The club has such a huge meaning to Germany. With the 1954 world cup title, they gave a lot of pride to all west germans (and even east germans, too). And all five players of the club being in Switzerland that time played in the final. Fritz Walter is seen as a man who built up the nation morally as the moral was devasted after the war.

I’ve done Career modes with Kaiserslautern in Fifa, really like them for a rtg

I remember a couple of years back my team Brentford played a pre-season friendly against them. Despite the game being meaningless and in a completely different country they completely sold out the away end and were louder than any other team I’ve known.

Is it ironic that a World Club brings Kaiserslautern into limelight (the 1954 with the Miracle of Bern) but then another World Club also leads to this club's downfall (by the debts taken for paying the Renovation of Stadium for the 2006... which is named after said Legend who created that Miracle in the first place)? Thanks for the Fun Fact though. Cheers.

I remember Kaiserslautern being a top team in the late 90’s, early 00’s. It was them and Leverkusen that became the main challengers to Bayern Munich in that period.

i'm from kaiserslautern! great video! but maybe you could have described in more detail how close we got between 2012 and 2015 to returning to the bundesliga. In 14/15 we were one win away from confirming promotion with 4 games to go against fairly easy opposition. we lost 2 and drew 2 dropping into 4th place. afterwards the best players, like leipzigs orban, leverkusens demirbay and napolis younes left and we fell into midtable and then relegation. it's pretty tough to think back to how close we got to being back in the bundesliga and likely fixing our financial issues, while we now sit in lower midtable in the 3 bundesliga.

"...almost comparable to the Premier League title won by Leicester..." - This is a prime example of the Premier League bias you see so often in football videos these days. Both from an emotional standpoint and as footballing performance, Kaiserslautern's achievement ranks significantly higher than Leicester's. I don't want to take anything away from the Foxes' unbelievable title run. The competition in today's Premier League is incredibly strong and there is almost no room to break the top club's reign. However, Leicester did spend freaking 40.000.000€ that summer and another 23.000.000€ the year before that. Not much in comparison to Chelsea, ManCity and so on. But a ton in general to work with and sign players like Kante. So obviously they were able to snatch up great talent. To put things into perspective, Leicester spent more that year than Bayern Munich has 16 times out of the last 20 years! With this sort of investment power you are obviously bound to generate some success. Kaiserslautern on the other hand won the title as a newly promoted side. To get a feel for that kind of scope you would need to imagine Norwich winning the title last season. Not everything great only happens in freaking England! Aside from Kaiserslautern 1998, you might want to check the Bundesliga relegation battle of 1999, or Schalke's 4-minute title of 2001.

I miss them in the Bundesliga.... Beautiful stadium, crazy fans (in a good way) and shitload of tradition.

You should do the 'fall of Bolton'. From being in the premier league to getting relegated to league 2.

As a Kaiserslautern fan, this Video hits pretty close to home. I am aware of our History, but everytime you see what happend, its just a rolercoster of emotions. Anyway thanks for the good video about my beloved club. Cheers and greatings from Kaiserslautern Edit: Maby you should do a follow up Video, cause in past 2 years, the club turned things around. After coming desperatly close to Relegation out of professionell Football in 20/21, to beeing Promoted in the most nervewrecking fashion in a season were nobody even thought about Promotion in 21/22, playing one hell of a season in the 2. Bundesliga, beeing the best freshly Promoted site in almost a decade. Things changed alot in the past two years and only for the better. Even our Stadium is packed again on game day, with around 40k visitors at each home game. (Mind you this is more than 8 Bundesliga clubs)

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This vid has been out for about 1 minute, but i can already tell it wont get the views it deserves just like the donetsk one

So glad you made this video. I literally just started a Kaiserslautern career mode.

Me: 'Checks off 'Get my comment made into a HITC Sevens video' on 'Things to do Before I Graduate High School'. Thanks Alfie!

When I lived in the American military community in Wiesbaden and Mainz-Kastel, Kaiserslautern was simply known as "K-Town". Always struck me as strange that we couldn't take the time to pronounce our host country's cities, but words like "Tallahassee" and "Oklahoma" were pronounced fully like it wasn't shit.

Finally a video about FCK! Thanks man. Maybe you can also do one about the lack of succes from France team in Europe, and small cities in Europe with big footballteams

You missed when Killie and Kaiserslautern became great friends and started to go to each others games and became eachothers own fans

It's so sad to see what is currently happening to 1. FC Kaiserslautern. (Im a Mainz fan).

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3:20 He liked playing in the rain because he got malaria in WW2 and therefore couldn't play as well in the heat.

Thank you very much for this video it means much to me that you Show the tragic story of my club.

