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Eimsbütteler Turnverband is a German sports club based in Eimsbüttel
, Hamburg
. Apart from football, the club also offers a variety of other sports, like basketball, volleyball, and fencing
.
Eimsbütteler TV made headlines in 2011 when it lost almost its complete first and second teams because of disagrements over how to split the money earned from reaching the first round of the 2011–12 DFB-Pokal
after winning the Hamburg Cup. ETV was forced to field a side predominantly made up of players from its under-19 side.
A football department was established within ETV on 12 May 1906 and the footballers took up play in the A-Klasse Hamburg, the highest league in the city. They sent their first representative to the national side in 1910 and won their first city title in 1915. The team went on to make several appearances in the playoff round of the country's northern regional league in the late 20s and early 30s. In 1926, they lost the final of the regional Nordpokal (North German Cup) to Holstein Kiel
by a score of 1:3.
, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the 1933 reorganization of German football under the Third Reich. The team captured titles there in 1934, 1935, 1936, 1940 and 1942, often in close contests with better known club Hamburger SV
. These Gauliga titles qualified ETV for participation in the preliminary rounds of the national championship where they scored victories in matches against eventual champions FC Schalke 04
in group play in both 1934 and 1935. Their best result came in 1940 when they finished runners-up in their group to Dresdner SC
.
ETV made several appearances in the opening rounds of the Tschammerpokal tournament (1935–37, 1939–42), predecessor to today's German Cup, and also saw four different players capped through the 1930s and 40s.
World War II forced play across the country to become more local in character and the Gauliga Nordmark was broken up into three separate leagues after the 1941–42 season. ETV became part of the new Gauliga Hamburg where they were able only to earn lower table results. The club's sports facilities were, like most of Hamburg, heavily damaged in air raids. From 1948, under the leadership of Robert Finn, the ETV started to rebuilt its facilities.
, one of five new first division circuits within the country, which admitted the top four finishers from Hamburg. ETV won its way to the Oberliga the next year on the strength of a campaign that saw the team capture its division by winning seventeen and drawing one its of eighteen matches.
The ETV spent the next eight seasons at the Oberliga level until being sent down to the Amateurliga Hamburg after a sixteenth place finish in 1956. The team suffered through two consecutive poor seasons, narrowly missing relegation to the third tier. After recovering to win the division title in 1959 they were unable to advance further after doing poorly in promotion round play. They earned lower table results over most of the next several seasons and with the establishment of the Fußball-Bundesliga
in 1963, the second division Amateurliga became a third tier circuit where ETV continued to struggle against relegation. A last place finish in 1965–66 dropped Eimsbüttel to the Verbandsliga Hamburg – Germania-Staffel (IV).
The club generally finished in the upper half of the Verbandsliga table until declining in the latter half of the 70s. They earned a second place result in 1980–81, but were eventually relegated to the Bezirksliga (V) in 1985 after a fifteenth place finish. In the face of frequent league restructuring, ETV avoided slipping deeper into lower tier football through timely promotions. In 1989, they moved up to the Landesliga Hamburg (V), and then made a quick advance in the late 90s, winning their way to the Verbandsliga Hamburg (V) in 1998, and then into the Oberliga Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein
(IV) the following year after a second place finish.
The club was overmatched in Oberliga play and struggled against relegation for four seasons, only avoiding demotion by the voluntarily withdrawal of other teams facing financial and license problems. Their turn in the Oberliga came to an end in 2003, when the ETV was unable to avoid being sent down to the Verbandsliga (V).
The club's decline continued with a descent through the Landsliga Hamburg (VI) in 2005, to the Bezirksliga Hamburg-Nord (VII) in 2006. ETV enjoyed a successful 2007–08 regular season, finishing second on equal points with league winner Rahlstedter SC. This entitled the team to take part in the Landesliga promotion round where they finished fourth in the four-team competition.
