FC Einheit Rudolstadt
FC Einheit Rudolstadt is a German football club from Rudolstadt in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, Thuringia. The ground of the club is called "Städtisches Stadion im Heinepark". Currently they play their second season in the NOFV-Oberliga Süd. Club history. FC Einheit Rudolstadt was founded on 11 November 1950 as "BSG Einheit Rudolstadt". In 1957, Rudolstadt, together with "Stahl Silbitz" and "Chemie Elsterberg", succeeded in promotion to the II. DDR-Liga. The then third highest division of the GDR proved to be too strong for the East Thuringians, so after only one season "Einheit" and  Motor Gotha were relegated back to the Bezirksliga. In the Bezirksliga, "Einheit" acted solely at the local level in the Gera district and was used for the training of young players of "FC Carl Zeiss Jena". Between rises and drops from and to the Bezirksklasse in the next decades, "Einheit" regained its resurgence in the Bezirksliga Gera. Its progress was stalled by city rivals "Chemie Schwarza" who repeatedly managed to rise up to the DDR-Liga. After German reunification in 1990 "Einheit" merged with the football section of "Chemie Schwarza" and was renamed "FC Rudolstadt/Schwarza". In 1996 the two  clubs de-merged, with "Rudolstadt" regaining the old name "Einheit Rudolstadt" and "Schwarza" rejoining "SV Schwarza". In 2012 "Einheit" finished 3rd in the Thüringenliga but was promoted to the NOFV-Oberliga Süd as 2nd placed "Eintracht Sondershausen" waived its promotion right. Coaching staff. Head coach: Holger Jähnisch Assistants: Thomas Rothe, Michael Schoke, René Just, Jörg Schneider