This football KZfaq channel is really underrated, I really like your work and research, every time I get a new phone I subscribe to this channel and see the videos even though I already saw them before, great work Alfie hope your channel grows bigger and gets the recognition it deserves

Wow, what a brilliantly investigated and edited Video! I'm not even a Kaiserslautern fan, just a German, but those background story videos are really valuable to give the football world a little image of our history. Thank you very much, Alfie!🙏🏽🤗

Wow seeing a video about this club is amazing. Great topic. Thank you!

Now we're back on track...👹🔥

IMO these story-type history videos are the most enjoyable on the channel, documenting peculiarities in a specific club's past. Keep up the good work Alfie! 😁

Could be in for a part 2, Dirk Schuster is doing Dirk Schuster things with the club right now

I’m not a Bournemouth fan but what they did was incredible would be nice to see a Bournemouth style documentary

Kilmarnock Fc/ Kaiserslautern 💙❤️

Enjoyed this. Great work Alfie 👍

As a German who is Fan of Another 3rd Division Team (FC Magdeburg) and with familymembers who live near Kaiserslautern and following the 1. FCK it was very interesting to hear the story from an englishman. Good job

Rise and fall of Malaga, when they had van nistelrooy, kameni, cazorla, Demichelis, toulalan, joaquin, monreal, Baptista, caballero, isco, rondon with pellegrini as manager

Last time I was this early, someone actually paid over £30m for Andy Carroll

It is heartbreaking to see Kaiserslautern in that situation but it gives a nice feeling to see that it is remembered in so many brains out there. Nice vid mate and pretty solid pronunciation of the german words ;D keep it up Love from Germany and from a kaiserslautern fan :)

I'm not sure if you have done this (and I can't remember it over the past couple of years), but I would really love to see a video on the history of Athletic Club's Basque only policy. It is incredibly rare in the modern game and also has great political significance due to the massive pressure on the club under the Franco regime. Love your videos as always Alfie and thanks for standing up for the minorities in this clickbait world by giving us some real, academic-styled content!

I have been waiting for this!👍👍

another great video alfie keep it up

Brilliant video👏🏼

Thank you for the Video. It means much for us 👹❤️👹🇩🇪

FC Twente's 2009/10 title winning team. Where are they now?

Thanks so much for this video on the Red Devils of the Betzenberg ("die roten Teufel vom Betzenberg").

Good video! I remember playing w/ them FIFA. Always wondered what had happened to them since I wasn’t too familiar with the Bundesliga at that time.

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Dear, Alfie, I hope you're doing good regardless of the situation, especially in this kind of times. If you read this comment (which I hope that you would), I want you to know that I love this channel and the contents you presented on a daily basis as it feels like I'm watching some sort of football documentaries with such a deep ,comprehensive yet you're amazingly able to summarize it to make sure that your presentation could be well-delivered to all of your viewers. Anyhow (yeah, a bit of pun intended. lol), just like a normal human being, there has to be a preference or few of those on things in life especially in what you presented here in HITC Sevens channel. And if you ask me what content I enjoy the most in this channel, I'd say that "What went wrong" documentaries of a particular team is my preferable theme of this channel and I'd love to see more of this down the road. Hopefully you can make many more of them about other teams that we all know have their own rise and fall in this past decades such as Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Hamburger SV, and any other teams you and others might know have quite similar story. The rest, well, I would say that I'll just do my usual daily activities and wait for you to present some (mostly) unthinkable football contents and watch it as well as give it as many likes as possible (as I already subscribed to this channel since... I guess around mid to late 2018, with my old account and my new one later). That's all I want to get off my mind in this channel's comment section as of late, thank you for your time & all of your efforts to make sure that all of these possible. Best wishes, peace & love from an HITC Sevens fan and hopefully , a good friend, some time down the road, all the way from Indonesia. Cheers!

Did a Kaiserslautern save on FM19 and it was the best I've ever done. Hope they come back up soon

fantastic video!

very good research done

Excellent video, thank you

This is an incredible video

Great video! I managed Die roten Teufel as my first team on Football Manager 2020. I resign after four Bundesliga titels in a row and winning the CL in 2029.

Love this, thank you!

So sad, been a fan since 1997, when I visited and stayed in Kaiserslautern. Always will be a fan. I wish them the best and to get back to top level.

I think I found my new favorite German club

I lived in Ramstein for 3yrs, and my first ever soccer game I went to Kaiserslautern to see them play Nuremberg in a 1-1 tie. It was cold but had a great time.

1:00am here in Los Angeles! Stay safe everyone! 🙏🏽

Interesting video Alfie

We need Kaiserslauten back in the Bundesliga.

