1. FC Bocholt

1. FC Bocholt

Full name	1. FC Bocholt
Founded	1900
Ground	Stadion am Hünting
Capacity	18,000
Chairman	Ludger Triphaus
Manager	Björn Mehnert
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.

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.

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

As of 15 September 2024^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  LUX Lucas Fox 2 DF  GER Julian Riedel 3 DF  GER Philipp Hanke 4 DF  GER Kaspar Harbering 5 DF  GER Dawyn-Paul Donner 6 MF  GER Dominik Klann 7 MF  GER Raphael Assibey-Mensah 8 DF  GER Jan Wellers 9 FW  GER Cedric Euschen 10 MF  GER Jan Holldack 11 FW  GER Phillip König 12 GK  GER Lennart Brandes

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 MF  GER Nicolas Hirschberger 14 FW  GER Kelvin Lunga 16 DF  GER Marko Stojanović 17 DF  TUR Ali Barak 18 MF  NED Haris Mesic 22 MF  UKR Bohdan Shubin 23 MF  GER Isaak Akritidis 25 FW  GER Marvin Lorch 28 DF  NED Jarno Janssen 31 GK  GER Sebastian Patzler 33 FW  AUT Thomas Gösweiner 36 DF  GER Johannes Dörfler

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

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