Arminia Bielefeld

Arminia Bielefeld
Full nameDeutscher Sport-Club Arminia Bielefeld
Nickname(s)Die Arminen, Die Blauen (The Blues)
Founded3 May 1905 (1905-05-03) as 1. Bielefelder FC Arminia
GroundBielefelder Alm (SchücoArena)
Capacity27,300
PresidentHans-Jürgen Laufer[1]
Head coachFrank Kramer
League3. Liga
2023–243. Liga, 14th of 20
Websitehttp://www.arminia-bielefeld.de/

DSC Arminia Bielefeld (pronounced [ˌdeːʔɛsˈtseː ʔaʁˈmiːni̯a ˈbiːləfɛlt]; full name: Deutscher Sportclub Arminia Bielefeld e.V. [ˈdɔʏtʃɐ ˈʃpɔʁtklʊp ʔaʁˈmiːni̯a ˈbiːləfɛlt]; commonly known as Arminia Bielefeld (German pronunciation: [aʁˌmiːnia ˈbiːləfɛlt] (listen)), also known as Die Arminen [diː ˈʔaʁmiːnən] or Die Blauen [diː ˈblaʊən]), or just Arminia (pronounced [aʁˌmiːnia] (listen)), is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia offers the sports of football, field hockey, figure skating, and cue sports. The club has 12,000 members and the club colours are black, white and blue.[2] Arminia's name comes from the Cheruscan chieftain Arminius, who defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

Players

Current squad

As of 22 February 2022[3]

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  Germany Stefan Ortega (vice-captain)
2 DF  Germany Amos Pieper
3 DF  Portugal Guilherme Ramos
4 DF  Sweden Joakim Nilsson
5 DF  Denmark Jacob Barrett Laursen
7 MF  Germany Gonzalo Castro
8 MF  Austria Alessandro Schöpf
9 FW  Germany Fabian Klos (co-captain)
10 FW  France Bryan Lasme
11 MF  Japan Masaya Okugawa
13 GK  Greece Stefanos Kapino
15 DF  Belgium Nathan de Medina
16 MF  Germany Fabian Kunze
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 MF  Turkey Burak İnce
18 FW  Germany Florian Krüger
19 MF  Austria Manuel Prietl (co-captain)
20 MF  Austria Patrick Wimmer
21 FW  Germany Robin Hack
23 FW  Germany Janni Serra
24 DF  United States George Bello
27 DF  Switzerland Cédric Brunner
30 DF  Panama Andrés Andrade (on loan from LASK)
35 GK  Germany Arne Schulz
37 MF  Russia Vladislav Cherny
39 MF  Greece Sebastian Vasiliadis

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
GK  Sweden Oscar Linnér (at GIF Sundsvall until 30 June 2022)
DF  Netherlands Mike van der Hoorn (at FC Utrecht until 30 June 2022)
MF  Germany Jomaine Consbruch (at Eintracht Braunschweig until 30 June 2022)
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF  Austria Christian Gebauer (at Ingolstadt until 30 June 2022)
MF  Germany Noel Niemann (at TSV Hartberg until 30 June 2022)
FW  Germany Sebastian Müller (at Eintracht Braunschweig until 30 June 2022)

Honours

  • Arminia Bielefeld has never won any major trophies, but they have won some silverware on a minor level.[4]

League titles

  • 2. Bundesliga: (II)
    • Champions: 1977–78, 1979–80, 1998–99, 2019–20
  • 3. Liga: (III)
    • Champions: 2014–15
  • Regionalliga West/Südwest: (III)
    • Champions: 1994–95
  • Oberliga Westfalen: (III)
    • Champions: 1989–90

Regional titles

  • Western German football championship
    • Winners: 1922, 1923

Cups

  • West German cup winner:
    • Winners: 1966, 1974
  • Westphalian cup winner:
    • Winners: 1908, 1932, 1991, 2012, 2013

Coaches

Coach Nationality from to Significant events
František Zoubek 1922 1923 West German Champion 1923
Gerd Wellhöfer 1923 1924 Westfalen Champion 1924
František Zoubek
Gerd Wellhöfer

