SC Weiche Flensburg 08 is a German association football club from the Weiche suburb of Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein. Apart from football the club also offers other sports like volleyball and table tennis.
Before July 2017, the club was known as ETSV Weiche. The club's greatest success has been to earn promotion to the tier four Regionalliga Nord in 2012. The club is associated with the German railways, as evidenced by the term railway sports club in its former prefix ETSV (German: Eisenbahner Turn- und Sportverein). Weiche is the German term for railroad switch but also the name of the Flensburg suburb the club hails from.
History
The club was formed as Reichsbahn-Sportverein Flensburg-Weiche in 1908. In 1933, the Weiche was affected by the rise of the Nazis to power and came under the control of the Reichssportführer. By 1940, with the effects of the Second World War, activities within the club came to a standstill. Despite early efforts after the war in 1945 the club took until April 1947 to reform, now as ESV Flensburg-Weiche. The football department however left the club in 1949 to form TSV Weiche-West.Festschrift ETSV Weiche website – 75th anniversary brochure –1930–71, accessed: 17 September 2014 From 1962 onwards the two clubs started discussing a merger for the first time. Animosity between the two clubs however prevented progress until 1971, when the two finally agreed on a merger.Festschrift ETSV Weiche website – 75th anniversary brochure –1971–current, accessed: 17 September 2014
The football department of ETSV Weiche was formed in 1932 but left the club in 1949 to form the TSV Weiche-West. In 1957 this team won the local Kreisliga and earned promotion to the tier three 2. Amateurliga Schleswig-Holstein Nord. Weiche-West played in this league until it was renamed to Bezirksliga Schleswig-Holstein Nord in 1968, with a runners-up finish in 1961 as its best result. The club continued in the Bezirksliga after 1968, from 1971 onwards as ETSV Weiche. Throughout the 26 seasons in the 2. Amateurliga and Bezirksliga the club rarely challenged for the championship but, in 1982–83, it finally won this league and earned promotion to the Landesliga Schleswig-Holstein Nord. In this league, in 1983–84, the club came a distant last and was promptly relegated again. Another decade in the Bezirksliga followed until Weiche could win the league again in 1994 and return to the Landesliga. Three Landesliga seasons followed in which the club struggled against relegation each year and finally dropped down again in 1997. Weiche missed out on a place in the new Bezirksoberliga in 1999, a league that replaced the Landesliga above the Bezirksliga but won the later in the following year and was promoted again.History of the football department ETSV Weiche website, accessed: 16 September 2014
Weiche spend the next seven seasons in the Bezirksoberliga, winning the league in 2006–07 and qualifying for the Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein, the states highest league, for the first time. The 2007–08 season was the last of the Verbandsliga in this format. From 2008 the league was renamed Schleswig-Holstein-Liga and the four leagues below received the name Verbandsliga. Weiche did not qualify for the new league and had to stay at Verbandsliga level, being grouped in the Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein-Nord-West. It came second in its Verbandsliga division in 2009 and was promoted to the Schleswig-Holstein-Liga. Three seasons at this level followed before the 2011–12 season saw the club finish runners-up in the Schleswig-Holstein-Liga and being promoted alongside champions VfR Neumünster.
Since 2012 the club has played in the tier four Regionalliga Nord, finishing in the upper half of the table each season.Regionalliga Nord tables & results kicker.de, accessed: 17 September 2014 In March 2016 it was announced that the club planned a merger with local rival Flensburg 08, and in November of that year both clubs agreed that Flensburg 08 would be merged into ETSV Weiche at the end of June 2017. The club subsequently changed its name into SC Weiche Flensburg 08.
Current squad
Honours The club's honours: Regionalliga Nord Champions: 2017–18 Schleswig-Holstein-Liga Runners-up: 2012 Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein-Nord (formerly Nord-West) Runners-up: 2009 2. Amateurliga Schleswig-Holstein Nord Runners-up: 1961 Bezirksoberliga Nord Champions: 2002, 2007 Bezirksliga Nord Champions: 1983, 1994, 2000 Runners-up: 1987 Schleswig-Holstein Cup Champions: 1957, 2018, 2021
Recent seasons The recent season-by-season performance of the club:Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv Historical German domestic league tables, accessed: 16 September 2014Fussball.de - Ergebnisse Tables and results of all German football leagues, accessed: 16 September 2014ETSV Weiche Flensburg fussball.de, accessed: 16 September 2014
Season Division Tier Position 1999–2000 Bezirksliga Nord VII 1st ↑ 2000–01 Bezirksoberliga Nord VI 4th 2001–02 Bezirksoberliga Nord 1st 2002–03 Bezirksoberliga Nord 10th 2003–04 Bezirksoberliga Nord 11th 2004–05 Bezirksoberliga Nord 2005–06 Bezirksoberliga Nord 4th 2006–07 Bezirksoberliga Nord 1st ↑ 2007–08 Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein V 14th 2008–09 Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein-Nord-West VI 2nd ↑ 2009–10 Schleswig-Holstein-Liga V 9th 2010–11 Schleswig-Holstein-Liga 6th 2011–12 Schleswig-Holstein-Liga 2nd ↑ 2012–13 Regionalliga Nord IV 7th 2013–14 Regionalliga Nord 6th 2014–15 Regionalliga Nord 5th 2015–16 Regionalliga Nord 3rd 2016–17 Regionalliga Nord 2nd 2017–18 Regionalliga Nord 1st 2018–19 Regionalliga Nord 4th 2019–20 Regionalliga Nord 3rd 2020–21 Regionalliga Nord (North Group) 1st 2021–22 Regionalliga Nord (North Group) 2nd 2022–23 Regionalliga Nord 5th 2023–24 Regionalliga Nord 15th 2024–25 Regionalliga Nord 13th 2025–26 Regionalliga Nord 9th With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.
Key ↑ Promoted ↓ Relegated
References
External links Official team site Official website of the football department Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables