Sportfreunde Siegen

Sportfreunde Siegen

Full name	Sportfreunde Siegen
Founded	1899
Ground	Leimbachstadion (Capacity: 18,500)
Chairman	Ulrich Steiner
Manager	Michael Boris
League	NRW-Liga (V)
2010–11	7th
Home colours Away colours

Sportfreunde Siegen is a German association football club based in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded in 1899 as the football department of the gymnastics club Turn Verein Jahn von 1879 Siegen. They merged with Sportverein 07 Siegen in 1923 to become an independent football club called Sportfreunde Siegen von 1899 e.V.

History

The club won local titles in the 1900s and went on to their greatest successes in the 1920s when they won several South German league titles. In spite of their good results the side did not qualify for first division play after the re-organization of German football into sixteen Gauligen under the Third Reich in 1933.

The club's next appearance in the upper levels of German football was in the 2.Oberliga West (II) in 1961. After the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963 Siegen played in the second division Regionalliga West for a single season before slipping to the third tier Amateurliga Westfalen. In the mid-80's the club fell even further to the Verbandsliga Westfalen-SW (IV) and spent nine of the next eleven seasons at that level.

Siegen recovered and returned to third division football in 1997. After two consecutive 16th place finishes – including a brush with relegation in 2003 which they avoided only because SV Waldhof Mannheim and SSV Reutlingen were denied licenses due to their financial weakness – the club managed to claw its way to the Second Bundesliga on the strength of a surprising second place result in 2006. However finishing 18th they faced relegation right away. Despite an 11th place in the Regionalliga Süd they finished in relegation again due to financial issues. In the 2008–09 season they played in the fifth division.

Current squad

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Raphael Koczor 2 DF Jörn Nowak 3 DF Christian Schönwälder 5 DF Julian Kapitza 5 DF Kerim Arslan 6 MF Tim Reichert 7 MF Johannes Burk 9 FW Emrah Uzun 10 FW Marius Sowislo 11 FW Veldon Halimi 12 GK Maximilian Pauli

No. Position Player 13 FW Volkan Okumak 14 FW Julian Moritz Jakobs 15 MF Christoph Göbel 18 DF Matthew Dallman 19 DF Serkan Dalman 20 MF Anis Saidi 21 FW Sebastian Huke 22 DF Marcel Abele 23 DF Daniel Bogusz 34 FW Wesley Schors

Notable players

Past (and present) players who are the subjects of Wikipedia articles can be found here.

Honours

• German amateur champions: 1955

Former coaches

• Gerd Vom Bruch (1986–1987)
• Ingo Peter (1994–2003)
• Michael Feichtenbeiner (2003–2004)
• Gerhard Noll (2004)
• Ralf Loose (2004–2005)
• Jan Kocian (2005–2006)
• Uwe Helmes (2006)
• Hannes Bongartz (2006)
• Ladislav Biro (2006)
• Ralf Loose (2006–2007)
• Marc Fascher (2007–2008)
• Peter Nemeth (2008–2009)
• Theo Brenner (2009)
• Andrzej Rudy (2009 - 2011)
• Michael Boris (since 2011)

Women's football

In 1996 the women's department of TSV Siegen moved to the Sportfreunde. At that time the team had been the most successful team in the Bundesliga. Since the team was denied a license for the 2001–02 Bundesliga season they have not returned to the Bundesliga, moving between second and third league. In the 2008–09 season they have played in the Regionalliga (III), were relegated to the fourth tier Verbandsliga Westfalen in 2009–10 but managed direct promotion to the Regionalliga West for the 2010–11 season.

Current squad

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

No. Position Player GK Steffi Neuser DF Steffi Blazejezak DF Aileen Diener DF Theresa Heinz DF Sarah Schneider DF Mariana Wagener DF Janina Weber DF Christina Wolff MF Marina Buschinski MF Nadine Göbel MF Denise Käsler MF Christina Lehmann MF Daniela Paetzold

No. Position Player MF Janina Röder MF Laura Schmidt MF Denise Stracke MF Vanessa Thorbeck MF Jessica Wei MF Selina Weller FW Melina Ciraci FW Saskia Diener FW Ann-Kathrin Morgenschweis FW Ina Reichmann FW Marie Schwermer FW Britta Thaler

Notable former players

• Doris Fitschen
• Louise Hansen
• Marion Isbert
• Silvia Neid
• Sissy Raith
• Silke Rottenberg
• Martina Voss

Honours

All the honours were gained when the women's department was still a part of TSV Siegen.

• German women's champions: 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996
• Women's German Cup champions: 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993

External links

• Official website
• Abseits Guide to German Soccer