- Westende Hamborn
Football club infobox
clubname = Westende Hamborn
fullname = Sport-Verein Westende Laar-Hamborn e.V.
nickname =
founded = 1930
ground = Beeker Rönsbergerhof
capacity = 5,000
chairman =
manager =
league = Kreisliga A - Gruppe 2, Kreis Duisburg-Mülheim-Dinslak
season = 2007-08
position = 8th
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leftarm2=ffffff|body2=ffffff|rightarm2=ffffff|shorts2=ffffff|socks2=ffffffWestende Hamborn is a German football club from the district of Hamborn in
Duisburg ,North Rhine-Westphalia . The region was a mining and steelworking centre and the history of the club includes a number of worker's sports and football clubs.__TOC__
History
The team was established in 1930 as "Sport-Verein Westende Laar" and by 1937 was playing as "BSG Bergbau Westende Hamborn". That season "BSG" won promotion out of the Bezirkskreise Niederrhein (II) to the Gauliga Niederrhein, one of sixteen regional first divisions established in the 1933 re-organization of German football under the
Third Reich . They earned indifferent results there over the next three seasons and were relgated in 1941. "BSG" was renamed "SV Westende-Laar Hamborn" in 1942 and the team returned to first division play. [Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9] They promptly took the division title in 1942-43 and advanced to the eighthfinal of the national playoffs where they were badly handled (8:0) by "VfR Mannheim ". [Grüne, Hardy (1996). Vom Kronprinzen bis zur Bundesliga. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-928562-85-1] After a second place finish the next season, "SV" voluntarily withdrew from top-flight competition. They became part of the wartime side "Kriegspielgemeinschaft Westende/Schwarz-Weiß Hamborn" and took part in lower level competition.During this period "Westende" made appearances in the opening rounds of the Tschammerpokal tournament (1939, 1941, 1942), predecessor to today's
DFB-Pokal (German Cup).Following the end of
World War II , occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of most organizations in the country, including sports and football clubs. The club was re-established in 1945 as "SV Westende Beeke" and in 1947 merged with its wartime partner "SV Schwarz-Weiß Hamborn" to form "SV Schwarz-Weiß Westende Hamborn". "Schwarz-Weiß" had merged with "SV Bergbau Schacht 4/8 Hamborn" in 1933 and after 1937 played as "WKG Bergbau 4/8 Hamborn" until again taking up the name "Schwarz-Weiß" in 1942.Through the early 50s "SW Westende" played in the Amateurliga Niederrhein where their best results were a pair of fourth place finishes. The footballers now compete in the Kreisliga A Duisburg-Mülheim-Dinslaken. The club today has a membership of about 650 and departments for
badminton ,gymnastics ,handball , andJudo .In the 2007-08 season, the club finished eighth in its league, the local
Kreisliga [ [http://www.fussball.de/fussball/servlet/content/78?next=%2F0708%2F013%2F052%2F009%2F220035&tag=50001 Fussball.de - Table of the Kreisliga A - Gruppe 2] accessed:20 June 2008 ] .Honours
*Gauliga Niederrhein (I) champions: 1943
External links
* [http://www.sw-westendehamborn.de/ Official team site]
References
* [http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv] historical German domestic league tables (in German)
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