TuRa Bergkamen is a
German association football club from the city of
Bergkamen
Bergkamen (; Westphalian: ''Biärgkoamen'') is a town in the district of Unna, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated south of the river Lippe, approx. north-east of Dortmund and south-west of Hamm.
Bergkamen, a fairly new town in ...
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North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...
.
History
The club was established in July 1945 out of the union of the former memberships of ''Turn- und Sport Bergkamen'', ''Turnverein Bergkamen'', and ''Arbeiter Turnverein Bergkamen'', a group of onetime workers' clubs banned in 1933 under the
Nazi
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regime as politically unpalatable left-leaning sides. The football department of the club later became independent as ''Fußball-Club TuRa Bergkamen''.
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Between 1948–62 the footballers were part of the
Amateurliga Westfalen (II) capturing a divisional title there in 1954. Following the 1963 formation of 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 footba ...
, the new national first division, and the
Regionalliga (II), ''Bergkamen'' became part of lower division play. In 1965, they won their way back to what had become the third tier Amateurliga Westfalen, where they would spend three seasons before being sent down after a 15th-place result in 1968.
The current day club has departments for
athletics
Athletics may refer to:
Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competi ...
, gymnastics,
handball,
judo
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, swimming,
table tennis
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, and tennis. The footballers were part of
Bezirksliga
The Bezirksliga ( en, County League) is commonly a medium set of amateur divisions set at steps 7, 8 or 9 in the German football league system.
Structure
Depending on the structural organisation within each of the 21 state football associations ...
Staffel 8 (VIII) competition after promotion from the
Kreisliga
The Kreisliga ( en, District League), along with the ''Kreisoberliga'' ( en, District Premier League) and the ''Kreisklasse'' ( en, District Class), are the lowest set of divisions in the German football league system, set at step 8 and below.
S ...
A Unna-Hamm (IX) in 2012 but relegated again in 2016.
References
External links
Official team siteFootball department
Football clubs in Germany
Association football clubs established in 1945
1945 establishments in Germany
Football clubs in North Rhine-Westphalia
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