Misplaced Pages

#206793

51-522: The Sportclub Arena was built in 1994 following SC Verl's qualification for the newly created Regionalliga West/Südwest . The stadium was built to fulfill the requirements of the DFB at the time. Following nearly 25 years of participation in the Regionalliga, Verl was promoted to the 3. Liga in the 2019-20 season . The Sportclub Arena did not meet the requirements to be Verl's home ground after their promotion from

102-410: A Regionalliga licence and relegated. This meant, the three last-placed teams in the league that season were after all reprieved and not relegated. For Rot-Weiss Essen this was especially bitter, having been the best-supported club in the league for the second year running, with 5,955 spectators per home game. The gap to the second best supported team however, the 1. FC Saarbrücken, was not as wide as in

153-473: A 2–0 victory over Unterhaching , securing a second-place finish and promotion to the 2. Bundesliga for the first time since 1991. The club's honours: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. The recent season-by-season performance of

204-434: A clear gap to a non-relegation rank, while 16th placed Borussia Mönchengladbach reserves was on equal points with no less than four other clubs. All three however were spared from relegation. The top goal scorers in the second season of the league were Ercan Aydogmus and Christian Knappmann, having both scored 16 goals each. At the end of the 2009–10 season, Rot-Weiss Essen, Waldhof Mannheim and Bonner SC were all refused

255-533: A club from Lower Saxony , while in 2009–10, with Waldhof Mannheim , a club from Baden-Württemberg played in the league. This moving-around of clubs was done to balance out the three Regionalligas in numbers. In 2010–11, in turn, Wormatia Worms , a club nominally belonging to the West, played in the South. In its first season, the league was won by the reserve team of Borussia Dortmund , which finished three points ahead of

306-415: A design with several former club legends on it. On September 16th 2024 the city announced that the building company Hellmich was awarded the contract to rebuild the stands in the west, east and north. The rebuilding is planned to be finished at the end of 2027 with some outer works till spring of 2028.The final capacity will be 19.156. The club also plans to erect two new buildings to have more space for

357-590: A format that could have enabled all Regionalliga champions to be promoted. On that date, the Bundestag delegates voted to grant the Südwest and West champions two direct promotions indefinitely starting in 2021. A third direct promotion place will be assigned according to a rotation principle among the Regionalliga Nord, Nordost and Bavarian champions. The representatives from the remaining two Regionalligen will determine

408-583: A group formed at the Johann-Conrad-Schlaun Grammar School. Historians consider patriotic reasons for naming the club after Prussia. At first the club did not have its own ground and was playing at a parade ground of the army at Loddenheide. General Baron von Bissing gave permission only if the goals would be taken down again after training. On 24 June 1907, the Eagles won their first game against FC Osnabrück with 5–0. After successfully applying for

459-579: A two-legged promotion play-off for the last promotion spot. In 2020, the three direct promotion spots will go to the Südwest champions and the champions of the two leagues that participated in the promotion play-off in the previous season, while the Nordost and West champions participate in the play-off. This format was initially installed as a temporary solution until the DFB-Bundestag in September 2019 decided on

510-515: Is a German sports club based in Münster , North Rhine-Westphalia which is mostly recognised for its football section. The football team currently plays in the 2. Bundesliga which is the second tier in German football. Preußen Münster also fields teams in tennis , athletics , futsal , handball , fistball , darts and esports . The club was founded as FC Preußen on 30 April 1906 and has its roots in

561-594: Is served by the local bus network line 73. Travelling by train to the ground is not recommended by SC Verl as the nearest rail station, the Gütersloh Central Station , is 12 kilometers away from the ground. Regionalliga West The Regionalliga West is a German professional football division administered by the Western German Football Association based in Duisburg . It is one of

