SC Altenkessel is a German football club from the district of Altenkessel in the city of

Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...

Saarland The Saarland (, ; french: Sarre ) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and ...

. The club was briefly part of first-division play during World War II and after the war played in 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 ...

when the state of

was occupied by the French. __TOC__

History

The club was established in 1907 as ''Sportverein Borussia Altenkessel'' and in 1910 adopted the name ''Sportclub 07 Altenkessel''. They were joined by the member ship of ''Fußball-Club 1905 Neudorf'' in 1912.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag In 1942 ''SC'' won a promotion round playoff to advance to the

Gauliga Westmark A Gauliga () was the highest level of play in German football from 1933 to 1945. The leagues were introduced in 1933, after the Nazi takeover of power by the National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise. Name The German word ...

, one of 16 regional top flight divisions formed in the 1933 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 ...

. The club's 1942–43 campaign ended in relegation after a 12th-place result. As the war progressed and turned against Germany teams were often merged into wartime sides known as Kriegspielgemeinschaft in order to deal with player shortages. After 17 October 1943 ''SC'' played alongside '' Fußballverein Saarbrücken'' as part of ''KSG Saarbrücken'' until war's end. After the conflict ''SC'' won promotion for the 1950–51 season to the regional first division Saarlandliga which had emerged as a separate football competition as a result of attempts by the French to annex the state of Saarland. The club earned a 12th-place finish and the following year became part of 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 ...

when the region's football clubs rejoined German competition. A 4th-place result in the 1951–52 campaign won ''SC'' a place in the 2. Liga Südwest (II) where they played for two seasons before being relegated. Between 1954 and 1961 the Altenkessel side was part of the Amateurliga Saarland (III) where they generally earned mid-table results. In 1961 they slipped to the 2. Amateurliga Saar, Gruppe West (IV) and in 1964 slipped to lower-tier play. In 1974, the reemerged in the Bezirksliga Saarland, Gruppe West (IV) for a three-year turn before appearing in the Landesliga Südwest (V) following a restructuring of the country's competition in 1978. After a series of upper table finishes they captured the division title in 1982 and advanced to the Verbandsliga Saarland (IV). They were demoted in 1987 after several lower table finishes. They narrowly escaped relegation from the Landesliga Saarland, Gruppe Südwest (V) in 1991, but were sent down the following year after finishing last. After a single season turn in the Bezirksliga Saarland, Gruppe Süd ''SC'' slipped out of sight into lower level local competition. After a league championship in the Kreisliga A Halberg (X) in 2015 the club was promoted to the Bezirksliga, where another championship in 2016 took the club up to the Landesliga.

Honours

* Bezirksliga Südsaar ** Champions: 2015–16

References

External links

Official team siteDas deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Altenkessel, SC Football clubs in Germany Association football clubs established in 1907 Football clubs in Saarland 1907 establishments in Germany