DSC Wanne-Eickel is a
German association football club that plays in
Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia.
History
The club was founded in 1954 as ''TB Eickel'' when it left
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, a short-lived union it had formed with ''SV Preußen 04 Wanne'', in 1950. It took on the name ''DSC Wanne-Eickel'' in 1969. In addition to a football team the club has departments for judo, model airplane flying, bowling, handball, watersports and physical fitness.
A third division side since 1960, it earned promotion to the
2. Bundesliga Nord late in the 1970s and played the 1978 and 1979 seasons there. The club voluntarily bowed out in spite of 11th and 13th-place finishes well clear of the relegation zone in the face of dismal attendance and an increasingly untenable financial situation. It returned to third division play where it played until the early 1990s before slipping to the Verbandsliga Westfalen-Sudwest (V). The football department became independent in 2000 and from the 2003–04 season played in the tier VI
Landesliga Westfalen-West, gaining promotion to the
Verbandsliga Westfalen
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 ...
again in 2005.
The club now plays in the
Westfalenliga, formerly the Verbandsliga.
Honours
The club's honours:
*
Westfalenliga
** Champions: 1978, 2006
*
Westphalia Cup
** Winners: 1986
Stadium
''DSC'' plays in the Sportpark Wanne-Süd (capacity 16,000) built in 1956. A seating grandstand was added in the early 1990s.
External links
Official website
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Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in North Rhine-Westphalia
Association football clubs established in 1954
1954 establishments in West Germany
Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia
2. Bundesliga clubs