SV Rödinghausen is a

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association football club from the town of Rödinghausen,

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. The club's greatest success has been to earn promotion to the tier four

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in 2014.

History

For most of its history the club has been an amateur side in local football. The club's fortunes changed in 2009 when, after having been playing in the tier nine Kreisliga A for a number of seasons the club began a series of five consecutive promotions. A Kreisliga championship in 2010 was followed by a Bezirksliga championship in 2011 and a

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championship in 2012. The club's rapid rise was made possible by the financial support of Horst Finkemeier, the retired owner of a kitchen manufacturing business. Finkemeier also financed the club's new stadium, which is estimated to have cost €2 million and was officially opened in 2011. The stadium was first used, then still under construction, in a league match against

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but has also seen the club play friendlies against

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, Werder Bremen and

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. In 2013 ''SV'' won Group 1 of the Westfalenliga and thereby earned direct promotion to the Oberliga Westfalen. The following season the club won promotion to the tier four

for the first time after finishing runners-up in the Oberliga, behind the champions

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, who were ineligible for promotion.Oberliga Westfalen tables & results
weltfussball.de, accessed: 19 September 2014

Current squad

Honours

The club's honours: * Oberliga Westfalen ** Runners-up: 2014 * Westfalenliga ** Champions: 2013 * Landesliga Westfalen-Ost ** Champions: 2012 * Bezirksliga Westfalen 1 ** Champions: 2011 * Kreisliga A ** Champions: 2010 * Westphalian Cup **

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Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
Historical German domestic league tables, accessed: 19 September 2014Fussball.de – Ergebnisse
Tables and results of all German football leagues, accessed: 19 September 2014 *With the introduction of the

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s in 1994 and the

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in 2008 as the new third tier, below the

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, all leagues below dropped one tier. ¹ Rödinghausen declined to be promoted to the 3. Liga.

Key

References

External links

*
Official team site
*
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Roedinghausen Sv Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in North Rhine-Westphalia Association football clubs established in 1970 1970 establishments in West Germany