Ahlener SG is a German football club

Football in Germany

Association football is the most popular sport in Germany. The German Football Association is the sport's national governing body, with 6.6 million members organized in over 26,000 football clubs. There is a league system, with the 1. and 2. Bundesliga on top, and the winner of the first...

 from the city of Ahlen

Ahlen

Ahlen is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is part of the District of Warendorf and is economically the most important town in that district. Ahlen is part of the larger Münster region, and of the historic Münsterland area....

, North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...

. The origins of the club go back to the merger of predecessor sides Spiel- und Sport 1905 Ahlen and Ballspiel Verein Westfalia 1906 Ahlen which played as SSV Westfalia 1905/06 Ahlen.

History

On 8 July 1970 the side was joined with Sportfreunde Wacker 1920 Ahlen to become Ahlener Sportverein and in 1972 advanced to the third tier Amateurliga Westfalen Gruppe 1 where they would spend the next half dozen seasons as an upper table side. SV's best result was a second place finish in 1976 before they crashed out of what had become the Amateuroberliga Westfalen

Oberliga Westfalen

From 1978 to 2008, the Oberliga Westfalen was the highest Football League in the region of Westphalia which is part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In its last season, it was one of nine Oberligas in German Football, the 4th tier of the German football league system...

 after a 17th place result in 1978–79.

SV merged with Handball Sportgemeinde 73 Ahlen on 25 May 1993 and competes today as Ahlener SG 93 which has departments for football, handball

Team handball

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, water sports, volleyball, table tennis

Table tennis

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 and fitness

Physical fitness

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; the handball side plays in the 2.Bundesliga.