TuS Haltern explained

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Clubname:TuS Haltern
Fullname:Turn- und Sportverein Haltern
am See von 1882 e. V.
Chrtitle:President
Chairman:Christoph Metzelder
Website:http://www.tus-haltern.de
Mgrtitle:Player/manager
Manager:Lukas Große-Puppendahl
Ground:Stauseekampfbahn
Capacity:4,000[1]
League:Westfalenliga 1 (VI)
Season:2021–22
Position:Oberliga Westfalen, 19th (relegated)
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Turn und Sportverein Haltern am See von 1882 e.V., commonly referred to as TuS Haltern, is a German association football club based in Haltern am See, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was the first station for several players and coaches of the Bundesliga. In addition to the football department, which represents about half of the 1,000 club members, there are also departments for athletics, mass sports, gymnastics, tennis, table tennis, surfing as well as a running club. Tennis and table tennis, like the football department, have competition teams.

History

The history of TuS Haltern is closely connected with the history of ATV Haltern and the Haltern firefighters. On 22 October 1882, the original association of all three was founded as Turner Feuerwehr Haltern e.V. (Turner Fire Brigade Haltern). The main focus after the foundation was gymnastics. In 1907 the football department was added, first as an informal group "Spiel und Sport Haltern", then in 1914 as the first permanent football club "Edelweiß". After World War I, various sports groups joined forces: football, athletics and gymnastics were the preferred sports. In 1930, a handball department was added. In 1937, the National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise merged all Haltern sports clubs under the name Turn- und Sportverein Haltern von 1882.

Only in 1951 were they re-established as TuS, ATV and Freiwillige Feuerwehr. Between 1952 and 1956, the football department of the club played in the then third-tier Landesliga Westfalen. For a long time, the point of contention was the right to carry the designation "von 1882". These disputes were settled until 1982, so that all three clubs celebrated their hundredth anniversary together in the city centre of Haltern.

Since 2008, TuS Haltern has been financially supported by its former player Christoph Metzelder. After a financial contribution to avert insolvency, a team of supporters was formed to improve the training conditions (sports field, coach education with DFB licences), to intensify public relations work (advertising campaign, networking via social media such as Facebook or Twitter) and to intensively support youth work.[2] Germany's first advertising campaign by a district league club, "Tu's Haltern" (Do It Haltern), came in second in the 2010 Sports Marketing Prize.[3] The Stauseekampfbahn got an artificial turf pitch in 2009. In 2016, TuS Haltern was promoted to the Westfalenliga, beating out BSV Roxel by goal difference. In October 2016, TuS Haltern started the campaign "Wahrer Fußball statt Ware Fußball" (True football instead of commodity football) to get more attention for amateur football.[4] One year later, TuS was promoted to the Oberliga Westfalen and in 2019 was promoted to the Regionalliga West.

References

  1. Web site: Stausee-Kampfbahn - Stadion in Haltern am See. europlan-online.de. 5 August 2019.
  2. Web site: Reviersport, Bescherung für TuS Haltern, Metzelder stellt sein Konzept vor . reviersport.de . 26 December 2008.
  3. Web site: BMW-Sailing-Team gewinnt Marketingpreis des Sports 2010 . SpoBis . 23 February 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081220015230/https://www.spobis.de/deutsch/awards/marketingpreis/ . 20 December 2008.
  4. Web site: Wahrer Fußball statt Ware Fußball . tus-haltern.de . https://web.archive.org/web/20161021115403/http://www.tus-haltern.de/site/abteilungen/fussball/nachrichten/2819-2016-10-11-07-23-23 . 21 October 2016.

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