Eintracht Braunschweig

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Full name	Braunschweiger Turn- und Sportverein Eintracht von 1895
Nickname(s)	Die Löwen (The Lions)
Founded	15 December 1895; 116 years ago  (1895-12-15)
Ground	Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig (Capacity: 25,540)
Chairman	Sebastian Ebel
Coach	Torsten Lieberknecht
League	2. Bundesliga
2011–12	2. Bundesliga, 8th
Website	Club home page
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Braunschweiger Turn- und Sportverein Eintracht von 1895, commonly known as Eintracht Braunschweig or BTSV, is a German association football and sports club based in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. The club was one of the founding members of the Bundesliga in 1963 and won the national title in 1967.

History[link]

Eintracht Braunschweig was founded as the football and cricket club FuCC Eintracht 1895 in 1895, became FC Eintracht von 1895 in 1906, and changed its name again into SV Eintracht in 1920. As part of the denazification of Germany after World War II the British authorities dissolved all previously existing sports clubs in Braunschweig and demanded the creation of a single, united sports club for the city. Because of this Eintracht Braunschweig was merged into the new club TSV Braunschweig on November 2, 1945. TSV Braunschweig finally took on the club's current name, Braunschweiger TSV Eintracht von 1985 on April 1, 1949.

The team has a colorful history and it quickly became one of northern Germany's favorite sides. In 1900 Eintracht Braunschweig was among the founding members of the German Football Association. They enjoyed success early on, playing in the upper tier league, winning the north German championship in 1908 and 1913, and placing three players on the German national team by 1914. Under the Third Reich the team played in the Gauliga Niedersachsen and managed two appearances in the national final rounds. They continued to play in the upper leagues after the war with the exception of a single season (1952–53) spent in tier II. The side was touched by tragedy in 1949 when goalkeeper Gustav Fähland died of internal bleeding a few days after being injured during a game in a collision with a Bremen striker. Another appearance in the final round of the national championship came in 1958.

Eintracht Braunschweig's consistently high standard of play and financial stability helped it to become one of the sixteen teams selected out of a group of forty-six applicants for play in the Bundesliga, the new federal professional league formed in 1963. Once again the side enjoyed early success, capturing the national title in the 1966–67 season with solid defensive play. That championship team gave up only 27 goals against, which stood as a Bundesliga record until bettered by Werder Bremen in 1988. The club just missed a second title in 1977 when they finished third, one point back of champion Borussia Mönchengladbach and just behind second place finisher Schalke 04 on goal difference. Another ten players joined the national side from the team, mostly through the 60's and 70's.

The club found itself embroiled in the Bundesliga scandal of 1971, but with a somewhat unusual twist. A number of players accepted payments totaling 40,000 DM – not to underperform and so lose or tie a game, but rather, to put out an extra effort to win. Ultimately, two players were suspended and another ten were fined.

In 1973, in the face of some opposition from the league, Braunschweig became the first Bundesliga side to sport a sponsor logo on their jerseys, although they did refuse a related attempt to rename the team Eintracht Jägermeister. The move paid the team 100,000 DM and introduced a new way of doing business to football that is worth millions today. Other clubs quickly followed suit. Braunschweig's game against FC Schalke 04 on 24 March 1973 became the first-ever Bundesliga match to feature a club having sponsorship on its jersey.^[1]

The club played in the Bundesliga through to the mid-80's having been relegated just twice, in 1973–74 and again in 1980–81. During their run of 322 games in the Bundesliga from 1963 to 1973 they set a record that still stands by not seeing a single player red-carded. Since the 1985–86 season the side has played at the tier II and III levels. In 1987, Braunschweig managed to set a mark even as they were demoted. They are the only team ever to have been relegated with a positive goal differential: 52 goals for and 47 against.

The side counted a casualty in the Cold War in the death of Lutz Eigendorf, who fled East Germany in 1979, where he played for Dynamo Berlin, to come to the west to play for 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Shortly after his transfer to Braunschweig in 1983, he died in a motor vehicle accident which was revealed in 2000 as the assassination of a "traitor" arranged by the Stasi, East Germany's secret police.

The last 10 years Eintracht Braunschweig moved constantly between the 2. Bundesliga and the 3. Liga/Regionalliga. The team most recently were promoted after the 2010–11 3rd Liga campaign, permitting them to re-enter 2. Bundesliga in 2011–12.

Crest and colours[link]

Traditionally Eintracht Braunschweig plays their home games in the colours blue and yellow. Those colours are derived from the flag of the Duchy of Brunswick.

The club's crest contains a red lion on white ground. This symbol is derived from the coat of arms of the city of Braunschweig, which in turn is based on the isignia of Henry the Lion. The club badge went through various different versions during its history, most of the time however it consisted of a circular badge in blue and yellow, with a red lion on a white shield in the center of the circle.

In 1972, Eintracht Braunschweig scrapped the original crest and replaced it with a new design based on the logo of their sponsor Jägermeister. This was initially done to get around the German FA's ban on shirt sponsors - a loophole in those rules allowed to club to put a very close looking symbol on their shirt as long as it was the club's official crest. In 1986, after Jägermeister stopped the sponsorship of the club, Eintracht Braunschweig adopted a new, diamond shaped logo containing the traditional red lion as well as the club's colours blue and yellow.

