundesliga championship. Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The German Cup trophy The German Cup (official German name: DFB-Pokal, after Deutscher Fußball Bund Pokal or German Football Association Cup) is an elimination football (soccer) tournament held annually. ... Werder Bremen is a German football club playing in Bremen in the northwest German federal state of the same name. ... The official Bundesliga logo. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...

Fall from the top flight

1. FCK won a second German Cup in 1996, but that victory was soured since the team was relegated to 2.Bundesliga with a 16th place finish just one week before the Cup Final. At the time, Kaiserslautern was one of only four of the original sixteen teams that had played in each Bundesliga season since the inception of the league, never having been relegated. This group included Kaiserslautern, Eintracht Frankfurt who went down in the same season, 1. FC Köln down in 1998, and "the Dinosaur", unrelegated Hamburger SV. Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... The 2nd Bundesliga is the Second Division of German soccer. ... Eintracht Frankfurt is a German sports club, based in Frankfurt, Hesse that is best known for its football team. ... 1. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Hamburger SV is a German football club based in Hamburg. ...

The Red Devils came storming back in 1998 with an accomplishment unique in Bundesliga history by winning re-promotion to the first division from the 2.Bundesliga and immediately going on to win the national championship under famous coach Otto Rehhagel. Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Otto Rehhagel (born August 9, 1938 in Essen) is a German football coach and former football player. ...

The club found itself in serious trouble soon after. The construction of a new stadium, incompetent management and financial misdeeds resulted in a heavy debt load and the fielding of incapable sides built out of anonymous mercenary players. In 2002, Kaiserslautern found itself on the brink of bankruptcy and at the centre of controversy being played out publicly. The club's management – Jürgen Friedrich, Robert Wieschemann and Gerhard Herzog – were forced out. A new team president, Rene C. Jäggi, sold the debt-ridden Fritz-Walter-Stadion to an entity owned by the Land Rheinland-Pfalz and the city of Kaiserslautern, thus saving the club from financial disaster, while a new coach, Erik Gerets, led a run after the winter break that moved the footballers out of last place and saved them from relegation. Also see: 2002 (number). ... eric gerets was a famous belgian footballer. ...

The club started the 2003-04 season under the burden of a three-point penalty imposed by the DFB (Deutscher Fußball-Bund or German Football Association) for its financial misdeeds. After a faltering start to the season, Gerets was fired and replaced by Kurt Jara. Jara was unpopular with the FCK faithful for his defensive soccer philosophy, but with him at the helm, the club had a safe season. However, Jara quit the position before the season ended, citing irreconcilable differences with club management. Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 2003 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... DFB, or Dem Franchize Boyz, is a hip-hop group. ... Kurt Jara (born October 14, 1950 in Innsbruck) is a retired Austrian footballer. ...

Currently

In 2005, Michael Henke, who served as long-time assistant to Germany's most successful coach Ottmar Hitzfeld, became coach. FCK was initially successful, but then suffered a string of reverses and crashed to the bottom of the table. Henke was fired, and FCK alumnus Wolfgang Wolf took up the trainer's role. Wolf brought in many young, home-grown players, but despite winning over fans and experts alike, the 2005-06 season ended in failure as FCK was once again relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga after a nine-year stay at the top flight. They finished the 2006/2007 season in sixth place in the 2. Bundesliga, seven points out of the promotion places. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ottmar Hitzfeld (born 12 January 1949 in Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg) is a German former football player and manager, now serving in his second stint with FC Bayern Munich. ... Wolfgang Wolf (born September 24, 1957 in Tiefenthal) is a German soccer coach and a former player. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On May 20, 2007, the club announced the Norwegian manager Kjetil Rekdal, formerly with Belgian side Lierse, as their new head coach. Rekdal took over the reigns on July 1. May 20 is the 140th day of the year (141st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Kjetil André Rekdal (born November 6, 1968) is a Norwegian football coach and a former player. ... K. Lierse S.K. is a Belgian football club, from the town of Lier in Antwerp. ... is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Honours

