Lok Stendal

1. FC Lok Stendal is a German association football club that plays in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt.

History

Founded in 1909, ''FC Viktoria Stendal'' was dissolved in the aftermath of World War II and re-established in Soviet occupation zone of Germany in 1945 as ''SG Stendal-Nord''. The club underwent a number of changes in quick succession. It was renamed Blau-Weiss Stendal in 1948 and then ''SG Eintracht Stendal'' in April 1949. By year's end ''Eintract'' was merged with two railway sides – ''BSG Reichsbahn Stendal'' and ''BSG RAW Stendal'' – to emerge briefly in December as ''SG Hans Wendler Stendal''. The practise of honouring industry in the worker's state through the renaming of football clubs was common in East Germany. Hans Wendler was an engineer who developed a method for using dust from the country's plentiful supplies of low grade brown coal to fuel older locomotives and so was briefly honoured by having one of the railway-sponsored football sides named after him. The team was finally dubbed ''BSG Lokomotive Stendal'' in 1950.

''Lok'' spent most of the 1950s and 1960s in the top flight DDR-Oberliga. However, they were a perennial lower-table side and their best ever result at that level was a fourth-place finish. They fell to the second-tier DDR-Liga in 1968 to play out the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the rest of the 1980s was spent in third and fourth division level competition.

With German reunification in 1990 the club changed its name to ''FSV Lok Altmark Stendal'' and after a year in the transitional league, ''Lok Altmark'' was seeded to the third tier NOFV-Oberliga Mitte and, from 1994 to 2000, the Regionalliga Nordost. The team enjoyed a successful run in the 1995 German Cup, advancing as far as the quarter finals where there were put out on penalty kicks by Bundesliga side ''Bayer Leverkusen''.

With the new millennium the club slipped to the NOFV-Oberliga Nord (VI) and by 2002 they were bankrupt and adrift. A union with the small local club ''1. FC Stendal'' earned them a new start in the Verbandsliga Sachsen-Anhalt (VI since 2008, previously V) where they play today.Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
Historical German domestic league tables1. FC Lok Stendal at Fussball.de
Tables and results of all German football leagues

Honours

The club's honours:
* Olympia-Pokal ( de)
** Runners-up: 1964
* Saxony-Anhalt Cup
** Winners: 1992, 1995, 1996
** Runners-up: 1998, 2003

References

External links

Official website

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Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in East Germany
Football clubs in Saxony-Anhalt
Association football clubs established in 1945
1945 establishments in Germany
Railway sports clubs in Germany
Railway association football clubs in Germany