Kickers Emden

Kickers Emden is a football (soccer) club from Germany.

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BSV Kickers Emden is a Germany football (soccer) List of football clubs in Germany, located in Emden, Lower Saxony.

History

Kickers Emden first began playing in 1928 as a section of the gymnastics club Emder Turnverein, which was founded in 1861. An independent football club was formed on March 24, 1946 out of the membership of this predecessor side and several other local associations which had been dissolved after World War II.

In 1949, Kickers Emden was promoted to the Amateuroberliga Niedersachsen-West, a second-division league at the time. They went on to finish first in the league at the end of the 1950-51 season and advanced therewith to the promotion play-offs for at the time first-division Oberliga Nord, but did not manage to get promoted. They were only a mediocre team in the Amateuroberliga Niedersachsen-West in the remainder of the decade and eventually slipped down to the fourth-division Verbandsliga Niedersachen-Nord in 1964. They returned to the third-division Amateurliga Niedersachsen in 1970, but were relegated back to the fourth division after three seasons.

Between 1975 and 1983, Kickers Emden competed below fourth division. They managed to return to the fourth division for the 1983-84 season, but were relegated back to the fifth division after three seasons. Another return to the fourth division followed in 1988 and Kickers Emden was eventually promoted to the third-division Amateuroberliga Nord after finishing first in the 1990-91 season of the fourth-division Verbandsliga Niedersachsen.

They participated in the German Cup for the first time in the 1992-93 season, but were eliminated in the first round by then Bundesliga (football) side 1. FC Saarbrücken, who easily beat them 5-1. Kickers Emden also won berths in the German Cup after winning the Cup of Lower Saxony in 1996 and 2000. However, both of these two appearances in the German Cup ended in the first round as well. In the 1996-97 season, they lost 3-1 to then Bundesliga side Fortuna Düsseldorf and in the 2000-01 season they suffered a minimal 1-0 defeat to 1. FSV Mainz 05, a 2nd Bundesliga (football) side at the time.

A first-place finish in the third-division Amateuroberliga Nord in the 1993-94 season, after which Kickers Emden failed to ascend to the Second Bundesliga in a post-season tournament, would have to be considered the recent high point. Kickers Emden continued to compete in then newly founded third-division Regionalliga (football) and never finished below 9th place in the following four seasons, but a 15th-place finish in the 1998-99 season of the league dropped them back to the fourth division after eight seasons in the third division. Kickers Emden subsequently competed in the fourth-division Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen for five seasons and narrowly missed return to the Regionalliga Nord in 2000 and 2003, when they advanced to the promotion play-offs in which they lost to Lüneburger SK and VfR Neumünster respectively. In the 2004-05 season, Kickers Emden finished first in then newly founded fourth-division Oberliga Nord and returned to the third-division Regionalliga Nord for the 2005-06 season. In their first season since returning to the third division, Kickers Emden managed a 9th-place finish in the Regionalliga Nord. After a successful 2008-09 season in the 3rd Liga, finishing sixth, Kickers Emden decided to withdraw from the league for finacial reasons. Instead of the tier-four Regionalliga Nord, Kickers Emden decided to enter the tier-five Oberliga Niedersachsen-West for 2009-10, also for financial reasons.

Recent seasons

(Captain (association football))

For recent transfers, see List of German football transfers summer 2008 and List of German football transfers winter 2008-09.

Notable players

- Jörg Heinrich, former Germany national football team played for Kickers Emden between 1990 and 1994 before leaving to join Bundesliga side SC Freiburg
- Ferydoon Zandi, Iran national football team was born in Emden and spent four years in Kickers Emden's youth department

1.FC Dynamo Dresden, 1.FC Union Berlin, Carl Zeiss Jena, Eintracht Braunschweig, Erzgebirge Aue, FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Kickers Emden, Kickers Offenbach, SC Paderborn 07, SV Werder Bremen II, Wuppertaler SV