In 2011 the club members voted to return to the club's more traditional round crest. In March 2012 the club then presented the new version of the crest, which will be adopted at the start of the 2012–13 season.^[2]

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  Flag of the Duchy of Brunswick
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  Coat of arms of Braunschweig
• Btsv eintracht2.png

  Historical version of the round logo, in use during the 1960s and early 70s
• Btsv eintracht.png

  Diamond shaped logo, in use 1986–2012

Stadium[link]

Eintracht-Stadion, before the construction of the new north stand in 2009/10.

Eintracht Braunschweig plays at the Eintracht-Stadion in Braunschweig, build in 1923.^[3] Currently the stadium has a capacity of ca. 25.000, during the 1960s it held up to 38.000 people.^[4] Before the construction of the Eintracht-Stadion, the club played its home games at Sportplatz an der Helmstedter Straße, which held 3.000 people.^[5]

Supporters[link]

Despite spending recent years in the lower divisions, the club's fan support has remained strong: with 21.632 per game Eintracht Braunschweig currently has the 24th highest average attendance of any sports team in Germany.^[6]

Eintracht Braunschweig has a strong rivalry with Hannover 96, while friendly fan relations exist with 1. FC Magdeburg and SV Waldhof Mannheim.

Recent seasons[link]

League history[link]

Between 1904 and 1985 Eintracht Braunschweig spent all but 3 seasons in Germany's top division. Since then the club has alternated between the second and third level of the German league pyramid.

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Honours[link]

League

First division

• German championship:
  • Champions (1): 1967
• Oberliga Nord:
  • Runners-up (1): 1958
• Northern German championship:
  • Champions (2): 1908, 1913
  • Runners-up (6): 1906, 1907, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1924
• Gauliga Südhannover-Braunschweig:
  • Champions (2): 1943, 1944
• Südkreisliga/Bezirksliga Südhannover-Braunschweig/Oberliga Südhannover-Braunschweig:
  • Champions (2): 1924, 1925
  • Runners-up (4): 1922, 1927, 1931, 1932
• Duchy of Brunswick championship¹:
  • Champions (11): 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1917, 1918

¹No championship played in 1914 and 1915, results for 1916 are unknown.

Lower divisions

• 2. Bundesliga Nord:
  • Runners-up (1): 1981 (II)
• 3. Liga:
  • Champions (1): 2011 (III)
• Regionalliga Nord:
  • Champions (2): 1974 (II), 2005 (III)
  • Runners-up (4): 1996 (III), 1997 (III), 1998 (III), 2002 (III)
• Amateur-Oberliga Nord:
  • Champions (1): 1988 (III)
  • Runners-up (1): 1994 (III)
• Amateuroberliga Niedersachsen-Ost:
  • Champions (1): 1953 (II)

Cup

• Lower Saxony Cup:
  • Winners (2): 2004, 2011
  • Runners-up (2): 1999, 2009

International

• Intertoto Cup group stage:
  • Winners (7): 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1979

European record[link]

Match day poster for the 1967-68 European Cup quarter-finals play-off versus Juventus in Berne.

Season	Competition	Round	Nation	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate	Result
1967–68	European Cup	1st round		Dinamo Tirana	–	–	(w/o)	Win
		2nd round		Rapid Vienna	2–0	0–1	2–1	Win
		Quarter-finals		Juventus	3–2	0–1	3–31	Loss
1971–72	UEFA Cup	1st round		Glentoran	6–1	1–0	7–1	Win
		2nd round		Atlético Bilbao	2–1	2–2	4–3	Win
		3rd round		Ferencváros	1–1	2–5	3–6	Loss
1976–77	UEFA Cup	1st round		Holbæk B&I	7–0	0–1	7–1	Win
		2nd round		RCD Español	2–1	0–2	2–3	Loss
1977–78	UEFA Cup	1st round		Dinamo Kiev	0–0	1–1	1–12	Win
		2nd round		IK Start	4–0	0–1	4–1	Win
		3rd round		PSV Eindhoven	1–2	0–2	1–4	Loss

¹ Juventus beat Eintracht Braunschweig 1–0 in a play-off in Berne, Switzerland to reach the semi-finals.

² Eintracht Braunschweig progressed to the second round on away goals.

Players[link]

Current squad[link]

As of 8 January 2012 (2012 -01-08)^[update] Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Marjan Petković 3 DF Ermin Bičakčić 4 DF Matthias Henn 5 DF Benjamin Kessel 6 MF Damir Vrančić 7 DF Benjamin Fuchs 8 DF Deniz Doğan 9 FW Mathias Fetsch 10 MF Mirko Boland 11 MF Steffen Bohl 12 FW Dominick Kumbela 13 MF Raffael Korte 14 MF Jan Washausen 15 DF Norman Theuerkauf 16 DF Emre Turan

No. Position Player 17 MF Markus Unger 18 MF Oliver Petersch 19 DF Ken Reichel 20 MF Nico Zimmermann 21 FW Pierre Merkel 22 FW Randy Edwini-Bonsu 23 MF Julius Reinhardt 24 DF Pascal Gos 25 DF Marcel Correia 26 GK Daniel Davari 27 FW Gianluca Korte 30 GK Benjamin Later 31 MF Marc Pfitzner 32 FW Dennis Kruppke (captain)

Notable former players[link]

The list includes players with at least 250 games or 50 goals for Eintracht Braunschweig's first team, as well as players with at least one cap for their country's national or Olympic football team.

