SV Chemie Böhlen is a German football club based in

Böhlen Böhlen () is a town in Saxony, Germany, south of Leipzig. Its main features are a small airport and a power-plant. It is located in the newly built Neuseenland, the lakes created in the former open-pit mining areas. History The first docum ...

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

. The club is the successor to ''BSG Chemie Böhlen'' which played four seasons in the former East German first division DDR-Oberliga.

History

The original ''Chemie'' was formed in October 1952 as a merger of ''BSG Aktivist West'' and ''BSG Aktivist Mitte'', which were founded in 1949 as ''BSG Benzinwerk'' and ''BSG Brennstoff'' respectively and renamed in July 1951. The first league ''Aktivist'' entered was the Bezirksliga Leipzig (III-IV) and stayed there until they won promotion to the 2. DDR-Liga (III) after a Leipzig district title win in 1956. They lasted for six more seasons until the 2. Liga was scrapped in 1963, when they were one of 64 teams regrouped in the Bezirksliga because a third-place finish for them was way short of a promotion playoff place. ''Aktivist'' won the Leipzig division in 1964 and 1966 but clinched one of two promotion places in the latter year's playoffs. Their debut in the

DDR-Liga The DDR-Liga (English: GDR League or ''East German League'') was, prior to German reunification in 1990, the second level of football competition in the DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik or German Democratic Republic, commonly East Germany), bei ...

(II) was a disappointing one, ending in second from bottom and relegation yet they acted as a yo-yo club in 1967 when they earned their third Bezirksliga title and succeeded in the playoffs again. The club, renamed ''Chemie Böhlen'' in 1969, played ten more seasons in the DDR-Liga and they earned their historic moment when they advanced to the DDR-Oberliga for the first time ever on finishing the 1977 promotion round and the season in first place, after falling behind despite a division win three years earlier; their tenure in the top division of East German football was for only four seasons and bounced around between the top two tiers, winning two more group titles and promotions from 1979–82. ''Chemie'' played the last eight seasons of the DDR-Liga and won Group B before the league system dissolved.

Merger and refoundation

With German reunification underway, on 30 June 1990 ''BSG Chemie'' merged with ''Grün-Weiß Leipzig'' (formerly ''BSG Chemie Leipzig''), runners-up in Group B of the final DDR-Liga season to become''Sachsen Leipzig'', which is now defunct and replaced by successor clubs. Former members of ''BSG Chemie'' refounded ''SV Chemie'' on 17 July and their football team restarted in the

Bezirksliga The Bezirksliga ( en, County League) is commonly a medium set of amateur divisions set at steps 7, 8 or 9 in the German football league system. Structure Depending on the structural organisation within each of the 21 state football associations ...

Leipzig (V) and won promotion to the Landesliga Sachsen (IV) in 1994 but went down after three seasons and withdrew after bankruptcy. ''Chemie'' subsequently joined the Kreisklasse Borna/Geithain (VII) and in 2003 went up to the Bezirksklasse/Kreisoberliga (VII-VIII) where they presently belong, except two seasons in the Kreisliga after voluntary reassignment.

Honors

**Co-winners: 1974, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1990 *Bezirksliga Leipzig **Winners: 1994 *Kreisliga Muldental/Leipziger Land West **Winners: 2015

References

External links

Club profile
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