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Wikipedia - 1. FC Bocholt
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. 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.
1. FC Bocholts hjemmebane er Grenzlandstadion, som har en kapacitet på 8.500. Klubbens farver er grøn og hvid.
Klubbens mest succesrig periode var i 1970'erne, hvor de vandt Regionalliga West to gange og opnåede oprykning til 2. Bundesliga. 1. FC Bocholt har dog aldrig spillet i Bundesligaen.
Nogle af 1. FC Bocholts mest berømte spillere inkluderer Uwe Fuchs, der spillede for klubben i 1970'erne og senere spillede for Borussia Mönchengladbach og det tyske fodboldlandshold. En anden bemærkelsesværdig spiller er Oliver Neuville, der spillede for klubben i begyndelsen af 1990'erne og senere spillede for Borussia Mönchengladbach og det tyske fodboldlandshold.
1. FC Bocholt har et rivalisering med Rot-Weiss Oberhausen, som er en anden klub fra Nordrhein-Westfalen.