Sport in Düsseldorf

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Cross-country skiing world cup 2006

Sport in Düsseldorf takes place in an organized form as popular sport in 369 clubs with around 112,000 members that are part of the Düsseldorf City Sports Association. As for the competitive sport is concerned, as 36 clubs are represented by their total sports at least in the regional league, of which the most famous Fortuna Dusseldorf (football) and the Düsseldorf EC (Hockey) are.

The city had identified sport as an important location and marketing factor since the late 1990s. In particular, Mayor Joachim Erwin , who died in 2008, initiated numerous sports-related projects during his nine-year term in office. As part of city marketing, a sports agency was founded which, as a link, organizes and markets various sporting events in the city under the motto "Sports City Düsseldorf". Since the late 1990s, the city has regularly invested in the construction of new sports facilities for both popular and professional sports. In addition, major sporting events could be drawn to Düsseldorf. In a comparative study by the HWWI , Düsseldorf ranks 7th out of 15 German sports cities.

The city of Düsseldorf set up its own Olympic team for the first time for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The participating athletes were sponsored by the city sports agency and returned with four medals. A dedicated team was also set up for the Olympic Games in London , made up of fifteen athletes from eleven disciplines.

Burkhard Hintzsche has been the head of sports for the city of Düsseldorf since 2003 .

Soccer and ice hockey

Soccer

Fortuna Dusseldorf

ESPRIT arena

The traditional football club Fortuna Düsseldorf , founded in 1895, is probably the most famous sports club in the city. The greatest sporting successes are winning the German Championship in 1933 and the DFB Cup wins in 1979 and 1980 . Fortuna moved into the European spotlight when they reached the finals in the 1979 European Cup Winners' Cup . Fortuna is the city's biggest crowd puller and Düsseldorf's most popular club. The home venue is the new, multifunctional ESPRIT arena next to the Düsseldorf trade fair. Fortuna Düsseldorf played in the new single-track 3rd division in the 2008/2009 season . On May 23, 2009, after 10 years of abstinence from the Bundesliga, he was promoted to second in the table in the 2nd Bundesliga. The second team from Fortuna Düsseldorf rose in the 2008/2009 season from the NRW League as second in the table in the fourth-class regional league . It plays its home games in the Paul Janes Stadium in Flingern.

Other clubs

The soccer department of TuRU Düsseldorf played from the 2004/2005 season to the 2007/2008 season in the Oberliga Nordrhein . However, the team did not qualify for the NRW League and has only been in sixth class since the 2008/2009 season. Your venue is in Oberbilk on Feuerbachstrasse . Another well-known club is BV 04 Düsseldorf , which has been organizing an international junior soccer tournament (U19 Champions Trophy) at Easter since 1963. Also worth mentioning is VfL Benrath , who provided the two German national players Karl Hohmann and Josef Rasselnberg in the 1930s , who made a decisive contribution to qualifying for the finals of the 1934 World Cup and in 1957 became German amateur champions. Also worth mentioning is TuS Gerresheim , who produced players like Klaus and Thomas Allofs or Demir Hotić . Another club from the north of Düsseldorf is the Rather SV, which has been playing in the Rather Waldstadion since 2011. The association itself is now 95 years old and can therefore look back on a long tradition. Once a year the Rather SV organizes an international U-14 tournament, to which over 16 youth teams from 9 different nations travel.

ice Hockey

ISS Dome (2006)

The ice hockey club Düsseldorfer EG (DEG) is at least as well known as Fortuna and much more successful . As an eight-time German champion since 1967, DEG is one of the most successful clubs in Germany. In 2006 the German Cup and the runner-up were also won for the first time . DEG provided many German national players.