Staff[link]

Current technical staff[link]

Manager history[link]

Caretaker managers in italics.

Notable former presidents[link]

The list includes former presidents of Eintracht Braunschweig who have their own Wikipedia article.

Records[link]

• Home victory, Bundesliga: 6–0 v Rot-Weiss Essen, 21 May 1977/6–0 v VfB Stuttgart, 5 April 1975
• Away victory, Bundesliga: 7–1 v Arminia Bielefeld, 28 June 1972
• Home loss, Bundesliga: 0–6 v Borussia Mönchengladbach, 29 October 1977
• Away loss, Bundesliga: 0–10 v Borussia Mönchengladbach, 11 October 1984
• Most appearances, all competitions total: 563, Franz Merkhoffer 1968–1984
• Most appearances, Bundesliga: 419, Franz Merkhoffer 1968–1984
• Most goals scored, total: 116, Werner Thamm 1950–1962
• Most goals scored, Bundesliga: 84, Lothar Ulsaß 1964–1971
• Most goals scored, season, Bundesliga: 24, Wolfgang Frank, 1976–77
• Most goals scored, season, 2. Bundesliga: 30, Ronald Worm, 1980–81

Reserve team[link]

Eintracht Braunschweig II, historically also referred to as Eintracht Braunschweig Amateure, currently plays in the Oberliga Niedersachsen.

Recent seasons[link]

Honours[link]

• German amateur championship:
  • Runners-up (1): 1970
• Amateuroberliga Niedersachsen-Ost:
  • Champions (1): 1956 (II)
  • Runners-up (1): 1955 (II)
• Lower Saxony championship:
  • Champions (4): 1970 (III), 2000 (V), 2002 (V), 2010 (V)^[7]
  • Runners-up (1): 2005 (V)

Other sports[link]

As a multi sports club Eintracht Braunschweig also has departments for athletics, basketball, chess, darts, field hockey, gymnastics, team handball, swimming and water polo, tennis, and winter sports.

Field hockey[link]

Anke Kühn

The field hockey department historically has been one of Eintracht Braunschweig's most successful sections. Eintracht's women's field hockey team won numerous titles, mostly during the 1970s.

Honours[link]

National

• German women's champions (outdoor): 1965, 1969, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978
• German women's champions (indoor): 1973, 1974, 1975

International

• Women's EuroHockey Club Champions Cup (outdor) runners-up: 1976

Notable players[link]

• Nadine Ernsting-Krienke
• Anke Kühn
• Heike Lätzsch
• Julia Zwehl

Ice hockey[link]

Eintrach Braunschweig's ice hockey department was founded in 1981. After years in the lower divisions, the team played its first and only season in Germany's second division, then named 1. Liga, in 1997–1998. In 2000 the ice hockey section became independent as Eintracht Braunschweig Eissport e.V., and eventually dissolved in 2003.

In popular culture[link]

The German 2009 drama film 66/67: Fairplay Is Over (German: 66/67: Fairplay war gestern) tells the story of a group of Eintracht Braunschweig hooligans. The title is a reference to Eintracht's championship winning season 1966–67, as well as the name of the fictional supporters club the characters in the film belong to.

In 2008 the German jazz funk/hip hop band Jazzkantine produced a musical about Eintracht Braunschweig, titled Unser Eintracht, in cooperation with the Staatstheater Braunschweig.^[8]

Sources[link]

• Bläsig, Horst/Leppert, Alex (2010). Ein Roter Löwe auf der Brust - Die Geschichte von Eintracht Braunschweig. Göttingen: Die Werkstatt. ISBN 978-3-89533-675-1. 
• Peters, Stefan (1998). Eintracht Braunschweig. Die Chronik. Kassel: Agon-Sportverlag. ISBN 978-3-89609-152-9. 

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Page about Eintracht reserve
• The Abseits Guide to German Soccer

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Marc Arnold (born 19 September 1970 in Johannesburg) is a retired South African international footballer who spent his entire professional career in Germany.

Career[link]

Club career[link]

Arnold played for played for SSV Ulm 1846 between 1993 and 1994,^[1] and spent the 1997–1998 season in Germany with Hertha BSC, making 26 appearances and scoring two goals.^[2] He also played for Rot-Weiß Ahlen in 2003^[3] and for Eintracht Braunschweig between 2003 and 2005.^[1]

International career[link]

He was part of the South African squad for the 1998 FIFA World Cup.^[4] He earned one cap for South Africa.^[5]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Marc Arnold at fussballdaten.de (German)
• Marc Arnold at worldfootball.net
• Marc Arnold at transfermarkt.de (German)

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