The 2008–09 season saw the club compete on the same level with its first and second team, but in separate leagues. ETV finished fourth in its league, the Bezirksliga Nord, while ETV II came second in the Bezirksliga Süd and earned promotion to the Landesliga through the play-off round. Consequently, the first team took up the second teams spot in this league in 2009–10 and was coached by the second teams coach Dennis Mitteregger.
In 2010-11, ETV came ninth in the league but took out the Hamburg Cup for the first time in its history. This cup win however cost the club its coach and the majority of its players. While the club wanted to award 50 percent of the earnings for reaching the first round of the cup, Euro 110,000, to the football department, the players demanded a share of up to 75 percent. When this was not granted, players and coach left the club. After the clubs second team players left ETV out of solidarity with the first team too, the club was forced to field its successful under-19 side instead, strengthened by the return of three of the players that had resigned earlier.
The club has a large youth section in its football department, both for girls and boys with nearly forty teams in all age-groups.
Eimsbüttel
Eimsbüttel is one of the seven boroughs of Hamburg, Germany. In 2006 the population was 246,087.-History:On March 1, 2008 Eimsbüttel lost a part of its area to form the quarter Sternschanze in the borough Altona.-Geography:...
, Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
. Apart from football, the club also offers a variety of other sports, like basketball, volleyball, and fencing
Fencing
Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...
.
Eimsbütteler TV made headlines in 2011 when it lost almost its complete first and second teams because of disagrements over how to split the money earned from reaching the first round of the 2011–12 DFB-Pokal
2011–12 DFB-Pokal
The 2011–12 DFB-Pokal is the sixty-ninth season of the annual German football cup competition. It commenced on 29 July 2011 with the first of six rounds and will conclude on 12 May 2012 with the final at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin....
after winning the Hamburg Cup. ETV was forced to field a side predominantly made up of players from its under-19 side.
The beginnings
The roots of the association lay in 12 June 1889 formation of the gymnastics club Eimsbütteler Turnerschaft. This club broke up within a month when a number of members left to form Eimsbütteler Männerturnverein. On 1 May 1893 the two groups were re-united as Hamburg-Eimsbütteler Turnverein, while a new association using the name Eimsbütteler Turnerschaft was established 28 December the same year. This club in turn joined HETV to create Eimsbütteler Turnverband on 19 February 1898 with the goal of constructing a common sports hall. The facility was completed in 1910, under the direction of the chairman Julius Sparbier.A football department was established within ETV on 12 May 1906 and the footballers took up play in the A-Klasse Hamburg, the highest league in the city. They sent their first representative to the national side in 1910 and won their first city title in 1915. The team went on to make several appearances in the playoff round of the country's northern regional league in the late 20s and early 30s. In 1926, they lost the final of the regional Nordpokal (North German Cup) to Holstein Kiel
Holstein Kiel
Holstein Kiel is a German association football and sports club based in the city of Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein. Through the 1910s and 1920s the club was a dominant side in northern Germany winning six regional titles and finishing as runners-up another six times...
by a score of 1:3.
The club's golden years
The Eimsbüttel side enjoyed its greatest success playing in the Gauliga NordmarkGauliga Nordmark
The Gauliga Nordmark was the highest football league in the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein and the German states of Hamburg, Lübeck, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz and parts of Oldenburg from 1933 to 1945...
, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the 1933 reorganization of German football under the Third Reich. The team captured titles there in 1934, 1935, 1936, 1940 and 1942, often in close contests with better known club Hamburger SV
Hamburger SV
Hamburger Sport-Verein, usually referred to as HSV in Germany and Hamburg in international parlance, is a German multi-sport club based in Hamburg, its largest branch being its football department...
. These Gauliga titles qualified ETV for participation in the preliminary rounds of the national championship where they scored victories in matches against eventual champions FC Schalke 04
FC Schalke 04
Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, commonly known as simply FC Schalke 04 or Schalke , is a German, association-football club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Schalke has long been one of the most popular football teams in Germany, even though major...
in group play in both 1934 and 1935. Their best result came in 1940 when they finished runners-up in their group to Dresdner SC
Dresdner SC
Dresdner SC is a German multisport club playing in Dresden, Saxony. Founded on 30 April 1898, the club was a founding member of the German Football Association in 1900...
