Sportfreunde Baumberg is a German amateur football club from the neighbourhood of Baumberg in

Monheim am Rhein Monheim am Rhein (, ; ) is a town on the right (eastern) bank of the river Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Monheim belongs to the district of Mettmann – with the southern suburbs of Düsseldorf to the north, and the Bergisches Land to ...

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...

. Founded in 1962, the team plays in the

Oberliga Niederrhein The Oberliga Niederrhein () is a German amateur football division administered by the German Football Association#Western Germany, Football Association of the Lower Rhine, one of the 21 German state football associations. Being the top flight of th ...

in the fifth tier of the

German football league system The German football league system, or league pyramid, refers to the hierarchically interconnected league system for Football in Germany, association football in Germany that in the 2016–17 Season (sports), season consisted of 2,235 Sports_leagu ...

History

As the winners of the 2013

Lower Rhine Cup The Lower Rhine Cup (German: ''Niederrheinpokal'') is a German football club Cup competition open to teams from the Lower Rhine region of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The competition is one of the 21 regional cup competitions of German foo ...

, the club played in the

2013–14 DFB-Pokal The 2013–14 DFB-Pokal was the 71st season of the annual German football cup competition. It began on 2 August 2013 with the first of six rounds and ended on 17 May 2014 with the final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. Bayern Munich went on to w ...

. In the first round on 3 August, it lost 4–1 at home to

FC Ingolstadt 04 Fußballclub Ingolstadt 04 e. V., commonly known as FC Ingolstadt 04 or FC Ingolstadt, is a German football club based in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. The club was founded in 2004 out of the merger of the football sides of two other clubs: ESV Ingolsta ...

of the 2. Bundesliga. After three seasons in the tier five

, the club was relegated to 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 ...

(tier six) at the end of the 2014–15 season but bounced back immediately with a league championship and promotion there. A new stadium will be built within the Sportzentrum am Kielsgraben which will be finished in the midst of 2025.

Honours

The club's honours: *

** Winners: 2013 *

2 ** Champions: 2006, 2010 *

1 ** Champions: 2016

References

External links

Official club site
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