Borussia Neunkirchen

Full name

Borussia, Verein für Bewegungspiele e.V.,
Neunkirchen

Founded

1905

Ground

Ellenfeldstadion

Capacity

23,000

Manager

Dieter Ferner

League

Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar (V)

2014–15

12th

Website

Club home page

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

Borussia VfB Neunkirchen is a German association football club based in Neunkirchen, Saarland. The club SC Borussia Neunkirchen was founded out of the 1907 merger of FC 1905 Borussia and SC Neunkirchen.

History

From 1912 through to 1963 the club 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 league's 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.

The club 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 1954 World Cup 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 DFB (Deutscher Fußball-Bund or German Football Association) after the 1950–51 season in the Oberliga Südwest.

Despite their record of continuous play at the top flight, Neunkirchen was not one of the sixteen sides selected for play in the Bundesliga – Germany's new professional football league – at its formation. Along with FK Pirmasens and Wormatia Worms, they were bypassed in favour of 1. FC Saarbrücken, 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.

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-1970s and into the early 1980s the club 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 the club since 2003. From 2012-13 the Oberliga Südwest was renamed Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, with Borussia continuing in this league.

In April 2015 the club had to declare insolvency with a debt of €280.000.^[1]

Honours

The club's honours:

League

Oberliga Südwest (I)
- Champions: 1962
- 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 (II)
- Champions: 1964, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1974
Oberliga Südwest (III-IV)
- Champions: 1980, 1991, 2000, 2002, 2005
Amateurliga Saarland (III)
- Champions: 1976, 1977, 1978
Ehrenliga Saarland
- Champions: 1949
- Runners-up: 1950

Cup

Southern German Cup
- Winners: 1921
Saarland Cup
- Winners: 1978, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1996, 2003
- Runners-up: 1995, 1997, 2001, 2008, 2010

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[2]^[3]

Season	Division	Tier	Position
1999–2000	Oberliga Südwest	IV	1st
2000–01	Oberliga Südwest		3rd
2001–02	Oberliga Südwest		1st ↑
2002–03	Regionalliga Süd	III	19th ↓
2003–04	Oberliga Südwest	IV	10th
2004–05	Oberliga Südwest		1st
2005–06	Oberliga Südwest		9th
2006–07	Oberliga Südwest		10th
2007–08	Oberliga Südwest		6th
2008–09	Oberliga Südwest	V	4th
2009–10	Oberliga Südwest		12th
2010–11	Oberliga Südwest		7th
2011–12	Oberliga Südwest		7th
2012–13	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar		5th
2013–14	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar		15th
2014–15	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar		12th
2015–16	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar

With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. In 2012 the Oberliga Südwest was renamed Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar.

Current squad

As of 1 June 2015

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
—	GK	Sebastien Flauss
—	GK	Robert Lehmann
—	GK	Francesco Rino
—	DF	Andreas Backmann
—	DF	Tim Cullmann
—	DF	Alexandro Gallace
—	DF	Armend Haliti
—	DF	Espoire Lenda Mbote
—	DF	Florian Röder
—	DF	Andy Steis
—	MF	Albert Becker
—	MF	Mefail Kadrija
—	MF	Jens Kirchen

No.	Position	Player
—	MF	Abdul Kizmaz
—	MF	Yannick Bach
—	MF	Marc Leibold
—	MF	Dennis Serr
—	MF	Giuseppe Simonetta
—	MF	Anthony Weston
—	MF	Felix Wölflinger
—	FW	Felix Dausend
—	FW	Andreas Haas
—	FW	Heraldo Jorrin
—	FW	Faruk Ljaic
—	FW	Francesco Laino

References

↑ Ex-Bundesligist stellt Insolvenz-Antrag (German) www.t-online.de, published: 2 April 2015, accessed: 4 june 2015
↑ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (German) Historical German domestic league tables
↑ Fussball.de - Ergebnisse (German) Tables and results of all German football leagues

External links

The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
Borussia Neunkirchen at Weltfussball.de
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (German)

Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar (V) 2015–16 clubs

SpVgg Burgbrohl SV Elversberg II SV Gonsenheim SC Hauenstein FSV Jägersburg FC Karbach TuS Koblenz Arminia Ludwigshafen TSV Schott Mainz SV Mehring Borussia Neunkirchen TSG Pfeddersheim FK Pirmasens II FSV Salmrohr SV Röchling Völklingen FC Hertha Wiesbach SpVgg EGC Wirges SVN Zweibrücken

List of clubs in the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar

Bundesliga

2015–16 clubs	FC Augsburg Bayer Leverkusen Bayern Munich Borussia Dortmund Borussia Mönchengladbach Darmstadt 98 Eintracht Frankfurt Hamburger SV Hannover 96 Hertha BSC 1899 Hoffenheim FC Ingolstadt 1. FC Köln Mainz 05 Schalke 04 VfB Stuttgart Werder Bremen VfL Wolfsburg

Former clubs	1860 Munich Alemannia Aachen Arminia Bielefeld Bayer 05 Uerdingen/KFC Uerdingen 05 Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin VfL Bochum Borussia Neunkirchen Dynamo Dresden Eintracht Braunschweig Energie Cottbus Fortuna Düsseldorf Fortuna Köln SC Freiburg SpVgg Greuther Fürth Hansa Rostock FC 08 Homburg 1. FC Kaiserslautern Karlsruher SC Kickers Offenbach VfB Leipzig Meidericher SV/MSV Duisburg 1. FC Nürnberg Preußen Münster Rot-Weiss Essen Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 1. FC Saarbrücken SC Paderborn 07 FC St. Pauli Stuttgarter Kickers Tasmania Berlin Tennis Borussia Berlin SSV Ulm 1846 SpVgg Unterhaching Waldhof Mannheim Wattenscheid 09 Wuppertaler SV

History	Reichsliga Introduction in 1963 1965 scandal 1971 scandal 2005 scandal

Lists and statistics	All-time table List of clubs Records Borussia Mönchengladbach 12–0 Borussia Dortmund Foreign players Top scorers Attendance

Seasons	1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Managers Players Seasons Top scorers

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