- 1. FC Kleve
Football club infobox
clubname = 1. FC Kleve
fullname = Erster Fussball Club Kleve e.V.
nickname =
founded = 1863/1903
ground = Volksbank-Arena
capacity = 5,000
chairman = Gerd van Koeverden
manager =Arie van Lent
league =Regionalliga West (IV)
season = 2007-08
position =Oberliga Nordrhein (IV), 4th (promoted)
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leftarm2=0000ff|body2=0000ff|rightarm2=0000ff|shorts2=ff0000|socks2=0000ff1. FC Kleve is a German football club from the city of
Kleve ,North Rhine-Westphalia very near the Dutch border. The club was established in 2000 out of the merger of "VfB Lohengrin 03 Kleve" and "Sportclub Kleve 63". The footballers are today part of a larger sports club that also has departments foraerobics ,gymnastics ,Karate , andtennis .__TOC__
History
portclub Kleve 63
"SC Kleve" was founded in 1906 as "Fussball Club Cleve" and merged with "Spieleverein 1909 Cleve" in 1917 to create "FC Hohenzollern Cleve". Two years later the club was briefly known as "Verein für Jungend und Volksspiele Cleve" before becoming part of "Turnverein Cleve 1863". In 1924, the footballers left to form an independent club called "Sportclub Cleve 1863". After 1925 the city was known as "Kleve" and the sports club adopted the same form.
Following
World War II , "SC" made occasional appearances as a lower table side in third tier football in the Amateurliga Niederrhein. Following the reorganization of German football and the formation of the top-flight Bundesliga in 1963, "SC" managed another three season of third division play (1963-64, 1969-71) before slipping back to lower level local competition.VfB Lohengrin 03 Kleve
The Lohengrin side was established in 1903 as "VfB Cleve" and was made up largely of workers from the "van-den-Berghschen Margarinewerke" earning them the nickname "de Botter". The club's home field was built with the support of the margarine company and on 16 October 1910 was the site of the first international match between Germany and Holland held on German soil (1:2).
This team merged with "Turnclub Merkur" and "Clever Schwimm-Sportclub" in 1920 to form "Verein für Turn- und Bewegungsspiele Cleve". A new association known as "VfL 95 Merkur Cleve" was formed out of this club the following year and they quickly re-adopted the traditional name "VfB 03 Cleve". After 1925 this side also used the form "Kleve". In January 1946, "VfB" joined "SuL Kleve", itself formed through the 1936 merger of "VfB Lohengrin 1921" and "FC Sparta 1921 Kleve", to create "VfB Lohengrin 03 Kleve".
Like "SC", "VfB" made occasional appearances in third tier football in the Amateurliga Niederrhein and had a similarly undistinguished record at that level.
1. FC Kleve
These key predecessor sides were acknowledged with the adoption of the name "1. FC Kleve 1863/1903" in the 2000 merger that formed the present-day club. In 2003, "1. FC" won its way to the
Oberliga Nordrhein (IV) where they competed until 2008, when the club earned promotion to the newRegionalliga West .Honours
"SC Kleve 63"
*Landesliga Niederrhein-2 (IV) champions: 1969"VfB Lohengrin 03 Kleve"
*Landesliga Niederrhein-2 (IV) champions: 1995"1. FC Kleve"
*Landesliga Niederrhein-2 (VI) champions: 2002
*Verbandsliga Niederrhein (V) champions: 2003External links
* [http://www.1fckleve.de/ Official team site]
* [http://www.abseits-soccer.com/clubs/kleve.html Abseits Guide to German Soccer]References
*Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9
* [http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv] historical German domestic league tables (in German)
* [http://www.eufo.de/ eufo.de] European football club profiles and current team rosters
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