Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen is a football (soccer) club from Germany.
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Rot-Weiss Oberhausen is a Germany football (soccer) List of football clubs in Germany in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Rot-Weiß Oberhausen was formed as
Oberhausener SV in December, 1904 out of the merger of
Emschertaler SV (1902) and the football enthusiasts of
Oberhausener TV 1873. The new side entered into a union with
Viktoria Styrum BV to create
SpVgg 1904 Oberhausen-Styrum, but within six months a number of Rot-Weiß Oberhausen's members left to form
1.FC Mülheim-Styrum. The remaining club members carried on and in 1934 took on their current name.
History
The team was unremarked through its early history, simply playing local ball. After the re-organization of German football in the early 30's under the Third Reich
Rot Weiss played in the Gauliga Niederrhein but could never match the strength of division rival Fortuna Düsseldorf. Rot-Weiß Oberhausen worked its way into the upper league Oberliga West after the war and with the formation of the Bundesliga (football), Germany's new professional circuit, found themselves in the second division Regionalliga West (1963-74). A first place finish there in 1969 led to promotion to the Bundesliga for the workmanlike side. The club's turn in the top flight was tainted when they were implicated in the Bundesliga bribery scandal of 1971. While it was clear they were involved, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and its players escaped sanction. After three years in the upper league without doing any better than a 14th place finish, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen returned to its existence as a tier II and III side.
Financial problems in 1988 were the prelude to a slide into the Verbandsliga Niederrhein (IV) two years later. After nearly a decade spent bouncing up and down between the third and fourth divisions
Die Kleeblätter returned to the 2nd Bundesliga (football) in 1998, winning the Regionalliga West/Südwest. They remained a lower table side for the most part, but did manage to put forward their best ever performances with sixth and fifth place finishes in 2000 and 2004.
Oberhausen was relegated again to the Regionalliga Nord (III) for 2005. Relegation to the Oberliga (IV) followed a year later. She returned to 2. Fußball-Bundesliga after two successively promotions; which were 1st of Nordrhein Group at Oberliga in 2006-2007 and 2nd of North Group at Regionalliga in 2007-2008 season. This year they play the 1st round national cup match against Bundesliga-squad Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
Recent seasons
(2009/2010)
For recent transfers, see List of German football transfers summer 2009.
Famous players and successes
Rot-Weiss Oberhausen has seen three of its players capped for Germany.
The club's 1970-71 Bundesliga season was distinguished by the performance of Lothar Kobluhn, who won the league scoring title with 24 goals - 12 of those coming in the last 8 games of the season to save
Rot-Weiss from relegation by just one goal. The team was embroiled in the Bundesliga scandal of 1971 and as a result Kobluhn was not awarded the Torjägerkanone trophy as top-scorer until October 2007, 36 years after his achievement.
In 1999,
Oberhausen played a DFB-Pokal (Geman Cup) semifinal in Gelsenkirchen against Bayern München in front of 45,000 spectators, dropping a 1:3 decision. On their way to their semifinal appearance they beat
Borussia Mönchengladbach and
Hamburger SV.
Manager History
- Slobodan Cendic (1985-1986)
- Janos Bedl (1986-1987)
- Hans-Werner Moors (1987-1988)
- Gerd vom Bruch (1997-1998)
- Aleksandar Ristić (1998-2000)
- Gerhard Kleppinger (2000-2001)
- Dragoslav Stepanović (2001)
- Aleksandar Ristic (2001-2003)
- Klaus Hilpert (2003)
- Jørn Andersen (2003-2004)
- Jürgen Luginger (2004, caretaker)
- Eugen Hach (2004-2005)
- Harry Pleß (2005-2006)
- Günter Abel (2006)
- Hans-Günter Bruns (2006-2008)
- Jürgen Luginger (2008-present)
Athletics
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen has also had an athletics section. Among its most prominent former members are Willi Wülbeck and Fritz Roderfeld. The team also became national champions in 4 x 400 metres relay in 1948 and 3 x 1000 metres relay in 1951.
Related pages
1.FC Kaiserslautern, 1.FC Nürnberg, Alemannia Aachen, FC Augsburg, FSV Mainz 05, Greuther Fürth, Hansa Rostock, LR Ahlen, MSV Duisburg, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, SC Freiburg, St. Pauli, SV Wehen, TSV 1860 München, TuS Koblenz, VfL Osnabrück