Roland Delmenhorst

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Roland Delmenhorst (officially: Football Club Roland Delmenhorst from 1912 eV ) was a sports club from Delmenhorst . The first soccer team played one year in the highest amateur league in Bremen and eight years in the highest amateur league in Lower Saxony . In 1969 the club won the Lower Saxony Cup .

history

On February 18, 1912, members of a former street football team founded FC Roland Delmenhorst. The club name is based on the Bremen Roland . The club, which is related to the North German wool combing & worsted spinning mill , won the district championship in 1939, but missed promotion after a 3-1 defeat against Bremerhaven 93 . After the end of the Second World War , the team rose to the Bremen Amateur League in 1948 and immediately became runner-up behind SV Hemelingen . In 1949 FC Roland switched to the game operations of the Lower Saxony Football Association .

The club was included in the Lower Saxony- West amateur league and was able to win the autumn championship in the 1949/50 season, but fell back to fourth place after a home game ban. In the following years, the team fought against relegation. In 1953, the Delmenhorster secured relegation after a 3-1 win in the playoff against TuS Varel . Two years later, FC Roland secured relegation with a playoff victory over VfL Oldenburg . In 1957, the team finally rose from bottom of the table.

In the third class amateur league 2 , the team did not get beyond midfield placements and in 1964 just qualified for the newly created, fourth class Verbandsliga West . There, FC Roland was runner-up behind Viktoria Georgsmarienhütte in 1969 and won the Lower Saxony Cup against the amateurs of Hannover 96 after a 2-0 final victory . A year later, the team became champions, but missed promotion to the Lower Saxony state league in the promotion round .

In the early 1970s, the team battled relegation. On July 13, 1973, the club merged with long-time local rivals SSV Delmenhorst and VSK Bungerhof to form SV Atlas Delmenhorst . This became Delmenhorster SC in 1999 , which was dissolved in 2002.

literature

  • Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 , p. 205.