What exactly are they called again? Football in Paderborn has little to do with continuity. In very few places has the leading club changed its name as often as in Paderborn.\n\nOn 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nEventually 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.