Zipsendorfer Fußballclub Meuselwitz is a German association football club

Football in Germany

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 from Meuselwitz

Meuselwitz

Meuselwitz is a town in the Altenburger Land district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 12 km northwest of Altenburg and 11 km east of Zeitz.-History:...

, Thuringia

Thuringia

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History

The origins of the club go back to the establishment of Aktivist Zipsendorf in 1919. After World War II the club played as BSG Aktivist Zipsendorf and enjoyed some early minor success with three consecutive titles (1954–56) in the Kreisliga Altenburg and a 1962 win in local cup play. However, the club remained mired in the lower echelons of East German competition. When the community of Zipsendorf was merged into nearby Meuselwitz in 1976 the team was re-christened BSG Aktivist Meuselwitz. In 1991, after German re-unification the year before, the club briefly joined SV Bergbau as that association's football department before going their own way, first as FV Zipsendorf and then, in 1994, as Zipsendorfer Fußballclub Meuselwitz.

Mid-way through the decade the club began an ascent out of the lower divisions of German football. Between 1993 and 1997 they worked their way up through four different divisions on the strength of four consecutive titles before settling into the Landesliga Thuringia (V) for seven seasons.

Under coach Damian Halata

Damian Halata

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 the club reached the semi-finals of the 2003 Thüringerpokal (Thüringer Cup) and the following season captured the Landesliga title to advance to the Oberliga Nordost-Süd (IV) where they have so far delivered upper table finishes.

The association has grown to include departments for bowling

Bowling

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 and cheerleading

Cheerleading

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Stadium

The club plays its home matches in the bluechip-Arena (capacity 5,000) named under a sponsorship agreement with a local computer firm. The facility was constructed as the Stadion Glaserkuppe in 1953 and refurbished over a two year period ending in 2004.

Current squad

Notable players

 

• Jiri Andrusak
• Martin Bronec
• Petr Elias
• Ladislav Jamrich
• Miroslav Janota
• Miroslav Rada
• Pavel Sedlacek
  Pavel Sedláček
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• Radek Selicha
• Jan Zich

 

• Irakli Gemazashvili
  Irakli Gemazashvili
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• Matthias Großmann
• Ronny Hebestreit
  Ronny Hebestreit
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• Felix Hesse
• Holm Pinder
• Steven Sonnenberg

 

• Charalampos Chionidis

 

• David Kwiatkowski

Honours

• NOFV-Oberliga Süd
  NOFV-Oberliga Süd
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   (V) champions: 2009
• Landesliga Thüringen
  Landesliga Thüringen
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  (V) champions: 2004
• Landesklasse Ost (V) champions: 1997
• Kreisliga Altenburg (VI) champions: 1994
• Bezirksliga Gera (VI) champions: 1996
• Bezirksklasse Gera (VII) champions: 1995

External links

• Official team site
• Abseits Guide to German Soccer
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German football league tables (in German)
• eufo.de European football club profiles