1. FC NÜRNBERG | FAN CHANTS (Lyrics)
The supporters of 1. FC Nürnberg, also known as "Cluberer" (Franconian: Glubberer), are characterized by a particularly pronounced capacity for suffering. This has been expressed in the self-proclamation "Der Glubb is a Debb!" ever since the club was relegated from the Bundesliga as reigning champions in 1969. They were also relegated in 2008 as the previous year's cup winners. In this context, for example, the following is written in Im Bann der Legende:
"And it is precisely this, the fascination of the unfinished, that is probably also the reason for the fascination of the FCN. Grandiose in triumph. Grandiose in failure. The legend was not only founded on the many magnificent victories, but also on the devastating defeats. Because when the club loses, it doesn't just do it. It elevates it to an art form and becomes more legendary than the titles it chases."
Furthermore, club fans are characterized by three characteristics in their history: Mass movement, a willingness to use violence and creativity. These three elements can already be found in the early history of 1. FC Nürnberg:
It was on June 1, 1908, when the 3,000 spectators at the visiting match of the English top team from Sunderland gave the first foreshadowing of the masses that would later follow. In 1913, 9,000 spectators wanted to see the match between the club and SpVgg Fürth in the new stadium in Zerzabelshof. However, 1. FC Nürnberg only became a real mass phenomenon after the First World War. On the one hand, soccer generally developed into a spectator sport during this time, while on the other, the club experienced its most successful period with five German championships between 1920 and 1927. Enthusiastic receptions for successful heroes are not a phenomenon of modern times. For example, 40,000 to 50,000 Nurembergers awaited the defending champions of 1921 on their return at Nuremberg Central Station. Even on the route to the championship celebrations, the entourage repeatedly got stuck in the enthusiastic crowds. Eugen Seybold, editor of the magazine Fußball, reported of people shouting "with an enthusiasm that no prince or emperor ... has ever experienced in Nuremberg". Thousands were still spontaneously waiting for the team's return at 10:30 p.m. in front of Nuremberg Central Station after the 1967/68 championship decision. They were greeted with such jubilation that Franz Brungs, for example, was only able to escape the crowd with the help of the police. Earlier, 10,000 club fans stormed the Grünwalder Stadion directly after the 2:0 win against FC Bayern.
In 2007, around 200,000 people also welcomed the cup winners on their return from Berlin.
Not only mass enthusiasm, but also riots at soccer matches were already known in the 1920s. At the first of the endless finals in Leipzig in 1922, the Nuremberg fans, who were crammed into an emergency stand, threw stones and bottles at spectators in front of them. Two years later, a Nuremberg fan wrote, still impressed: "How they flew, clinked and glittered in the sun as several thousand soda water bottles rained down on the front rows in an arc 200 meters high. It was lovely to see the ladies in their white summer dresses lying there in the black dirt, stretched out as cover against the enemy bullets. You have to see something like that. You have to have been there!" During the derbies against SpVgg Fürth, there were repeated violent clashes between club fans and Fürth fans ambushing them on the way to and from Fürth.
In 1924, it was club fans who tried to compensate for their numerical inferiority by waving pennants and flags at the final in Berlin. At the 1925 final in Frankfurt, the Nuremberg fans transformed the Frankfurt Waldstadion into a sea of black and red flags. While the clubbers established this tradition, they in turn learned battle cries organized by the Berliners at the 1927 final.
The club fans answered the Berliners' "Ha-ho-he, Hertha BSC" in the same match after the 2:0 victory with the first recorded fan chant "Hi-ha-ho, Hertha is knocked out".
Fan clubs
Until the start of the Bundesliga era, the relationship between the players and supporters was predominantly familial. Most of the players, but also the opponents, came from the region. The fans were also able to meet some of the players in everyday life in their Lotto-Toto outlets and stationery stores. The club's long-standing second-tier status during the 1970s is now considered to be one of the reasons why the club, with its 725 fan clubs (as at February 2018) and over 44,000 members (as at July 2016), is rooted not only in the Nuremberg metropolitan region, but also in Franconia as a whole and far beyond. There are also fan clubs of the club on all continents.
29 сен 2023