1924 1925 Westfalen Champion 1925
Gerd Wellhöfer 1925 1926 Westfalen Champion 1926
František Zoubek 1926 1933 Westfalen Champion 1923, 1933
Westfälischer Cup Winner 1932
Qualification to the Gauliga Westfalen 1933
Otto Faist 1933 1935 Relegation from Gauliga 1934
Karl Willnecker 1935 1938 Promotion to Gauliga 1938
Erich Brochmeyer 1938 1939
Ferdinand Swatosch 1939 1940 Vice Champion of the Gauliga
Otto Kranefeld[5] 1940 1942
Karl Wunderlich 1942 1945
Erich Brochmeyer 1945 1946 Relegation to the Landesliga
Ferdinand Swatosch 1946 1947
Karl Wunderlich 1947 1948 Promotion to the Landesliga
Alois Münstermann 1948 1949 Promotion to the Oberliga
Friedrich Otto 1949 1950 Relegation to the 2. Liga West
Fritz Kaiser 1950 1951
Hellmut Meidt 1951 1953
Donndorf 1953 1955 Relegation to the Landesliga 1954
Otto Westphal 1955 1958
Arthur Gruber 1958 19 March 1961 first Coach sacking
Josef Rasselnberg 20 March 1961 1961
Jakob Wimmer 1961 April 1963 Promotion to the 2. Liga West 1962
Hellmut Meidt April 1963 1965 Qualification to the Regionalliga 1963
Robert Gebhardt 1965 1966 Westdeutscher Cup Winner
Westfälischer Cup Winner
Hans Wendlandt 1966 November 1969
Egon Piechaczek November 1969 December 1971 Promotion to the Bundesliga 1970
Hellmut Meidt January 1972 January 1972
Jan Notermans February 1972 October 1972 Relegation to the Regionalliga
Willi Nolting October 1972 February 1973
Norbert Lessle February 1973 September 1973
Karl-Heinz "Harry" Garstecki September 1973 October 1973
Willi Nolting October 1973 Januar 1974
Rudi Faßnacht January 1974 1974 Qualification to the 2. Bundesliga
Westfälischer Cup Winner
Erhard Ahmann 1974 1976
Karl-Heinz Feldkamp 1976 1978 Promotion to the Bundesliga
Milovan Beljin 1978 October 1978
Otto Rehhagel October 1978 October 1979 Relegation to the 2. Bundesliga 1978
Willi Nolting October 1979 October 1979
Hans-Dieter Tippenhauer October 1979 September 1980 Promotion to the Bundesliga
Willi Nolting September 1980 December 1980
Horst Franz December 1980 1982
Horst Köppel 1982 1983 Place 8 in the Bundesliga
Karl-Heinz Feldkamp 1983 March 1984
Gerd Roggensack March 1984 February 1986 Place 8 in der Bundesliga 1984
Relegation to the 2. Bundesliga 1985
Horst Franz February 1986 November 1986
Fritz Fuchs November 1986 December 1987
Joachim Krug December 1987 April 1988
Ernst Middendorp April 1988 October 1990 Relegation to the Oberliga 1988
Champion of the Oberliga Westfalen 1990
Franz Raschid October 1990 1991
Fritz Grösche 1991 1992
Ingo Peter 1 July 1992 1 February 1994
Theo Schneider 2 February 1994 30 June 1994 Qualification for the Regionalliga West/Südwest
Wolfgang Sidka 1994 September 1994
Ernst Middendorp September 1994 16 August 1998 Promotion to the 2. Bundesliga 1995
Promotion to the Bundesliga 1996
Relegation to the 2. Bundesliga
Thomas von Heesen 17 August 1998 1999 Promotion to the Bundesliga
Hermann Gerland 1999 October 2000 Relegation to the 2. Bundesliga
Benno Möhlmann October 2000 16 February 2004 Promotion to the Bundesliga
Relegation to the 2. Bundesliga
Thomas von Heesen 17 February 2004 29 February 2004
Uwe Rapolder 1 March 2004 10 May 2005 Promotion to the Bundesliga
Frank Geideck 11 May 2005 2005
Thomas von Heesen 2005 11 February 2007
Frank Geideck 11 February 2007 13 March 2007
Ernst Middendorp 14 March 2007 9 December 2007
Detlev Dammeier 10 December 2007 31 December 2007
Michael Frontzeck 1 January 2008 17 May 2009
Jörg Berger 19 May 2009  – Relegation to the 2. Bundesliga
Thomas Gerstner 24 June 2009 11 March 2010
Frank Eulberg & Jörg Böhme 11 March 2010 26 May 2010
Christian Ziege 26 May 2010 6 November 2010
Ewald Lienen 7 November 2010 30 June 2011 Relegated to the 3. Liga
Markus von Ahlen 1 July 2011 20 September 2011
Stefan Krämer 21 September 2011 23 February 2014 Promotion to the 2. Bundesliga
Norbert Meier 24 February 2014 10 June 2016 Promotion to the 2. Bundesliga
semi-final in the 2014–15 DFB-Pokal season
Rüdiger Rehm 15 June 2016 22 October 2016
Carsten Rump 23 October 2016 15 November 2016
Jürgen Kramny 15 November 2016 14 March 2017
Jeff Saibene 19 March 2017 10 December 2018
Uwe Neuhaus 10 December 2018 1 March 2021 Promotion to the Bundesliga
Frank Kramer 2 March 2021 Present

References

  1. "Laufer neuer DSC-Präsident" (in German). Arminia Bielefeld. 21 August 2013. Archived from the original on 8 February 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  2. "Arminia" (in German). Arminia Bielefeld. Archived from the original on 2 June 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  3. "Das Team 2019/2020". DSC Arminia Bielefeld (in German). Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  4. "Daten & Statistik" (in German). Arminia Bielefeld. Retrieved 12 August 2008.
  5. als Playercoach

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