Bonner SC

Bonner SC
Full name Bonner Sport-Club 01/04 e.V.
Founded 1965
Ground Sportpark Nord
Capacity 10,164
Chairman Matthias Möseler
Manager Daniel Zillken
League Regionalliga West (IV)
2016–17 9th
Website Club website
Logos of predecessor sides Bonner FV and Tura Bonn.

Bonner SC is a German association football club based in Bonn. The club was formed in 1965 through the merger of Bonner FV and Tura Bonn.

History

Bonner FV was founded in 1901 and was known early on as the "Club of Academics" because many of its leaders and members were teachers and professors. The side achieved good results as a tier II team prior to World War II, playing in the tier one Gauliga Mittelrhein at times. In 1959, FV won the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein (III) championship and moved up to 2nd Oberliga West (Division Two West).

Tura was formed in 1925 through a merger of the clubs FC Normannia and FC Borussia and drew its membership from the working class. The combined side's lineage also included the club FC Regina Bonn founded in 1904. Like Bonner FV, Tura played as a tier II team and their greatest success was in winning the 1962 west German amateur championship and their subsequent appearance in the national amateur final, which they lost 0:1 to SC Tegel. Since its founding in 1965, Bonner SC has played as a tier III or IV side except for a handful of seasons spent in various level II leagues between 1966–67 and 1976–77.

Cuban connection

In 1999, the club drew a lot of attention when then owner Hans-Robert Viol signed the complete Cuba national football team for the remainder of the season with the approval of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who ordered the players to remain amateurs and only be paid pocket money.[1] They were the first 15 Cuban football players to have a spell abroad during the Castro regime and only four of them were expected to play in the Germans fourth tier side.[2]

In 2000–01, they fell as low as Verbandsliga Mittelrhein (V). Despite the drought of success, Bonner SC were able to muster-up a phenomenal season in the NRW-Liga in the 2008–09 season and become champions leading to their promotion back to the Regionalliga for the 2009–10 Season.

The club had to declare insolvency in July 2010 and was therefore unable to enter the Regionalliga. The team, Euro 7 million in debt, was also barred from entering the NRW-Liga as it could not provide the necessary guarantees to prove it would be able to survive financially. Having declared insolvency after the start of the new season, the side could only enter the league below, the Mittelrheinliga, under the condition of being automatically relegated at the end of season, which it declined and paused for a year. Bonner SC entered the tier seven Landesliga Mittelrhein 1 for the 2011–12 season.[3]

From 2014 to 2016 Bonner SC played in the fifth tier of the league system, the Mittelrheinliga. In the 2015-16 season the club won the league and earned promotion to Regionalliga West for the 2016-17 season.

Current squad

As of 15 February 2018[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Germany GK Martin Michel
2 Bosnia and Herzegovina MF Adis Omerbasic
4 Germany DF Mario Weber
5 Germany DF Joren Sobiech
6 Germany DF Sebastian Spinrath
7 Germany FW David Bors
8 Germany FW Lars Lokotsch
9 Germany FW Marcel Kaiser
10 Serbia MF Vojno Ješić
11 Germany MF Abdelkader Maouel
13 Germany MF Aleksandar Pranjes
15 Germany MF Kris Fillinger
No. Position Player
16 Germany DF Dennis Engelmann
17 Germany FW Daniel Somuah
18 Germany DF Nico Perrey
19 Germany MF Jannik Stoffels
20 Germany MF Dario Schumacher (Captain)
21 Germany MF Gordon Addai
22 Germany DF Günter Mabanza
23 Germany DF Sebastian Hirsch
24 Germany FW Marco Ban
30 Germany GK Alexander Monath
33 Germany DF Ugur Dündar
50 Germany GK Andy Hubert

Staff

As of 15 February 2018[5]
  • Head coach: Daniel Zillken
  • Co-Trainer: Michael Braun
  • Goalkeeper-Trainer: Waldemar Polec

Honors

The club's honours:

References

  1. ↑ The Cubans are coming - The Guardian
  2. ↑ Quince futbolistas cubanos, prestados al Bonner, de la 4ª división alemana - El País (in Spanish)
  3. ↑ Bei Insolvenz ein Jahr Pause (in German) www.reviersport.de, published: 18 July 2010, accessed: 19 August 2011
  4. ↑ "Kader" (in German). Bonner SC. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "Funktionsstab" (in German). Bonner SC. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
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