The ice rink on Brehmstrasse , the DEG venue from 1935 to 2006, is known far beyond the borders of Düsseldorf. In September 2006 the ISS-Dome, a multifunctional arena in Rath on Theodorstrasse was opened. This ultra-modern event hall can hold 12,500 spectators at concerts and has been the home ground of the Düsseldorfer EG since the 2006/2007 season . For ice hockey games, the capacity is a total of 13,400 spectators due to the availability of 4,000 standing places. This makes the ISS Dome the second largest event location in Düsseldorf after the Esprit Arena and - after the Lanxess Arena in Cologne and the almost equally large SAP Arena in Mannheim and O 2  World in Berlin - the fourth largest ice hockey stadium in Germany. From March 1, 2001 to April 30, 2012 the association was called DEG Metro Stars , named after the name and main sponsor of Metro AG , which is based in Düsseldorf . Since May 1, 2012, after the exit of Metro AG, the association has again carried the traditional name Düsseldorfer EG.

Other sports and clubs (sorted alphabetically)

American football

The Düsseldorf Panther in action

The Düsseldorf Panthers , founded on May 1, 1978, are the oldest European football club and were one of six founding members of the American Football Bundesliga the following year . After internal disputes within the association, the Northwest German Football League was founded under the leadership of the Panther and held for two years. In 1982 the two associations merged. With six German championship titles ( German Bowl 1983, 1984, 1986, 1992, 1994, 1995) and three runner-up championships, the club is still the second most successful club in the country. In 1995, the Panthers were the first German club to win the Eurobowl IX , the final of the European Football League (EFL). Today the club competes in the German Football League 2 North. The “Panther Rookies” are the record winners of the Junior Bowl with a total of 15 titles between 1982 and 2010 . Sebastian Vollmer , two-time winner of the Super Bowl , played in the youth team of the Düsseldorf Panthers.

The Düsseldorf Bulldozer also competed in the American Football Bundesliga for six years in the 1980s and won the Junior Bowl in 1983. In the years 2010 to 2012, the now dissolved Düsseldorf Blades , the women's team of bulldozers, each became German runner-up ( Ladiesbowl ). The Rhein Fire club , based in Düsseldorf, played between 1994 and the cessation of league play in 2007 in the NFL Europe (until 1997 “World League”). The team's venue was initially the Rheinstadion , with the demolition of which they moved to the AufSchalke arena (2003 to 2004), followed by their return to the LTU arena in Düsseldorf . The average number of viewers was recently around 34,000 per game. Rhein Fire won the World Bowl twice (1998, 2000) and reached the NFL Europe final three more times (1997, 2002, 2003). The former national soccer player Manfred Burgsmüller was active for Rhein Fire between 1996 and 2002 and was considered the oldest professional soccer player in the world at the end of his career.

Düsseldorf has hosted national and international finals several times: German Bowl 1990, Junior Bowl 1984, 1990, 2002, 2004 to 2006, 2013 and 2014, Ladiesbowl 2010, World Bowl 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2006.

badminton

The North Rhine-Westphalia Badminton Association was founded in Düsseldorf on September 30, 1953, and the eleven founding members included BC Düsseldorf , OSC Düsseldorf and BC Schwarz-Weiß Düsseldorf. BC Düsseldorf, founded by Hubert Brohl in the summer of 1952 as the city's first badminton club, celebrated its greatest successes with five individual championships in the 1950s and 1960s. The OSC Düsseldorf reached a total of seven individual championships in the 1980s and 1990s and played in the Badminton Bundesliga for four years . After winning the German runner-up in 1996 , the club withdrew from the Bundesliga for economic reasons. Düsseldorf hosted the German badminton championship in 1953 and 1955 , and the German Open took place here between 1987 and 1991.

baseball

The Düsseldorf Diamonds , founded in 1984, were a founding member of the baseball and softball association of North Rhine-Westphalia and belonged to the baseball league for two years (1987, 1988) . The Düsseldorf Senators were founded in 1985 as the Düsseldorf Bulldozer (American Football) baseball department , after the promotion to the Bundesliga, they split off as an independent club at the end of 1987, and finally joined TSG Benrath in 1992. After eleven seasons in the Bundesliga, the club withdrew in 1998 due to a lack of a regular playing field. In 2006, a Bundesliga-compatible facility was built in Benrath , and the Senators' first team has been playing in the 2nd Bundesliga Northwest since 2019. Well-known former players and coaches of the club are Torsten Abels and Udo Kirschner .

basketball

Castle Guard Castello

The most famous Düsseldorf basketball team are the Giants Düsseldorf , who play in the BBL basketball league. In the 2008/09 season the Giants Düsseldorf moved from Leverkusen to Düsseldorf. The team plays their home games at Burg-Wächter Castello in the Reisholz district .

