Sportfreunde Ricklingen

The Sportfreunde Ricklingen is a German association football club from the Ricklingen suburb of Hanover, Lower Saxony.

Sportfreunde Ricklingen
Full nameSportfreunde Ricklingen von 1906 e.V.
Founded1906
GroundBeekestadion
Capacity3,000
ChairmanDieter Maetz
ManagerAlexander Repschläger
LeagueKreisliga Hannover (VIII)
2015–16Bezirksliga Hannover 2 (VII), 16th (relegated)

The club's greatest success has been to earn promotion to the tier three Regionalliga Nord in 1996, where it played for three seasons. The club has also made two appearances in the first round of the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup.

History

The club was formed in 1906 as the Freie Turner Ricklingen. The club was outlawed by the Nazis in 1933 but reformed in 1945, now under the current name Sportfreunde Ricklingen.[1]

In 1958 the club won promotion to the highest football league in Lower Saxony, the tier two Amateur-Oberliga Niedersachsen and played at this level until 1964 when the league was reduced from two to one division. A period of three decades followed in which Ricklinge did not play at the highest level of Lower Saxony football.[2]

The team's second rise began in 1993 with promotion to the tier four Verbandsliga Niedersachsen. It finished sixth in the league in 1993–94 which qualified it for the new Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen which was established when the Regionalligas were re-formed as the new third tier of the league system in 1994. Sportfreunde came fourth in the Oberliga in its first season there but won the league the season after and won promotion to the Regionalliga Nord. In this era the club also took part in the first round of the DFB-Pokal on two occasions, in 1992–93 and 1993–94, reaching the third round in its first appearance.[2][3]

Sportfreunde played at Regionalliga level for three seasons, with an eleventh place in 1996–97 as its best result. The team's results declined after this and the club was relegated from the Regionalliga again in 1999. It was relegated from the Oberliga the season after when it came only sixteenth and found itself in the western division of the Verbandsliga Niedersachsen for 2000–01 where it finished one rank above a relegation spot. The following season it came only seventeenth in the Verbandsliga and was relegated from this league, too.[2][4]

Sportfreunde Ricklingen has since fallen as far as the tier eight Kreisliga Hannover but success in the Kreisliga promotion round in 2014 took Sportfreunde back to the Bezirksliga where it lasted for two seasons before dropping back down again.[5]

Honours

The team's honours:

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[2][5]

Year Division Tier Position
1994–95 Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen IV 4th
1995–96 Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen 1st↑
1996–97 Regionalliga Nord III 11th
1997–98 Regionalliga Nord 13th
1998–99 Regionalliga Nord 18th↓
1999–2000 Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen IV 16th↓
2000–01 Niedersachsenliga West V 13th
2001–02 Niedersachsenliga West 17th↓
2002–03 Landesliga Hannover VI 1st↑
2003–04 Niedersachsenliga West V 17th↓
2004–05 Landesliga Hannover VI 6th
2005–06 Landesliga Hannover 2nd↑
2006–07 Niedersachsenliga West V 14th↓
2007–08 Bezirksoberliga Hannover VI 9th
2008–09 Bezirksoberliga Hannover 4th
2009–10 Bezirksoberliga Hannover 15th↓
2010–11 Bezirksliga Hannover 2 VII 15th↓
2011–12 Kreisliga Hannover VIII 7th
2012–13 Kreisliga Hannover 5th
2013–14 Kreisliga Hannover 2nd↑
2014–15 Bezirksliga Hannover 2 VII 6th
2015–16 Bezirksliga Hannover 2 16th↓
2016–17 Kreisliga Hannover VIII
Promoted Relegated

References

  1. Chronik (in German) Sportfreunde Ricklingen website – Club history, accessed: 31 January 2015
  2. Historic German football league tables (in German) Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 1 February 2015
  3. DFB-Pokal (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 1 February 2015
  4. Regionalliga Nord tables and results (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 1 February 2015
  5. Sportfreunde Ricklingen at Fussball.de (in German) accessed: 1 February 2015
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