SECTION 10

#1732868672207

612-402: Is still Münsters most successful first tier striker of all times with 97 goals in 238 games. The investment paid dividends as the club appeared in the 1951 national final in front of 107,000 spectators at Berlin's Olympic Stadium against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . Preußen striker Gerritzen scored first but the team lost after two goals from Ottmar Walter . Their results as a mid-table side in

663-592: The Gauliga Westfalen , one of sixteen top-flight leagues established through the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich . They earned only mediocre results there and were relegated twice. Their second demotion in 1941 left them out of first division football until after World War II. The team played three seasons in the Landesliga Westfalen Gr. 2 (II) before returning to the top-flight in

714-545: The Oberliga West in the 1948–49 season. That arrival was accompanied by some notoriety, as Preußen Münster became the first German football club to build a team by buying players, something previously unheard of in a country committed to the ideal of amateurism. Siegfried Rachuba, Adolf Preissler, Rudolf Schulz, Felix Gerritzen , and Josef Lammers formed a front five dubbed by the press as the "Hundred-Thousand-Mark Line", even though that much money never did change hands. Rachuba

765-632: The Oberliga Westfalen : From the Oberliga Südwest : From the Oberliga Nord : The winners and runners-up of the league are: The top goal scorers and spectator statistics for the league are: Final league positions for clubs from the region currently covered by the league: Final league positions for clubs from the regions formerly covered by the league: SC Preu%C3%9Fen M%C3%BCnster SC Preußen Münster (English: Prussia Münster)

816-815: The Regionalliga West to the 3. Liga, and the club was forced to carry out its home matches in Lotte at the Stadion am Lotter Kreuz . During the 2022-23 season , SC Verl played its home matches in Home Deluxe Arena in Paderborn . The DFB announced that starting in the 2023-24 season the minimum required capacity of 3. Liga stadiums would be reduced from 10,001 to 5,001, as a part of the DFB's "3. Liga Economic Task Force". After this announcement, renovation works began in 2022 to bring

867-608: The Regionalligas was decided upon. The number of leagues was now expanded to five, with the Regionalliga West losing clubs from the Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate. The new system came into operation with the start of the 2012–13 season. It was also decided to limit the number of reserve teams per Regionalliga to seven. The later however is planned to be achieved through the shifting of clubs between leagues rather than restricting

918-538: The Wuppertaler SV were relegated from the 3rd Liga to the Regionalliga . Wormatia Worms had left the league for the southern division to avoid an uneven number of teams between the three Regionalligas after two of the three 3rd Liga outgoers had been from the west. The 2010–11 season saw the league feature thirteen clubs from North Rhine-Westphalia, of which eight are from Westphalia. Of the other five, two were from

969-454: The 1960s and 1970s as a second division side in the Regionalliga West and 2. Bundesliga Nord. In the 1970s the Preußen made several attempts to return to Bundesliga . Under club president Günter Wellerdieck (from 1970 to 1978) the club took a considerable financial risk to achieve the promotion to first tier. Preußen failed to do so by finishing on 5th place in the 1973–74 season and on 3rd place in

1020-470: The 1977–78 and 1978–79 seasons. After Wellerdieck and other staff of the club's management resigned due to financial difficulties and accusations of tax fraud in 1978, the decline of Preußen Münster continued. They slipped to the Amateur Oberliga Westfalen (III) in the 1981–82 season, and except for a short adventure in the 2. Bundesliga in the 1990 and 1991 seasons, played third-tier football in

1071-433: The 2014–15 season, the club had a promising start, and was even at the top of the league during winter. Unfortunately, the team was not able to keep up the good results and finished 8th. The season 2015–16 also started with good results, but again the team lost ground in the long run and finished ninth. During the season the club switched managers, from Ralf Loose to Horst Steffen . The following season brought big changes in