• German Champion: 1951, 1953, 1991, 1998
• German Cup: 1990,1996
• German Cup finalist: 1961, 1972, 1976, 1981, 1990, 1996, 2003
• UEFA Cup, Semi-final: 1982, 2001
• Champions League, Quarter-final: 1999

Stadium

FCK plays its home fixtures in the Fritz Walter Stadion first built in 1920. The stadium and the adjacent street are named for the player who brought the club to prominence after the war. The facility is built on the Betzenberg, literally the "Betzenmountain", a steep sandstone hill that requires some stamina to scale if you take in an FCK match. Fritz Walter Stadion in Kaiserslautern is a soccer stadium that will host the 2006 World Cup and is the home stadium of 1. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...

The stadium has a capacity of 48,500 and was a 2006 World Cup venue, hosting four preliminary round and one Group of 16 round matches. The facility underwent a major refurbishment for the tournament with addition of new grandstands and a roof. Qualifying countries The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the eighteenth instance of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international association football world championship tournament. ...

2006 FIFA World Cup matches at the Fritz Walter Stadion

• Australia 3-1 Japan
• Italy 1-1 United States
• Paraguay 2-0 Trinidad and Tobago
• Saudi Arabia 0-1 Spain
• Italy 1-0 Australia

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Club culture

Kaiserslautern's Fritz-Walter-Stadion has long been a feared away venue given the rabid ferocity of Kaiserslautern fans: the most faithful of these supporters stand in the stadium's "Westkurve" (Westside, literally "West Curve", since the stands used to be shaped in a semicircle behind the goals). Most famously, Bayern Munich once lost a match here in a charged atmosphere by a score of 7:4 after leading 4:1 at halftime. However, partly due to the team's decline, and the expansion of the stadium, the "Betzenberg" is no longer as daunting a venue as it once was. FC Bayern Munich (German: FC Bayern München) is a German football club based in Munich, the capital of the state of Bavaria. ...

The club has friendly ties to TSV 1860 Munich and Werder Bremen and are bitter rivals of Waldhof Mannheim and Bayern Munich. They also have lesser local rivalries with Eintracht Frankfurt and, more recently, with FSV Mainz 05 and Karlsruher SC. TSV 1860 München, also known as Löwen (The Lions), is a German sports club in Munich with over 23,000 members, first created July 15, 1848. ... Werder Bremen is a German football club playing in Bremen in the northwest German federal state of the same name. ... Waldhof Mannheim is a german football club, located in Mannheim, Germany. ... Eintracht Frankfurt is a German sports club, based in Frankfurt, Hesse that is best known for its football team. ... 1. ... Karlsruher SC is a German football club, based in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg. ...

Current Squad (07/08) - 2. Bundesliga

No. Position Player 1 GK Jürgen Macho 2 DF Moussa Ouattara 3 MF Mathieu Béda 5 DF Boubacar Diarra 7 MF Sebastian Reinert 9 FW Björn Runström 10 MF Patrice Bernier 11 FW Daniel Halfar 14 FW Emeka Opara 15 MF Josh Simpson 16 MF Axel Bellinghausen 17 MF Alexander Bugera 19 FW Christian Henel

No. Position Player 20 FW Marcel Ziemer 21 DF Aïmen Demai 22 MF Steffen Bohl 23 MF Sven Müller 25 GK Tobias Sippel 26 FW Erik Jendrišek 27 GK Florian Fromlowitz 33 FW Christoph Werner 34 DF Fabian Schönheim 37 FW Sebastian Stachnik 38 DF Sascha Kotysch 41 DF Nassim Banouas 42 MF Sergej Neubauer

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Famous players and contributors

Kaiserslautern has sent more than twenty players to the national side, including five who played on West Germany's 1954 World Cup "Miracle of Bern" side:

1950s stars

• Horst Eckel
• Werner Kohlmeyer
• Werner Liebrich
• Fritz Walter
• Ottmar Walter

