KBC Duisburg is a German

Germany

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 sports club based in Kasslerfeld, a suburb

Suburb

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 of Duisburg

Duisburg

- History :A legend recorded by Johannes Aventinus holds that Duisburg, was built by the eponymous Tuisto, mythical progenitor of Germans, ca. 2395 BC...

, North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia

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. The team was founded in 1888. The club is renowned for its defunct women's football team, which won a German championship

German football champions

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 in 1984–85. Today the club offers t'ai chi and football

Football (soccer)

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, but the men's football department has never been nearly so successful as the women's department.

History

KBC Duisburg was founded on 2 September 1888 as gymnastics club. The football department was founded it 1908 and quickly rose to become the most important department in the club. Having more and more success the football players began to fancy the idea of forming an independent football club and eventually did just that in the 1920s. The clubs were merged again as TuSpo Kaßlerfeld when the Nazis took over the power in Germany. After the war the clubs from the Kaßlerfeld area founded a new club, named "Kaßlerfelder Ballspielclub". The men's football team had its most successful period in the early 1960s, when they played for several years in the "Kreisklasse

Kreisklasse

The Kreisklassen are the lowest echelons of football in Germany, the German equivalent to Sunday league football. They rank below the Kreisligas...

" and even achieved a one-year stay in the Bezirksliga

Bezirksoberliga

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.
Today KBC Duisburg has only men's and boy's football teams. The men play in the Kreisliga C, 11th tier football.

Women's football (1970– Mid-90s)

The women's football section was founded in 1970 by Paula Schmitz. In 1980 Duisburg reached the final of the German championship for the first time, losing to SSG Bergisch Gladbach 0–5. Three years later the DFB-Pokal was won against FSV Frankfurt

FSV Frankfurt

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 3–0. The Duisburg eleven featured also the then 16-year old Martina Voss

Martina Voss

Martina Voss-Tecklenburg is a retired German football midfielder and lately was head coach for women's football club FCR 2001 Duisburg in Germany's top flight, the Fußball-Bundesliga. Her contract was ended on 17 February 2011...

, who became Duisburg's most famous player.

In 1985 KBC won the German championship against Bayern Munich 1–0 and also reached the cup final, but lost against FSV Frankfurt on penalties. Duisburg reached the final for the German championship for the third and last time in 1988, losing to SSG Bergisch Gladbach. When the Bundesliga

Fußball-Bundesliga (women)

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 was founded in 1990 Duisburg qualified for the league. The first year ended with a runner-up finish to Siegen, but KBC's best times had already passed. The club was relegated at the end of the 1993-94 season. After a few years in the lower divisions the dissolution of the women's football section was agreed to.

Honours

• German Championship: 1985
• DFB-Pokal: 1983
• Lower Rhine champions: 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
• Lower Rhine cup: 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990

Famous players

The following players of KBC were German internationals:

• Sandra Alter
• Gudrun Gottschlich
• Sandra Hengst
• Andrea Limper
• Birgit Offermann
• Claudia Reichler
• Martina Voss
  Martina Voss
  Martina Voss-Tecklenburg is a retired German football midfielder and lately was head coach for women's football club FCR 2001 Duisburg in Germany's top flight, the Fußball-Bundesliga. Her contract was ended on 17 February 2011...
  
  

Statistics of the women's section

Season	League	Place	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	DFB-Pokal
1990–91	Bundesliga Nord Fußball-Bundesliga (women) The Women's Football Bundesliga is the main league competition for women's football in Germany. In 1990 the German Football Association created the German Women's Bundesliga, based on the model of the men's Bundesliga. It was first played with north and south divisions, but in 1997 the groups...  (I)	2	10	7	1	47	16	27	not qualified
1991–92	Bundesliga Nord	6	8	6	6	31	24	22	1st round Frauen DFB Pokal 1991–92 The Frauen DFB-Pokal 1991–92 was the 12th season of the cup competition, Germany's second-most important title in women's football. In the final which was held in Berlin on 23 June 1992 FSV Frankfurt defeated TSV Siegen 1–0, thus claiming their third cup title.In this edition of the cup for the...
1992–93	Bundesliga Nord	5	7	6	5	33	28	20	Quarter-final Frauen DFB Pokal 1992–93 The Frauen DFB-Pokal 1992–93 was the 13th season of the cup competition, Germany's second-most important title in women's football. In the final which was held in Berlin on 12 June 1993 TSV Siegen defeated Grün-Weiß Brauweiler 6–5 on penalties The game had ended 1–1 after extra time. It was...
1993–94	Bundesliga Nord	10	2	1	15	8	86	5	1st round Frauen DFB Pokal 1993–94 The Frauen DFB-Pokal 1993–94 was the 14th season of the cup competition, Germany's second-most important title in women's football. In the final which was held in Berlin on 14 May 1994 Grün-Weiß Brauweiler met TSV Siegen just as in the previous season. This time Brauweiler won 2–1, thus winning...
1994–95	Regionalliga West Fußball-Regionalliga (women) The five Regionalligas are the third-tier leagues in German women's football. In each division the champion will be promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in the next season.- Mode :...  (II)	unknown							1st round Frauen DFB Pokal 1994–95 The Frauen DFB-Pokal 1994–95 was the 15th season of the cup competition, Germany's second-most important title in women's football. In the final which was held in Berlin on 24 June 1995 FSV Frankfurt defeated TSV Siegen 3–1, thus winning their fourth cup title...
Red marks a season followed by relegation.

External links

• Official site of KBC Duisburg