Sportclub Düsseldorf-West 1919/50 e.V. is a sports club that was founded on June 19th, 1972, based in the Oberkassel district of the North-Rhine Westphalia city of Düsseldorf. The club came about through a merger of SSV Oberkassel and Sportfreunden Düsseldorf-Lörick.
Oberkassel had been formed on March 19th, 1919, and was a relatively successful local football club, spending four years in the Niederrhein Amateurliga. Lörick had been founded on October 23rd, 1950, and brought handball, pentaque, and gymnastics to the organisation.
Düsseldorf-West became members of the Landesliga Niederrhein at the start of the 1990-91 season but returned to the Bezirksliga just twelve months later. The 2004-05 campaign saw West rise again.
The club won promotion to Niederrheinliga in 2007-08, where the team remained until they were relegated at the end of the 2011-12 campaign to drop back down to the Landesliga Niederrhein, where the team competed in Gruppe 2.
West were moved to Gruppe 1 from 2013-14, where the side went on to end up as runners-up in two consecutive seasons. In 2014-15, this resulted in promotion to the Oberliga Neiderrhein under head coach Marcus John.
Two ninth
places followed in 2015-16 and 2016-17 as Düsseldorf-West consolidated its
place in one of several fifth divisions of German football at its
Schorlemerstraße home. Ninth place was achieved in the 2017-18 campaign after Julien Schneider had been appointed as team trainer.
West were relegated in the 2018-19 down to the Landesliga Niederrhein 1, where they were placed in Group 1 after Ranisav Jovanovic had been appointed as trainer. The team was in third place in 2019-20 when the season was halted owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Ismail Cakici the top scorer.
Goran Tomic had arrived as trainer as things got back to normal for the commencement of the 2022-23 campaign, as the goals of Timo Utecht helped his side to fifth place. Günter Abel was the next trainer of the side, which finished bottom and went down to Bezirksliga Niederrhein, Gruppe 1.
Tolga Pyraz
came in to take over team affairs in 2024-25, where the team's record was
expunged as they failed to complete the season. They were demoted to the eighth-tier
Kreisliga A Düsseldorf for the 2025-26 season as Caglar Mollaahmetoglu took
charge of the team.
SC Düsseldorf-West will play in Kreisliga A Düsseldorf in the 2025-26 season.
My visit
Friday 18th August 2017
My long weekend primarily to Germany and Belgium was underway after I had arrived in Düsseldorf the previous evening and enjoyed some fine ambience around the bars of the Altstadt. Fortunately, I woke in good form the next morning.
With time to kill before I caught the train down to Cologne and then Liége for the evening’s football, I looked for something to do. Rather than just mooch around, I decided to occupy myself in time-honoured fashion by seeking out a previously unvisited club.
I had a walk along Grafenberger Allee before jumping on the U72 at Uhlandstraße and alighting at Barbarossaplatz. It took less than ten minutes along Schorlemerstraße before arriving at the stadium. The gate by the club headquarters was open.
The facility was basic in regards to spectator accommodation, with just a couple of steps of open terracing down the entrance side, with a raised area in the centre containing the club bar. The offices and changing rooms sat downstairs.
Once I’d got the photos I required, I repeated my journey to the U Bahn stop before taking the train to Tonhalle/Ehrenhof for a brief walk along the banks of the Rhine and into Aldstadt and Königsallee, Germany’s most exclusive shopping street, to take more pictures.
With a little additional time on my hands, I bought the latest edition of Kicker and relaxed with a large glass of Alt in Restaurant Zum Schiffchen inside Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof before taking the train south for my connection.