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

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]

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.

Honours

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

Players

Current squad

As of 15 September 2024^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. 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