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Modern-age stars

• Michael Ballack
• Mario Basler
• Andreas Brehme
• Hans-Peter Briegel
• Youri Djorkaeff
• Miroslav Kadlec
• Hany Ramzy
• Pavel Kuka
• Miroslav Klose
• Stefan Kuntz
• Olaf Marschall
• Wynton Rufer
• Mark Schwarzer
• Ciriaco Sforza
• Klaus Toppmöller
• Halil Altıntop
• Michael Mifsud

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Contributors

• Karl-Heinz Feldkamp was the coach who led 1. FCK to the German Cup in 1990 and the German Championship in 1991.
• Stefan Kuntz is best known for being jibed at on English TV and in the 1998 football video Three Lions, but was instrumental in England's undoing at Euro 96.
• Otto Rehhagel coached the team to its 1998 Bundesliga championship.
• Markus Merk is the well known and respected German FIFA referee. He was elected two times as World Referee of the Year.

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Selected Former Coaches

• Gyula Lóránt

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Notable facts

• Among the famous, FCK can count as fans Kurt Beck, the current prime minister of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and former German chancellor Helmut Kohl.
• Kaiserslautern is by far the smallest city (pop. 99,000) to ever have a German Bundesliga championship team (in 1991 and 1998). The next smallest is Braunschweig with 245,000 inhabitants (in 1967).
• FVK played in black in white until their 1929 merger with SV Phönix when the newly merged club adopted the city colours of red and white.

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Memorable matches

1.FC Kaiserslautern - Bayern Munich 7:4

• Date: October 20, 1973

After 56 minutes, Bayern Munich led 4:1. But within 180 seconds, FCK strikers Toppmöller and Pirrung had made the score 3:4, and ten minutes from the end of the game, Pirrung scored the 4:4. The Betzenberg literally exploded when Diehl scored the 5:4 for the Red Devils in the 84th minute, and Laumen added two late goals to make it 7:4. This game is considered to be the finest Betzenberg comeback ever. FC Bayern Munich (German: FC Bayern München) is a German football club based in Munich, the capital of the state of Bavaria. ...

1.FC Kaiserslautern - Real Madrid 5:0

• Date: March 17, 1982

After losing the first game with 1:3, 1. FCK had to win with 2:0 at least. After 17 minutes already, Friedhelm Funkel had scored two goals. The Spaniards, who also featured German star sweeper Uli Stielike saw San Jose and Cunningham sent off before the 40th minute. Eilenfeldt and Geye made the score 5:0, only interrupted by the third Real player sent off (Pineda). Real Madrid Club de Fútbol is a Spanish sports club most widely known for its professional football team based in Madrid. ... Ulrich Uli Stielike (born November 15, 1954 in Ketsch, Germany) is a former German football player, and the current manager of the Ivory Coast national football team. ...

1.FC Kaiserslautern - FC Barcelona 3:1

• Date: November 6, 1991

After surprisingly winning the German Championship, 1. FCK played the European Cup I. Barca convincingly won the first game 2:0. In the first half, 1. FCK striker Demir Hotic scored two goals, and in the 76th minute, the Fritz-Walter-Stadium (as it was called now) erupted, after Bjarne Goldbaek scored the 3:0. But in injury time, a desperation cross by Ronald Koeman found José Maria Bakero. The small striker took a header from nearly outside the box (!) which somehow went in. Futbol Club Barcelona, known familiarly as Barça (IPA: baɾ.sÉ™), is a sports club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ... Ronald Koeman (born March 21, 1963 in Zaandam) is a former Dutch football defender and current manager of PSV Eindhoven. ... José Mari Bakero Escudero (born in Goizueta, Navarre, February 11th 1963) was a Spanish footballer during the 1980s and 1990s. ...

External links

• Official team website
• Abseits Guide to German Soccer
• No. 1 Fansite
• Fansite
• Kaiserslautern statistics
• FCK Fans (in German)
• FCK Blog