SC Herford

SC Herford
Basic data
Surname	Sport-Club Herford - VfB Einigkeit 07 / Spielvereinigung Union 08 / Herford Sport- Club 07/08 / Spiel und Sport 1928 e. V.
Seat	Herford , North Rhine-Westphalia
founding	June 16, 1972
Colours	Black-blue
president	Matthias Schwenke
Website	sc-herford.de (entire club) sc-herford.com (football department)
First soccer team
Head coach	Sergei Bartel
Venue	Ludwig Jahn Stadium
Places	18,400
league	Westfalenliga 1
2019/20	13th place
home Away

The SC Herford is a German sports club from Herford . The first men's soccer team has played in the sixth-class Westfalenliga 1 since it was promoted in 2014 . Between 1976 and 1981, the Herford team played in the 2nd Bundesliga for four years . The first men's handball team belonged to the Regionalliga West between 1972 and 1983 . In addition to soccer and handball, there are also departments for badminton , volleyball , judo , athletics , swimming and table tennis .

Club history

The founding of today's SC Herford was preceded by two club mergers. It all started in 1968 with the clubs SpVgg Union 08 Herford and VfB Einigkeit 07 Herford , which merged in 1967 to form the Herford SC 07/08 . The Herford SC 07/08 in turn merged on June 16, 1972 with the SuS 1928 Herford club to form today's SC Herford. All club names of the regular and predecessor clubs are still part of the official club name of the SC Herford, the Sport-Club Herford - VfB Unity 07 / Spielvereinigung Union 08 / Herford Sport-Club 07/08 / Spiel und Sport 1928 - e. V. is. For the 2016/17 season, FC Radewig joins SC Herford and provides the second team. The FC Radewig was founded in 1975 and last played in the district league C.

History of the football department

Structural development of the SC Herford

The previous clubs

→ Main article : Union Herford  and VfB Einigkeit Herford

The most successful parent club of today's SC Herford was the SpVgg Union 08 Herford . In 1922, the team rose to the regional league of Westphalia, at that time the top division. Fifth place in the 1927/28 season was the most successful result of this era. In 1933 Union was penultimate and missed qualification for the newly established Gauliga Westfalen by far. In the following years, the team played with average success in the second-rate district league of East Westphalia. For the 1944/45 season , the club was appointed to the Gauliga. There, however, the team only played one game against Arminia Bielefeld , which ended 2-2.

After the Second World War , it was not until 1952 that Union Herford was promoted to the state league, which was the highest amateur league in Westphalia at the time. In the 1955/56 season Union and SVA Gütersloh were tied first. Since Gütersloh won the playoff in the neutral Brackwede 1-0, the Union missed participation in the Westphalia Championship. Union Herford qualified for the newly introduced two-track association league , from which the club was relegated as bottom of the table in 1957 . After rising again two years later, the Union was able to hold the league until 1964. The greatest success was fourth place in 1962 . The direct resurgence was missed and the club was also in danger of relegation in the regional league. The 1967/68 season ended the team in tenth place and then merged with VfB Unity in 1907 to form Herford SC 07/08 . Under this name, the team was runner-up in 1971, one point behind TuS Sennelager , before the HSC was knocked off last a year later.

The SuS Herford association, founded in 1928, was always in the shadow of the Union . In 1934 the team was promoted to the then second-class district league East Westphalia and immediately took third place. After the Second World War, the club played in the national league in the early 1960s. After a runner-up in 1964 behind SV Brackwede , the team slipped further and further down the table and in 1972 was only able to hold the class after a deciding round together with TuRa Löhne against VfL Schildesche . The VfB unity Herford again hovered mostly between district and county class. In 1960, the team was on the verge of promotion to the regional league, but lost the game for the championship against FT Dützen with 1: 3.

Fusion and professional football (1972 to 1981)

Despite numerous concerns, the Herford SC 07/08 and SuS Herford merged to form SC Herford on June 16, 1972. The first years were successful in terms of sport. In the first season under the new name, the team was one point ahead of SV Porta Neesen national league champions and returned to the association league. After the runner-up in 1974, the SC Herford finished the 1974/75 season tied with Arminia Gütersloh. The Gütersloher won both playoffs for the relay championship.

A year later , Herford became champions of its season and prevailed in the finals of the Westphalia championship just 3: 1 and 2: 1 against SV Holzwickede . In the following round of promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga North, the team met SV Arminia Hannover and SC Union 06 Berlin . With a 5-0 win on the last day of the match in Berlin, SC Herford secured second place and rose. The team benefited from Borussia Dortmund's promotion to the Bundesliga , which prevented possible playoffs against Bonner SC .