.
ETV made several appearances in the opening rounds of the Tschammerpokal tournament (1935–37, 1939–42), predecessor to today's German Cup, and also saw four different players capped through the 1930s and 40s.
World War II forced play across the country to become more local in character and the Gauliga Nordmark was broken up into three separate leagues after the 1941–42 season. ETV became part of the new Gauliga Hamburg where they were able only to earn lower table results. The club's sports facilities were, like most of Hamburg, heavily damaged in air raids. From 1948, under the leadership of Robert Finn, the ETV started to rebuilt its facilities.
Postwar
Post-war play in 1945 in the Stadtliga Hamburg saw the ETV continue as a mid-table team. A fifth-place finish in the 1946–47 season was not quite enough to qualify for the new Oberliga NordOberliga Nord (1947-63)
The Oberliga Nord was the highest level of the German football league system in the north of Germany from 1947 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. It covered the states of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.-Overview:...
, one of five new first division circuits within the country, which admitted the top four finishers from Hamburg. ETV won its way to the Oberliga the next year on the strength of a campaign that saw the team capture its division by winning seventeen and drawing one its of eighteen matches.
The ETV spent the next eight seasons at the Oberliga level until being sent down to the Amateurliga Hamburg after a sixteenth place finish in 1956. The team suffered through two consecutive poor seasons, narrowly missing relegation to the third tier. After recovering to win the division title in 1959 they were unable to advance further after doing poorly in promotion round play. They earned lower table results over most of the next several seasons and with the establishment of the Fußball-Bundesliga
Fußball-Bundesliga
The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
in 1963, the second division Amateurliga became a third tier circuit where ETV continued to struggle against relegation. A last place finish in 1965–66 dropped Eimsbüttel to the Verbandsliga Hamburg – Germania-Staffel (IV).
The club generally finished in the upper half of the Verbandsliga table until declining in the latter half of the 70s. They earned a second place result in 1980–81, but were eventually relegated to the Bezirksliga (V) in 1985 after a fifteenth place finish. In the face of frequent league restructuring, ETV avoided slipping deeper into lower tier football through timely promotions. In 1989, they moved up to the Landesliga Hamburg (V), and then made a quick advance in the late 90s, winning their way to the Verbandsliga Hamburg (V) in 1998, and then into the Oberliga Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein
Oberliga Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein
The Oberliga Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein was the fourth tier of the German football league system in the north of Germany, existing from 1994 to 2004. It covered the states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein...
(IV) the following year after a second place finish.
The club was overmatched in Oberliga play and struggled against relegation for four seasons, only avoiding demotion by the voluntarily withdrawal of other teams facing financial and license problems. Their turn in the Oberliga came to an end in 2003, when the ETV was unable to avoid being sent down to the Verbandsliga (V).
The club's decline continued with a descent through the Landsliga Hamburg (VI) in 2005, to the Bezirksliga Hamburg-Nord (VII) in 2006. ETV enjoyed a successful 2007–08 regular season, finishing second on equal points with league winner Rahlstedter SC. This entitled the team to take part in the Landesliga promotion round where they finished fourth in the four-team competition.
The 2008–09 season saw the club compete on the same level with its first and second team, but in separate leagues. ETV finished fourth in its league, the Bezirksliga Nord, while ETV II came second in the Bezirksliga Süd and earned promotion to the Landesliga through the play-off round. Consequently, the first team took up the second teams spot in this league in 2009–10 and was coached by the second teams coach Dennis Mitteregger.
In 2010-11, ETV came ninth in the league but took out the Hamburg Cup for the first time in its history. This cup win however cost the club its coach and the majority of its players. While the club wanted to award 50 percent of the earnings for reaching the first round of the cup, Euro 110,000, to the football department, the players demanded a share of up to 75 percent. When this was not granted, players and coach left the club. After the clubs second team players left ETV out of solidarity with the first team too, the club was forced to field its successful under-19 side instead, strengthened by the return of three of the players that had resigned earlier.
