Wuppertaler SV Borussia
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| Full name | Wuppertaler Sport-Verein Borussia e.V. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Die Löwen (The Lions) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1954 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Zoo-Stadion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 28,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Regionalliga Nord (III) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | Regionalliga Nord, 8th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wuppertaler SV is a German football club located in Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen. The city was founded in 1929 out of the union of a number of smaller towns including Elberfeld, Barmen, Vohwinkel, Cronenburg, and Ronsdorf – each with its own football club. Wuppertal SV was formed in 1954 out of the merger TSG Vohwinkel and SSV Wuppertal. The union paid almost immediate dividends as the combined side played its way into the top-flight Oberliga West after just one season.
WSV spent most of the rest of the 50's and on into the 60's as a second division side. The club returned to the Oberliga West in 1962, but their late success was not enough to earn them selection as one of sixteen clubs which formed the Bundesliga, Germany's new professional league, in 1963. They continued to perform well through the course of the decade, advancing to the semi-final of the 1964 German Cup, and regularly finishing in the top half of the league table.
After winning the Regionalliga West in 1972 Die Löwen were promoted to the Bundesliga for a three year stint. Their first season in the upper league was their most successful. While they never seriously challenged eventual champions Bayern Munich, newly promoted WSV spent five weeks in second place before finally settling for a fourth place finish. The club also played in the UEFA Cup tournament going out 6:8 on aggregate (1:4, 5:4) to Polish side Ruch Chorzow. After their turn in the Bundesliga Wuppertal spent four seasons in the second tier 2.Bundesliga before playing for a dozen seasons in the Amateur Oberliga Nordrhein (III). A series of strong finishes in the late 80's eventually led to a return to the 2.Bundesliga for the 1993 and 1994 seasons before relegation once again to third tier football in the Regionalliga West/Südwest.
The club had a close brush with bankruptcy in 1998 and the next season was sent down to the Oberliga Nordrhein (IV) for failing to pay their dues. By 2003 they had earned a return to the Regionalliga Nord (III) where they play today.
In 2004 the club merged with Borussia Wuppertal to become SV Wuppertal Borussia. Borussia had been formed in 1976 through the union of SV Germania 1907 Wuppertal and VfL 1912 Wuppertal.
[edit] Notable players
- Günter "Meister" Pröpper, scored a 2.Bundesliga record 52 goals in the 1972 campaign
- Horst Szymaniak, who played in the 1958 World Cup, was one of the first German players to follow the big money to play professionally in Italy, and was an unfortunate member of the worst-ever Bundesliga side Tasmania 1900 Berlin
- Mohammad Reza Adelkhani, capped 17 times for Iran.
[edit] External links
| German Regionalliga Nord Football Clubs (2006-07) |
| Rot-Weiß Ahlen | Hertha BSC Berlin II | 1. FC Union Berlin | Werder Bremen II Borussia Dortmund II | Dynamo Dresden | Fortuna Düsseldorf | BSV Kickers Emden FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt | Hamburger SV II | Holstein Kiel | Bayer Leverkusen II VfB Lübeck | 1. FC Magdeburg | Borussia Mönchengladbach II | VfL Osnabrück FC St. Pauli | SV Wilhelmshaven | Wuppertaler SV Borussia |
