The club was not very successful and never loomed large in football generally. Later the club concentrated on track and field athletics.
In they captured the German championship with a 2—1 overtime semi-final victory over defending champions Viktoria 89 Berlin followed by a 1—0 win in the final over the previous year's champions, Karlsruher FV.
On 7 June , 1. Kieler Fussball Verein von and Sportverein Holstein von , severely weakened by World War I, merged to form the current day club.
As is common practise in Germany, the new association adopted the foundation date of the older club, while taking up the ground, kit, colours, logo and the name Holstein from SV Holstein Kiel.
Through the s, the team made regular appearances in the national playoffs and in reached the semi-finals where they were eliminated 1—3 by SpVgg Greuther Fürth.
In , they played their way to the final, losing 4—5 to Hertha BSC. The following year they reached the semi-finals where they were eliminated 0—2 by TSV Munich.
Under the Third Reich , German football was re-organized into sixteen top flight divisions. Kiel played in the Gauliga Nordmark and consistently delivered solid top-five finishes, but were frustrated in their pursuit of a division title.
No longer in the company of Hamburger SV and other strong teams from the city, Kiel immediately captured the title of the new division and defended it over the next two seasons until the end of World War II brought play to a halt across the country.
Those titles earned Kiel entry into the national playoff rounds. They made their best run in when they advanced as far as the semi-finals before being put out by eventual champions Dresdner SC.
The team captured third place by defeating FC Vienna Wien. The next year, they were eliminated early on and no final was played in After the conflict football in the western half of the country was re-organized into five regional top flight divisions.
Holstein Kiel played from until in the Oberliga Nord I and twice finished as runners-up , In the reserve team captured the German amateur championship.
After the formation of a single national first division known as the Bundesliga , the club became a second division side and played in the Regionalliga Nord II.
Kiel failed in its attempt to advance to the Bundesliga after its Regionalliga Nord championship. German football was restructured in with the formation of a new second division known as the 2.
Holstein Kiel won promotion to second tier competition in as part of the 2. Bundesliga Nord and was relegated in With the reunification of Germany in teams from the former East Germany became part of a combined national competition.
They did advance the next year and narrowly missed promotion to the 2. Bundesliga in the —06 season. By they had slipped to the Oberliga Nord IV , but earned two consecutive promotions to reach the new 3.
Liga III in After one year in the third division the club were relegated again in the Regionalliga Nord IV. In the quarter-final they lost to Borussia Dortmund 0—4 that ended their cup adventure.
Since the club played again in the third division and in the club was promoted after 36 years to the second division. Bundesliga , After Holstein Kiel finished in 3rd place as the highest scoring team with 71 goals.
Die Störche spielen am Mai in der Relegation um den Bundesliga-Aufstieg!!! We've got plans for Whit Monday The Storks will compete for Bundesliga promotion in the play-off on 17 and 21 May!!!
Equally impressive home and away with just six points more coming at their Holstein-Stadion, the Storks in fact topped the table for five weeks over the course of the season.
Unmoved from third place since Matchday 20, their 56 points is the lowest ever for a team to reach the play-off, which they secured with a draw at champions Fortuna Düsseldorf before a rotated side trounced Eintracht Braunschweig on the final day to relegate the club who had just 12 months earlier failed to beat Wolfsburg in the play-off for Bundesliga promotion.
In a team not really shaped by individual quality, striker Marvin Ducksch has led from the front for Kiel. A former Borussia Dortmund youth product, he is on loan from St.
The Kiel job was the first in charge of a professional team for Markus Anfang. The year-old, who hung up his boots in after spells with numerous clubs, including Bayer Leverkusen , Düsseldorf, Schalke and Kaiserslautern, went on to work in the Leverkusen academy for four years before the Storks picked him up in August Since then Anfang and Kiel have only known only known success.
Promotion in his first season to Bundesliga 2 and now on the verge of the top flight, it is now rather ironic that no matter the outcome of the play-off with Wolfsburg, Anfang will remain in Bundesliga 2 having agreed to take over relegated Cologne for the new campaign.
With a capacity of a little over 10, spectators, the picturesque ground near the Kiel seafront would be one of the smallest ever in the Bundesliga.
That has, however, led to the club initially being denied a licence by the DFL to play their home games at the Holstein-Stadion should they feature in the Bundesliga next season, where rules dictate that a stadium must have a capacity of at least 15,, of which 8, are seated.
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