SC Jülich is a German association football club from the city of Jülich , North Rhine-Westphalia . The club distinguished itself by winning three consecutive German amateur football championships from 1969 to 1971 while part of the third division Amateurliga Mittelrhein .
15-479: The club was founded on 12 January 1910 as Fußball-Club Jülich through the merger of predecessors Jülicher Gymnasial Turn- und Spielverein , Alemannia Jülich , and Viktoria Jülich . GTSV was the successor to Fußball-Club Juliacum 1903 Jülich . The team was later renamed Sport-Club Jülich and first came to note with an advance to the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein (III) following their title in
30-593: The Football association of the Middle Rhine , one of the 21 German state football associations. Being the top flight of the Middle Rhine state association, the league is currently a level 5 division of the German football league system . Until 1956, a total of ten Landesliga divisions, among them two divisions of Landesliga Mittelrhein were the highest amateur level in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . After
45-556: The Landesliga Mittelrhein (IV) in 1966. They earned a third-place result in their debut campaign before going on to win a string of three divisional titles. They declined participation in the promotion round for the Regionalliga West (II) in each of these seasons, and instead went on to a record three consecutive national amateur championships. In their final appearance in amateur championship play in 1972,
60-810: The Verbandsliga Mittelrhein (IV) for a single season. On returning to the Amateuroberliga they remained a lower-tier side until demoted again for the 1986–87 season. They repeated the cycle of middling performances followed by demotion over the next seven seasons. Between 1975 and 1993, SC took part in play for the DFB-Pokal (German Cup) eight times with their furthest advance coming in 1985 when they were put out in an eighth-final match by Bundesliga (I) side Werder Bremen (2:4). Jülich played improved football in their next two campaigns, before succumbing to bankruptcy in 1997 when it
75-599: The Verbandsliga continued to be directly promoted but since there was now four Verbandsligen below the Oberliga, the runners-up did not have the option of promotion unless the league winner declined. The NRW-Liga existed for only four seasons before it was disbanded again in 2012 in the wake of the Regionalliga West becoming a league for clubs from North Rhine-Westphalia only. While the Oberliga Westfalen
90-549: The club won all 26 season games took it back up to the Kreisliga B. Unbeaten in the following season as well Jülich won the Kreisliga B and was promoted to the Kreisliga A. Verbandsliga Mittelrhein The Mittelrheinliga (English: Middle Rhine League ), sometimes also referred to as Oberliga Mittelrhein after its elevation to Oberliga status in 2012, is a German amateur football division administered by
105-409: The league systems were changed, the champion continued to have the opportunity to win promotion. The clubs from the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein remained mostly unsuccessful as that, only achieving promotion in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1973, 1975, 1976 and 1978. The league operated with 16 clubs throughout most of its existence, only occasionally altering the numbers to balance out promotion and relegation. With
120-440: The main reasons for this move was to provide direct promotion for the tier-three champions again. This season's league winner, Viktoria Köln , was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga; the clubs placed two to ten in the league were admitted to the new Oberliga, these being: Verbandsliga Mittelrhein, together with Niederrhein, remained as a feeder league for the new Oberliga, but now as a tier-four competition. Its champion, and some years
135-499: The regular season, the ten Landesliga champions had to play-off for two promotion spots to 2. Oberliga West . Upon decision of the superior Western German football association , in 1956 four divisions of Verbandsliga were introduced, one of them being the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein . These four divisions of Verbandsliga still exist today, with the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein in 2008 renamed to Mittelrheinliga and later in 2012 renamed to Mittelrheinliga . The Verbandsliga Mittelrhein
150-545: The replacement of the Regionalliga by the 2nd Bundesliga Nord in 1974, the league champion had to gain promotion through a play-off system with the winners of the other tier-three leagues in northern Germany. In 1978, the Amateur-Oberliga Nordrhein was formed as the third tier of football in the region compromising the area of the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein and Verbandsliga Niederrhein . One of
165-624: The runners-up, were directly promoted to the Oberliga Nordrhein. With the re-introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994, the league slipped to tier five but remained unchanged otherwise. From 2008, with the introduction of the 3rd Liga, the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein was downgraded to the sixth tier. The league above it was then the new NRW-Liga , a merger of the Oberligas Nordrhein and Westfalen . The champion of
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#1732783982252180-412: The side went out against TSV Marl-Hüls in their semifinal tie. The playoff went to three games after the two teams exchanged 6:0 victories before TSV prevailed 4:3 on penalties. SC earned a second place and two third-place finishes over the next four seasons before slipping to mid-table status. The club finished bottom in the newly formed Amateuroberliga Nordrhein (III) in 1979 and was demoted to
195-605: Was discovered that their sponsor was supporting the team using embezzled funds. The club was reestablished in September 1997 as SC Jülich 10/97 and played in Bezirksliga competition through most of the early 2000s. SC was again bankrupted in 2010 and, after a second reorganization, slipped from the Kreisliga A to resume play in the Kreisliga C (X), where they played until 2015. A league championship at this level in which
210-523: Was established again in one half of the state the regions of Lower Rhine and Middle Rhine opted to elevate the Niederrheinliga and Mittelrheinliga to Oberliga status instead of reforming the Oberliga Nordrhein. The league champions since 1956: Source: "Verbandsliga Mittelrhein" . Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv . Retrieved 19 March 2008 . The final league placings of all clubs in the league since receiving Oberliga status in 2012: From
225-568: Was upon its inception the third tier of the German football league system . The league champion had to play-off the winners of the Verbandsliga Niederrhein and the two divisions of Verbandsliga Westfalen for two promotion spots to the 2. Oberliga West . Upon introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963, the league was set below the new Regionalliga West but remained as the third tier. With the exception of 1963 and 1974, when
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