The club has a large youth section in its football department, both for girls and boys with nearly forty teams in all age-groups.
German championship
The most successful time in the clubs history was most certainly the Gauliga years when the ETV qualified for the German championship finals five times:- 1934: Finished last in its group out of four teams, but managed to defeat FC Schalke 04FC Schalke 04Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, commonly known as simply FC Schalke 04 or Schalke , is a German, association-football club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Schalke has long been one of the most popular football teams in Germany, even though major...
3–2 in Hamburg after Schalke lead 2–0, Schalke went on to win the championship. - 1935: Finished third in its group out of four teams, again defeated FC Schalke 04 in Hamburg, who won the championship again.
- 1936: Finished third again in its group out of four teams.
- 1940: Finished second in its group out of four teams, missing out on the semi-finals to Dresdner SCDresdner SCDresdner SC is a German multisport club playing in Dresden, Saxony. Founded on 30 April 1898, the club was a founding member of the German Football Association in 1900...
who went on to lose the final. - 1942: Lost to Werder Bremen in the first round of the knock-out finals, losing 2–4 in Bremen.
Departments
The club consists of various sports departments, these being:- ArcheryArcheryArchery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus. Archery has historically been used for hunting and combat; in modern times, however, its main use is that of a recreational activity...
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Beach VolleyballBeach volleyballBeach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....
- BoxingBoxingBoxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
- CanoeingCanoeingCanoeing is an outdoor activity that involves a special kind of canoe.Open canoes may be 'poled' , sailed, 'lined and tracked' or even 'gunnel-bobbed'....
- Dancing
- FencingFencingFencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...
- FistballFistballFistball is a sport which is of European origin and is similar to volleyball in that player tries to hit a ball over a net.-History:The earliest known written mention of the game is by Roman Emperor Gordian III and dates to the year 240. Rules for an Italian version of fistball were recorded by...
- Football
- HandballTeam handballHandball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...
- HockeyHockeyHockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...
- Inline SkatingInline skatingInline skating is a recreational sport practiced widely internationally. Inline skates typically have 2 to 5 polyurethane wheels, arranged in a single line. The in-line design allows for greater speed than roller skates and better maneuverability...
- JudoJudois a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...
- KarateKarateis a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands. Grappling, locks,...
- KickboxingKickboxingKickboxing refers to a group of martial arts and stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from karate, Muay Thai and western boxing....
- Kung Fu
- Swimming
- Table tennisTable tennisTable tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
- Tennis
- Track & Field
- Volleyball
Honors
- Association Football
- Gauliga NordmarkGauliga NordmarkThe Gauliga Nordmark was the highest football league in the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein and the German states of Hamburg, Lübeck, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz and parts of Oldenburg from 1933 to 1945...
(I) champions: 1934, 1935, 1936, 1940, 1942 - Stadtliga Hamburg (II) champions: 1948
- Amateurliga Hamburg (II) champions: 1959
- Landesliga Hamburg-HansaLandesliga Hamburg-HansaThe Landesliga Hamburg-Hansa is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the second-highest league in the German state of Hamburg, together with the Landesliga Hamburg-Hammonia...
(VI) champions: 1998 - Hamburg Cup winners: 2011
- Gauliga Nordmark
- Fistball
- German champions (Men): 1928, 1929
- German champions (Women): 1934
Sources
- 100 Jahre Fussball im ETV Article on the clubs 100th anniversary in the Hamburger AbendblattHamburger AbendblattThe Hamburger Abendblatt is a daily newspaper in Hamburg, Germany, published by Axel Springer AG. The paper used to appear Monday through Saturday only, but since 29 October 2006 it has also published a Sunday edition to compete with the Hamburger Morgenpost's introduction of a Sunday edition...