Union Herford
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| Full name | Spielvereinigung Union 08 Herford e. V. |
| place | Herford , North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Founded | 1908 |
| Dissolved | 1967 |
| Club colors | not known |
| Stadion | Ludwig Jahn Stadium |
| Top league |
Association League Westphalia ( soccer) Oberliga Westfalen (handball) |
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Union Herford (officially: Spielvereinigung Union 08 Herford e.V. ) was a sports club from Herford . The first soccer team played for two years in the highest amateur league in Westphalia, while the first handball team played for many years in the fourth-class Oberliga Westfalen.
history
From the foundation to the Second World War
Union Herford was founded in 1908 as BV Union Herford . In 1927 the BV Union became the Spielvereinigung Union. In the 1914/15 season, the Union took part in the Ravensberg / Lippe district championship . Against the Bielefeld clubs VfB 03 , Arminia , SC Eintracht and Westfalia Brackwede , the Herford team had no chance and did not win points. After the end of the First World War , he made the leap into the Gauliga Westfalen in 1922, which was the top division at the time. Four years later, the Union was sixth in the 15-team division, now known as the 1st district class of Westphalia .
The 1927/28 season was curious when the Herford team lost their home game against Arminia Bielefeld 1:10, but won the game on the Bielefelder Alm 2-1. A year later, the Union missed the newly created single-track District League Westphalia . In this, the team rose in 1930 as runner-up in the 1st district class Westphalia-East behind SSV Ahlen . After the promotion, the league could be secured three times in a row as the penultimate. Accordingly, the Union was not included in the newly created Gauliga Westphalia in 1933 and had to compete in the second-rate district class.
In this, the team did not get beyond midfield positions and met from 1934 on the later merger partner SuS Herford . For the 1944/45 season , the Union was accepted into the Gauliga without sporting qualifications. Due to the war , the Herford team could only play two games: Against KSG Bielefeld , a war game community of Bielefeld clubs Arminia and VfB 03, there was a 2: 2. The second game was lost 3-0 against Sportfreunde Rot-Weiß Paderborn , which after several mergers became today's SC Paderborn 07 .
post war period
After the Second World War, the Union played for several years in the district class before the championship could be won with 56: 4 points in 1951. The team initially rose to the short-lived 2nd Landesliga Westfalen and a year later was accepted into the Landesliga , which was then the highest amateur league in Westphalia. There the Union immediately came third and remained a top team in the years that followed. The highlight was the 1955/56 season when the Herford team won both games against Arminia Bielefeld and ended the season tied with SVA Gütersloh . The Gütersloher won the decider for the championship in neutral Brackwede 1-0.
The Union now played in the newly created Verbandsliga Westfalen and promptly rose from the bottom of the table. In the first round of the West German Cup in 1957/58, the Herford team met FC Schalke 04 and lost 8-1. 1959 succeeded in being promoted to the association league. During the season, the Union even beat FC Lübbecke 11: 1. After a tenth and an eighth place, the sporting zenith was reached in the 1961/62 season with fourth place. Two years later, he was again relegated from the association league.
With three points behind SuS Lage , the direct re-promotion was missed. In 1967 the fourth place in the national league could be achieved again, before the Union merged a year later with VfB Unity Herford, founded in 1907, to form Herford SC 07/08 . This was in 1971 runner-up in the regional league behind the TuS Sennelager and was relegated a year later as bottom of the table. Herford SC then merged with SuS Herford to form SC Herford .
Personalities
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jens Kirschneck, Marcus Uhlig , Volker Backes, Olaf Bentkämper, Julien Lecoeur: Arminia Bielefeld - 100 years of passion . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-479-0 , p. 227 .
- ↑ Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , p. 262.
- ^ German Sports Club for Soccer Statistics : Soccer in West Germany 1952-1958 . Hövelhof 2012, p. 151 .
- ^ Hardy Green, Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 374.