Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid

Full name

Rot Weiß Lüdenscheid e. V.

Founded

1908

Ground

Nattenberg Stadion

Capacity

19,000

League

Bezirksliga Westfalen 5 (VIII)

2014–15

10th

Home colours

Away colours

Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid is a German association football club playing in Lüdenscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia.

History

The origins of the club go back to the formation of the Luedenscheider Fußball-Klub in 1908. In the aftermath of World War I, a number of local sides went through a series of mergers. Late in 1918 LFK merged with FC Preußen 09 and SV Luedenscheider 1910 to form VfB Lüdenscheid 08. In 1919, Ballspielverein Lüdenscheid and FC Fortuna 1910 formed another predecessor side called RSV Höh 1910. These two clubs then entered into a short-lived union with Lüdenscheid Turn-Verein 1861. RSV left this union in 1920, and VfB followed in 1924, taking on the name Sportfreunde 08. Finally, in 1971, RSV and Sportfreunde merged to form the present club.

Rot-Weiß enjoyed its greatest success between 1977 and 1981 when it played in the 2. Bundesliga Nord. However, the team consistently flirted with relegation, and after the 2. Bundesliga Nord and Süd were merged into a single, smaller division in 1974, RWL found itself in the third division Oberliga Westfalen. The club bounced up and down between the third and fourth divisions until last relegated in 1997.

After a 13th place finish in 2005–06 in the Verbandsliga Westfalen (IV), Lüdenscheid was relegated to the Landesliga Westfalen (V). In 2009 it dropped out of the Landesliga as well and now plays in the tier eight Bezirksliga Westfalen.

Stadium

RWL plays its home matches in the Nattenberg Stadion, built in 1972, which has a capacity of 19,000 (2,234 seats).

External links

Official website (German)

2. Bundesliga clubs

2015–16 teams

Former teams

2. Bundesliga (1981–present)	Alemannia Aachen VfR Aalen FC Augsburg SV Babelsberg 03 SpVgg Bayreuth Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin Borussia Mönchengladbach VfR Bürstadt Carl Zeiss Jena SC Charlottenburg Chemnitzer FC Darmstadt 98 Dynamo Dresden Eintracht Frankfurt Eintracht Trier Energie Cottbus Erzgebirge Aue Fortuna Köln Freiburger FC FC Gütersloh Hallescher FC Hannover 96 Hansa Rostock TSV Havelse Hertha BSC Hessen Kassel 1899 Hoffenheim FC Homburg Ingolstadt 04 Jahn Regensburg Kickers Offenbach TuS Koblenz 1. FC Köln VfB Leipzig VfB Lübeck 1. FSV Mainz 05 SV Meppen VfB Oldenburg VfL Osnabrück Preußen Münster FC Remscheid SSV Reutlingen Rot Weiss Ahlen Rot-Weiß Erfurt Rot-Weiss Essen Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 1. FC Saarbrücken FSV Salmrohr Schalke 04 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 Sportfreunde Siegen Stahl Brandenburg Stuttgarter Kickers Tennis Borussia Berlin KFC Uerdingen 05 SSV Ulm 1846 Union Solingen SpVgg Unterhaching Viktoria Aschaffenburg Wacker Burghausen Waldhof Mannheim Wattenscheid 09 SV Wehen Wiesbaden VfL Wolfsburg Wormatia Worms Wuppertaler SV FSV Zwickau

2. Bundesliga North (1974–81)	Arminia Hannover HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst Bayer Leverkusen 1. FC Bocholt Bonner SC Borussia Dortmund OSC Bremerhaven SpVgg Erkenschwick 1. SC Göttingen 05 OSV Hannover SC Herford Holstein Kiel 1. FC Mülheim Olympia Wilhelmshaven Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid Schwarz-Weiß Essen Spandauer SV Viktoria Köln Wacker 04 Berlin DSC Wanne-Eickel Werder Bremen Westfalia Herne

2. Bundesliga South (1974–81)	KSV Baunatal Bayern Hof Borussia Neunkirchen Eintracht Bad Kreuznach VfB Eppingen FC Hanau 93 VfR Heilbronn ESV Ingolstadt MTV Ingolstadt VfR Mannheim FK Pirmasens Röchling Völklingen BSV 07 Schwenningen VfB Stuttgart Würzburger FV Würzburger Kickers

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