SECTION 20

#1732868672207

1122-625: The Regionalliga West/Sudwest (1993–2000) and Regionalliga Nord until 2006. During this period, they captured the German Amateur Championship in 1994 with a 1–0 win over Kickers Offenbach . In 2006, the club was relegated to the Oberliga Westfalen , now a fourth-tier circuit. Management subsequently invested significant financial resources into a high-profile team of experienced second- and third-tier players in pursuit of immediate re-promotion. The attempt ended in failure and

1173-422: The Saarland while the remaining three were from Rhineland-Palatinate. Unlike the previous two seasons, no club from outside those three states competes in the league this year. It also featured a record ten reserve teams, leaving only eight first teams in the league. The league was won by Preußen Münster , who finished with a ten-point gap to second-placed Eintracht Trier . In October 2010, another reform of

1224-559: The West Group of the Regionalliga in the 2010–11 season. The manager of that time was Marc Fascher . Preußen were defeated by another Bundesliga team in the German cup, VfL Wolfsburg (1–2). The first season 2011–12 in the third tier of German football after five years ended with a 12th place. In the following seasons the team finished significantly better and even had chances to get promoted again to 2. Bundesliga . In season 2012–13 they almost succeeded and ended in fourth place. In that season

1275-665: The Western German League system, the team initially competed in the second tier. In 1908 the Eagles were promoted to the first league and in 1914 they won the Westphalian Championship. Between 1916 and 1926 the club played on Münstermannplatz, which was close to the current ground, the Preußenstadion . In 1921, they won the Championship a second time and also took on their current name. In 1933, Preußen advanced to

1326-560: The average attendance. In the 2022–23 season, which ended in the promotion of the Eagles, the club had an average attendance of 8,752 in fourth tier which comes close to the highest number in third tier in 2012–13. In the 2023–24 season the number went up to 10,773. [2] Due to the high ticket demand after being promoted to 2. Bundesliga the club capped the amount of season tickets for the 2023–24 season to 8.000. [3] The fans of Münster have rivalries especially with supporters of Arminia Bielefeld and VfL Osnabrück . The close proximity between

1377-410: The average crowd never exceeded 4,500 fans, with the exception of the 2010–11 season, during which the club was promoted, with an average attendance of 5,628. In the following years the average crowd grew from 7,025 people in 2011–12 season to 8,986 people in season 2012–13. In season 2013–14 there was a decrease to 7,958 people. The 2020s marked a new spike in the popularity of the club which showed in

1428-506: The best supported club in the league. Second in this ranking was Preußen Münster with 3,649 spectators per game while the reserve side of Bayer Leverkusen came last in this ranking, attracting only 247 spectators per home game. Sascha Mölders of Rot-Weiss Essen was by far the best scorer in the league scoring 28 times during the season, nine times more than the second-best, Christopher Kullmann . The reserve team of Fortuna Düsseldorf , 1. FC Saarbrücken and Bonner SC were promoted to

1479-414: The bottom, along with the club's usual Prussian eagle surrounded by a wreath. The club also gave away 111 litres of free beer to fans at the stadium. At the end of the 2019–20 season, despite a switch of managers from Sven Hübscher to Sascha Hildmann in the winter break, the club was relegated to Regionalliga West again. Following the relegation Malte Metzelder resigned as director of football and

1530-561: The club administration. After changing the coach from Horst Steffen to the former SCP-player Benno Möhlmann several high-ranking positions in the club were also manned with new personalities. To serve as chairman Preußen Münster could win over Christoph Strässer, a former politician of the German Bundestag . Among others, the board of directors now contains Walther Seinsch who is well known in German football for his work with then fourth tier club Augsburg . Furthermore, with Friedrich Lucas

1581-550: The club qualified for the DFB-Pokal the first time since season 1997–98 (where they were defeated by 1.FSV Mainz 05 ). The opponent was VfL Bochum which competed in Bundesliga at that time. After a penalty shootout Preußen lost 5–6. In the following year the Eagles were defeated in the extra time against another first tier team, Hertha BSC . The match ended 1–3. They were finally promoted to 3. Liga after finishing as champions of

