SC Idar-Oberstein


SC Idar-Oberstein is a German association football club from the town of Idar-Oberstein, Rhineland-Palatinate. The club was created in 1971 out of the merger of 1. FC Idar, established 1 January 1907 as SC Alemannia Idar, and Sportvereinigung Idar, formed in 1908. The club currently has departments for football, athletics, and women's gymnastics, as well as youth football and recreational sport.

History

The first football club organized in the Nahe region, 1. FC Idar was a moderately successful amateur side in the years leading up to and following World War II, playing in the highest level regional amateur league through the 20s and into the early 30s, the Kreisliga Saar, later the Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar, and then, for a season, the Gauliga Mittelrhein. In 1938 a trio of FC players joined Hannover 96 and helped that club win the national championship. Following the war FC joined the 2nd Oberliga Südwest where they competed briefly until being sent down in 1954. SpVgg Idar remained a lower tier local club during this time.
Despite the 1971 merger, newly formed SC performed poorly through the rest of the decade and on into the late 80s. An effort by a group of former players revitalized the club and a series of division championships led Idar out of the Bezirksliga Nahe, through the Landesliga Südwest-West and Verbandsliga Südwest, and on to the Oberliga Südwest. The team captured the SWFV-Pokal in 1998, and in 1999 made its first appearance in DFB-Pokal play. They also won their way to the third division Regionalliga West/Südwest that year, but were overmatched and quickly relegated, dropping as far down as the Verbandsliga Südwest again by 2005. The team recovered and climbed the ranks again after this low point and, for the 2011–12 season, the club moved to the Regionalliga West where it stayed until 2012 when it became part of the new Regionalliga Südwest. The club lasted for only one season at this level before being relegated back to the Oberliga, now the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar. After two seasons at Oberliga level the club suffered another relegation in 2015, now to the Verbandsliga.

Honours

The club's honours:

League

Recent managers of the club:
ManagerStartFinish
Patric 1 July 20079 September 2007
Michael Dusek10 September 200730 June 2011
Sascha Hildmann1 July 2011Present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
SeasonDivisionTierPosition
1999–2000Regionalliga West/SüdwestIII18th ↓
2000–01Oberliga SüdwestIV14th
2001–02Oberliga SüdwestIV4th
2002–03Oberliga SüdwestIV4th
2003–04Oberliga SüdwestIV15th
2004–05Oberliga SüdwestIV17th ↓
2005–06Verbandsliga SüdwestV2nd
2006–07Verbandsliga SüdwestV1st ↑
2007–08Oberliga SüdwestIV11th
2008–09Oberliga SüdwestV5th
2009–10Oberliga SüdwestV4th
2010–11Oberliga SüdwestV1st ↑
2011–12Regionalliga WestIV16th
2012–13Regionalliga SüdwestIV18th ↓
2013–14Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/SaarV6th
2014–15Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/SaarV14th ↓
2015–16Verbandsliga SüdwestVI9th
2016–17Verbandsliga SüdwestVI

↑ Promoted↓ Relegated

Stadium

Since 1990 SC Idar-Oberstein has played at the Sportgelände Im Haag where they have enjoyed good fan support throughout their years in the Oberliga.

Current squad