Borussia VfB Neunkirchen is a
German association football club based in
Neunkirchen, Saarland. The club ''SC Borussia Neunkirchen'' was founded out of the 1907 merger of ''FC 1905 Borussia'' and ''SC Neunkirchen''.
History

From 1912 through to 1963 the club had an uninterrupted record of first division play including the ''
Kreisliga Saar'', ''
Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar
The Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar was the highest association football league in the German state of Saarland, the Bavarian region of Palatinate and the northernmost part of Baden from 1927 to 1933. The league was disbanded with the rise of the Nazis to ...
'' and selection to the ''
Gauliga'', formed in 1933 through the reorganization of German football under the
Third Reich
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
. ''Borussia'' remained at this level, in the ''
Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen'', throughout the league's history, with good results but not winning a league championship. Like other organizations in the country, including sports and football associations, ''Borussia'' was dissolved by the Allied occupation authorities after World War II, but was quickly reformed under its current name.
The club played in the French-occupied
Saarland and the French made various efforts to see the state become independent of Germany or join France. In sport this was manifested as separate 1952 Olympic and
1954 World Cup
Events
January
* January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany.
* January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.
* January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
teams for
Saarland, the establishment of a short-lived football league for the state, and the German club ''
1. FC Saarbrücken
1. FC Saarbrücken (german: 1. Fußball-Club Saarbrücken e. V.) is a football club based in Saarbrücken, Saarland. The club plays in the 3. Liga, which is the third tier of football in Germany. The club began its existence as the football de ...
'' playing in the French second division. ''Neunkirchen'' played in the Saarland Ehrenliga from 1949 to 1951, winning the title in the first year and finishing as runner-up the next. They were able to re-join the
DFB (Deutscher Fußball-Bund or German Football Association) after the 1950–51 season in the
Oberliga Südwest.
Despite their record of continuous play at the top flight, ''Neunkirchen'' was not one of the sixteen sides selected for play in the
Bundesliga
The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footbal ...
– Germany's new professional football league – at its formation. Along with ''
FK Pirmasens'' and ''
Wormatia Worms'', they were bypassed in favour of ''1. FC Saarbrücken'', even though they all had better records than the chosen side. More than a few protests were lodged as ''1. FC'' appeared to have gained entry based simply on their affiliation with a member of the league selection committee. Their entry was delayed by only a year as they were able to play their way into the upper league through the promotion rounds after winning the
Regionalliga Südwest.
Their stay in the Bundesliga was short-lived. After a mid-table result in 1965, they would be relegated the following season after a 17th-place finish. They won the Regionalliga Südwest again after being sent down and returned to the Bundesliga to another 17th-place finish and relegation.
''Neunkirchen'' spent another seven years playing tier II football before slipping to the
Amateurliga Saarland
The Amateurliga Saarland was the highest football league in the state of Saarland and the third tier of the German football league system from 1951, when the clubs from the Saar returned to Germany, till the formation of the Oberliga Südwest an ...
(III). Through the mid-1970s and into the early 1980s the club bounced up and down between these levels of play, before settling in for a decade and a half at tier III. The team slipped again in 1996 to the
Oberliga Südwest (IV). They won their division in 2005 but declined the opportunity to apply for a license and promotion to the third division because of financial problems that have plagued the club since 2003. From 2012–13 the Oberliga Südwest was renamed Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, with ''Borussia'' continuing in this league.
In April 2015 the club had to declare insolvency with a debt of €280,000.
Honours
The club's honours:
League
*
Oberliga Südwest (I)
** Champions:
1962
** Runners-up: 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963
*
Bezirksliga Rheinhessen-Saar (I)
** Champions: 1924
*
Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar
The Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar was the highest association football league in the German state of Saarland, the Bavarian region of Palatinate and the northernmost part of Baden from 1927 to 1933. The league was disbanded with the rise of the Nazis to ...
(''Saar division'') (I)
** Champions: 1929
*
Kreisliga Saar (I)
** Champions: 1921, 1922, 1923
*
Regionalliga Südwest (II)
** Champions:
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...
,
1967
Events
January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 5
** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establ ...
,
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...
,
1972,
1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of President of the United States, United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom K ...
*
Oberliga Südwest (III-IV)
** Champions: 1980, 1991, 2000, 2002, 2005
*
Amateurliga Saarland
The Amateurliga Saarland was the highest football league in the state of Saarland and the third tier of the German football league system from 1951, when the clubs from the Saar returned to Germany, till the formation of the Oberliga Südwest an ...
(III)
** Champions: 1976, 1977, 1978
*
Ehrenliga Saarland (II)
** Champions: 1949
** Runners-up: 1950
Cup
*
Southern German Cup
The Southern German football championship (German: ''Süddeutsche Meisterschaft'') was the highest association football competition in the southern Germany, established in 1898. The competition was disbanded in 1933 with the rise of the Nazis to p ...
** Winners: 1921
*
Saarland Cup (Tiers III-VII)
** Winners: 1978, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1996, 2003
** Runners-up: 1995, 1997, 2001, 2008, 2010
Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
Fussball.de – Ergebnisse
Tables and results of all German football leagues
* With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga
The 3. Liga is a professional association football league and the third division in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2. Bundesliga and the fourth-tier Regionalliga.
The modern 3. Liga was formed for t ...
in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga
The 2. Bundesliga ( ) is the second division of professional football in Germany. It was implemented 11 years after the founding of the Fußball-Bundesliga as the new second division for professional football. The 2. Bundesliga is ranked below ...
, all leagues below dropped one tier. The Saarlandliga
The Saarlandliga (English: ''Saarland league'') is currently the sixth tier of the German football league system in the German federal state of Saarland. It was a new league, introduced at the end of the 2008-09 season.
In the past, the term ''Saa ...
was introduced in 2009 and replaced the Verbandsliga Saarland
The Verbandsliga Saarland is currently the seventh tier of the German football league system in the German federated state of Saarland. Until the introduction of the Saarlandliga in 2009 it was the sixth tier, until the introduction of the 3. Liga ...
at the sixth tier of football in the Saarland. In 2012 the Oberliga Südwest was renamed Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar.
Current squad
References
External links
The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
Borussia Neunkirchen at Weltfussball.de
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables
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Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in Saarland
Borussia
Association football clubs established in 1905
1905 establishments in Germany
Bundesliga clubs
2. Bundesliga clubs