The start of the second division season 1976/77 went well. A 3-1 win over SG Wattenscheid 09 was followed by a 1-0 win at Bayer 05 Uerdingen . On the first two game days, SC Herford led the table. The specialist magazine Kicker described the SC as “Herford's best advertising medium” and reported that the newcomer was “extremely enthusiastic”. During the entire season, the team was never in acute danger of relegation and welcomed an average of 6,934 spectators at home games. The 5-0 win over Wacker 04 Berlin is still the highest second division win in the club's history.

After a bad start to the second half of the season, SC Herford found itself in a relegation battle a year later . After a series of six wins in seven games, the team still drew hope of relegation. The highlight was the 2-0 win over Arminia Bielefeld on the fourth from last game day. In front of 17,000 spectators, the SC brought Arminia the first derby defeat against an East Westphalian club in the 2nd Bundesliga with goals from Wolfgang Flüshöh and Manfred Wehmeier . On the last day of the match, Herford did not get more than 0-0 at home against Alemannia Aachen . The direct competitor VfL Osnabrück also achieved a goalless draw at Bayer 05 Uerdingen. The goal difference, which was one goal better, secured Osnabrück relegation, while Herford had to relegate.

With one point ahead of TuS Schloß Neuhaus , SC Herford was the first champion of the Oberliga Westfalen and returned to the 2nd Bundesliga. After another good start to the 1979/80 season, the team finished in the top three by match day 10. After a 0-1 home defeat against Arminia Bielefeld on matchday 32, the Herford team slipped to a relegation zone. A 3-2 victory over Hannover 96 could not prevent the sporting relegation. Since DSC Wanne-Eickel voluntarily returned its license for financial reasons, Herford remained in the 2nd Bundesliga.

The 1980/81 season was about qualifying for the single-track 2nd Bundesliga. With the Maltese national goalkeeper John Bonello and the later Finnish national player Vesa Mars , two foreign players were signed for the first time. For much of the season, the team stayed in the middle of the table, before a series of nine games without a win led to it slipping to 16th place. The single-track 2. Bundesliga was missed by lengths and SC Herford said goodbye to professional football.

Amateur football (1981 to 2001)

After relegation from the 2nd Bundesliga, the club had to struggle with major financial problems, so that a return was out of the question. Since 1976, the Heidapel Group, in the person of Managing Director Hans Heidemann, has been the club's shirt sponsor. After the Heidapel group collapsed, the club lacked budgeted funds, so that the team had to wait months for the agreed bonuses and travel expenses. The magazine “ Fußball-Woche” reported on January 4, 1982 that Hans Heidemann, who was also the head of the soccer department at SC Herford, was arrested by the Bielefeld public prosecutor's office for deliberate bankruptcy .

In the first few years in the Oberliga Westfalen, the team took placements in the middle of the table. In the Westphalia Cup in 1983, the Herford team lost the final against Rot-Weiss Lüdenscheid with 0-2 after extra time . Instead, the SCH prevailed 3-1 against 1. FC Paderborn a year later . After a sixth place in the league season 1983/84 and an eighth place a year later, he was relegated to the association league in 1986 . Also in the first four years in the association league, the SC Herford fought against relegation. In 1988 the team had three points ahead of the first relegation place at the end of the season. Two years later there were only two of them.

After a period of consolidation, the team reached third place in the 1992/93 season. With the introduction of the four-track regional league , there was an increased promotion in the 1993/94 season. The first four of both league seasons were allowed to move up to the top division. Herford missed the chance as sixth in the table with two points behind the fourth Blau-Weiß Wewer . After further years in the midfield of the association league, he returned to the league in 1999. The Herford team were initially champions of their association league relay, but then slipped back to second place due to a subsequent game rating in favor of Prussia Lengerich . Thanks to a decision at the Green Table , the Herford team were allowed to rise anyway.

In terms of sport, the team was successful and at the end of the 1999/2000 season finished fourth as the best climber. Despite the success, an average of just under 300 viewers watched the home games in the major league. The club had fallen behind the hockey club Herford EC in terms of the public's favor . Due to financial problems, the SC Herford had to let go of some top performers for the 2000/01 season , so that at the end of the season only the third from last place was achieved, which was accompanied by relegation.

