NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kickers Offenbach

Kickers Offenbach is a German football club in Offenbach am Main, Hessen. The club was founded on May 27, 1901 in the Rheinischer Hof restaurant by footballers who left already established local clubs including Melitia, Teutonia, Viktoria, Germania and Neptun. Image File history File links Kickers_Offenbach. ... May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Stadion Bieberer Berg Bieberer Berg Stadion is a multi-use stadium in Offenbach, Germany. ... The following is an incomplete list of football (soccer) stadiums. ... The 2nd Bundesliga is the Second Division of professional football in Germany. ... The 2nd Bundesliga is the Second Division of professional football in Germany. ... soccer jersey left arm with white border File links The following pages link to this file: Santos Futebol Clube Template talk:Football kit Template:Football kit/pattern list User:Johan Elisson/football kits FC Inter Categories: GFDL images | Football kit templates ... Image File history File links Kit_body_whitestripeonright. ... soccer jersey right arm with white border File links The following pages link to this file: Santos Futebol Clube Template talk:Football kit Template:Football kit/pattern list User:Johan Elisson/football kits FC Inter Categories: GFDL images | Football kit templates ... Image File history File links Kit_shorts. ... 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 Red border for left arm - football kit. ... football jersey with red and white right vertical stripes. ... Image File history File links Red border for right arm - football kit. ... Image File history File links Kit_shorts. ... 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... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... This is a list of football clubs in Germany. ... (river) main-bow Offenbach am Main is a city in Hessen, Germany, located on southside of the river Main. ... Hesse is also the name of the German writer Hermann Hesse, as well as the German mathematician Otto Hesse. ... May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

History

The club played as a mid-table side in the Bezirksliga Main/Hessen through the late 20's and early 30's. German football was re-organized in 1933 under the Third Reich into sixteen first division Gauligen. Kickers joined the Gauliga Südwest, where the team immediately captured the title and entered the national playoffs for the first time. The club fared poorly there, but did manage to raise their overall level of play in the following seasons, going on to win five consecutive divisional championships from 1940 to 1944. Year 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. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ...

In the early 40's the Gauliga Südwest had been split into the Gauliga Westmark and the Gauliga Hessen-Nassau, where Kickers played. Their best post-season result came in 1942 when the team was able to advance as far as the semi-finals in the national championship rounds before they were decisively put out 0:6 by Schalke 04, who were on their way to their sixth championship as the era's most dominant side. By 1944, Allied armies were rolling through Germany and the Gauliga Hessen-Nassau did not play the 1944-45 season. Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... FC Schalke 04 (short S04) is a German football team based in Gelsenkirchen. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ...

Post war football

After World War II, Offenbach continued their emergence as a strong side in the Oberliga Süd. In 1949, they advanced again to the national semi-finals and again were put out by the eventual champions, this time VfR Mannheim. The next year they made an appearance in the final, losing 1:2 to VfB Stuttgart. Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom France Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Charles de Gaulle Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ...

Kickers returned to the final in 1959 where they dropped a 3:5 decision to Eintracht Frankfurt. Throughout the post-war period and into the years leading up to the formation of Germany's first professional football league, the Bundesliga, in 1963, the team consistently finished in the upper half of their league table. In spite of this, Kickers Offenbach were not one of the sixteen teams chosen for the inaugural season of the new top flight league, with selection going instead to rival Frankfurt. Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The official Bundesliga logo. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...

Entry to the Bundesliga and scandal

Play in the Bundesliga would have to wait until 1968. The team was immediately relegated, but returned to the upper league for play in 1970-71. In addition to their return to the Bundesliga, the club would win its only honours to date in 1970 with a 2:1 German Cup victory over 1. FC Köln. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... 1. ...

However, the end of the 1971 season would find Kickers Offenbach at the centre of the Bundesliga scandal. The club president, Horst Canellas, went to the DFB (Deutsche Fussball Bund or German Football Association) after being approached by a player from another team looking for a cash bonus for that club's effort in beating one of Offenbach's rivals in the fight against relegation. Receiving no help from league officials, Canellas began gathering evidence of how widespread the payoffs were. In the end more than fifty players from seven clubs, two coaches, and six game officials were found guilty of trying to influence the outcome of games through bribes, but Canellas was unable to save his club from relegation. The club central to the scandal – Arminia Bielefeld – would not be punished until the following season, too late to save Offenbach. 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... DFB, or Dem Franchize Boyz, is a hip-hop group. ... DSC Arminia Bielefeld is a German football club that plays in Bielefeld, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. ...

The scandal has a strongly negative effect on the young league and contributed to plummeting attendance figures. One outcome of the whole affair was the further evolution of German football. Salarly restrictions were removed and the 2.Bundesliga also became a professional league. For the players it meant that having one's club sent down no longer also meant losing one's status as a paid professional.

Decline and recovery

Kickers would spend the next seven years in the second division before making a return to the Bundesliga for just a single season in 1983-84. In 1985, financial problems led to the club being penalized points and driven into the third division Amateur Oberliga Hessen. They recovered themselves only to be denied a license in 1989 and be sent back down again. By the mid-90's they slipped as far as Oberliga Hessen (IV) and since the end of that decade have been primarily a third division club. Offenbach returned to play in the 2.Bundesliga in 2005 and despite their mixed fortunes they remain a fan favorite and are well supported. 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Current squad

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