Sportclub Arena - Misplaced Pages Continue

1632-481: The club re-built itself with young players in place of expensive veterans and also put in place a young and relatively unknown coach, Roger Schmidt . The re-worked side finished in first place in the 2007–08 season, and so qualified for the new Regionalliga West which replaced the Oberliga in the league system. They ended the season in fourth place in the Regionalliga in 2008–09, and in sixth in 2009–10. For season 2008–09

1683-431: The club's board now has a fans' representative for the first time in the history of Preußen Münster. In April 2017, Malte Metzelder manned the position of director of football. He is also a former player of the Eagles. In 2017, Preußen Münster celebrated the club's 111th anniversary. In celebration, the club used a special anniversary logo in 2017. The logo contained the text "111 Jahre" (111 years) on top and "1906–2017" on

1734-528: The club: The club plays at the Preußenstadion , which was built in 1926. Once considered one of the most modern stadiums in Germany, the arena slowly fell into disrepair which resulted in reducing the capacity from 40,000 in the 1950s to 15,000, and, after removing one stand, to the current 12,754. Construction of a new facility was considered in the 80s, but the idea was abandoned in December 2000. In spring 2008 it

1785-462: The development plan of the stadium area by the local administration. In December 2018 the local administration granted 40 million Euros to modernize the stadium, which was extended to 60 million in November 2022 and to 88 Million in 2024. [1] As a first step the western was torn down at the end of season 2021–22 to check the filling material underneath. It has been replaced by a noise barrier that shows

1836-688: The five German regional football associations. Being the single flight of the Western German state association, the Regionalliga is currently a level 4 division of the German football league system . It is one of five leagues at this level, together with the Regionalliga Bayern , Regionalliga Nordost , Regionalliga Nord and the Regionalliga Südwest . The league came into existence in August 2008 and

1887-691: The four cities which are located within a 65-kilometer radius led the press to the name of the Bermuda Triangle of Münster, Osnabrück and Bielefeld in 3. Liga . Another minor rival of Preußen Münster supporters is Rot Weiss Essen . Preußen Münster has currently 6,500 members ( in June 2024 ). [4] Part of the club is the Fangemeinschaft Preußen Münster e. V. which serves as a voice for supporters to club management. It also arranges bus tours to matches and events to support charity organizations in

1938-473: The fourth promoted club in two-legged playoffs. At the end of March 2023, the Western German Football Association (WDFV) confirmed the Regionalliga West's status as a professional league for the first time with regard to the 2023–24 season's licensing procedure. North Rhine-Westphalia had already classified the league as such in the 2020–21 season to enable the "numerous professional footballers" to continue practicing their profession. At that time, for example,

1989-715: The game operations in the four remaining regional leagues had been stopped prematurely. The Regionalliga West was formed in 2008 with 18 clubs, five from the two Regionalligas (III), four each from the Oberligas Südwest, Nordrhein and Westfalen (IV) and one from the Oberliga Nord (IV). The founding members were: From the Regionalliga Nord : From the Regionalliga Süd : From the Oberliga Nordrhein : From

2040-491: The ground up to 3. Liga standards. These works cost roughly 8 million euros, and included the installation of undersoil heating and floodlight upgrades. The record for highest attendance in the 3. Liga at the Sportclub Arena is 5,207, set on October 3, 2023, in a match between Verl and Arminia Bielefeld . Verl won the sold-out match 3:1, with goals scored by Oliver Batista Meier , Nico Ochojski and Yari Otto . The stadium

2091-482: The inception of the new Regionalliga West in 2008, there were now three Regionalligas which form the fourth tier of the German football league system, these were: The league covered the same region, as the now defunct Regionalliga West/Südwest did from 1994 to 2000. It also shares its name with the "old" Regionalliga West , which operated from 1963 to 1974, but this league only covered the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2008–09, with BV Cloppenburg , it included