Liked to keep up the good work

I lived in German in 1991, just outside of K-Town. The area then, as alluded to, has the largest concentration of Americans outside of America. It feels like America more than Germany. Everyone seemed to speak English (it made it really hard to try and speak German, because it was just easier to do it in English) There are English TV channels, radio stations, fast food joints. I mean, it made it easy to live there for sure. That year, FCK was the Bundesliga. I always wondered what the deal was with them, they were so fanatically supported by all the Germans I knew. (I was not in the Military, I was working for a cycling company and was racing bikes as an amateur.)

Great video

at least they got promoted back to the 2.Bundesliga today.

I really enjoyed this video. I don't want to sound picky, and I understand you'd like to keep it short and concise- but it would be cool to hear a bit more detail about "how" they won the Bundesliga (who signed, who tookover as manager, what happened on the last league match/title decider/relegation decider etc)...just a thought. A little added context. Otherwise awesome content, subscribed!

Small technical annotation: during their first stint at the second tier, they weren't 10 points ahead of Werder Bremen, as stated in the video, but of VfL Wolfsburg. Werder Bremen was (as of now, if the Corona season would have continued it may change) only once in the second tier in 1980. VfL Wolfsburg has been promoted the same year as Kaiserslautern bounced back and stayed in the top flight ever since.

I thought this was an ad because I'd been reading about them just last night. Sweet coincidence

Do a video about Tigres UANL in mexico. They have risen up a lot in the past decade and have a very passionate fanbase..including myself. Keep up the good work !!

Loved this one so much

Brilliant 👏🏻 Well done

This breaks my heart as a lifelong fan every time

Werder Bremen wasn't in the Second Division in 1996/97 (we havent been since 1981) Second Place has been Wolfsburg in that season. Still a great video, i miss Kaiserslautern in the Bundesliga..

I was living at Ramstein Air Base during the 1997-8 season. I was at the game when they clinched the title. What a party on the streets of K-Town that night.

Respect thanks for this

Kaiserslautern's fall makes me very sad. I'm not a die-hard supporter of them, but I've been there twice when my team (Hannover 96) played there and their fans are very nice people. I have very fond memories and their arena is awe-inspiring. Their supporters have gone through a lot and it's a shame to see them where they are right now. They all deserve so much better.

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Quality video

It would be nice if you coudl make a video about the 2000/01 Bundesliga title decider.

Grew up in K-town (military brat) There is so much history behind this team and some star studded players have put on that kit in the past, it's truly a shame what happened to them and hopefully they drag themselves back up to the top flight sooner than later.

Also Wankdorf is an epic name.

Why would 1. FC Kaiserslautern have to pay themselves for the stadium renovation when the DFB or whoever was in charge chose it as one of the host stadiums for the 2006 WC? Especially since they don't even own the stadium! That should have been paid by the DFB and the state/city, and MAYBE a bit by the club if they agreed to it. Absolutely insane.

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Well done on 260k!

Really cool vid

Can you please do the rise of Luton? I think the consecutive promotions would be an interesting topic for a video.

I have fond memories of my brief, drunk times in K-town.

As a FCK-Fan I hope we will rise again. The club has the unofficial motto: Unzerstörbar, which translates to "indestructible".

The biggest problem after being the Champion in 1998 was the transfer-policy. We just bought expensive players, gave them a lot of money but the didnt perform like they should. Those transfers just erase the money and were deadly too. But the stadium really killed us after the World Cup. And to be honest our team this season isnt that bad but they just do not perform the way they could. We won 5 games in a row but in the last 5 games we didnt win any game. And with our goalkeeper going to Leverkusen and our top scorer most likely to leave too next season could be really hard. But I love it that finally someone outside of germany makes a video about our lovely club 😁😁

These types of videos are my fav but I prefer it when their is a happy ending 😂 sadly in a lot of cases that’s not what happens tho, thankfully it was for my club (Rangers fc) and the worst is behind us I can’t believe myself how far we gave came

Rise and Fall of the underated throw in. Please top 7 throw in takers.

Do a video on football stadium s being built

Whoever disliked this video failed in history class.

Was it so hard to find actual fotos of Ottmar Walter? Well, at least he is in some of them, I guess.

More of this :)

Get fritz Walter an icon card in fifa why the hell does he not have one

Can you please do a video on MSV Duisburg 1 of the founders of the bundesliga now in the bottom of the 3rd tier... It would mean a lot to me and my favourite club:)

8:15 Slight correction - VfL Wolfsburg were the team who came 2nd after Kaiserslautern.

Great video although as an Eintracht Frankfurt I hate them I want them back in the Bundesliga because I miss the games against Kaiserslautern because of the hatred between both set of fans

Alfie, a hint for the future: It's First, Second and Third Bundesliga, not One, Two and Three (you can see a little dot after the numbers ;) )

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I don’t know when I did a Fifa rtg but there’s such a fun team to use

A perfect fifa career mode team to use!