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| Full name | Bonner Sport-Club 01/04 e.V. | |||
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| Founded | 1965 | |||
| Ground | Sportpark Nord | |||
| Capacity | 10,164 | |||
| Chairman | Matthias Möseler | |||
| Manager | Sascha Glatzel | |||
| League | Regionalliga West (IV) | |||
| 2024–25 | 1st | |||
| Website | https://www.bonner-sc.de | |||
Bonner SC is aGerman association football club based inBonn. The club was formed in 1965 through the merger ofBonner FV andTura Bonn. Its women's football department won theGerman national championship in 1975.
Bonner FV was founded in 1901 and was known early on as the "Club of Academics" because many of its leaders and members were teachers and professors. The side achieved good results as a tier II team prior to World War II, playing in the tier oneGauliga Mittelrhein at times. In 1959,FV won theVerbandsliga Mittelrhein (III) championship and moved up to2nd Oberliga West (Division Two West).
Tura was formed in 1925 through a merger of the clubsFC Normannia andFC Borussia and drew its membership from the working class. The combined side's lineage also included the clubFC Regina Bonn founded in 1904. LikeBonner FV,Tura played as a tier II team and their greatest success was in winning the 1962 westGerman amateur championship and their subsequent appearance in the national amateur final, which they lost 0:1 toSC Tegel. Since its founding in 1965,Bonner SC has played as a tier III or IV side except for a handful of seasons spent in various level II leagues between 1966–67 and 1976–77.
In 1999, the club drew a lot of attention when then owner Hans-Robert Viol signed the completeCuba national football team for the remainder of the season with the approval of Cuban leaderFidel Castro, who ordered the players to remain amateurs and only be paid pocket money.[1] They were the first 15 Cuban football players to have a spell abroad during the Castro regime and only four of them were expected to play in the Germans fourth tier side.[2]
In 2000–01, they fell as low asVerbandsliga Mittelrhein (V). Despite the drought of success, Bonner SC were able to muster-up a phenomenal season in theNRW-Liga in the 2008–09 season and become champions leading to their promotion back to theRegionalliga for the2009–10 Season.
The club had to declare insolvency in July 2010 and was therefore unable to enter the Regionalliga. The team, 7 million euros in debt, was also barred from entering the NRW-Liga as it could not provide the necessary guarantees to prove it would be able to survive financially. Having declared insolvency after the start of the new season, the side could only enter the league below, the Mittelrheinliga, under the condition of being automatically relegated at the end of season, which it declined and paused for a year. Bonner SC entered the tier sevenLandesliga Mittelrhein 1 for the 2011–12 season.[3]
From 2014 to 2016 Bonner SC played in the fifth tier of the league system, theMittelrheinliga. In the 2015–16 season the club won the league and earned promotion toRegionalliga West. In 2021 they got relegated back to theMittelrheinliga.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Bekim Kastrati - former Albania international
Karl Höger - former Germany international
Albert Bunjaku - former Kosovo and Switzerland internationalBlendi Idrizi - Kosovo international
Jake Rennie - former Grenada international
Horacio Troche former Uruguay internationalThe club's honours:
