Borussia Neunkirchen

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Borussia Neunkirchen
Borussia Neunkirchen.svg
Full nameBorussia, Verein für Bewegungspiele e.V.,
Neunkirchen
Founded1905;120 years ago (1905)
Ground Ellenfeldstadion
Capacity23,000
ChairmanAlexander Kunz
ManagerThorsten Lahm
League Saarlandliga (VI)
2023–24Saarlandliga, 4th of 18
Website www.borussia-neunkirchen.de

Borussia VfB Neunkirchen is a German association football club based in Neunkirchen, Saarland. The club SC Borussia Neunkirchen was founded out of the 1907 merger of FC 1905 Borussia and SC Neunkirchen.

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History

Historical chart of Borussia Neunkirchen league performance Borussia Neunkirchen Performance Chart.png
Historical chart of Borussia Neunkirchen league performance

From 1912 through to 1963 the club had an uninterrupted record of first division play including the Kreisliga Saar , Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar and selection to the Gauliga , formed in 1933 through the reorganization of German football under the Third Reich. Borussia remained at this level, in the Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen , throughout the league's history, with good results but not winning a league championship. Like other organizations in the country, including sports and football associations, Borussia was dissolved by the Allied occupation authorities after World War II, but was quickly reformed under its current name.

The club played in the French-occupied Saarland and the French made various efforts to see the state become independent of Germany or join France. In sport this was manifested as separate 1952 Olympic and 1954 World Cup teams for Saarland, the establishment of a short-lived football league for the state, and the German club 1. FC Saarbrücken playing in the French second division. Neunkirchen played in the Saarland Ehrenliga from 1949 to 1951, winning the title in the first year and finishing as runner-up the next. They were able to re-join the DFB (Deutscher Fußball-Bund or German Football Association) after the 1950–51 season in the Oberliga Südwest.

Despite their record of continuous play at the top flight, Neunkirchen was not one of the sixteen sides selected for play in the Bundesliga  – Germany's new professional football league – at its formation. Along with FK Pirmasens and Wormatia Worms , they were bypassed in favour of 1. FC Saarbrücken, even though they all had better records than the chosen side. More than a few protests were lodged as 1. FC appeared to have gained entry based simply on their affiliation with a member of the league selection committee. Their entry was delayed by only a year as they were able to play their way into the upper league through the promotion rounds after winning the Regionalliga Südwest.

Their stay in the Bundesliga was short-lived. After a mid-table result in 1965, they would be relegated the following season after a 17th-place finish. They won the Regionalliga Südwest again after being sent down and returned to the Bundesliga to another 17th-place finish and relegation.

Neunkirchen spent another seven years playing tier II football before slipping to the Amateurliga Saarland (III). Through the mid-1970s and into the early 1980s the club bounced up and down between these levels of play, before settling in for a decade and a half at tier III. The team slipped again in 1996 to the Oberliga Südwest (IV). They won their division in 2005 but declined the opportunity to apply for a license and promotion to the third division because of financial problems that have plagued the club since 2003. From 2012 to 2013 the Oberliga Südwest was renamed Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, with Borussia continuing in this league.

In April 2015 the club had to declare insolvency with a debt of €280,000. [1]

Honours

The club's honours:

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club: [2] [3]

