Rot-Weiß Oberhausen is a
German association football club in
Oberhausen
Oberhausen (, ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( ). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Rout ...
, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was formed as ''Oberhausener SV'' in December 1904 out of the merger of ''Emschertaler SV'' (1902) and the football enthusiasts of ''Oberhausener TV 1873''. The new side entered into a union with ''Viktoria Styrum BV'' to create ''SpVgg 1904 Oberhausen-Styrum'', but within six months a number of the club's members left to form ''1. FC Mülheim-Styrum''. The remaining club members carried on and in 1934 took on their current name.
History
The team was unremarked through its early history, simply playing local ball. After the re-organization of German football in the early 1930s under the
Third Reich
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''Rot Weiss'' played in the
Gauliga Niederrhein but could never match the strength of division rival
Fortuna Düsseldorf
Düsseldorfer Turn- und Sportverein Fortuna 1895 e.V., commonly known as Fortuna Düsseldorf (), is a Football in Germany, German football club based in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, that competes in the 2. Bundesliga.
Founded in 1895, Fo ...
. During
World War II
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the club played alongside
ASV Elmar as part of the combined wartime side KSG Elmar/Viktoria Oberhausen.

The club worked its way into the upper league
Oberliga West after the war and with the formation of the
Bundesliga
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, Germany's new professional circuit, found themselves in the second division
Regionalliga West
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. A first-place finish there in 1969 led to promotion to the Bundesliga for the workmanlike side. The club's turn in the top flight was tainted when they were implicated in the Bundesliga bribery scandal of 1971. While it was clear they were involved, the club and its players escaped sanction. After three years in the upper league without doing any better than a 14th-place finish, the club returned to its existence as a tier II and III side.
Financial problems in 1988 were the prelude to a slide into the
Verbandsliga Niederrhein (IV) two years later. After nearly a decade spent bouncing up and down between the third and fourth divisions ''Die Kleeblätter'' returned to the
2. Bundesliga in 1998, winning the
Regionalliga West/Südwest
The Regionalliga West/Südwest was the third tier of the German football league system in the states of Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz and Nordrhein-Westfalen from 1994 to 2000.
Overview
The Regionalliga West/Südwest was formed in 1994 to form a ...
. They remained a lower table side for the most part, but did manage to put forward their best ever performances with sixth and fifth-place finishes in 2000 and 2004. ''Oberhausen'' was relegated again to the
Regionalliga Nord
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(III) for 2005. Relegation to the
Oberliga (IV) followed a year later. They returned to
2. Bundesliga after two successively promotions; which were first in the
Oberliga Nordrhein in 2006–07 and second of
Regionalliga Nord
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in 2007–08 season. The club dropped out of the 2. Bundesliga in 2011, was relegated again the following year from the
3. Liga and now plays in the tier four
Regionalliga West
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.
Honours
The club's honours:
*
Regionalliga West
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** Champions:
1969
*
Oberliga Nordrhein
** Champions: 1979, 1983, 1995, 2007
*
Verbandsliga Niederrhein
** Champions: 1993
*
Lower Rhine Cup
** Winners: 1996, 1998,
2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
Recent seasons
The club's recent seasons:
;Key
Players
Current squad
Famous players and successes
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen has seen three of its players capped for Germany.
The club's 1970–71 Bundesliga season was distinguished by the performance of
Lothar Kobluhn, who won the league scoring title with 24 goals – 12 of those coming in the last 8 games of the season to save Rot-Weiß from relegation by just one goal. The team was embroiled in the Bundesliga scandal of 1971 and as a result Kobluhn was not awarded the Torjägerkanone trophy as top-scorer until October 2007, 36 years after his achievement.
In 1999, Oberhausen played a
DFB-Pokal
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semifinal in Gelsenkirchen against
Bayern Munich in front of 45,000 spectators, losing 1–3. On their way to their semifinal appearance they beat
Borussia Mönchengladbach
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and
Hamburger SV
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.
In July 2010, midfielder
Heinrich Schmidtgal was selected for the national team of
Kazakhstan
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and played his first international match in Kazakhstan's
Euro 2012 qualification against Turkey on 3 September 2010.
Managers
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Slobodan Cendic (1985–1986)
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Janos Bedl (1986–1987)
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Hans-Werner Moors (1987–1988)
*
Gerd vom Bruch (1997–1998)
*
Aleksandar Ristić
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Playing career
Ristić was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. During his playing career he played for the Yugoslav clubs ...
(1998–2000)
*
Gerhard Kleppinger (2000–2001)
*
Dragoslav Stepanović (2001)
*
Aleksandar Ristic (2001–2003)
*
Klaus Hilpert (2003)
*
Jørn Andersen (2003–2004)
*
Jürgen Luginger (2004, caretaker)
*
Eugen Hach (2004–2005)
*
Harry Pleß (2005–2006)
* Günter Abel (2006)
*
Hans-Günter Bruns (2006–2008)
* Jürgen Luginger (2008–2010)
*
Hans-Günter Bruns (2010–2011)
*
Theo Schneider (2011)
*
Mario Basler
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A dead-ball specialist, Ba ...
(2011–2012)
*
Peter Kunkel (2012–2014)
*
Andreas Zimmermann (2014–2016)
*
Mike Terranova (2016–2020)
*
Dimitrios Pappas (2020)
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Mike Terranova (2020–2023)
*
Jörn Nowak (2023–2024)
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Mike Terranova (2024)
*
Sebastian Gunkel (2024-)
Athletics
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen has also had an athletics section. Among its most prominent former members are
Willi Wülbeck and
Fritz Roderfeld. The team also became national champions in
4 x 400 metres relay in 1948 and 3 x 1000 metres relay in 1951.
References
External links
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Football clubs in Germany
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Athletics clubs in Germany
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