Pulheimer SC
The Pulheimer Sportclub 1924/57 eV is a sports club from Pulheim . With over 7,000 active members in 18 departments, it is one of the largest sports clubs in North Rhine-Westphalia . The club colors are green and white. The club became known nationwide primarily for its baseball department, the Pulheim Gophers and the handball department, whose women's team played in the 1st Bundesliga for a number of years and their men's team for a few years in the regional handball league West . The club also offers badminton , disabled sports , budo , fencing , football , hockey , athletics , cycling , inline hockey , swimming , chess , dancing , tennis , table tennis , volleyball and hiking .
history
The Pulheimer SC (short: PSC) was created on September 9, 1966 as a merger of the clubs SC Sparta Pulheim 1924 and VFL Pulheim 1957. To this day, the PSC has remained the only major sports club in town. The oldest departments are football (founded in 1924), handball (founded in 1958) and tennis (founded in 1964). The youngest division is the inline hockey team Pulheim Vipers from 1995.
Sports facilities
Most of the club's sports facilities are located in the sports center in the north of Pulheim. Here the association u. a. over a grass field, three soccer fields (one lawn with tartan track, one ash and one artificial turf), a triple gymnasium, a swimming pool, several tennis courts, a budo hall, an inline hockey field and a baseball field.
Successful departments
baseball
The baseball department, founded in 1989, was promoted to the 1st Bundesliga for the first time in the 2001 season and reached the play-offs straight away with fourth place. After the 2002 season, the first relegation followed. After only one year, the team rose again to the 1st Bundesliga, but had to withdraw to the regional league at the end of the 2004 season for internal reasons. For the 2009 season they made it back to the 1st Bundesliga, but in the end they only saved themselves from relegation by relegation.
Handball
The handball department celebrated great successes in both men and women. The first men's team played from the 1990/91 to 1993/94 season and again from 1995/96 to 1996/97 in the Handball Regional League West. The best placement was second place in the 1992/93 season . In the 2010/11 season, the team plays in the top league. The first women's team even made it to the first division in the 1976/77 season. There the team played permanently against relegation, which overtook them after the 1981/82 season. Like the men's team, the first women currently play in the major league.
Soccer
The men's team from Sparta Pulheim made it into the district class in 1960. Two years later, the Spartans missed promotion to the Landesliga Mittelrhein after a playoff defeat against SC West Cologne . After the merger to Pulheimer SC, the state league promotion finally succeeded in 1968, where two years later only a play-off defeat against TuS Lindlar prevented promotion to the association league . This decision game took place in Cologne in the "Müngersdorfer Radrennbahn".
In 1973 the Pulheimers were relegated to the district class before they were promoted again three years later. There the Pulheimer SC, apart from third place in 1987, always played against relegation. In 1990, the team finally descended from the district league, where the Pulheimers failed several times to get promoted again. In 1998 he finally made the leap into the national league, which could be held until 2002. In the following 2002/03 season, the Pulheimers were passed into the district league A. Since then, the Pulheimers have been commuting between district leagues A and B. In 2014, the team was relegated to district league B.
In 2005 the club founded a women's team that started in the district league. Two ascents in a row brought the Pulheimers in the Middle Rhine League, where it was initially against relegation. The greatest success was fifth place in the 2010/11 season. In 2015 the team reached the final of the Middle Rhine Cup. The home venue is the Pulheim Sports Center.
Cycling
The cycling department is considered a talent factory. The best-known member was Gerald Ciolek , who was German champion in 2005 and U-23 world champion on the road in 2006 and who now drives for the Quick-Step team and has already participated in the Tour de France several times .
hockey
The men's team of Pulheimer SC plays in the 2nd league of the West German Hockey Association .
Individual evidence
- ↑ pulheimer-sc.de
- ↑ pulheimer-sc.de
- ↑ pulheimer-sc.de
- ↑ Pulheim Gophers - our little club history
- ^ German Sports Club for Soccer Statistics : Soccer in West Germany 1958 - 1963 . Hövelhof 2013, p. 139, 187 .