DSC Wanne-Eickel is aGerman association football club that plays inHerne, North Rhine-Westphalia.
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| Full name | Deutscher Sport Club Wanne-Eickel | ||
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| Founded | 1954 | ||
| Ground | Sportpark Wanne-Süd | ||
| Capacity | 13,500 | ||
| Chairman | Norbert Lücke | ||
| League | Westfalenliga 2 (VI) | ||
| 2015–16 | 9th | ||
History
editThe club was founded in 1954 asTB Eickel when it leftSportfreunde Wanne-Eickel, a short-lived union it had formed withSV Preußen 04 Wanne, in 1950. It took on the nameDSC 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 the2. Bundesliga Nord late in the 1970s 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 relegation 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 1990s 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 VILandesliga Westfalen-West, gaining promotion to theVerbandsliga Westfalen again in 2005.
The club now plays in theWestfalenliga, formerly the Verbandsliga.
Honours
editThe club's honours:
- Westfalenliga
- Champions: 1978, 2006
- Westphalia Cup
- Winners: 1986
Stadium
editDSC plays in the Sportpark Wanne-Süd (capacity 16,000) built in 1956. A seating grandstand was added in the early 1990s.