Arminia Bielefeld

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. Arminia's name comes from the Cheruscan chieftain Arminius, who defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

Arminia Bielefeld

Full name	Deutscher Sport-Club Arminia Bielefeld
Nickname(s)	Die Arminen, Die Blauen (The Blues)
Founded	3 May 1905 (1905-05-03) 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
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Players

Current squad

As of 22 February 2022

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.

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	Nationality	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		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

Other websites

• Official website