SeasonDivisionTierPosition
1951–52 Oberliga Südwest I7th
1952–53 Oberliga Südwest6th
1953–54 Oberliga Südwest8th
1954–55 Oberliga Südwest10th
1955–56 Oberliga Südwest6th
1956–57 Oberliga Südwest5th
1957–58 Oberliga Südwest3rd
1958–59 Oberliga Südwest2nd
1959–60 Oberliga Südwest2nd
1960–61 Oberliga Südwest2nd
1961–62 Oberliga Südwest1st
1962–63 Oberliga Südwest2nd ↓
1963–64 Regionalliga Südwest II1st ↑
1964–65 Bundesliga I10th
1965–66 Bundesliga17th ↓
1966–67 Regionalliga SüdwestII1st ↑
1967–68 BundesligaI17th ↓
1968–69 Regionalliga SüdwestII5th
1969–70 Regionalliga Südwest4th
1970–71 Regionalliga Südwest1st
1971–72 Regionalliga Südwest1st
1972–73 Regionalliga Südwest5th
1973–74 Regionalliga Südwest1st
1974–75 2. Bundesliga Süd 18th ↓
1975–76 Amateurliga Saarland III1st
1976–77Amateurliga Saarland1st
1977–78Amateurliga Saarland1st ↑
1978–79 2. Bundesliga SüdII20th ↓
1979–80 Oberliga Südwest III1st ↑
1980–81 2. Bundesliga SüdII19th ↓
1981–82Oberliga SüdwestIII11th
1982–83Oberliga Südwest9th
1983–84Oberliga Südwest12th
1984–85Oberliga Südwest11th
1985–86Oberliga Südwest7th
1986–87Oberliga Südwest10th
1987–88Oberliga Südwest14th
1988–89Oberliga Südwest8th
1989–90Oberliga Südwest3rd
1990–91Oberliga Südwest1st
1991–92Oberliga Südwest4th
1992–93Oberliga Südwest6th
1993–94Oberliga Südwest4th
1994–95 Regionalliga West/Südwest 8th
1995–96 Regionalliga West/Südwest18th ↓
1996–97Oberliga SüdwestIV7th
1997–98Oberliga Südwest6th
1998–99Oberliga Südwest3rd
1999–2000Oberliga Südwest1st
2000–01Oberliga Südwest3rd
2001–02Oberliga Südwest1st ↑
2002–03 Regionalliga Süd III19th ↓
2003–04Oberliga SüdwestIV10th
2004–05Oberliga Südwest1st
2005–06Oberliga Südwest9th
2006–07Oberliga Südwest10th
2007–08Oberliga Südwest6th ↓
2008–09Oberliga SüdwestV4th
2009–10Oberliga Südwest12th
2010–11Oberliga Südwest7th
2011–12Oberliga Südwest7th
2012–13 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar 5th
2013–14Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar15th
2014–15 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar12th
2015–16 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar4th
2016–17Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar17th ↓
2017–18 Saarlandliga VI3rd
2018–19Saarlandliga9th
2019–20Saarlandliga6th
2020–21Saarlandliga4th
2021–22Saarlandliga3rd
2022–23Saarlandliga4th
2023–24Saarlandliga4th
2024–25Saarlandliga4th
2025–26Saarlandliga
↑ Promoted ↓ Relegated

Current squad

As of 1 June 2015

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
— GK Flag of France.svg  FRA Sebastien Flauss
— GK Flag of Germany.svg  GER Robert Lehmann
— GK Flag of Germany.svg  GER Francesco Rino
— DF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Andreas Backmann
— DF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Tim Cullmann
— DF Flag placeholder.svg Alexandro Gallace
— DF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Armend Haliti
— DF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Espoire Lenda Mbote
— DF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Florian Röder
— DF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Andy Steis
— MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Albert Becker
— MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Mefail Kadrija
— MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Jens Kirchen
No.Pos.NationPlayer
— MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Abdul Kizmaz
— MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Yannick Bach
— MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Marc Leibold
— MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Dennis Serr
— MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Giuseppe Simonetta
— MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Anthony Weston
— MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Felix Wölflinger
— FW Flag of Germany.svg  GER Felix Dausend
— FW Flag of Germany.svg  GER Andreas Haas
— FW Flag of Germany.svg  GER Heraldo Jorrin
— FW Flag of Germany.svg  GER Faruk Ljaic
— FW Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Francesco Laino

References

  1. ↑ Ex-Bundesligist stellt Insolvenz-Antrag (in German) www.t-online.de, published: 2 April 2015, accessed: 4 June 2015
  2. ↑ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
  3. ↑ Fussball.de – Ergebnisse Archived 18 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
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