Arminia Bielefeld

Arminia Bielefeld
Full name	Deutscher Sport-Club Arminia Bielefeld
Nickname(s)	Die Arminen, Die Blauen (The Blues)
Founded	3 May 1905; 119 years ago as 1. Bielefelder FC Arminia
Ground	Bielefelder Alm (SchücoArena)
Capacity	27,300
President	Hans-Jürgen Laufer
Head coach	Frank Kramer
League	3. Liga
2023–24	3. Liga, 14th of 20
Website	Club website
	Current season

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	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

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

Official website

[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.

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