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Verbandsliga Westfalen 2
The Westfalenliga (''formerly the '') is the second highest amateur football league in the region of Westphalia which is part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the sixth tier of the German football league system. It operates in two groups which run parallel below the Oberliga Westfalen. Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the fifth tier of the league system, until the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 the fourth tier. Overview The league was formed as a tier-three league under the name Verbandsliga Westfalen in two groups of 16 clubs in 1956 to provide a more streamlined top level for the regional football governing body, the ''Westphalian Football Association''. In earlier years, the Landesliga Westfalen, operated in five groups, was the highest levels of football in the region. The Landesliga still remains as the tier below the Verbandsliga until today. Despite being operated in two groups, called ''Nordost'' or (Gruppe 1) and ''Südwest' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NRW-Liga
The Nordrhein-Westfalen-Liga (''North Rhine-Westphalia League''; NRW-Liga) was the highest football league in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) from 2008 to 2012. It was one of the eleven Oberliga groups in German football, the fifth tier of the German football league system. With the reorganisation of the German league system in 2012, the NRW-Liga was disbanded once more as the Regionalliga West above it would then only contain clubs from North Rhine-Westphalia. The league was replaced by the three regional leagues, the Mittelrheinliga, Niederrheinliga and Oberliga Westfalen at this level.NRW-Liga-Staffeltagung in Duisburg: Vereine begrüßen Auf- und Abstiegsreglement WFLV website, published: 19 July 2011, accessed: 20 July 2011 O ...
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SC Herford
SC Herford is a German association football club based in Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was formed out of the merger of several local sides in the late 1960s and early 1970s and then went on to enjoy a short turn in second division football in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The footballers are today part of a larger sports club which has departments for athletics, badminton, handball, judo, swimming, table tennis, and volleyball. History ''SpVgg Union 08 Herford'' was the most successful of the club's predecessor sides having taken part in the early rounds of national championship play in 1930–31. The team also found its way to the first tier Gauliga Westfalen in 1944, but only played a pair of matches that year as the division collapsed as World War II drew to a close and Allied armies advanced into Germany. In 1963 predecessor ''SuS 1928 Herford'' was playing in the Landesliga Westfalen (IV) and was followed the next season by ''Union''. In 1967 ''Union'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid
Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid is a Football in Germany, German association football club playing in Lüdenscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia. History The origins of the club go back to the formation of the ''Luedenscheider Fußball-Klub'' in 1908. In the aftermath of World War I, a number of local sides went through a series of mergers. Late in 1918 ''LFK'' merged with ''FC Preußen 09'' and ''SV Luedenscheider 1910'' to form ''VfB Lüdenscheid 08''. In 1919, ''Ballspielverein Lüdenscheid'' and ''FC Fortuna 1910'' formed another predecessor side called ''RSV Höh 1910''. These two clubs then entered into a short-lived union with ''Lüdenscheid Turn-Verein 1861''. ''RSV'' left this union in 1920, and ''VfB'' followed in 1924, taking on the name ''Sportfreunde 08''. Finally, in 1971, ''RSV'' and ''Sportfreunde'' merged to form the present club. ''Rot-Weiß'' enjoyed its greatest success between 1977 and 1981 when it played in the 2. Bundesliga Nord. However, the team consistently flirted wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
STV Horst-Emscher
STV Horst-Emscher was a German association football club from the city of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club's greatest success has been to qualify for the 1950 German football championship, where it was knocked out by SpVgg Fürth. Between 1947 and 1959 it spent eight seasons in the tier one Oberliga West. In 1967 the club also won the German amateur football championship. The club also made two appearances in the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, in 1954–55 and 1988–89. ''STV'' folded in mid-season in 2007 because of financial trouble. History The club traces its history back to TG Horster Mark, a club formed in 1912, which merged eight years later with the TV Horst 1892 to form STV Horst-Emscher. The club was strongly associated with coal mining, as was Gelsenkirchen and the Ruhr area, and the local colliery ''Zeche Nordstern''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VfL Klafeld-Geisweid
VfL Klafeld-Geisweid 08 is a German football club playing in the Klafeld-Geiswald district of Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia. History The club has its roots in the village teams of ''SG Sigambria Geisweid'', founded in 1908, and ''SpVgg Klafeld''. In 1927 these two sides merged to form ''SpVgg Klafeld-Geisweid''. This club was joined by ''Turngemeinde Friesen'' in 1946 to form "VfL Klafeld-Geisweid 08". The gymnastics department would separate the following year to become ''Turngemeinde Friesen Klafeld-Geisweid 1889''. After World War II in 1946 the footballers began play in the Bezirksliga Siegerland (V) and won promotion to the Landesliga Westfalen (IV) in 1952 led by head coach (manager) Kurt Brosi (1949–56) who left the football club in 1956. They played at that level until 1957 when they were relegated to the Bezirksliga where the VfL footballers remained until 1963 when the club was promoted back to the Landesliga and thereafter advanced to the Verbandsliga Westfalen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westfalia Herne
