SG Wattenscheid 09

SG Wattenscheid 09
Full name Sportgemeinschaft 09 Wattenscheid e. V.
Nickname(s) "09"
Founded 1909
Ground Lohrheide-Stadion
Capacity 16,233
Chairman Christoph Jacob
Manager Farat Toku
League Regionalliga West (IV)
2016–17 8th

SG Wattenscheid 09 is a German association football club located in Wattenscheid which was a separate town until 1975, since then it is a quarter of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club claims an official founding date of 18 September 1909 as Ballspiel-Verein Wattenscheid out of the merger of two earlier sides known as BV Sodalität der Wattenscheid and BV Teutonia Wattenscheid.

History

The club played quietly as a local side until briefly coming to notice in the war-ravaged Gauliga Westfalen, then a division of top flight German football, in the abbreviated 1944–45 season.

Historical chart of Wattenscheid league performance after WWII

In 1958, Wattenscheid joined the Verbandsliga Westfalen (III) and a title there in 1969 saw the club promoted to the Regionalliga West (II). Despite a Regionalliga title in 1974 they did not move up due the restructuring of the German competition, but instead continued to play second-division football in the newly formed 2. Bundesliga Nord. Through a period from the late 70s on to the late 80s the team struggled somewhat, earning uneven results and having several close brushes with relegation. They played well enough to earn a 10th-place finish in 1981 and stay up when the 2. Bundesliga Nord and 2. Bundesliga Süd were combined into a single division, but the next year they escaped being sent down in the bottom four only because TSV 1860 Munich was denied a license and was instead forced down to tier III play.

From that point the club slowly turned itself around and in 1990 earned promotion to the top-flight by way of a second-place result in their division. However, their Bundesliga stay was a brief four years with their best result being an 11th-place finish in their debut season. The most memorable matches in this period are the victory in the derby against VfL Bochum in 1992 (2–0) and the two victories against German record champion Bayern Munich in 1991 (3–2) and 1993 (2–0). After relegation in 1994, Wattenscheid spent two campaigns in the 2. Bundesliga, before slipping to Regionalliga in 1996 for one season and returned for two campaigns back in the 2. Bundesliga. In 1999, Wattenscheid was slipping to Regionalliga and Oberliga in 2004. The next season, in 2005, they could advance to the Regionalliga again. Two consecutive relegations brought them to the Verbandsliga Westfalen in 2007, where they played for one season before qualifying for the new Oberliga Nordrhein-Westfalen. Wattenscheid played Oberliga for 2 seasons and relegated again to Verbandsliga after finishing 18th in 2009–10 season.

After winning the regional Westfalenpokal in 1996, Wattenscheid qualified for the first round of DFB-Pokal in 1996–97 where they faced Borussia Dortmund, at that time the reigning German champions. They won the match 4–3 (after extra time) but were eliminated by Karlsruher SC II in the following round, losing 4–2 in a penalty shootout.

After being relegated from the NRW-Liga in 2009–10, they dropped to the six-tier Verbandsliga Westfalen II, but climbed to the fourth-tier Regionalliga West three years later, in 2013, where they play today.

Older logo.

Current squad

As of 15 February 2018[1]

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 Edin Sancaktar
2 Germany DF Serdar Bingöl
3 Germany DF Angelo Langer
4 Germany DF Norman Jakubowski
5 Germany MF Steve Tunga
6 Germany MF Matthias Tietz
7 Germany MF Jonas Erwig-Drüppel
8 Turkey MF Berkant Canbulut
9 Germany FW Joseph Boyamba
10 Turkey MF Emre Demircan
11 Angola FW Fabio Dias
13 Germany MF Manuel Glowacz
No. Position Player
14 Japan MF Chang Kim
15 Serbia MF Predrag Stevanović
17 Mozambique DF Jeffrey Obst
18 Germany MF Nico Buckmaier
19 Germany MF Demir Tumbul
21 Germany GK Hendrik Zimmermann
22 Germany GK Steffen Scharbaum
23 Germany DF Felix Clever
24 United States MF Mael Corboz
26 Germany FW Sebastian van Santen
30 Germany DF Adrian Schneider
31 Germany DF Daniel Neustädter

Notable managers

Honours

The club's honours:

References

  1. ↑ "Unsere Erste 2017/18" (in German). SG Wattenscheid. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
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