Westende Hamborn

Westende Hamborn
Full name	SV Schwarz-Weiß Westende Hamborn e.V.
Founded	1930
Ground	Beeker Rönsbergerhof
Capacity	5,000
League	Kreisliga C – Gruppe 3, Kreis Duisburg-Mülheim-Dinslak (X)
2015–16	6th
Home colours	Away colours

Last updated April 29, 2019

Westende Hamborn is a German association football club from the district of Hamborn in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, a mining and steelworking region. The history of the club includes a number of worker's sports and football clubs.

Football is the most popular sport in Germany. The German Football Association is the sport's national governing body, with 6.6 million members organized in over 26,000 football clubs. There is a league system, with the Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga and 3. Liga on top. The winner of the Bundesliga is crowned the German football champion. Additionally, there are national cup competitions, most notably the DFB-Pokal and DFL-Supercup.

Duisburg is a city of about 500,000 inhabitants in Germany’s Rhineland, at the confluence of the Rhine and the Ruhr. In medieval times, it was a member of the powerful Hanseatic League, and later became a major centre of iron, steel, and chemicals. For this reason, it was heavily bombed in World War II. Today it boasts the world's largest inland port, with 21 docks and 40 kilometres of wharf. The city supports a large Turkish community.

North Rhine-Westphalia is a state of Germany.

History

The team was established in 1930 as Sport-Verein Westende Laar and by 1937 was playing as BSG Bergbau Westende Hamborn. That season BSG won promotion out of the Bezirkskreise Niederrhein (II) to the Gauliga Niederrhein, one of sixteen regional first divisions established in the 1933 re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. They earned indifferent results there over the next three seasons and were relegated in 1941. BSG was renamed SV Westende-Laar Hamborn in 1942 and the team returned to first division play.^[1] They promptly took the division title in 1942–43 and advanced to the eighth final of the national playoffs where they were badly handled (8:0) by VfR Mannheim .^[2] After a second-place finish the next season, SV voluntarily withdrew from top-flight competition. They became part of the wartime side Kriegspielgemeinschaft Westende/Schwarz-Weiß Hamborn and took part in lower level competition.

The Gauliga Niederrhein was the highest football league in the northern part of the Prussian Rhine Province from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reorganised the administrative regions in Germany, and the GaueEssen and Düsseldorf replaced the Prussian province in the Lower Rhein region.

VfR Mannheim is a German professional association football club based in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg formed in 1911 out of the fusion of Mannheimer FG 1896, Mannheimer FG 1897 Union, and FC Viktoria 1897 Mannheim. The club captured the national title in 1949 with a victory over Borussia Dortmund. They have played through most of its recent history as an unheralded local amateur side and were, until 2015, part of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (V).

During this period Westende made appearances in the opening rounds of the Tschammerpokal tournament (1939, 1941, 1942), predecessor to today's DFB-Pokal (German Cup).

The DFB-Pokal[ˈdeː ʔɛf beː poˈkaːl] is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It is considered the second-most important club title in German football after the Bundesliga championship. Taking place from August until June, the winner qualifies for the DFL-Supercup and the UEFA Europa League unless the winner already qualifies for the UEFA Champions League in the Bundesliga.

Following the end of World War II, occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of most organizations in the country, including sports and football clubs. The club was re-established in 1945 as SV Westende Beeke and in 1947 merged with its wartime partner SV Schwarz-Weiß Hamborn to form SV Schwarz-Weiß Westende Hamborn. Schwarz-Weiß had merged with SV Bergbau Schacht 4/8 Hamborn in 1933 and after 1937 played as WKG Bergbau 4/8 Hamborn until again taking up the name Schwarz-Weiß in 1942.

Through the early 50s SW Westende played in the Amateurliga Niederrhein where their best results were a pair of fourth-place finishes. The footballers now compete in the Kreisliga A Duisburg-Mülheim-Dinslaken. The club today has a membership of about 650 and departments for badminton, gymnastics, handball, and judo.

Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" and "doubles". Badminton is often played as a casual outdoor activity in a yard or on a beach; formal games are played on a rectangular indoor court. Points are scored by striking the shuttlecock with the racquet and landing it within the opposing side's half of the court.

Judo was originally created in 1882 by Jigoro Kano (嘉納治五郎) as a physical, mental, and moral pedagogy in Japan. It is generally categorized as a modern martial art, which later evolved into a combat and Olympic sport. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the objective is to either throw or takedown an opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue an opponent with a pin, or force an opponent to submit with a joint lock or a choke. Strikes and thrusts by hands and feet as well as weapons defenses are a part of judo, but only in pre-arranged forms and are not allowed in judo competition or free practice. A judo practitioner is called a judoka.

The club now plays in the tier ten Kreisliga C after relegation from the Kreisliga A in 2011 and the Kreisliga B in 2013.

Honours

Gauliga Niederrhein (I)
- Champions: 1943

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References

↑ Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9
↑ Grüne, Hardy (1996). Vom Kronprinzen bis zur Bundesliga. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-928562-85-1

External links

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Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (in German)

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[1] Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9

[2] Grüne, Hardy (1996). Vom Kronprinzen bis zur Bundesliga. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-928562-85-1