FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Full name	Fußball-Club Carl Zeiss Jena e.V.
Nickname(s)	FCC
Founded	May 13, 1903
Ground	Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld
Capacity	12,000
Chairman	Rainer Zipfel
Manager	Frank Neubarth
League	2. Bundesliga
2006-07	2. Bundesliga, 13th
Home colours Away colours

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History

The club was founded in May of 1903 by workers at the Carl Zeiss optics factory as the company-sponsored Fussball-Club der Firma Carl Zeiss. The club underwent name changes in 1911 to Fussball Club Carl Zeiss Jena e.V. and then again in March 1917 to 1. Sportverein Jena e.V. 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Carl Zeiss (September 11, 1816 – December 3, 1888) was an optician commonly known for the company he founded, Zeiss. ... Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ...

The 1930s and World War II

In 1933, 1. SV Jena joined the Gauliga Mitte, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. The team captured the division title in 1935, 1936, 1940, and 1941. This earned Jena entry to the national finals, but they performed poorly and were never able to advance out of preliminary round group play. After the 1943-44 season the Gauliga Mitte broke up into a collection of city-based leagues as World War II overtook the area. 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... 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. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 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...

Postwar play in East Germany

In the immediate aftermath of the war, associations of all types including sports and football clubs, were banned in Germany by the occupying Allied authorities. Jena was re-constituted in June 1946 as SG Ernst Abbe Jena and like many other clubs in East Germany would undergo a number of name changes and was known variously as SG Stadion Jena (October 1948), SG Carl Zeiss Jena (March 1949), BSG Mechanik Jena (January 1951), BSG Motor Jena (May 1951), and SC Motor Jena (November 1954). Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... GDR redirects here. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1950, the club became a founding member of the DDR Liga (II) and in their second season captured a divisional title to win promotion to the top flight DDR Oberliga for a single season appearance. Re-named SC Motor Jena in 1954, they played their way back to the upper league by 1957. Jena won its first honours with the capture of the East German Cup in 1960 and followed up with the East German national title in 1963. The club was "re-founded" as FC Carl Zeiss Jena in January 1966 and became one of East German football's "focus centres" for the development of talented players for the national side. Jena would go on to become a dominant side in the DDR-Oberliga between then and 1975. They took two more national titles in 1968 and 1970, but finished in second place another half dozen times to sides like Vorwärts Berlin, Dynamo Dresden, and 1. FC Magdeburg. In addition to their national titles, FCC captured East German Cups in 1972, 1974, and 1980. The club also appeared in the 1981 European Cup Winners' Cup final, losing 1:2 to Dinamo Tbilisi. Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... The FDGB Cup (Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Pokal or Free German Trade Union Federation Cup) was an elimination football tournament held annually in the former East Germany. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1968 Gregorian calendar. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... FC Viktoria 91 Frankfurt is a German football club based in Frankfurt/Oder, Brandenburg. ... Dynamo Dresden are a German football club, based in Dresden, Saxony. ... 1. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A blonde haired, very skilled worker with a 70s look. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... The Cup Winners Cup was a football club competition between the winners of the European domestic cup competitions. ... Dinamo Tbilisi FC is a Georgian football team, playing in the capital, Tbilisi. ...

German re-unification

After German re-unification in 1990, Jena was seeded into the 2.Bundesliga. Their second place finish in 1992 deteriorated into a seventeenth place finish in 1994 and relegation to Regionalliga Nordost (III). They won immediate re-promotion and played three more years at the tier II level. Since 1999 the team has played tier III and IV football; a second place finish in the Regionalliga Nord secured Jena promotion to the 2. Bundesliga for the 2006-07 season. Jena remains in the 2nd Bundesliga after the 2006-2007 season and was saved from relegation by winning 2-1 away against FC Augsburg in their final match of the season. German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) refers to the reunification of Germany from its constituent parts of East Germany and West Germany under a single government on October 3, 1990. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... The 2nd Bundesliga is the Second Division of German soccer. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... The 2nd Bundesliga is the Second Division of German soccer. ...

Current Squad (2007/08)

No. Position Player 1 GK Christian Person 2 MF Filip Tapalovic 3 DF Giorgi Oniani 4 DF Robert Müller 5 DF Alexander Maul 6 MF Sven Günther 7 MF Torsten Ziegner 8 MF Victor Hugo Lorenzon 9 FW Tobias Werner 10 FW Sebastian Helbig 11 FW Sami Allagui 13 MF Christian Fröhlich

No. Position Player 14 DF Kai Oswald 15 DF Marcus Hoffmann 16 MF Darlington Omodiagbe 17 FW Nils Petersen 18 DF Ronald Maul 19 MF Jan Simak 20 MF Niels Hansen 21 MF Stefan Kühne 22 MF Felix Holzner 23 MF Giorgi Seturidze 24 DF Ilya Kandelaki 25 GK Kasper Jensen -- DF Michael Stegmayer

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Notable Players

FCC sent 33 players to the DDR (East German) national side.

• Konrad Weise, 86 caps (1970-81)
• Eberhard Vogel, 74 caps (1962-76)
• Peter Ducke, 68 caps (1960-75)
• Lothar Kurbjuweit, 66 caps (1970-81)
• Rüdiger Schnuphase, 45 caps (1973-83)
• Harald Irmscher, 41 caps (1966-74)
• Roland Ducke, 37 caps (1958-67)

Before the end of World War II Jena sent 3 players to the German national side (Willy Krauß 1911/12, Heinz Werner 1935, Ludwig Gärtner 1939-41) Konrad Weise (born 17 August 1951 in Greiz) is a former German football player. ... Eberhard Vogel (born 8 April 1943 in Altenhain) is a former German football player. ... Peter Ducke (born 14 October 1941 in Bensen, Sudetenland) is a former German football player. ... Lothar Kurbjuweit (born 6 November 1950 in Seerhausen) is a former German football player. ... Rüdiger Schnuphase (born 23 January 1954 in Werningshausen) is a former German football player. ... Harald Irmscher (born 12 February 1946 in Oelsnitz) is a former German football player. ...

Honours

FC Carl Zeiss Jena holds first place in the all-time table for East German football clubs.

• East German Champions: 1963, 1968, 1970
• East German Cup Champions: 1960, 1972, 1974, 1980

Team trivia

• In the immediate aftermath of World War II, East German authorities had a penchant for tagging sports teams with the names of socialist heroes: Ernst Abbe was a local son and physicist who had an association with the Zeiss optical factory. He made an early contribution to easing the plight of workers by introducing the 8-hour work day at the Zeiss plant, a significant milestone for labour in the late 19th century.

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External links

• Official team site
• Abseits Guide to German Soccer
• site of the Supporters Club