Eintracht Braunschweig

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Eintracht Braunschweig

Full name

Braunschweiger Turn- und
Sportverein Eintracht von 1895

Founded

1895

Ground

Stadion Hamburger Straße,
Braunschweig

Capacity

23,500

Chairman

Gerhard Glogowski

Manager

Dietmar Demuth

League

2. Bundesliga

2005-06

2.Bundesliga, 12th





Home colours





Away colours

Eintracht Braunschweig is a German football club based in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. It was founded as the football and cricket club FuCC Eintracht in 1895, became FC Eintracht 1895 e.V. in 1906 and took on the name Eintracht Braunschweig in 1920. The team was re-formed after World War II as TSV Braunschweig in 1945 and reclaimed its current name in 1949.

The team has a colorful history and it quickly became one of northern Germany's favorite sides. They enjoyed success early on, playing in the upper tier league, winning the north German championship in 1908 and 1913, and placing three players on the German national team by 1914. Under the Third Reich the team played in the Gauliga and managed an appearance in the national final rounds. They continued to play in the upper leagues after the war with the exception of a single season (1952-53) spent in tier II. The side was touched by tragedy in 1949 when goalkeeper Faehland died of internal bleeding a few days after being injured during a game in a collision with a Bremen striker. Another appearance in the final round of the national championship came in 1958 ending with a third place finish.

Eintracht Braunschweig's consistently high standard of play and financial stability helped it to become one of the sixteen teams selected out of a group of forty-six applicants for play in the Bundesliga, the new federal professional league formed in 1963. Once again the side enjoyed early success, capturing the national title in the 1966-67 season with solid defensive play. That championship team gave up only 27 goals against, which stood as a Bundesliga record until bettered by Werder Bremen in 1988. The club just missed a second title in 1977 when they finished third, one point back of champion Borussia Moenchengladbach and just behind second place finisher Schalke 04 on goal difference. Another ten players joined the national side from the team, mostly through the 60's and 70's.

The club found itself embroiled in the Bundesliga scandal of 1971, but with a somewhat unusual twist. A number of players accepted payments totaling 40,000 DM – not to underperform and so lose or tie a game, but rather, to put out an extra effort to win. Ultimately, two players were suspended and another ten were fined.

Paul Breitner sporting Braunschweig's revolutionary Jägermeister jersey in 1978.

In 1973, in the face of some opposition from the league, Braunschweig became the first Bundesliga side to sport a sponsor logo on their jerseys, although they did refuse a related attempt to re-name the team Eintracht Jägermeister. The move paid the team 100,000 DM and introduced a new way of doing business to football that is worth millions today. Other clubs quickly followed suit.

The club played in the Bundesliga through to the mid-80's having been relegated just twice, in 1973-74 and again in 1980-81. During their run of 322 games in the Bundesliga from 1963 to 1973 they set a record that still stands by not seeing a single player red-carded. Since the 1985-86 season the side has played at the tier II and III levels and is currently competing in 2.Bundesliga. In 1987, Braunschweig managed to set a mark even as they were demoted. They are the only team ever to have been relegated with a positive goal differential: 52 goals for and 47 against.

The side counted a casualty in the Cold War in the death of Lutz Eigendorf, who fled East Germany in 1979, where he played for Dynamo Berlin, to come to the west to play for 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Shortly after his transfer to Braunschweig in 1983, he died in a motor vehicle accident which was revealed in 2000 as the assassination of a "traitor" arranged by the Stasi, East Germany's secret police.

1 Honours
2 Current squad (02/2007)
3 Famous players
4 External links

German Championships: 1967

No.	Position	Player
2	MF	Dennis Brinkmann
3	DF	Alexander Huber
4	DF	Markus Husterer
5	DF	Torsten Jülich
6	MF	Francis Banecki (on loan from Werder Bremen)
7	DF	Benjamin Siegert
8	MF	Daniel Graf (retired)
9	FW	Dustin Heun (play since 08/2006 at VfB Lübeck)
10	MF	Dennis Weiland (out of team)
11	FW	Ahmet Kuru (play since 01/2007 at FC St. Pauli)
12	GK	Thorsten Stuckmann
13	DF	René Wegner
14	MF	Finn Holsing
15	DF	Marco Grimm
16	MF	Martin Hauswald
17	FW	Bekim Kastrati
18	MF	Lars Fuchs
20	FW	Samuel Koejoe (play since 01/2007 at Dynamo Dresden)
21	FW	Jürgen Rische

No.	Position	Player
22	GK	Alexander Kunze
23	MF	Torsten Lieberknecht
24	MF	Kosta Rodrigues
25	MF	Muhammed Basar
26	MF	Patrick Bick
27	MF	Edgar Bernhardt
28	DF	Ludwig Siegismund
39	DF	Martin Horacek
30	MF	Daniyel Cimen (on loan from Eintracht Frankfurt)
31	FW	Stefan Hauk
32	GK	Nico Lauenstein
33	FW	Tobias Schweinsteiger
34	FW	Valentine Atem
35	MF	Igor Barukcic
36	FW	Zoran Ratkovic
37	FW	Alexander Golban
38	MF	Jales Otacilio
39	FW	Igor Zikovic
40	GK	Edin Nuredinovski
44	MF	Leozinho