OSC Bremerhaven is a German
sports club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
based in
Bremerhaven
Bremerhaven (, , Low German: ''Bremerhoben'') is a city at the seaport of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany.
It forms a semi-enclave in the state of Lower Saxony and is located at the mouth of the Riv ...
, in the
federal state
A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central federal government ( federalism). In a federation, the self-gover ...
of
Bremen.
History
The club was founded in 1972 as ''Olympischer Sport-Club Bremerhaven'' in a merger of various
local football clubs including ''ATS Bremerhaven'', which has roots going back to 1859, ''Polizei Sportverein'', ''TuS Bremerhaven 93'', and the ''Judo-Klub''. They are the largest sports club in the city, claiming some 4500 members, but football is not their primary focus. Their minor league side currently competes at the tier V level after a decade spent in tiers II and III, from the mid-70s through to the mid-80s.
OSC can make a strong claim to being the successor to ''TuS Bremerhaven 93'', which was officially disbanded in 1974. While many members of ''TuS 93'' joined OSC, others continued to field a separate football team until 1977. In 1991, the football players left OSC en masse to form ''
FC Bremerhaven
FC Bremerhaven was a German association football club located in Bremerhaven, Bremen.
History
The club was founded 1 June 1899 and soon merged with ''VfB 1899 Lehe'' to become ''FC Bremerhaven-Lehe''. In 1917 ''FC'' merged with ''SC Sparta Brem ...
'', leaving OSC with just a rump side. The ''TuS 93'' was a quite successful side in northern German football, playing in the
Oberliga Nord (I) from 1948 to 1963 and then in the
Regionalliga Nord
The Regionalliga Nord ( en, Regional League North) is the fourth tier of the German football league system in the states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg. It is one of five leagues at this level, together with the Regional ...
(II) until 1974.
Nowadays the club plays in the highest league in the state, the
Bremen-Liga
The Bremen-Liga, sometimes also referred to as ''Oberliga Bremen'', is a fifth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. It is one of fourteen Oberligas in German football ...
.
OSC Bremerhaven at Fussball.de
Tables and results of the German football leagues, accessed: 11 March 2015
Honours
TuS Bremerhaven 93
* Oberliga Nord (I)
** Runners-up: 1955
* Amateurliga Bremen (II)
** Champions: 1948
OSC Bremerhaven
* Oberliga Nord (III)
** Champions: 1977
** Runners-up: 1979
* Bremer Pokal
** Winners: 1981, 1984
References
External links
*
The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
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Football clubs in Germany
OSC Bremerhaven
Sport in Bremerhaven
Association football clubs established in 1972
1972 establishments in Germany
2. Bundesliga clubs