STV Horst Emscher
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| Full name | Spiel- und Turnvereinigung Horst-Emscher e.V. |
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| Nickname(s) | Hussaren (Hussars) |
| Founded | 1912 |
| Dissolved | 2007 |
| Ground | Fürstenbergstadion |
| Capacity | 22,800 |
| League | defunct |
STV Horst-Emscher was a German association football club from the city of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club's greatest success has been to qualify for the 1950 German football championship, where it was knocked out by SpVgg Fürth. Between 1947 and 1959 it spent eight seasons in the tier one Oberliga West. In 1967 the club also won the German amateur football championship. The club also made two appearances in the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, in 1954–55 and 1988–89. STV folded in mid-season in 2007 because of financial trouble.
The club traces its history back to TG Horster Mark, a club formed in 1912, which merged eight years later with the TV Horst 1892 to form STV Horst-Emscher. The club was strongly associated with coal mining, as was Gelsenkirchen and the Ruhr area, and the local colliery Zeche Nordstern.
STV's most successful era came after the Second World War when it qualified for the new tier one Oberliga West in 1947. In the first three post-war seasons of the league from 1947 to 1950 STV Horst-Emscher out performed Gelsenkirchen's most successful club, FC Schalke 04, who had six German championships to its name at the time. STV finished third twice from 1947 to 1949 and fourth in 1949–50, in an era when Borussia Dortmund won three consecutive league championships. The club attracted a regular crowd of 25,000 in its Fürstenbergstadion during this era. In 1948 the club qualified for the British occupation zone championship but lost to FC St. Pauli in the quarter finals. In 1950 it took part in the German championship but was knocked out 3–2 by SpVgg Fürth despite leading 2–0 at one stage.
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