FC Gießen

FC Gießen is a German association football club from the city of Giessen and the Watzenborn-Steinberg quarter of the town of Pohlheim, both in Hesse. The club's greatest success has been promotion to the tier four Regionalliga Südwest in 2016 and 2019.

FC Gießen
Full nameFC Gießen 1927 Teutonia/1900 VfB e.V.
Founded1 November 1927 (1 November 1927)
GroundWaldstadion
Capacity4,999
ChairmanDominik Fischer
ManagerDaniyel Cimen
LeagueRegionalliga Südwest (IV)
2018–19Hessenliga (V), 1st (promoted)

History

Former logo of Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg.

Predecessor club Sportclub Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg was formed on 1 November 1927. For much of its history this club played in local amateur leagues.[1]

From the mid-2000s, the club experienced a rise through the league system, reaching the tier five Landesliga Hessen-Mitte in 2006 after a runners-up finish in the Bezirksoberliga Gießen/Marburg. Teutonia played at this level for two seasons before being relegated again in 2008. It returned to what had now been renamed the Gruppenliga Gießen/Marburg, where it played for the next three seasons. A league championship in 2011 took it back up to the Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte, the former Landesliga. It played at Verbandsliga level for the next four seasons before winning the league in 2015 and earning promotion to the Hessenliga for the first time.[2][3] Winning the league in 2015–16 Teutonia earned another promotion, now to the Regionalliga Südwest, from which the club was relegated one season later.

Teutonia was renamed FC Gießen on 1 July 2018 after acquiring VfB Gießen's football department.[4] VfB announced its closure earlier in March.[5] FC won another Hessenliga championship in 2019, promoting them to the Regionalliga again.

Current squad

As of 23 September 2021

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Germany GER Frederic Löhe
3 DF Germany GER Kristian Gaudermann
5 DF Germany GER Ben-Luca Fisher
6 MF Germany GER Benedict dos Santos
7 FW Germany GER Giuseppe Burgio
8 MF Germany GER Donny Bogicevic
9 FW Turkey TUR Aykut Öztürk
10 MF Tunisia TUN Nejmeddin Daghfous
13 MF Germany GER Michael Fink
14 DF Japan JPN Ryunosuke Takehara
15 MF Brazil BRA Matheus Beal
17 MF Germany GER Dennis Owusu
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 MF Japan JPN Ko Sawada
19 MF Germany GER Louis Münn
21 GK Germany GER Matay Birol
22 DF Germany GER Gianluca Lo Scrudato
23 MF Germany GER Leonidas Tiliudis
25 FW Japan JPN Takero Itoi
26 GK Serbia SRB Vladan Grbovic
27 MF Germany GER Nikita Marusenko
28 DF Germany GER Niclas Mohr
31 DF Germany GER Marian Sarr
33 MF Germany GER Nikola Trkulja
34 DF Germany GER Tobias Reithmeir

Honours

The club's honours:

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[3][2]

Season Division Tier Position
2003–04 Bezirksliga Gießen/Marburg-Süd VII 1st ↑
2004–05 Bezirksoberliga Gießen/Marburg VI 7th
2005–06 Bezirksoberliga Gießen/Marburg 2nd ↑
2006–07 Landesliga Hessen-Mitte V 14th
2007–08 Landesliga Hessen-Mitte 19th ↓
2008–09 Gruppenliga Gießen/Marburg VII 10th
2009–10 Gruppenliga Gießen/Marburg 9th
2010–11 Gruppenliga Gießen/Marburg 1st ↑
2011–12 Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte VI 12th
2012–13 Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte 9th
2013–14 Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte 14th
2014–15 Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte 1st ↑
2015–16 Hessenliga V 1st ↑
2016–17 Regionalliga Südwest IV 17th ↓
2017–18 Hessenliga V 4th
2018–19 Hessenliga 1st ↑
2019–20 Regionalliga Südwest IV
Promoted Relegated

References

  1. "Historie". SC Teutonia Watzenborn (in German). Archived from the original on 10 March 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  2. Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg at Fussball.de (in German) accessed: 23 October 2015
  3. Historic German football league tables (in German) Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 23 October 2015
  4. "Die Mischung macht's" (in German). 30 May 2018.
  5. "VfB 1900 Gießen beendet das Kapitel Fußball" (in German). 9 March 2018.
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