SpVgg Erkenschwick
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SpVgg Erkenschwick 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...

 based in Oer-Erkenschwick
Oer-Erkenschwick
Oer-Erkenschwick is a town in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 5 km north-east of Recklinghausen, on the northern periphery of the Ruhrgebiet...

 in 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...

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History

Founded as Sportverein Erkenschwick in 1916, they joined Emscher-Lippe-Spielverband to form Sportfreunde Erkenschwick in 1918, which in then merged with Turn- und Leichtathletikverein TV Erkenschwick in 1921 to form the sports club still known today as TuS 09 Erkenschwick. The football side separated from this club and joined the footballers from Blau-Weiss Oer to form SpVgg Erkenschwick.

The side was competitive from 1943 through to 1953, playing top-flight football in the Gauliga Westfalen
Gauliga Westfalen
The Gauliga Westphalia was the highest football league in the Prussian province of Westphalia and the small Free State of Lippe from 1933 to 1945...

 until the end of World War II and in the Oberliga West (I) immediately after the war.

Through the 70s, 80s, and 90s, Erkenschwick played as a third division side with just three seasons spent in the 2. Bundesliga
2. Fußball-Bundesliga
- Changes in division set-up :* Number of clubs: currently 18. From 1974 to 1981 there were two conferences, each of 20 teams. In 1981–91 it had 20...

 (1974–75, 1975–76, and 1980–81). At the turn of the century they slipped to fourth and fifth level competition, and currently play in Verbandsliga Westfalen
Verbandsliga Westfalen
The Westfalenliga is the second highest football league in the region of Westphalia which is part of the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. It operates in two separate groups which run parallel below the NRW-Liga. Currently the sixth tier of the German football league system, the Westfalenligen were...

(VI).

Honours

  • Verbandsliga Westfalen Nordost (IV) champions: 1965, 1967, 1968
  • Verbandsliga Westfalen (III) champions: 1980, 1987
  • Verbandsliga Westfalen Südwest (V) champions: 2004

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