SC Verl
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| Full name | Sportclub Verl von 1924 e.V. |
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| Founded | 6 September 1924 |
| Ground | Stadion an der Poststraße |
| Capacity | 5,001 |
| Chairman | Raimund Bertels |
| Manager | Guerino Capretti |
| League | Regionalliga West (IV) |
| 2015–16 | 9th |
SC Verl is a German association football club based in Verl, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded on 6 September 1924, and since 1970 has consistently played in the higher echelons of amateur football.
After almost 50 years of comparably insignificant existence, SC Verl advanced to the Landesliga Westfalen (IV) in 1970. Since then, SC Verl relegated only once (in 2003), qualified for newly introduced higher-class leagues three times out of four, won their league twice, and played the promotion round for 2. Bundesliga once (in 1991). Had they advanced, SC Verl would have been the smallest town ever to field a German pro football team, but they fell short of that goal. Their second bid for advancing to pro football was the 1994/95 season, when they finished second in the newly formed Regionalliga Nord (III), six points behind neighboring rival Arminia Bielefeld.
SC Verl had five appearances in the DFB-Pokal (German Cup) tournament so far. In 1979, they defeated VfB Oldenburg (III) and Spvgg Elversberg (IV) before going out to Stuttgarter Kickers (II). In 1992 they lost an all-amateur match in the first round. In 1999, SC Verl had its biggest appearance yet when they eliminated Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach 6:5 on penalties, with Arne Friedrich scoring the decisive penalty for the club. They were defeated by Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt in the second round that year. In both their fourth (2007) and fifth (2010) appearance, they lost their first round matches against TSV 1860 München (II) – in the 2010 match by 1:2 after a 1:0 halftime lead.
In 2003, a 15th-place finish in the Regionalliga Nord (III) saw the team sent down for the first (and only) time in over thirty years. Some dispute surrounds Verl having to play the last game of the season in Paderborn during torrential rain, while competing Hamburger SV II was able to claim unplayable field and played the next day, securing a victory against an indifferent KFC Uerdingen, and remaining in the league.
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