FC Homburg
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FC Homburg is a Germany football_(soccer) List of football clubs in Germany based in Homburg, Saarland, Saarland. FC Homburg was founded on 15 June 1908 as
Fussball Club Homburg by a group of seventeen young men at the local Hohenburg pub.
History
In February 1913 they were re-named
Fussballverein Homburg and went on to take the local championship that season. By the mid 20s the side was playing second division football, but folded on 27 August 1936. A new multi-sport club known as
VfL Homburg was formed 5 March 1937 out of a group of local sides that included
Turnverein 1878 Homburg,
Schwimmverein Homburg,
Kraftsportverein Homburg,
Boxclub Homburg,
Tennis-Club Homburg, as well as the former membership of the defunct
FV. The footballers again took up play in second tier competition and failed in two attempts (1938, 1941) to win their way through the regional promotion playoff to the first division Gauliga Südwest.
After World War II, Allied occupation authorities dissolved all types of associations in Germany, including football clubs. FC Homburg was soon re-constituted as
Sportverein Homburg and captured a division championship in the Amateurliga Saarland (III) in 1948 before resuming the name
FC Homburg in January 1949.
The Saarland was Allied Occupation Zones in Germany who made various efforts to see the state become independent of Germany or join France. In sport this was manifested as separate 1952 Olympic and Football_World_Cup_1954_(qualification) teams for Saarland, the establishment of a short-lived football league for the state, and the German club
1. FC Saarbrücken playing in the French second division.
Homburg played in the Saarland Ehrenliga from 1949 to 1951 as
FC Homburg-Saar. By the time of the 1951-52 season the return of German teams to the DFB (Deutsche Fussball Bund or German Football Association) had been negotiated: the Ehrenliga faded away and by 1956 the independent Saarland Fussball Bund had re-joined the DFB.
A second Amateurliga Saarland title in 1957 advanced
FC to the 2. Liga-Südwest (II) and in December of that year they adopted the name
FC 08 Homburg-Saar. FC Homburg was relegated to the Amateurliga in 1960 which had become a fourth tier circuit by 1963.
In the late 70s FC Homburg advanced to the quarter finals of the German Cup on two occasions, and on into the early 80s moved frequently between third and fourth tier play. Then, in the second half of the decade, they enjoyed their greatest success. They played their way back to the second division and on into the Bundesliga (football) in 1986.
Homburg played two seasons there, were relegated, and returned for one final Bundesliga season in 1989-90 before beginning a gradual descent which would lead them to Oberliga Südwest (IV) where they play today.
FC Homburg had amoment of glory in 1991 when it beat FC Bayern Munich in Munich 4-2 after extra time in the first round of the DFB Cup 1991-92.
Along the way FC Homburg had a couple of misadventures. In 1988, the DFB prohibited FC Homburg from wearing the sponsorship logo of a condom manufacturer on ethical and moral grounds. In 1998, they entered into an agreement with
1. FC Saarbrücken to loan players to that team to help ease
Homburgs financial pinch. Despite this, in 1999 FC Homburg had a brush with bankruptcy that led to their being denied a license to play in the Regionalliga West/Südwest (III) and demotion to the Oberliga Südwest (IV). FC Homburg qualified for the 2006-07 German Cup and went out in the first round 1:2 to Bundesliga side VfL Bochum.
Former Players
- Rodolfo Esteban Cardoso (1989-93) 125 apps 15 goals
- Thomas Dooley (1983-88) 121 apps 20 goals
- Miroslav Klose (1998-99) 20 apps 11 goals
Honours
- German amateur champions: 1983
- 2. Fußball-Bundesliga champion: 1986 (promoted to Bundesliga)
- 2nd Bundesliga runners-up: 1989 (promoted to Bundesliga)
- Oberliga Südwest champions: 1982, 1984
- Amateurliga Saarland champion: 1948, 1957, 1966
- Saarland Cup winners: 1983, 2001, 2006, 2008
Recent seasons
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