TuS Eintracht 1848 Dortmund The club has its origins as the gymnastics club
Turnverein Eintracht Dortmund, founded on 15 July 1848, which grew into a broadly based sports association in the interwar period. Future merger partner
Dortmunder SC 1895 established a field hockey section in 1921 which left to join
Dortmunder Tennis Club 1898 to create
Dortmunder Tennis und Hockey Club, known today as
Dortmunder Tennis Klub Rot-Weiss 98. A field hockey section was formed within
TVE in 1926 and has played as
Dortmunder Hockey-Club der Eintracht since 1954. Through the late 50s and into the mid 60s the club supported an ice hockey section that played in first and second-level competition. In 1965 the section withdrew from the association to become part of
Eishockey Club Westphalia Dortmund.
Dortmunder SC 95 Predecessor side
Dortmunder SC 1895 was established on 10 May 1895 as
Dortmunder Fussball Club 1895 and is recognized as the city's oldest football club. The team folded in 1897, but was re-formed on 27 October 1899. It was joined by
Fussball Club Union Dortmund in 1910 and on 13 July 1913 merged with
Ballspielverein 1904 Dortmund to become
Sportvereinigung Dortmund 1895 before first adopting the name
Dortmunder Sport Club 1895 in 1919. This combined side made an appearance in the top flight regional playoff round in 1920–21. In 1933,
SC briefly merged with
Ballspiel Club Sportfreunde 06 Dortmund to play as
Sportfreunde 1895 Dortmund in the Gauliga Westfalen, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed that year in the re-organization of German football under the
Third Reich. The team was relegated after just one season of play there and in 1935 the union ended with the two clubs going their separate ways. Following World War II most organizations in the country, including sports and football clubs, were ordered dissolved by occupying Allied authorities. The club was re-established in 1945 as
Südliche Sportgruppe Dortmund and by 1947 was once again playing as
SC. The team played lower tier local football until advancing to the Landesliga Westfalen (III) in 1953. They claimed a title there in 1956 and were promoted to the 2. Liga-West (II) where they competed as a lower table side over the next 7 seasons. Restructuring of the country's football competition placed
SC into the third division Amateurliga Westfalen in 1963. The club finished atop their group within the division, but missed an opportunity to be advance when they were beaten by
Eintracht Gelsenkirchen (2:2, 1:1, 0:2) in an extended promotion playoff. The following season the club tumbled from first to fifteenth place and was relegated to the Landesliga Westfalen (IV) where they earned lower-to-mid table results over the next handful of seasons.
TSC Eintracht Dortmund After the 1969 merger the football tradition of
SC was carried on by
Eintracht Dortmund. In the 1969–70 season, Eintracht started in the
Landesliga Westfalen, the fourth tier at the time, but suffered relegation to the
Bezirksliga due to internal conflicts in their first season. In 1971, the club earned promotion back to the Landesliga. Two years later, they secured the runners-up position, finishing four points behind
SV Holzwickede. This period marked the peak of the club's history, but the successful team disbanded. By 1977, Eintracht had once again fallen to the Bezirksliga. Three years later, they dropped to the
Kreisliga. After a brief return to the Bezirksliga in the 1982–83 season, the team spent several years in the Kreisliga before making a comeback to the Bezirksliga in 2013. However, they faced relegation once more, this time to the ninth-tier Kreisliga A, after five years. ==Youth academy==