The Sportfreunde Hamborn 07 are a
German association football club based in Hamborn, a district in the north of
Duisburg
Duisburg () is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine and the Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in No ...
.
History
The club has its origin in 1903, when the ''Ballspiel-Club Hamborn'' was founded, which merged four years later with the ''SV Marxloh'' to the ''SV Hamborn 07''. In 1954, the current club was created after the merger of SV Hamborn 07 and the ''Sportfreunde Hamborn''.
Before the formation of the
Bundesliga
The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...
, the SV Hamborn 07 competed in the
Oberliga West division. Their highest finish in the league was in 1948, when they finished in 4th place.
The club now plays in the tier seven Bezirksliga Niederrhein after relegation from the
Oberliga Niederrhein
The Oberliga Niederrhein ( en, Premier League of the Lower Rhine) is a German amateur football division administered by the Football Association of the Lower Rhine, one of the 21 German state football associations. Being the top flight of the Lowe ...
in 2013 and the
Landesliga Niederrhein
The Landesliga Niederrhein is the second highest amateur football league in the Lower Rhine region which is part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and since 2012 the sixth tier of the German football league system. It operates in two groups wh ...
in 2014.
Hamborn 07
Fussball.de, accessed: 27 March 2015
References
External links
Club official website
Football clubs in Germany
Association football clubs established in 1907
1907 establishments in Germany
Football clubs in North Rhine-Westphalia
Sport in Duisburg
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