In the 1980s, the DJK Agon 08 Düsseldorf team dominated German women's basketball (nine times German champions in a row from 1980 to 1988 and 1990 to 1991) and also successfully represented in European competitions (2 finals in 1983 and 1986).

billiards

The billiards club BC Colors Düsseldorf played in the 2nd Bundesliga from 2012 to 2014 and won the German 8-Ball Cup in 2012 .

Cricket

The Düsseldorf Blackcaps are the only cricket club in the city and were founded in 1990 as the "British Business Men's Club Düsseldorf" (BBCD). The greatest success of the team, which trains regularly in the Nordpark and has already won the North Rhine-Westphalian state championship several times, was winning the 2017 German championship. Some of the club's players are part of the German national cricket team .

darts

The Düsseldorf DSC 09 was founded in May 2009 as the "Fortuna Düsseldorf Dart Club" (FDDC). In 2016, he was promoted to the Steeldart Bundesliga and the club was renamed when it was entered in the club register. After only one season in the Bundesliga, the Dusseldorf DSC 09 had to move into the second-class 1st Dart League West. The club restaurant “Das Mensch” at the General Rather Turnverein serves as the venue . In addition, Düsseldorf has hosted professional darts tournaments several times:

Futsal

Futsal has also been played in Düsseldorf since 2004 . With the Futsal Lions, the state capital has a successful futsal club that has been represented in the WFLV regional league, the top German division, since the 2009 season . The Lions who were affiliated with TuRU Düsseldorf won the West German Futsal Cup in 2015 and the Lower Rhine Cup in 2012 and 2015.

In the meantime, the Futsal Lions have merged into the Futsal department of Fortuna Düsseldorf (Futsal) .

Handball

Especially since the HSG Düsseldorf made it into the handball Bundesliga in 2004 , this sport has also become popular again. After the HSG was triggered, ART Düsseldorf is playing under its own name again, currently (season 15/16) in the Oberliga Niederrhein.

hockey

There are four hockey clubs in Düsseldorf : the DSC ( Düsseldorfer SC 99 ), the DSD ( Deutscher Sportklub Düsseldorf ), the Hellerhofer SV and the largest Düsseldorf hockey club, the DHC ( Düsseldorfer Hockey Club ). The rival clubs have celebrated outstanding sporting successes in their past. The DHC is one of the top 5 hockey clubs in Germany in the field of youth hockey. The DHC is represented both on the field and in the hall in the 1st Bundesliga; the men of the DHC became indoor runners-up in 2007. The DSC and the DSD both play in the field regional league and the 2nd Bundesliga in the hall.

Judo

In 1955 the judo department of the Post SV Düsseldorf was founded, which won the German team championship for men in 1965, 1966 and 1969 . In addition, various judoka of the club won numerous German championship titles. In the 1970s, the judo department of the Post SV had around 500 members, but the sporting successes continued to decline. Today the department has around 300 members who are mainly active in popular sports . Important fighters of the club were Wolfgang Hofmann (silver at the Olympic Summer Games 1964 , European champion 1965, 1968 and 1969) and Alfred Meier (European champion 1965 and 1969). The Judo Club 71 Dusseldorf fought among men between 1985 and 1989 in the Judo Bundesliga since 2018, the women's team for the first time represented the North in the 1. Bundesliga. Alexander von der Groeben temporarily trained with the JC71.

The Düsseldorf ISS Dome has hosted the only German Judo Grand Slam tournament every year since 2018 . After the Olympic Games and the World Championships, these events are the highest-ranking judo tournaments in the world. Before it was upgraded to the highest level, the competitions had already been held as a Grand Prix tournament in Düsseldorf for eight years.