Sportclub Arena - Misplaced Pages Continue

2142-570: The league for the following season, while Waldhof Mannheim crossed over from the southern division to the west. The second edition of the competition was won by the 1. FC Saarbrücken, a club freshly promoted from the Oberliga who had played in the Bundesliga in the past but fallen down the ranks in the league system. 1. FCS beat Sportfreunde Lotte by eight points to the top spot. At the bottom end, Eintracht Trier and Wormatia Worms, two clubs from Rhineland-Palatinate, were in 17th and 18th spot with

2193-401: The overall number of reserve teams. As four teams were relegated from the 3rd Liga starting at the end of the 2018–19 season, the Regionalliga West champions, along with their counterparts from the Nordost and Südwest, were promoted directly to the 3rd Liga. The West was chosen by a draw. The remaining two champions also determined by the same draw, from the Regionalliga Nord and Bayern, played

2244-451: The previous year, Saarbrücken attracting 4,796 spectators a game. Bayer Leverkusen II was once more the least-best supported team but managed to raise its average to 401 spectators by game. Overall, support for the league in its second yearwent up. The teams promoted from the Oberliga at the end of the season were FC 08 Homburg , SC Wiedenbrück and the reserves of Arminia Bielefeld . The reserves of Borussia Dortmund, 2009 champions, and

2295-555: The reserve side of the 1. FC Kaiserslautern . The best non-reserve side in the league was the Preußen Münster , finishing fourth, 15 points clear of the champion. At the bottom of the table, 1. FC Kleve and BV Cloppenburg suffered relegation, while 16th placed Wormatia Worms was spared because FSV Oggersheim , in 12th place, did not apply for a licence for the next season. The league had an average number of 1,372 spectators by game, with Rot-Weiss Essen with 7,077 per game by far

2346-514: The team was also able to defeat the Bundesliga team Werder Bremen in the first round of the DFB-Pokal, 4–2 after extra time. In the second round, the club lost against Augsburg . In season 2013–14 they ended in sixth place. Again the club managed to win against a team from a higher league in the DFB-Pokal, St. Pauli from 2. Bundesliga. In the next round Preußen was defeated again by FC Augsburg. In

2397-401: The tough Oberliga West in the ten years prior to the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963 were good enough to earn Preußen Münster the admission as one of the five teams from that league to earn a place in Germany's new sixteen-team professional circuit. The club made only a cameo appearance in the Bundesliga, being relegated after a next-to-last 15th-place finish. Preußen Münster played out in

2448-401: The youth teams and the neighboring basketball club Uni Baskets and volleyball club USC Münster . Some improvements in the training facilities have already been made. In 2023 two new training pitches have been completed. Due to the club's promotion from Regionalliga West to 3. Liga , average attendance significantly increased. During its years in fourth tier of the German league system,

2499-504: Was decided to renovate the Preußenstadion, to make the stadium more attractive and fitting to modern standards. The seating area was replaced by a new one including 2,931 seats and VIP lounges. Some of the terraces which were still uncovered got a roof. The works finished in May 2009. Further plans have been brought up to continue to modernize the stadium and actions were taken in 2014 to change

2550-462: Was formed from the five Regionalliga clubs in its region which did not achieve admittance to the new 3rd Liga and thirteen Oberliga clubs. The number of clubs in the new league was set at eighteen. Along with the formation of this league there was a merger of the Oberligas below it, with Nordrhein and Westfalen forming the new NRW-Liga , while the Oberliga Südwest remained independent. With

2601-431: Was replaced by former Bundesliga player Peter Niemeyer . In the following three seasons the club rebuild itself. After a third place in season 2020–21 the Eagles came second in the 2021–22 season and were only three goals short of promotion. Finally in the following season they dominated the league and at the end of the season were promoted to return to 3. Liga . On the final matchday of the 2023–24 season , they achieved

SECTION 50

#1732868672207
#206793