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Jürgen Gelsdorf
Jürgen Gelsdorf (born 19 January 1953) is a German football coach and former player who is currently youth teams coordinator at Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Sporting career As a player For the 1972/73 season, 19-year-old junior soccer player Jürgen Gelsdorf joined Arminia Bielefeld from MSV Duisburg in the Regionalliga West. The "Alm" had to be rebuilt after its forced relegation from the Bundesliga in 1971/72. The team relied on talents like Hans-Jürgen Wloka (Borussia Mönchengladbach) and Bernd Wehmeyer (Bielefeld's own amateurs) and therefore also signed the talented defensive player Gelsdorf. Bielefeld did very badly in the last two rounds of the Regionalliga West (11th place 72/73; 14th place 73/74), but for Gelsdorf it brought competitive practice in 56 appearances with one goal. Improved by this, he also coped with the increased demands in the newly created 2nd Division North in the 1974-76 rounds. Arminia even played for promotion in 1974/75, and in 1975/76 they were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duisburg
Duisburg (; , ) is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine (Lower Rhine) and the Ruhr (river), Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, 15th-largest city in Germany. In the Middle Ages, it was a city-state and a member of the Hanseatic League, and later became a major centre of the iron, steel, and chemicals industries. For this reason, it was heavily bombed in World War II. Today it boasts the world's largest inland port, with 21 docks and 40 kilometres of wharf. Status Duisburg is a city in Germany's Rhineland, the fifth-largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Essen) in the nation's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Its 500,000 inhabitants make it Germany's List of cities in Germany by p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regionalliga West
The Regionalliga West is a German professional football division administered by the German Football Association#Western Germany, Western German Football Association based in Duisburg. It is one of the five German regional football associations. Being the single flight of the Western German state association, the Regionalliga is currently a level 4 division of the German football league system. It is one of five leagues at this level, together with the Regionalliga Bayern, Regionalliga Nordost, Regionalliga Nord and the Regionalliga Südwest. League history Formation The league came into existence in August 2008 and was formed from the five ''Regionalliga'' clubs in its region which did not achieve admittance to the new 3. Liga, 3rd Liga and thirteen ''Oberliga'' clubs. The number of clubs in the new league was set at eighteen. Along with the formation of this league there was a merger of the ''Oberligas'' below it, with Oberliga Nordrhein, Nordrhein and Oberliga Westfalen, West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Ribbeck
Erich Ribbeck (born 13 June 1937) is a German former professional football player and manager, best known for coaching in the Bundesliga. In 1988, he won the UEFA Cup as manager of Bayer Leverkusen, the first title in the club's history. Playing career As a player, Ribbeck had a career spanning most of the 1950s into the early 1960s with SSV 1904 Wuppertal, which has since merged with ''TSG Vohwinkel'' to form Wuppertaler SV. He later spent the rest of his career playing for Viktoria Köln. The highest level Ribbeck played was the Oberliga, part of the first tier of Germany which was then split into five regional divisions. Ribbeck nearly joined Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Bundesliga side Hertha BSC in 1965, but both deals fell through. He then retired from playing and joined Borussia Mönchengladbach as assistant to Hennes Weisweiler. Managerial career Club His first coaching position he held at the age of 30 in 1967–68, when he took Rot-Weiss Essen to the second place in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Football Association
The German Football Association ( ; DFB ) is the governing body of Association football, football, futsal, and beach soccer in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB has jurisdiction for the German football league system and is in charge of the Germany national football team, men's and Germany women's national football team, women's national teams. The DFB headquarters are in Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main. Sole members of the DFB are the Deutsche Fußball Liga, German Football League (; DFL), organising the professional Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga, along with five regional and 21 state associations, organising the semi-professional and amateur levels. The 21 state associations of the DFB have a combined number of more than 25,000 clubs with more than 6.8 million members, making the DFB the single largest sports federation in the world. History 1875 to 1900 From 1875 to the mid-1880s, the first kind of football played in Germany was according to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erhard Ahmann
Erhard Ahmann (21 May 1941 – 14 December 2005) was a German football manager. In 1972, he was the assistant manager of the West Germany national football team The Germany national football team () represents Germany in men's international Association football, football and played its first match in 1908. The team is governed by the German Football Association (''Deutscher Fußball-Bund''), founded .... Later he most notably managed Arminia Bielefeld and Alemannia Aachen. External links Career stats 1941 births 2005 deaths People from Sundern Footballers from Arnsberg (region) German football managers Arminia Bielefeld managers Alemannia Aachen managers Wuppertaler SV managers German men's footballers Men's association football defenders West German men's footballers West German football managers {{Germany-footy-defender-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1973–74 Regionalliga
The 1973–74 Regionalliga was the eleventh season of the Regionalliga, the second tier of the German football league system. The league operated in five regional divisions, Berlin, North, South, Southwest and West. The five league champions and runners-up then entered a promotion play-off to determine the two clubs to move up to the Bundesliga for the next season. Northern German and Berlin champions Eintracht Braunschweig and Tennis Borussia Berlin were promoted. It was the last season of the Regionalliga as a tier two league, being replaced by two regional divisions of the 2. Bundesliga at this level from 1974–75. Apart from the two teams promoted to the Bundesliga, 38 clubs qualified for the new 2. Bundesliga while the remaining 43 dropped down to the third division Verbandsligas, Amateurligas and Oberligas. Qualification for the 2. Bundesliga took the previous five Regionalliga season into account to determine the qualified teams, rather than just the final tables of 1973 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernd Wehmeyer
Bernd Wehmeyer (born 6 June 1952 in Herford) is a retired German footballer. He spent 11 seasons in the Bundesliga with Arminia Bielefeld, Hannover 96 and Hamburger SV. Honours Hamburger SV * European Cup winner: 1982–83 * European Cup runner-up: 1979–80 * UEFA Cup finalist: 1981–82 * Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ... champion: 1978–79, 1981–82, 1982–83 * Bundesliga runner-up: 1979–80, 1980–81, 1983–84 References External links * 1952 births Living people German men's footballers Arminia Bielefeld players Hamburger SV players UEFA Champions League–winning players Hannover 96 players Bundesliga players Olympic footballers for West Germany West German men's footballers Footballers at the 1984 Summer Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