Canoe sport

The Düsseldorf-Hamm Kayak Club is one of the numerous canoeing clubs in Düsseldorf, but the most successful of these in white water racing. With many world, European and German championship titles, it is also the state performance base in North Rhine-Westphalia. The racing club Rheintreue Düsseldorf also exists as a successful club in the Düsseldorf harbor.

lacrosse

Since 2004 the DSC 99 has been playing lacrosse . The Düsseldorf Antlers were able to win 3rd place in the German championship in 2008. The club provides several national players.

athletics

Motorsport

One of the oldest motorsport clubs in Germany, the Düsseldorfer Automobil- und Motorsport-Club 05 was founded in 1905 in Düsseldorf. The DAMC 05 organizes, among other things, the Historic Trophy Nürburgring .

The seven most important motorsport clubs in Düsseldorf have joined forces to form the Düsseldorf Motorsport Club Interest Group and represent the local clubs in the Stadtsportbund and in the Düsseldorf City Hall, where they represent the topics of motorsport and road safety:

Wrestling

TuS Gerresheim u. Glashütte eV cultivates the traditional Olympic sport.

chess

The Düsseldorf chess club from 1854 is one of the oldest chess clubs in Germany and participates in the Lower Rhine Chess Association.

Softball

With the Düsseldorf Senators women play successfully in the state softball league.

Softball fun

Fast-pitch mixed softball is played in the newly founded Ruhr Fun League (RFL). In 2009 the Bandits Düsseldorf joined the league.

Dance sport

The city of Düsseldorf also has a well-known dance club. The TD TSC Düsseldorf Red-White . Especially in formation dance , the TD is one of the top 10 German dance clubs with several German, European and world championship titles . The last successes were winning the German Championship in 2002 and the Vice World Championship title in 2002.

tennis

Tennis is played in many parts of the city. Most successfully, however, the men of the Rochus Club play in the 1st Bundesliga. With the women, the TC Benrath celebrates its successes year after year also in the 1st Bundesliga.

The World Team Cup was held every year in May from 1978 to 2012 in the Rochusclub. From 2013 the Power Horse Cup will take place at the same location .

Table tennis

Not to be forgotten is the table tennis club Borussia Düsseldorf , which was last German champion in 2003 and, in addition to 20 national championship titles, was also 17-time German cup winners, six times the European Cup and twice the ETTU Cup and 2000 the Champions League in table tennis. There is also a 3rd place at the first world championship for club teams. Borussia can therefore be regarded as the most successful sports club in Düsseldorf.

Local competitor DJK TuSA 06 Düsseldorf was founded in January 1949. Between 1962 and 1967 he was the German men's team champion five times (only interrupted by the VfL Osnabrück title win in 1966) and from 1964 to 1966 he was German cup champion three times in a row. He was one of the founding members of the table tennis Bundesliga and played in this elite class until 1971.

With Eberhard Schöler (TuSa and Borussia) and Jörg Roßkopf (Borussia) two of the most successful German table tennis players played in Düsseldorf for many years.

Another traditional club - especially for women - is Post SV Düsseldorf .

Trampoline exercise

TV Unterbach 1905 was German champion in this discipline in 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982 and 1984 , a runner-up world champion and a large part of the German national team. In addition, the club has been the head of the trampoline Bundesliga for 25 years . Due to the assignment to Düsseldorf as part of the municipal reorganization , the club lost an adequate training hall that is still missing and therefore currently only does gymnastics in the second Bundesliga.

Sporting events

All Style Karate Championship 2012

The sports city of Düsseldorf experienced and continues to experience various sporting events with nationwide and worldwide attention year after year. The annual team world championship in tennis in the Rochus Club, the so-called World Team Cup , the Metro Group Marathon , the cross-country skiing world cup on the banks of the Rhine, the youth football tournament of BV04, the cycling race around the Kö and the Kö-Lauf should be mentioned here. In addition, games of the 1974 World Cup and the 1988 European Championship took place in the Rheinstadion in Düsseldorf . In the ice rink on Brehmstrasse there were several ice hockey world championships to be admired. In 1977 the WorldCup , a forerunner of today's World Athletics Championships, was held in the Rheinstadion . In the last few years the European Judo Championships took place in the Philipshalle (today: Mitsubishi Electric Halle ), there was a pole vault meeting in the airport and the 1st Düsseldorf indoor meeting in the newly renovated athletics hall.