SC Westfalia Herne is a German football club based in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded on 13 June 1904 by the sons of the more well-heeled residents of the city as a rival to the worker-based club SV Sodingen. History After World War I and occupation of the Ruhr by the French in 1923, the club was dissolved, but still carried on unofficially. It was reconstituted in 1925 through fusion with ''Fortuna Herne'' to play as ''Westfalia Fortuna Herne''. The union was good for the club, which advanced to upper league play in 1930, and made it as far as the semi-finals in the national championship the next season. When German football was reorganized under the Third Reich, ''Herne'' was not selected for play in the first tier Gauliga Westfalen, but did manage to play their way into the premier circuit the next year. They competed at that level until the collapse of the league system at the end of World War II. After the war, ''Herne'' again found itself left out o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SG Wattenscheid 09
SG Wattenscheid 09 is a German association football club located in Wattenscheid, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club claimed an official founding date of 18 September 1909 as Ballspiel-Verein Wattenscheid out of the merger of two earlier sides known as BV Sodalität der Wattenscheid and BV Teutonia Wattenscheid. On 23 October 2019, the club filed for bankruptcy and retired from the 2019–20 Regionalliga West season, so it was relegated to the Oberliga Westfalen. History The club played quietly as a local side until briefly coming to notice in the war-ravaged Gauliga Westfalen, then a division of top flight German football, in the abbreviated 1944–45 season. In 1958, Wattenscheid joined the Verbandsliga Westfalen (III) and a title there in 1969 saw the club promoted to the Regionalliga West (II). Despite a Regionalliga title in 1974 they did not move up due to the restructuring of the German competition, but instead continued to play second-division football in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Gütersloh
FC may refer to: Businesses, organisations, and schools * Fergusson College, a science and arts college in Pune, India * Finncomm Airlines (IATA code) * FranklinCovey company, NYSE stock symbol FC * Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force in Pakistan Science and technology Computing * fc (Unix), computer program that relists commands * FC connector, a type of optical-fiber connector * Flash controller * Family Computer, Japanese version of the Nintendo Entertainment System game console * Fibre Channel, a serial computer bus * Microsoft File Compare program * fc a casefolding feature in perl Vehicles * Fairchild FC, 1920s and 1930s aircraft * Holden FC, a motor vehicle * A second generation Mazda RX-7 car * Fully cellular, a type of container ship Medicine A two-in-one vaccine against the flu and common cold. Other sciences * Female condom (FC1, FC2), a contraceptive * Foot-candle (symbol fc or ft-c), a unit of illumination * Formal charge, a Lewis structure concept in chemistry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammer SpVg
Hammer SpVg is a German association football club from the city of Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is part of a larger sports club with some 1,500 members in departments for aikido, judo, cheerleading, fitness and dance, gymnastics, handball, roller hockey, volleyball, and water gymnastics. History The club was founded 11 April 1903 as ''Hammer FC'' and was joined in July 1912 by the membership of ''Gymnasialer FC Hamm'' which had been established 25 February 1903. In 1919, following World War I, the club merged with ''Hammer Turnverein 1859'' to form ''TuS 1859/1903 Hamm''. That union lasted only until 1922, when ''FC'' found a new partner in ''Hammer Sportverein 1904'' to create ''Hammer SpVgg 03/04''. The combined side soon began to enjoy some success in play in the regional top flight Rheinisch Westfälischer Spielverband. The club earned a second-place finish in 1929 and a divisional title in 1932. Generally a lower division local side throughout its history, the club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VfL Bochum
Verein für Leibesübungen Bochum 1848 Fußballgemeinschaft, commonly referred to as simply VfL Bochum (), is a Football in Germany, German association football club based in the city of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has spent 35 seasons in the Bundesliga. History Founding to World War II VfL Bochum is one of the oldest sports organizations in the world, claiming an origin date of 26 July 1848 when an article in the ''Märkischer Sprecher'' – a local newspaper – called for the creation of a gymnastics club. The Turnverein zu Bochum was then formally established on 18 February 1849. The club was banned on 28 December 1852 for political reasons and then reestablished on 19 June 1860. The club was reorganized in May 1904 as Turnverein zu Bochum, gegründet 1848 and formed a association football, football department on 31 January 1911. On 1 April 1919, the club merged with TuS Bochum, Spiel und Sport 08 Bochum to form Turn- und Sportverein Bochum 1848. On 1 F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VfB Fichte Bielefeld
VfB Fichte Bielefeld is a German association football club based in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was formed out of the merger of ''VfB Bielefeld 03'' and ''SpVgg Fichte Bielefeld 06/07'' on 1 July 1999. History Of these predecessor sides ''VfB Bielefeld 03'' was the more successful, as ''SpVgg'' remained an anonymous local side. In 1931 ''VfB'' finished runners-up in the Western German football championship. Two years later German football was re-organized under the Third Reich into sixteen top flight divisions and ''VfB'' eventually earned promotion to the Gauliga Westfalen in 1941. However, they were immediately relegated after finishing at the bottom of the table well back of other clubs. In 1943 ''VfB'' joined ''Arminia Bielefeld'' in the wartime side (Kriegspielgemeinschaft) ''KSG VfB/DSC Arminia Bielefeld'' to play to the Gauliga. The combined side also finished last, but remained in the top flight through the incomplete 1944–45 season as the league str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
