TuS Dornberg is a German association football club from the town of

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. Founded in 1902, the team currently plays in the

Westfalenliga 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 ...

(VI). The footballers enjoyed their greatest successes through the latter half of the 1970s. The club also has departments for

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and

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History

''TuS'' advanced to Bezirksliga play in 1975 and the following season moved up to

Landesliga Westfalen The Landesliga Westfalen is a German amateur football division administered by the Westphalian Football and Athletics Association, one of the 21 German state football associations. Being the third level of the Westphalian state association, the La ...

(IV) play. They earned mid-table results there, with their best finish coming as a ninth-place result in 1979–80. However, two successive demotions returned the club to A-Klasse competition by 1982. They returned to the

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 ...

for a single season appearance in 1994–95 before financial problems drove the club down to

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 ...

C-Klasse play, the lowest level in the state. The club's fortunes began to turn in 1999 with the support of a group of sponsors led by the former Satellite 1 newscaster Hans-Hermann Gockel. ''TuS'' won five consecutive promotions and by 2004 had risen 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 ...

(V). A large part of the credit for the team's success was due to the play of striker Tony Agyemang, who scored 150 goals over those five seasons. The jump to fifth division play, however, proved too much for the club which immediately slipped back into Landesliga (VI) play. They were unable to engineer a return to the Verbandsliga the following season, finishing in second place, five points behind titlists '' SC Wiedenbrück 2000''. After a mid-table result in 2007–08, ''Dornberg'' won promotion to what had become the

(VI), the second highest level of play in the state. They won the title there in 2011 and advanced to the NRW-Liga (V). That league was replaced by

Oberliga Westfalen The Oberliga Westfalen is the highest level football league in the region of Westphalia, which is part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The league existed from 1978 to 2008, but was then replaced by the NRW-Liga, a new statewide league. Wit ...

the next year where ''Dornberg'' was relegated to the Westfalenliga (VI) in 2014 and to the Landesliga the season after. The club withdrew from the Landesliga during the 2015–16 season altogether to enter the Bezirksliga for the following season.

External links

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Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables
fussballdaten.de
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