ASC Schöppingen
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| Full name | Allgemeiner Sportclub 45 Schöppingen e.V. |
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| Founded | 1945 |
| Ground | Vechtestadion |
| Capacity | 5,000 |
| Chairman | Lothar Zurholt |
| Manager | Simon Artmann & Tobias Haverkock |
| League | Kreisliga A Ahaus (IX) |
| 2015–16 | 10th |
ASC Schöppingen is a German association football club from the town of Schöppingen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club's greatest success has been winning a league championship in the tier three Oberliga Westfalen 1985–86 and taking part in the promotion round to the 2. Bundesliga.
The club also took part in the 1990–91 DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, where it was knocked-out in the first round.
Formed in 1945 ASC played the first three decades of its existence as a lower tier amateur side. The club opened its current home ground, the Vechtestadion, in 1955 and, from 1956 to 1964, was a member of the DJK-Sportverband, a catholic faith-based sports organisation in Germany.
Schöppingen began to rise through the league system in the mid-1970s. It won promotion to the tier five Bezirksliga in 1974, to the Landesliga above it in 1975 and the tier three Verbandsliga Westfalen in 1977. The club missed out on qualifying for the new Oberliga Westfalen in 1977–78 when it finished only thirteenth. ASC played in the Verbandsliga until 1982 when a league championship earned it promotion to the Oberliga.
ASC played the next ten seasons in the Oberliga. The first two seasons the club finished seventh and thirteenth but, from 1984, its fortunes greatly improved. Schöppingen came third in 1984–85, followed by a league championship the season after. The club thereby qualified for the promotion round to the 2. Bundesliga where it faced VfB Oldenburg, SC Charlottenburg, FC St. Pauli and Rot-Weiß Essen. While the latter two won promotion ASC came last with one win, one draw and six defeats.
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