SC Preußen Münster

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Preußen Münster is a German football club based in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Contents

1 History

1.1 Origins to post-World War II
1.2 Founding member of the Bundesliga
1.3 Current

2 Honours
3 Stadium
4 Team trivia
5 External links

History

Origins to post-World War II

The club was founded as FC Preussen in 1906 and has its roots in a group formed at the Johann-Conrad-Schlaun High School. In 1921 the club took on its current name and progressed to second division competition in 1928.

In 1933, Preussen began play in the Gauliga Westfalen, one of sixteen top-flight leagues established through the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. They earned only middling results there and were twice relegated. Their second demotion in 1941 left them out of first division football until after World War II.

The team played three seasons in the Landesliga Westfalen Gr. 2 (II) before returning to the top-flight in the Oberliga West in the 1948-49 season. That arrival was accompanied by some notoriety as Preussen Münster became the first German football club to build a team by buying players, something previously unheard of in a country committed to the ideal of amateurism. Siegfried Rachuba, Adolf Preissler, Rudolf Schulz, Felix Gerritzen, and Josef Lammers formed a front five dubbed by the press as the "Hundred-Thousand-Mark Line", even though that much money never did change hands.

The investment paid dividends as the club merited an appearance in the 1951 national final in front of 107,000 spectators at Berlin's Olympic Stadium against 1. FC Kaiserslautern where they went down to defeat by a score of 1:2.

Founding member of the Bundesliga

Their results as a mid-table side in the tough Oberliga West in the ten years prior to the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963 were good enough to earn them admission as one of the five teams from that league to earn a placed in Germany's new sixteen team professional circuit. The club made only a cameo appearance in the Bundesliga, being relegated after a next-to-last 15th place finish.

Preussen Münster played out the 60's and 70's as a second division side in the Regionalliga West and 2. Bundesliga Nord. They slipped to the Amateur Oberliga Westfalen in the 1981-82 season, and except for a short adventure in the 2. Bundesliga in the 1990 and 1991 seasons, have played third tier football ever since in the Regionalliga West/Sudwest (1993-2000) and Regionalliga Nord (2000 to date). The club captured the German Amateur Championship in 1994 with a 1:0 win over Kickers Offenbach.

Current

The team struggled in the 2006 earning only a 15th place finish and have been relegated to the Oberliga Westphalia (IV) for next year.

Honours

German vice-champions: 1951
German amateur champions: 1994
Amateur Oberliga Westfalen champions: 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993

Stadium

The club plays in the Preußenstadion, built in 1924, which has a capacity of 15,050 spectators (~1,560 seats). The construction of a new facility was considered in the 80's, but the idea was abandoned in December, 2000.

Team trivia

Football made its debut on German radio in November 1925 with the broadcast of part of the game between Münster and Arminia Bielefeld.

On the first ever day of Bundesliga play on August 24, 1963, Preussen Münster's game against Hamburg was the only complete sell out. The team earned another broadcasting first as this was also the first recorded Bundesliga match. The contest ended in a 1:1 draw.

External links

German Regionalliga Nord Football Clubs (2006-07)

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