Arminia Bielefeld

**DSC Arminia Bielefeld** (; full name:  ;  commonly known as **Arminia Bielefeld** (), also known as _Die Arminen_  or _Die Blauen_ ), or just **Arminia** (), is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia offers the sports of football, field hockey, figure skating, and cue sports. The club has 12,000 members and the club colours are black, white and blue. Arminia's name comes from the Cheruscan chieftain Arminius, who defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

## Honours

- Arminia Bielefeld has never won any major trophies, but they have won some silverware on a minor level.

### League titles

- **2. Bundesliga:** (II)
    - **Champions:** 1977–78, 1979–80, 1998–99, 2019–20
- **3. Liga:** (III)
    - **Champions:** 2014–15
- **Regionalliga West/Südwest:** (III)
    - **Champions:** 1994–95
- **Oberliga Westfalen:** (III)
    - **Champions:** 1989–90

### Regional titles

- **Western German football championship**
    - Winners: 1922, 1923

### Cups

- **West German cup winner:**
    - Winners: 1966, 1974
- **Westphalian cup winner:**
    - Winners: 1908, 1932, 1991, 2012, 2013

## Coaches

|Coach|Nationality|from|to|Significant events|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|František Zoubek||1922|1923|West German Champion 1923|
|Gerd Wellhöfer||1923|1924|Westfalen Champion 1924|
|František Zoubek Gerd Wellhöfer |||1924|1925|Westfalen Champion 1925||
|Gerd Wellhöfer||1925|1926|Westfalen Champion 1926|
|František Zoubek||1926|1933|Westfalen Champion 1923, 1933 Westfälischer Cup Winner 1932 Qualification to the Gauliga Westfalen 1933|
|Otto Faist||1933|1935|Relegation from Gauliga 1934|
|Karl Willnecker||1935|1938|Promotion to Gauliga 1938|
|Erich Brochmeyer||1938|1939||
|Ferdinand Swatosch||1939|1940|Vice Champion of the Gauliga|
|Otto Kranefeld||1940|1942||
|Karl Wunderlich||1942|1945||
|Erich Brochmeyer||1945|1946|Relegation to the Landesliga|
|Ferdinand Swatosch||1946|1947||
|Karl Wunderlich||1947|1948|Promotion to the Landesliga|
|Alois Münstermann||1948|1949|Promotion to the Oberliga|
|Friedrich Otto||1949|1950|Relegation to the 2. Liga West|
|Fritz Kaiser||1950|1951||
|Hellmut Meidt||1951|1953||
|Donndorf||1953|1955|Relegation to the Landesliga 1954|
|Otto Westphal||1955|1958||
|Arthur Gruber||1958|19 March 1961|first Coach sacking|
|Josef Rasselnberg||20 March 1961|1961||
|Jakob Wimmer||1961|April 1963|Promotion to the 2. Liga West 1962|
|Hellmut Meidt||April 1963|1965|Qualification to the Regionalliga 1963|
|Robert Gebhardt||1965|1966|Westdeutscher Cup Winner Westfälischer Cup Winner|
|Hans Wendlandt||1966|November 1969||
|Egon Piechaczek||November 1969|December 1971|Promotion to the Bundesliga 1970|
|Hellmut Meidt||January 1972|January 1972||
|Jan Notermans||February 1972|October 1972|Relegation to the Regionalliga|
|Willi Nolting||October 1972|February 1973||
|Norbert Lessle||February 1973|September 1973||
|Karl-Heinz "Harry" Garstecki||September 1973|October 1973||
|Willi Nolting||October 1973|Januar 1974||
|Rudi Faßnacht||January 1974|1974|Qualification to the 2. Bundesliga Westfälischer Cup Winner|
|Erhard Ahmann||1974|1976||
|Karl-Heinz Feldkamp||1976|1978|Promotion to the Bundesliga|
|Milovan Beljin||1978|October 1978||
