Sport in North Rhine-Westphalia
The sport in North Rhine-Westphalia is characterized primarily by the football. Not only explained by the size and population density of North Rhine-Westphalia , the Rhine-Ruhr region has a particularly high density of successful football clubs. Football has always been part of the tradition of the miners in the area . In terms of the number of inhabitants, North Rhine-Westphalia is mostly overrepresented in the Bundesliga . In addition to soccer, many other sports are also practiced in North Rhine-Westphalia. Handball, ice hockey and basketball attract a particularly large number of spectators.
Soccer
In terms of sport, the football tradition of North Rhine-Westphalia should be emphasized. The best-known North Rhine-Westphalian football clubs are Alemannia Aachen , Arminia Bielefeld , SC Paderborn 07 , VfL Bochum , SG Wattenscheid 09 , Bonner SC , Borussia Dortmund , Fortuna Düsseldorf , MSV Duisburg , Rot-Weiss Essen , FC Schalke 04 , 1. FC Cologne , Bayer 04 Leverkusen , Borussia Mönchengladbach , Preußen Münster , Rot-Weiß Oberhausen , KFC Uerdingen 05 and Wuppertaler SV . The most successful clubs from North Rhine-Westphalia in women's football are FCR Duisburg , SG Essen-Schönebeck , SG Wattenscheid 09, 1. FC Cologne and FFC Heike Rheine .
ice Hockey
Ice hockey is also very popular in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Düsseldorfer EG , the Kölner Haie , the Krefeld Pinguine and the Iserlohn Roosters play in the highest German division, the DEL . There are also various clubs in the upper and regional leagues.
basketball
Telekom Baskets Bonn , Bayer Giants Leverkusen and Cologne 99ers have been in the top field of the basketball Bundesliga for several years . Since the 2006/07 season, the Paderborn Baskets have also been part of the top division teams. Record champions Bayer Giants Leverkusen will compete as Giants Düsseldorf with a Bundesliga basketball team in Düsseldorf from the 2008/2009 season . The Cologne 99ers have not received a license for the basketball Bundesliga.
Handball
In particular, Ostwestfalen-Lippe and the Bergisches Land are the location of several handball strongholds. VfL Gummersbach , Bergischer HC , TBV Lemgo and TuS N-Lübbecke play in the handball Bundesliga in 2015/16 . GWD Minden , TUSEM Essen , TV Emsdetten and ASV Hamm-Westfalen are also represented in the second handball league .
Other sports
Well-known volleyball clubs include evivo Düren , Moerser SC and the A! B! C Titans Berg, which have now been released . Land (formerly part of SV Bayer Wuppertal ) for men and USC Münster and TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen for women. The CHIO in Aachen is a mecca for equestrian sports . A major horse show in Westphalia is the Balve Optimum .
Popular tennis tournaments are the Düsseldorf World Team Cup and the Gerry Weber Open in Halle (Westphalia) . In fistball, the women's team from TV Voerde won the 2001 World Cup. Borussia Düsseldorf is the most successful German table tennis club in recent decades. In badminton played FC Langenfeld quite successful. Rowing has RTHC Bayer Leverkusen with Stephan Volkert one more time Olympic champion in its ranks. In hockey, the men of the CHTC ( Krefeld ) are both reigning indoor hockey champions and European Cup winners.
With the TV Westfalia 1891 e. V. Hamm also provides one of the most successful German fistball teams in NRW. The club reached five German field and 11 German indoor fistball championships for men, the women achieved a German championship on the field. The annual world championship three cushion billiards takes place in the Viersener Festhalle . The Billard Sportverein Wuppertal 1929 is the most successful German snooker team. From the 1950s to the end of the 1970s, SC Rote Erde Hamm dominated the water polo Bundesliga and was 11 times German champions and 4 times cup winners. In addition, there have been numerous runner-up championships since the 1980s. The RSC Cronenberg (Wuppertal) is one of the best German roller hockey teams.
Motorsport was and still is in North Rhine-Westphalia: every year on Ascension Day on the Westfalen-Ring in Lüdinghausen, the international grass track motorcycle race. World Championship and European Championship runs for the World Long Track World Championship also in Bielefeld and Harsewinkel . On October 13, 2007 the Speedway World Championship Grand Prix of Germany took place in the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen as part of the Speedway Individual World Championship.
Cologne's E-Sports - Clan n! Faculty founded on 6 August 2008, the world's first e-sports clubhouse in Cologne. With SK Gaming , ESC Gaming , Planetkey Dynamics there are other successful e-sports teams. The Ocrana clan, which has now been dissolved , also had its headquarters in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Sports facilities
The largest football stadium in the country and at the same time in Germany is the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund with over 80,000 seats , which is best known under its traditional name Westfalenstadion . The Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen , which can hold around 62,000 spectators, has a completely covered grandstand and playing area. The largest “sports hall” is the Lanxess Arena in Cologne with a maximum capacity of around 20,000 spectators.
Web links
- State Sports Association of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Interior Ministry North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Sportland North Rhine-Westphalia
- Interior Ministry North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): "Sport"
- State office for school sports in North Rhine-Westphalia at the district government of Düsseldorf (publisher): School sports in North Rhine-Westphalia