Decline and Present (since 2001)

The club stayed in the association league for four years before SC Herford was unfortunately relegated to the national league in 2005. Despite a 1-0 win at Hammer SpVg on the last match day, Herford had the worst goal difference behind the tied teams of SpVgg Vreden and SC Wiedenbrück 2000 and had to relegate. A year later, the SCH gambled away in the regional league on the last day of the game with a 1: 2 defeat at SV Avenwedde , so that the Herford team had to compete in the regional league for the first time in 2006. With eleventh place in the 2006/07 season, the club reached its sporting low point.

In the 2007/08 season, the club was able to celebrate the championship in the district league and returned to the state league. In autumn 2009, the club made headlines when it signed ex-professional Georg Koch . As fourth in the 2011/12 state league season, direct promotion to the Westphalia League was just missed. After a 2-0 win over TSV Witten-Stockum and a 1-0 win over Rot-Weiß Horn , the team reached the final of the promotion round to the Westphalia League against TSV Marl-Hüls . Here the Marler prevailed 2-0.

Also in the following season 2012/13 a possible promotion was just missed. On the last day of the match, the Herford team took the lead at SC Bad Salzuflen in the last minute of the game and were second. Herford's rival VfB Fichte Bielefeld scored the winning goal at Spvg Steinhagen in stoppage time . As a result, Fichte moved up to second place and rose via relegation. A year later, on the third to last game day, a 3-0 win over SC Peckeloh made it into the Westphalia League. In the 2014/15 season, the Herford team secured fourth place with a 3-0 win against VfL Theesen on the last day of the match .

After the Herford was able to establish itself in the Westphalia League and always achieved single-digit positions in the table, the team slipped into the relegation battle during the 2017/18 season. Tim Daseking took over as coach and led the team to seventh place with six wins in a row.

In the 2018/19 season Daniel Keller became the new coach of the first team. After a furious first half of the season, a temporary lead in the table and only one defeat at the later champions Prussia Münster II , a weak second half of the season stopped the promotion dreams. In the end, despite the strong scoring of the two new strikers Todte (17 goals) and Nemtsis (15 goals) and the re-engagement of ex-Armine Christian Müller, only the 10th place and Daniel Keller was dismissed at the end of the season. For the 2019/20 season, the former Rödinghausen-based Ihsan Kalkan will take over the sports club.

The SC Herford in the DFB Cup

SC Herford has qualified for the DFB Cup eight times . The team was eliminated four times in the first and four times in the second round. The first participation occurred in the 1974/75 season , when SC Herford lost 3-0 at home against Bundesliga club VfL Bochum . A year later the first victory could be achieved when Herford defeated SC Friedrichsthal at home with 3-1. In the second round, after a 4-0 defeat at SG Wattenscheid 09, the end followed. It was also the Herford's highest cup defeat. The highest victory was achieved in the 1977/78 season. After a 2: 2 after extra time at Wuppertaler SV , SC Herford was able to win the replay on its own place 3: 0. The last appearance in the DFB Cup so far dates from the 1984/85 season , in which the team lost 3-2 at home to Kickers Offenbach in the first round .

Achievements and Statistics

• Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga North : 1976 and 1979
• Westphalia Championships: 1976 and 1979
• Westphalia Cup winner : 1984

In the all-time table of the 2nd Bundesliga, the Herford team occupy 75th place. Of 146 games, 40 were won and 70 lost with 46 draws. The goal difference is 209: 255. In the all-time table of the Oberliga Westfalen , Herford is in 23rd position. Of 272 games, 98 were won and 100 lost with 74 draws. The goal difference is 411: 442.

Stadion

→ Main article: Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion

SC Herford plays its home games in the Ludwig-Jahn Stadium, which was built in 1955 and last renovated in the late 1990s. The stadium has a capacity of 18,400 seats, 1,400 of which are covered seats in the main stand. The venue is located in the Neustädter Feldmark district on Wiesestrasse east of the Werre and south of the H20 swimming pool . The attendance record of SC Herford was set on May 5, 1978, when 17,000 spectators saw a 2-0 win against Arminia Bielefeld. The club shares the venue with the soccer players from Herford SV , the latter having priority in the event of overlapping dates. The home games of Herford SV are limited to 5,000 spectators.

Personalities

Former players

A total of 48 players completed at least one league game for SC Herford in the four years of the second division. Herbert Bittner (146) reached the highest number of appearances ahead of Karl-Friedrich Stremming and Manfred Wehmeier (142 each), Uwe Pallaks (141) and Wolfgang Flüshöh (126). With 63 goals, Uwe Pallaks was the most successful goalscorer of Herford's second division era. He is followed by Manfred Wehmeier (23), Herbert Bittner (22), Bernd Laube (19) and Wolfgang Flüshöh (17). Klaus-Dieter Derow is the record player among the goalkeepers with 65 appearances in front of Manfred Recknagel (44) and Rainer Laduch (30). Two foreign players played for SC Herford in the 2nd Bundesliga. While the future Finnish international Vesa Mars scored two goals in 22 appearances, the Maltese international goalkeeper John Bonello was featured six times.

