SG Union Solingen was a German association football club from

Solingen Solingen (; li, Solich) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located some 25 km east of Düsseldorf along the northern edge of the region called Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr area, and, with a 2009 population of 161,366, ...

, North Rhine-Westphalia.

History

The side can trace its roots back to an earlier ''Union Solingen'' club founded in 1897 out of the merger of a number of clubs from the district of Ohligs that would over time include ''Ohligs FC 06'', ''VfR Ohligs'', ''Walder Ballspielverein'', and ''BV Adler Ohligs''. Of the club's predecessor sides only ''VfR Ohligs'' would distinguish itself with any time spent in first-division football when they played the 1940–41 season in the

Gauliga Niederrhein The Gauliga Niederrhein was the highest football league in the northern part of the Prussian Rhine Province from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reorganised the administrative regions in Germany, and the '' Gaue' ...

before being relegated on the heels of last place finish. In 1949, after World War II, the club was re-formed as ''Union Ohligs'' and began play in the 2nd Oberliga West (Gruppe 2). By the early 70s they were playing in the

Amateurliga Niederrhein The Oberliga Niederrhein ( en, Premier League of the Lower Rhine) is a German amateur football division administered by the Football Association of the Lower Rhine, one of the 21 German state football associations. Being the top flight of the Lowe ...

(III). A 1973 merger with ''VfL Wald Ohligs 1897'' led to the formation of a club that played in the Regionalliga West (II) as ''Ohligs SC Solingen'' for a single season before being relegated. Renamed ''SG Union Solingen'' the next year, the team earned promotion to the 2.Bundesliga-Nord by the middle of the decade. They would stay fourteen seasons in the professional ranks with their best finishes being a fifth and sixth in 1984–85. ''Solingen'' returned to the Amateur-Oberliga Nordrhein (III) in 1989: by this time the club was suffering financially and would soon be bankrupt. In 1990 the club was dissolved.

Former coaches

* Manfred Krafft (1986–1987) *

Eckhard Krautzun Eckhard Krautzun (born 13 January 1941) is a German football coach and former player. Managerial career As a player, Krautzun turned out for Union Solingen, Rheydter SV, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Young Fellows Zürich and TeBe Berlin. In 1968, h ...

(1983) * Erhard Ahmann † (1981–1982) *

Gerhard Prokop Gerhard "Gerd" Prokop (18 May 1939 – 23 January 2002) was a German football player and manager. He played for SV Zweckel (1957–61), Sportfreunde Gladbeck (1961–63), Alemannia Aachen (1963–70 and 1974–76) and K.A.S. Eupen (1970–7 ...

† (1980–1981) * Horst Franz (1977–1980) * Manfred Krafft (1970–1971)

Former players

Honours

champions: 1973, 1975 * Landesliga Niederrhein champions: 1969

References

External links

The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
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