STV Horst-Emscher

STV Horst-Emscher was a German association football club from the city of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia.The club was strongly associated with coal mining, as was Gelsenkirchen and the Ruhr area, and the local colliery Zeche Nordstern.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.[1][2][3] After three seasons at this level the club suffered relegation to the third tier for the first time, the Verbandsliga Westfalen in 1966, where it finished runners-up in the south west group in 1966–67.[1][3] After two seasons in the fourth division Verbandsliga Westfalen STV won the league in 1979–80 and earned promotion to the Oberliga.By now STV was struggling financially and played the next twelve seasons as a lower table side in the Verbandsliga, until relegated from there as well in 1994.
The Fürstenbergstadion , home ground of the former club
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