|Otto Rehhagel||October 1978|October 1979|Relegation to the 2. Bundesliga 1978|
|Willi Nolting||October 1979|October 1979||
|Hans-Dieter Tippenhauer||October 1979|September 1980|Promotion to the Bundesliga|
|Willi Nolting||September 1980|December 1980||
|Horst Franz||December 1980|1982||
|Horst Köppel||1982|1983|Place 8 in the Bundesliga|
|Karl-Heinz Feldkamp||1983|March 1984||
|Gerd Roggensack||March 1984|February 1986|Place 8 in der Bundesliga 1984 Relegation to the 2. Bundesliga 1985|
|Horst Franz||February 1986|November 1986||
|Fritz Fuchs||November 1986|December 1987||
|Joachim Krug||December 1987|April 1988||
|Ernst Middendorp||April 1988|October 1990|Relegation to the Oberliga 1988 Champion of the Oberliga Westfalen 1990|
|Franz Raschid||October 1990|1991||
|Fritz Grösche||1991|1992||
|Ingo Peter||1 July 1992|1 February 1994||
|Theo Schneider||2 February 1994|30 June 1994|Qualification for the Regionalliga West/Südwest|
|Wolfgang Sidka||1994|September 1994||
|Ernst Middendorp||September 1994|16 August 1998|Promotion to the 2. Bundesliga 1995 Promotion to the Bundesliga 1996 Relegation to the 2. Bundesliga|
|Thomas von Heesen||17 August 1998|1999|Promotion to the Bundesliga|
|Hermann Gerland||1999|October 2000|Relegation to the 2. Bundesliga|
|Benno Möhlmann||October 2000|16 February 2004|Promotion to the Bundesliga Relegation to the 2. Bundesliga|
|Thomas von Heesen||17 February 2004|29 February 2004||
|Uwe Rapolder||1 March 2004|10 May 2005|Promotion to the Bundesliga|
|Frank Geideck||11 May 2005|2005||
|Thomas von Heesen||2005|11 February 2007||
|Frank Geideck||11 February 2007|13 March 2007||
|Ernst Middendorp||14 March 2007|9 December 2007||
|Detlev Dammeier||10 December 2007|31 December 2007||
|Michael Frontzeck||1 January 2008|17 May 2009||
|Jörg Berger||19 May 2009|–|Relegation to the 2. Bundesliga|
|Thomas Gerstner||24 June 2009|11 March 2010||
|Frank Eulberg & Jörg Böhme||11 March 2010|26 May 2010||
|Christian Ziege||26 May 2010|6 November 2010||
|Ewald Lienen||7 November 2010|30 June 2011|Relegated to the 3. Liga|
|Markus von Ahlen||1 July 2011|20 September 2011||
|Stefan Krämer||21 September 2011|23 February 2014|Promotion to the 2. Bundesliga|
|Norbert Meier||24 February 2014|10 June 2016|Promotion to the 2. Bundesliga semi-final in the 2014–15 DFB-Pokal season|
|Rüdiger Rehm||15 June 2016|22 October 2016||
|Carsten Rump||23 October 2016|15 November 2016||
|Jürgen Kramny||15 November 2016|14 March 2017||
|Jeff Saibene||19 March 2017|10 December 2018||
|Uwe Neuhaus||10 December 2018|1 March 2021|Promotion to the Bundesliga|
|Frank Kramer||2 March 2021|Present||

## Infobox (football club)

- **clubname**: Arminia Bielefeld
- **fullname**: Deutscher Sport-Club Arminia Bielefeld
- **upright**: 0.8
- **nickname**: _Die Arminen_, _Die Blauen_ (The Blues)
- **founded**: as  _1. Bielefelder FC Arminia_
- **ground**: Bielefelder Alm (SchücoArena)
- **capacity**: 27,300
- **chairman**: Hans-Jürgen Laufer
- **chrtitle**: President
- **mgrtitle**: Head coach
- **manager**: Frank Kramer (footballer, born 1972), Frank Kramer
- **website**: http://www.arminia-bielefeld.de/
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- **current**: 2021–22 Arminia Bielefeld season