SG Wattenscheid 09

SG Wattenscheid 09
Full name Sportgemeinschaft 09 Wattenscheid e. V.
Nickname(s) "09"
Founded 1909
Ground Lohrheide-Stadion
Ground Capacity 16,233
Chairman Christoph Jacob
Manager Farat Toku
League Regionalliga West (IV)
2014–15 13th

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.

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 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 German Cup 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.

Current squad

As of 28 January 2016

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 MF Jan-Steffen Meier
3 Germany DF Christopher Braun
4 Syria MF Neco Mohammad
5 Germany DF Maurice Haar
6 Germany MF Christ Kasela Mbona
7 Germany DF Sascha Tobor
8 Turkey MF Burak Kaplan
9 Germany FW Ivan Benkovic
10 Turkey FW Güngör Kaya
13 Germany MF Manuel Glowacz
14 Democratic Republic of the Congo MF Nino Saka
17 Germany MF Ilias Anan
No. Position Player
18 Germany MF Nico Buckmaier
19 Germany MF Demir Tumbul
20 Germany DF Koray Kacinoglu
21 Germany MF Eren Elbüstü
22 Germany DF Mario Klinger
23 Germany DF Felix Clever
25 Italy GK Bruno Donnici
27 Germany MF Ibrahim Erdem
30 Germany DF Adrian Schneider
37 Germany GK Tolunay Isik
54 Azerbaijan FW Eren Taşkin
Turkey MF Mehmet Zeki Tunc (on loan from Elazığspor)

Notable Coaches

Honours

The club's honours:

External links

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