1. FC Bocholt

1. FC Bocholt

Full name	1. FC Bocholt
Founded	1900
Ground	Stadion am Hünting
Capacity	18,000
Chairman	Ludger Triphaus
Manager	Dietmar Hirsch
League	Regionalliga West (IV)
2022–23	Regionalliga West, 15th of 18
Home colours Away colours Third colours

1. FC Bocholt is a German association football club based in Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia.

History

The team was founded 21 August 1900 as Fußball-Club Bocholt and in 1919 was joined by VfvB Bocholt, which had been established in 1917 as Ballverein Bocholt. In 1937, they merged with another local side, Ballspielverein 1919 Bocholt, which had played as the football department of Turnverein Phönix Bocholt until 1936. The new club played as BV 1900 Bocholt until after World War II and adopted its current name in 1946.^[1]

1. FC enjoyed its greatest successes through the late 1970s and early 1980s playing third-division football. They earned short-lived single-season promotions to the 2. Bundesliga in 1977–78 and 1980–81. The club also made several appearances in DFB-Pokal (German Cup) play in that period and in 1984 advanced as far as the quarter-finals before going out 2–1 to FC Bayern Munich.

After slipping out of the Regionaliga West/Südwest (III) in 1997, Bocholt played for a decade in the Oberliga Nordrhein (IV) as a mid-to-lower table side. The club had a poor 2006–07 campaign and was relegated to the Verbandsliga Niederrhein (V) play. The club dropped as far as the Landesliga Niederrhein, but a division title there in 2014 took it back up to what is now the Oberliga Niederrhein.

Honours

The club's honours:

• Amateurliga Niederrhein (III)
  • Champions: 1976
• Amateuroberliga Nordrhein (III)
  • Champions: 1980, 1984
• Oberliga Niederrhein (V)
  • Champions: 2022
• Lower Rhine Cup
  • Winners: 1983

Players

Current squad

As of 22 August 2023^[2]

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  LUX Lucas Fox 3 DF  GER Gino Windmüller 4 DF  GER Florian Mayer 5 DF  GER Noah Salau 6 MF  GER Dominik Klann 7 FW  GER Dildar Atmaca 8 MF  KOS Mërgim Fejzullahu 9 FW  GER Malek Fakhro 10 MF  GER Jan Holldack 11 MF  GER Leon Gino Schmidt 14 FW  GER Kelvin Lunga 16 DF  GER Marko Stojanović 17 DF  TUR Ali Barak

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  NED Haris Mesic 19 FW  GER Willi Reincke (on loan from SC Verl) 20 DF  GER Marc Beckert 21 DF  GER Jan Wellers 22 MF  UKR Bohdan Shubin 23 MF  GER Isaak Akritidis 25 FW  GER Marvin Lorch 27 DF  GER Dustin Heveling 28 DF  NED Jarno Janssen 29 MF  NED Brian Campman 30 GK  GER Gian-Luca Reck 42 MF  POR Fabio Simões Ribeiro

References

External links

• Official website (in German)
• The Abseits Guide to German Soccer