Sports facilities

Horse racing on the Grafenberg racecourse

Popular sport

Boat harbor on the Unterbacher See
  • Unterbacher See
  • Niederheid sports park
  • Rather Waldstadion
  • Golf course "Auf der Lausward" (first public golf course in Germany, opened on November 15, 1978)

Web links

Commons : Sports in Düsseldorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Stadtsportbund Düsseldorf e. V. ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ssbduesseldorf.de
  2. ^ Website of the city of Düsseldorf: Sportstadt
  3. ^ Website of the sports agency Düsseldorf
  4. ↑ Max Steinhardt, Henning Vöpel: Champions des Sports - An empirical comparison of German sports cities . HWWI Hamburg 2008 , ISSN  1862-4960 (PDF; 238 kB)
  5. ^ Website of the state capital Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf's "Team London" is ready for the 2012 Olympics . Queryed on May 28, 2009
  6. ↑ City director Burkhard Hintzsche is unanimously confirmed in office for another eight years. In: wz.de (July 4, 2019).
  7. ^ Bertram Job: Tournaments, titles and triumphs: Sport in Düsseldorf. Droste, Düsseldorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-7700-1518-4 , pp. 16-23.
  8. ^ Düsseldorf Panther: American Football since 1978. In: duesseldorfpanther.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  9. ^ AFC Düsseldorf Bulldozer: Our story. In: duesseldorf-bulldozer.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  10. ↑ Ladies football: history. In: ladiesbowl.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  11. ^ Bertram Job: Tournaments, titles and triumphs: Sport in Düsseldorf. Droste, Düsseldorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-7700-1518-4 , pp. 26–33.
  12. ^ Rhein Fire History ( Memento of October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ^ Bertram Job: Tournaments, titles and triumphs: Sport in Düsseldorf. Droste, Düsseldorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-7700-1518-4 , pp. 34–35.
  14. ^ Badminton regional association North Rhine-Westphalia (BLV NRW). In: badminton.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  15. ↑ Contact details of the NRW associations. In: badminton-nrw.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  16. ^ Badminton Club Düsseldorf: History. In: bc-duesseldorf.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  17. ^ German team championship 1995/96. In: ssvheiligenwald.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  18. ^ The founding of the BSV NRW. In: bsvnrw.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  19. ↑ All-Time-Club-Ranking list 1st Bundesliga. In: baseball-bundesliga.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  20. ^ Düsseldorf Senators: Association history. In: senators.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  21. ^ European Cricket Family - Club of the Week - Düsseldorf Blackcaps. In: ecn.cricket , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  22. ^ Düsseldorf Blackcaps Cricket Club. In: blackcaps.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  23. ↑ Dart Club: The best in the west in a hurry. In: wz.de (May 31, 2016).
  24. ↑ Eternal Bundesliga table. In: deutscherdartverband.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  25. ↑ Düsseldorf DSC09. In: duesseldorfer-dsc09 , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  26. ^ Post SV Düsseldorf: Chronicle. In: post-sv-duesseldorf.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  27. ^ Post SV Düsseldorf: Honor roll. In: post-sv-duesseldorf.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  28. ^ Judo Club 71 Düsseldorf: Our story. In: jc71.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  29. ↑ 76-year-old from Düsseldorf - an eventful life as a judoka. In: nrz.de (September 13, 2016).
  30. ^ Judo Grand Slam: History. In: judo-grandslam.de , accessed on May 31, 2020.
  31. ↑ Homepage of the BMW Club Düsseldorf eV 1928 ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmw-club-duesseldorf.de
  32. ^ Homepage of the Düsseldorfer Automobil- und Motorsport-Club 05 e. V. (in ADAC)
  33. ↑ Homepage of the Motor-Club Jan-Wellem e. V. (in ADAC)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.motor-club-jan-wellem.de  
  34. ^ Website of the Police Sports Association Düsseldorf e. V. (in ADAC)
  35. ^ Homepage of the Rallye - Touring - Club 79 Düsseldorf eV (in the ADAC)