Sportfreunde Katernberg
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| Full name | Sportfreunde Katernberg 1913 e.V. |
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| Founded | 25 March 1913 |
| Ground | Sportplatz „Am Lindenbruch“ |
| Chairman | Detlef Dittmer |
| Manager | Frank Zabinski |
| League | Kreisliga B Essen (IX) |
| 2015–16 | Kreisliga A Essen (VIII), 16th (relegated) |
Sportfreunde Katernberg is a German association football club from the Katernberg suburb of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club's greatest success has been a runners-up finish in the tier one Oberliga West in 1947–48 which qualified the club to participate in the German football championship.
Apart from football the club also offers a chess department with the team having been a long-term member of the Chess Bundesliga.
Formed in 1913 the club played its first three decades as a non-descript local side. Sportfreunde took part in the 1943 Tschammerpokal, the German Cup, but lost 4–2 to FC Schalke 04 in the second round after defeating Luxembourg side FK Niederkorn in the first round. It won promotion to the Gauliga Niederrhein in 1944 but the league was cancelled after only one round because of the effects of the Second World War.
Sportfreunde Katernberg became part of the new tier one Oberliga West when it was formed in 1947. In the league's inaugural season the club finished runners-up, two points behind champions Borussia Dortmund, and qualified for the championship of the British occupation zone, a qualifying competition for the German football championship. Katernberg lost to TSV Braunschweig in the quarter finals and was knocked out. The season after the club finished thirteenth and was relegated to the 2. Oberliga West. In this new competition Katernberg won one of the two divisions and was promoted back to the Oberliga alongside Borussia Mönchengladbach.
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