Chemnitz
Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...
, Saxony. The club competes in
Regionalliga Nordost
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, the fourth tier of German football.
The roots of the club go back to its establishment as Chemnitzer BC 1933, following the financial collapse of former Chemnitzer BC 1899.
History
The club was initially formed by students from
Mittweida
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Geography
Mittweida is situated on the river Zschopau, 18 km north of Chemnitz, and 54 km west of Dresden. Embedded within the steep hills and valleys of the ri ...
as Chemnitzer SC Britannia on 2 December 1899.
On 28 January 1900, Chemnitzer SC Britannia was a
founding member
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* Incorporation (disambiguation)
I ...
of the
German Football Association
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(DFB) in
Leipzig
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. During April the same year, the club changed its name to Chemnitzer BC 1899.
On 8 August 1903, the club became a founding member of the Verband Chemnitzer Fußball-Vereine (VCFV). This local federation was included into the Verband Mitteldeutscher Fußball-Vereine (VMBV), the great regional federation of Central Germany, two years later.
Until 1933, Chemnitzer BC were a strong side of the VMBV leagues. They took part in the WMBV's final round fifteen times, reaching the final once in 1927. Despite a 0–4 defeat against
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– 7 September 2000 to 29 November 2000
* Manfred Lienemann – 29 November 2000 to 10 December 2000
* Dirk Karkuth – 11 December 2000 to 24 August 2001
* Matthias Schulz – 24 August 2001 to 31 October 2002
* Dirk Barsikow – 31 October 2002 to 11 November 2002
* Joachim Müller – 11 November 2002 to 18 June 2003
* Frank Rohde – 18 June 2003 to 18 September 2004
* Dirk Barsikow – 18 September 2004 to 4 March 2005
*
Dietmar Demuth
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– 5 March 2005 to 15 December 2005
* Joachim Müller – 15. December 2005 to 7 April 2007
* Tino Vogel – 10 April 2007 – 21 April 2008
* Christoph Franke – 21 April 2008 to 30 June 2008
* Gerd Schädlich – 1 July 2008 to 6 October 2013
*
Karsten Heine
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Managerial career
Union Berlin
Heine has managed 1. FC Union Berlin on two occasions. The first stint happened from ...
– 9 October 2013 to 2 March 2016
*
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– 2 March 2016 to 30 June 2017
*
Horst Steffen
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Club career
Steffen began his youth career at KFC Uerdingen 05, Bayer Uerdin ...
– 1 July 2017 to 2 January 2018
*
Sreto Ristić
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– 2 January 2018 to 6 January 2018
* David Bergner – 6 January 2018 to 4 September 2019
*
Sreto Ristić
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C ...
– 4 September 2019 to 22 September 2019
*
Patrick Glöckner
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Playing career
As a player, he played as a midfielder in the 2. Bundesliga with Eintracht Frankfu ...
– 22 September 2019 to 16 July 2020
* Daniel Berlinski – 20 July 2020 to 1 March 2022
* Christian Tiffert – 1 March 2022 to 2 September 2024
* Benjamin Duda – 8 September 2024 to
Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
* With the introduction of the
Regionalliga
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s in 1994 and the
3. Liga
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in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.
;Key
Reserve team
The club's reserve team, Chemnitzer FC II, most recently played in the tier five
NOFV-Oberliga Süd
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. It first played at this level from 1993 to 1998 with a runners-up finish in 1996 as its best result. After relegation and an absence of thirteen seasons the team returned to the Oberliga in 2010. The club announced that it would withdraw its reserve team at the end of the 2014–15 season.
The team also made a losing appearance in the 1996
Saxony Cup
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final.
Stadium
''Chemnitzer FC'' plays in the club-owned
Stadion an der Gellertstraße
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which has a capacity of 16,061 spectators (~540 seats). Until 1990, the facility was officially known as "Dr. Kurt-Fischer-Stadion", or locally as the "Fischerwiese". During its 2. Bundesliga seasons, the club also made use of the larger Chemnitzer Sportforum, which has a capacity of over 19,000.