1. FC Kaiserslautern
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| Full name | 1. Fußball-Club Kaiserslautern e. V. |
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| Nickname(s) | Die roten Teufel (The Red Devils) |
| Founded | 2 June 1900 |
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Fritz-Walter-Stadion, Kaiserslautern |
| Capacity | 49,780 |
| Manager | Norbert Meier |
| League | 2. Bundesliga |
| 2015–16 | 2. Bundesliga, 10th |
| Website | Club home page |
1. Fußball-Club Kaiserslautern e. V., also known as 1. FCK, FCK or simply 1. FC Kaiserslautern (German pronunciation: [ʔɛf t͡seː kaɪ̯zɐsˈlaʊ̯tɐn]), is a sports club based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is internationally known, especially through its football division. On 2 June 1900, Germania 1896 and FG Kaiserslautern merged to create FC 1900. In 1909, the club went on to join FC Palatia (founded in 1901) and FC Bavaria (founded in 1902) to form FV 1900 Kaiserslautern. In 1929, they merged with SV Phönix to become FV Phönix-Kaiserslautern before finally taking on their current name three years later. As a founding member of the Bundesliga the FCK played from 1963 to 1996 through in the first league.
Kaiserslautern have won four German championships, two DFB-Pokals, and one DFL-Supercup and is by titles among the most successful football clubs in Germany. The FCK currently occupies the tenth place in the All-time Bundesliga table. The club's international successes included reaching the Champions League quarter-finals in 1999 as well as two-time participation in the UEFA Cup semi-final. Kaiserslautern won the German championship in the 1997/98 season as a promoter which is unique in German football.
Since 1920, Kaiserslautern's stadium is the Fritz-Walter-Stadion, named after the captain of the DFB national team, who won the world title in 1954. In addition to the football division, it operates also in basketball, boxing, handball, hockey, running, athletics, wheelchair basketball and triathlon.
Two of the clubs predecessors, Bavaria and FC 1900 Kaiserslautern, were part of the Westkreis-Liga (I) when this league was formed in 1908, with the latter winning the first league. From 1909 through 1918, the new FV Kaiserslautern performed well, finishing runners-up in 1910 and 1912. The team reached tier-one in the new Kreisliga Saar in 1919, the Kreisliga Pfalz in 1920 and the Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar in 1931 and spent the rest of the 1930s bouncing up and down between the Bezirksliga and the upper level Gauliga Südwest, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich.
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