With Arne Friedrich , SC Herford produced a German national player. Players like Uwe Clausmeier , Frederik Gößling , Philipp Heithölter , Dirk Hellmann , Detlef Kemena , Klaus-Peter Nemet , Josip Rašić , Carsten Rump , Damir Šimac , Olcay Turhan , Thilo Versick and Sebastian Völzow became national or second division players at other clubs. Conversely, former first and second division players played with Karl-Hermann Eickhoff , István Gál , Meik Tischler and Frank Zimmermann in Herford. Klaus-Peter Nemet was briefly head coach of Bundesliga club FC St. Pauli in the 1996/97 season . Aytürk Geçim became a German national futsal player during his time in Herford .

All SC Herford second division players

• Klaus Ackermann (17/0)
• Manfred Balcerzak (73/2)
• Wolfgang Balzereit (5/0)
• Herbert Bittner (146/22)
• Ulrich Bittorf (40/5)
• John Bonello (6/0)
• Jürgen Brunhorn (2/0)
• Bodo Daus (3/0)
• Klaus-Dieter Derow (65/0)
• Joachim Dzieciol (61/8)
• Peter Enders (27/1)
• Jürgen Fleer (28/1)
• Wolfgang Flüshöh (126/17)
• Jürgen-Michael Galbierz (19/0)
• Norbert Goscianiak (56/5)
• Frank Hahn (27/2)
• Jürgen Heddinghaus (67/9)
• Fritz Herrndorf (13/0)
• Manfred Hildebrandt (2/0)
• Eckhard Höpfner (2/0)
• Heinz Knüwe (61/6)
• Karl-Heinz Koberstein (36/1)
• Thomas Koerber (35/1)
• Karl-Heinz Korte (31/3)
• Rainer Laduch (30/0)
• Bernd Laube (74/19)
• Vesa Mars (22/2)
• Karl-Ludwig Mayer (15/1)
• Andreas Metzner (70/2)
• Gerhard Ockenfels (7/0)
• Uwe Pallaks (141/63)
• Norbert Pohl (58/1)
• Manfred Recknagel (44/0)
• Ulrich Schäffer (11/0)
• Wilfried Schneider (42/0)
• Volker Walks (86/6)
• Karl-Friedrich Stremming (142/1)
• Dieter Suchanek (34/1)
• Jürgen Suchanek (35/0)
• Manfred Wehmeier (142/23)
• Bodo Wehmeier (33/0)
• Gerhard Weidenhammer (5/0)
• Wolfgang Windmann (5/0)

Former trainers

• Erhard Ahmann (1978–1979)
• Jörg Böhme (2012)
• Otmar Calder (1976–1977, 1986)
• Hannes Baldauf (1980–1981)
• István Gál (2015, assistant coach)
• Horst Gamon (?)
• Georg Koch (2010–2012)
• David Odonkor (2014-2015, assistant trainer )
• Jürgen Prüfer (2009-2010)
• Maik Walpurgis (1991–1998)

Other departments

Handball

In handball, VfB Einigkeit Herford was the most successful parent club. In 1960, the team made it to the top field handball league of Westphalia. Two years later, VfB qualified fourth for the West German championship, but stayed there without winning any points. In 1964, the Herford team rose from the league. Three years later, the team returned to the league as Herford SC , but two years later they missed qualifying for the newly created Regionalliga West. In 1948 VfB Einigkeit reached the Open Championship of the British Zone in the hall . After the merger to form SC Herford, the handball players belonged to the second and from 1981 third class Regional League West between 1972 and 1983. Fifth place in the 1972/73 season was the best placement. 1979 the relegation succeeded only after successfully denied relegation games against the Spvgg Andernach . After the departure of the main sponsor, a sporting slide began in 1983, which only ended in the lowest division. At present, SC Herford does not provide any handball teams.

Erich Klose worked as a coach at SC Herford in the late 1970s.

athletics

At the German athletics championships in 1991 , the SC Herford team came seventh in the marathon team championship. Jürgen Marks , Heinrich Vollbracht and Dieter Bredemeyer started for SC Herford . In the individual ranking, Jürgen Marks took eleventh place.

Individual evidence

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Web links

• Official website of the entire association
• Official website of the football department

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 12 ″  E