Borussia Neunkirchen
Borussia Neunkirchen is a football (soccer) club from Germany.
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Borussia VfB Neunkirchen is a Germany Association football List of football clubs in Germany based in Neunkirchen, Saarland, Saarland. Borussia Neunkirchen
SC Borussia Neunkirchen was founded out of the 1907 merger of
FC 1905 Borussia and
SC Neunkirchen.
History
From 1912 through to 1963 Borussia Neunkirchen had an uninterrupted record of first division play including the
Kreisliga Saar,
Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar and selection to the
Gauliga, formed in 1933 through the reorganization of German football under the Third Reich.
Borussia remained at this level, in the
Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen, throughout the leagues history, with good results but not winning a league championship. Like other organizations in the country, including sports and football associations,
Borussia was dissolved by the Allied occupation authorities after World War II, but was quickly reformed under its current name.
Borussia Neunkirchen played in the French-occupied Saarland and the French made various efforts to see the state become independent of Germany or join France. In sport this was manifested as separate 1952 Olympic and Football World Cup 1954 (qualification) teams for Saarland, the establishment of a short-lived football league for the state, and the German club
1. FC Saarbrücken playing in the French second division.
Neunkirchen played in the Saarland Ehrenliga from 1949 to 1951, winning the title in the first year and finishing as runner-up the next. They were able to re-join the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball-Bund or German Football Association) after the 1950-51 season in the Oberliga Südwest (1945-63).
Despite their record of continuous play at the top flight,
Neunkirchen was not one of the sixteen sides selected for play in Germany's new professional football league at its formation. Along with
FK Pirmasens and
Wormatia Worms, they were bypassed in favour of
1. FC Saarbrucken, even though they all had better records than the chosen side. More than a few protests were lodged as
1. FC appeared to have gained entry based simply on their affiliation with a member of the league selection committee. Their entry was delayed by only a year as they were able to play their way into the upper league through the promotion rounds after winning the Regionalliga Südwest (1963-74).
Their stay in the Bundesliga was short-lived. After a mid-table result in 1965, they would be relegated the following season after a 17th place finish. They won the Regionalliga Südwest again after being sent down and returned to the Bundesliga to another 17th place finish and relegation.
Neunkirchen spent another seven years playing tier II football before slipping to the Amateurliga Saarland (III). Through the mid 70's and into the early 80's Borussia Neunkirchen bounced up and down between these levels of play, before settling in for a decade and a half at tier III. The team slipped again in 1996 to the Oberliga Südwest (IV) where they play today. They won their division in 2005 but declined the opportunity to apply for a license and promotion to the third division because of financial problems that have plagued Borussia Neunkirchen since 2003.
Honours
Borussia Neunkirchen is a seven time winner of the Saarland Cup, a regional championship tournament established in 1974.
- Southern German Cup winner: 1921
- Oberliga Südwest (1945-63) (I) champions: 1962
- Oberliga Südwest (I) runners-up: 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963
- Bezirksliga Rheinhessen-Saar (I) champions: 1924
- Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar (Saar division) (I) champions: 1929
- Kreisliga Saar (I) champions: 1921, 1922, 1923
- Regionalliga Südwest (1963-74) (II) champions: 1964, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1974
- Oberliga Südwest (III) champions: 1980, 1991
- Oberliga Südwest (IV) champions: 2000, 2002, 2005
- Amateurliga Saarland (III) champions: 1976, 1977, 1978
- Ehrenliga champions: 1949
- Ehrenliga finalists: 1950
- Saarland Cup winners: 1978, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1996, 2003
Recent seasons
Former Players
- Richard Manu
- Jay-Jay Okocha
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