DSC Wanne-Eickel

DSC Wanne-Eickel

Full name	Deutscher Sport Club Wanne-Eickel
Founded	1954
Ground	Sportpark Wanne-Süd (Capacity: 13,500)
Chairman	Norbert Lücke
League	Verbandsliga Westfalen 2 (VI)
2007–08	2nd
Home colours Away colours

DSC Wanne-Eickel is a German association football club that plays in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia.

History

The club was founded in 1954 as TB Eickel when it left behind Sportfreunde Wanne-Eickel, a short-lived union it had formed with SV Preußen 04 Wanne in 1950. It took on the name DSC Wanne-Eickel in 1969. In addition to a football team the club has departments for Judo, model airplane flying, bowling, handball, watersports and physical fitness.

A third division side since 1960, it earned promotion to the 2.Bundesliga Nord late in the 70's and played the 1978 and 1979 seasons there. The club voluntarily bowed out in spite of 11th and 13th place finishes well clear of the relgation zone in the face of dismal attendance and an increasingly untenable financial situation. It returned to third division play where it played until the early 90's before slipping to the Verbandsliga Westfalen-Sudwest (V). The football department became independent in 2000 and from the 2003–04 season played in the tier VI Landesliga Westfalen-West, gaining promotion to the Verbandsliga Westfalen again in 2005.

Stadium

DSC plays in the Sportpark Wanne-Süd (capacity 16,000) built in 1956. A seating grandstand was added in the early 90's.

Notable players

• Norbert Lücke, one of the 2.Bundesliga side and currently chairman of the football department
• Ralf Regenbogen
• Ingo Peter, one of the 2.Bundesliga side
• Heinz Blasey, goalkeeper for the 2.Bundesliga side

External links

• Official website (German)
• The Abseits Guide to German Soccer