Eckehard Feigenspan
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 13 May 1935 | ||
| Place of birth | Wöllstadt, Germany[1] | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| FC Nieder-Wöllstadt | |||
| –1955 | VfB Friedberg | ||
| 1955–1959 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 79 | (52) |
| 1959–1962 | 1860 Munich | 41 | (20) |
| 1962–1967 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 80 | (34) |
| 1967 | SSVg Velbert | ||
| International career | |||
| Germany B | |||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Eckehard Feigenspan (born 13 May 1935) is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward.[2] He was capped twice for the Germany B national team.
The 19-year-old striker Feigenspan moved in 1954 from FC Nieder-Wöllstadt to VfB Friedberg in the first amateur league of Hessen. After only one season, he received an offer from Eintracht Frankfurt and eventually signed in 1955 at the Eagles for their Oberliga South campaign. At match day two, he debuted at the 5–3 away win at Stuttgarter Kickers. Together with Erich Bäumler, Hans Weilbächer, Richard Kress and Alfred Pfaff he formed the attack at Eintracht. In his first season 1955–56 he could appear in 13 matches, netting five goals. In his fourth season at Frankfurt, 1958–59, Paul Oßwald's Eintracht won the Southern German championship, hence reached the final round of the German championship and then the final match. To this success Ekko Feigenspan contributed 21 goals in 27 matches. In the final round the Oßwald team won all six matches against Werder Bremen, FK Pirmasens and 1. FC Köln with Feigenspan he scoring nine more goals. In the final match on 28 June 1959 in Berlin, he could score three additional goals to the 5–3 win after overtime against rivals Kickers Offenbach. His offensive partners were Richard Kress, István Sztáni, Alfred Pfaff and Dieter Lindner. After the championship win, he moved to 1860 München because he wanted to continue his engineering studies. In 79 Oberliga appearances for Eintracht he scored 52 goals.