Scandals and Affairs
A scandal club against its will... You can
A scandal club against its will...
hardly accuse SC Paderborn of actually causing the scandals and embarrassments around it. At least not always. Somehow the East Westphalians keep sliding into them anyway. They even had to endure the worst thing a football team can be accused of: suspicion of corruption.
The Effenberg theatre: rarely has a coach had
The Effenberg theatre: rarely has a coach had a stronger surreal factor than former Germany international Stefan Effenberg at his unveiling in Paderborn. “Effe” himself had to grin during the press conference on 13 October 2015: “It really is me.” Then he copied Jürgen Klopp, who had just taken charge in Liverpool: “I am the new one.” Later it emerged that Effenberg’s coaching licence was not valid because he had not attended the required refresher courses.
a stronger surreal factor than former Germany international Stefan Effenberg at his unveiling in Paderborn. “Effe” himself had to grin during the press conference on 13 October 2015: “It really is me.” Then he copied Jürgen Klopp, who had just taken charge in Liverpool: “I am the new one.” Later it emerged that Effenberg’s coaching licence was not valid because he had not attended the required refresher courses. Sporting failure was only one part of the story.
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The backside in the training camp: a scandal
The backside in the training camp: a scandal during the winter training camp in Turkey accelerated Effenberg’s downfall in Paderborn.
during the winter training camp in Turkey accelerated Effenberg’s downfall in Paderborn. Striker Nick Proschwitz exposed both his genitals and his backside in the sports bar of a five-star hotel in Belek in the presence of a female staffer from the organising agency. Proschwitz was thrown out of the squad; Effenberg followed on 1 March 2016.
Farm team for RB Leipzig - and then
Farm team for RB Leipzig - and then not!
not! Following their second promotion to the Bundesliga in 2019, SC Paderborn seemed to be walking into a trap. The idea was that the team would become a kind of farm side for Champions League participants RB Leipzig.
Driving the plan was former SCP manager Markus Krösche, who moved to the “Red Bulls” after promotion.
When supporters in Paderborn rose up against the “Red Bullisation” of their club, the cooperation was buried in mid-June 2019 “due to differing views”. A farce made in Paderborn.
Curiosities and the Unbelievable
What exactly are they called again? Football in
What exactly are they called again?
Paderborn has little to do with continuity. In very few places has the leading club changed its name as often as in Paderborn.
On 14 August 1907 “Fußballverein Arminia Neuhaus” was founded as the first football club in the district.
It was one of the four predecessor clubs of today’s SC Paderborn 07 e.V. The other originals were FC Preußen Paderborn, founded in 1908, the one-year-older SV 07 Neuhaus and TuS Sennelager from 1910. FC Preußen Paderborn was founded on 1 December 1908. In 1913, SV 1913 Paderborn split away.
The rest of FC Preußen became VfB Paderborn and from 1920 VfJ 08 Paderborn. In 1968 the two clubs reunited as 1. FC Paderborn, which from 1970 onwards became a permanent fixture in the Westphalian amateur league.
The best placing up to 1977 was fourth.
Eventually 1. FC Paderborn merged in 1985 with TuS Schloß Neuhaus - itself a merger club, of course. In 1973 the football section of TuS Sennelager had merged with SV 07 Neuhaus to create TuS Schloß Neuhaus. TuS won the Westphalian title in 1982 and went up to Bundesliga 2, only to finish last and go straight down in 1983. After two fifth-place finishes in the following years, TuS merged with 1. FC Paderborn to form TuS Paderborn-Neuhaus.
That bundling of all Paderborn’s footballing power in 1985 brought promotion back to Bundesliga 2 twenty years later. In 1994 TuS made a splash by failing in the playoffs for Bundesliga 2 but still being admitted to the newly formed Regionalliga West-Südwest. Renamed SC Paderborn 07 in 1997, the club dropped into the Oberliga in 2001 and returned to Bundesliga 2 in 2005. Only then were the foundations in place for what would later be called the “Miracle of Paderborn” and promotion to the Bundesliga in 2014 - though by a rather winding route.
Who actually likes Paderborn? The “fan rivalries” section
Who actually likes Paderborn?
is probably fuller only at Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig than it is at SCP. Whenever Paderborn are involved, Westphalia and Lower Saxony seem to close ranks as if it were still the Thirty Years’ War.
Besides bitter local enemy Arminia Bielefeld, SC Paderborn are also coldly despised by supporters of VfL Osnabrück and Eintracht Braunschweig.
Fans of Borussia Dortmund, Preußen Münster, Sportfreunde Siegen, Rot-Weiß Ahlen and Lippstadt 08 have also forged an alliance against SC Paderborn.