DSC Wanne-Eickel
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| Full name | Deutscher Sport Club Wanne-Eickel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1954 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ground | Sportpark Wanne-Süd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 16,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Norbert Lücke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Landesliga Westfalen-West (VI) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004-05 | Landesliga Westfalen-West, 5th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DSC Wanne-Eickel is a German football club that plays in Herne, Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The club was founded in 1954 as TB Eickel when it left behind Sportfreunde Wanne-Eickel, a short-lived union it had formed with SV Preußen 04 Wanne in 1950. It took on the name DSC Wanne-Eickel in 1969. In addition to a football team the club has departments for Judo, model airplane flying, bowling, handball, watersports and physical fitness.
A third division side since 1960, it earned promotion to the 2.Bundesliga Nord late in the 70's and played the 1978 and 1979 seasons there. The club voluntarily bowed out in spite of 11th and 13th place finishes well clear of the relgation zone in the face of dismal attendance and an increasingly untenable financial situation. It returned to third division play where it played until the early 90's before slipping to the Verbandsliga Westfalen-Sudwest (V). The football department became independent in 2000 and since the 2003-04 season has played in the tier VI Landesliga Westfalen-West.
[edit] Stadium
DSC plays in the Sportpark Wanne-Süd (capacity 16,000) built in 1956. A seating grandstand was added in the early 90's.
[edit] Notable players
- Norbert Lücke, one of the 2.Bundesliga side and currently chairman of the football department
- Ralf Regenbogen
- Ingo Peter, one of the 2.Bundesliga side
- Heinz Blasey, goalkeeper for the 2.Bundesliga side
