FC Grün-Weiß Wolfen
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| Full name | Fußballclub Grün-Weiß Wolfen |
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| Founded | 21 January 1994 |
| Dissolved | 2011 |
| Ground | Jahnstadion |
| Capacity | 5,000 |
| League | defunct |
FC Grün-Weiß Wolfen was a German association football club from the industrial city of Bitterfeld-Wolfen in southern Saxony-Anhalt.
After an Agfa factory had been founded in Wolfen in 1909, the city experienced a boom that also led to the creation of the Wolfener Ballspielclub in 1915. This club was later renamed, first becoming VfL Wolfen and then IG Farben Sportverein. After World War II all sports clubs and associations in Germany were dissolved. Sportgemeinde Wolfen emerged as a successor side in 1945 and became part of football competition in East Germany. In November 1948, SG joined BSG Agfa Wolfen and BSG Einheit Wolfen to form ZSG Wolfen, which was renamed BSG Chemie Agfa Wolfen on 7 October 1949.
In 1950, the Wolfen team were promoted to the Landesliga Sachsen-Anhalt, then the third tier of the East German football league system. In their first season there, they earned a respectable 6th place finish, and the following season they were Landesmeister (en:state champions) of Saxony-Anhalt, winning promotion to the DDR-Liga (II).
In July 1957, the club was joined by BSG Aktivist Sandersdorf to form BSG Chemie Wolfen. The Sandersdorf side was established in 1945 as SG Sandersdorf and played as SG Falke Sandersdorf (1948) before becoming Aktivist in 1951. After advancing to second division play in 1952, Wolfen generally managed mid-table results until being sent down to the Bezirksliga Halle in 1964 after a 16th place finish. They reclaimed a place in second tier play through a first place Bezirksliga finish in 1968, followed by a successful promotion playoff run.
A third place finish in the 1970–71 season nurtured hopes that Wolfen had successfully re-established themselves in tier II, but instead the club was sent down for breaking DFV statutes by poaching players, and financial irregularities. Despite winning immediate re-promotion out of the Berzirksliga, the club could only manage 10th and 11th finishes in 1973 and 1974, and was sent down yet again. Wolfen spent seven of the next eight seasons on the DDR-Liga (II) before slipping out of sight into lower level competition in 1985. Their most successful season during this period was in 1983–84 when they finished third, drawing crowds of about 1,600 spectators to watch their matches at the 10,000-capacity Jahnstadion.
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