SV Rödinghausen

For most of its history the club has been an amateur side in local football. The club's fortunes changed in 2009 when, after having been playing in the tier nine Kreisliga A for a number of seasons the club began a series of five consecutive promotions. A Kreisliga championship in 2010 was followed by a Bezirksliga championship in 2011 and a Landesliga championship in 2012.[1] The club's rapid rise was made possible by the financial support of Horst Finkemeier, the retired owner of a kitchen manufacturing business. Finkemeier also financed the club's new stadium, which is estimated to have cost €2 million and was officially opened in 2011.[2] The stadium was first used, then still under construction, in a league match against SC Verl but has also seen the club play friendlies against Valencia, Werder Bremen and Aston Villa.[3]

In 2013 SV won Group 1 of the Westfalenliga and thereby earned direct promotion to the Oberliga Westfalen. The following season the club won promotion to the tier four Regionalliga West for the first time after finishing runners-up in the Oberliga, behind the champions Arminia Bielefeld II, who were ineligible for promotion.[4]

As of 22 November 2019

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Jan Schönwälder 3 DF  GER Daniel Flottmann 4 MF  GER Felix Backszat 6 DF  GER Fynn Arkenberg 7 FW  GER Tobias Steffen 8 MF  GER Eros Dacaj 9 FW  GER Simon Engelmann 10 MF  GER Linus Meyer 11 MF  GER Patrick Kurzen 15 DF  GER Henrik Winkelmann 16 FW  GER Björn Schlottke 17 MF  AUT Christian Derflinger

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF  GER Nico Knystock 20 FW  GER Nico Empen 22 DF  GER Julian Wolff 23 DF  GER Omar Haktab Traoré 24 DF  GER Nikola Serra 27 DF  GER Kevin Harder 28 DF  GER Laurin von Piechowski 29 MF  GER Lukas Kunze 30 GK  GER Niclas Heimann 31 GK  GER Yannick Rohrmann 32 MF  GER Franz Pfanne 33 DF  GER Angelo Langer

The club's honours:

• Oberliga Westfalen
  • Runners-up: 2014
• Westfalenliga
  • Champions: 2013
• Landesliga Westfalen-Ost
  • Champions: 2012
• Bezirksliga Westfalen 1
  • Champions: 2011
• Kreisliga A
  • Champions: 2010
• Westphalian Cup
  • 2019

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[5][6]

• With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.

¹ Rödinghausen renounced from being promoted to 3. Liga.

• (in German) Official team site
• (in German) Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables