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Markus Heppke
Personal information
Full name Markus Heppke
Date of birth (1986-04-11) 11 April 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth Essen, West Germany
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Rot-Weiss Essen
Number 18
Youth career
1992–1999 Blau-Gelb Überruhr
1999–2005 Schalke 04
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2008 Schalke 04 II 67 (9)
2006–2008 Schalke 04 1 (0)
2009–2010 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 36 (2)
2010–2011 Wuppertaler SV 34 (4)
2011– Rot-Weiss Essen 54 (7)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 August 2013

Markus Heppke (born 11 April 1986 in Essen) is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for Rot-Weiss Essen.

Career

He was 20 years old when he made his first appearance in the Bundesliga in an away game at Energie Cottbus on 18 November 2006. He was part of the Schalke Youth Team that won the Youth DFB-Pokal in 2005. On 1 January 2009, Heppke transferred to Rot-Weiß Oberhausen.

References

Rot-Weiss Essen
Logo
Full nameRot-Weiss Essen e. V.
Nickname(s)RWE[citation needed]
Founded1 February 1907; 117 years ago (1 February 1907)
GroundStadion an der Hafenstraße
Capacity20,650
ChairmanMarcus Uhlig[citation needed]
ManagerUwe Koschinat
League3. Liga
2023–243. Liga, 7th of 20
Websitehttps://www.rot-weiss-essen.de/
Current season

Rot-Weiss Essen is a German association football club based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club plays in the 3. Liga, at the Stadion an der Hafenstraße.

The team won the DFB-Pokal in 1953, and the German championship in 1955. The latter success qualified them to the first season of the European Cup.

History

Early years

The club was formed as SV Vogelheim on 1 February 1907 out of the merger of two smaller clubs: SC Preussen and Deutsche Eiche.[citation needed] In 1910, Vogelheim came to an arrangement with Turnerbund Bergeborbeck that allowed the two clubs to field a football side.[citation needed] The footballers left in 1913 to set up their own club, Spiel- und Sportverein Emscher-Vogelheim, which changed its name to Spiel und Sport 1912 after World War I. Finally, in 1923, this side turned again to Turnerbund Bergeborbeck to create Rot-Weiss Essen.

Breakthrough to the Gauliga

In 1938, RWE broke into top-flight football in the Gauliga Niederrhein, one of sixteen premier divisions formed in the 1933 re-organization of German football under the Third Reich, and came within a point of taking the division title in 1941. In 1943, they played with BV Altenessen as the combined wartime side KSG SC Rot-Weiß Essen/BV 06 Altenessen.[citation needed] The next season this club was in turn joined by BVB Essen, but played only a single match in a stillborn season as World War II overtook the country.

Rise and golden years

Historical chart of Rot-Weiss Essen league performance

The club returned to first division football in the Oberliga West in 1948, where a series of strong seasons saw them win divisional championships in 1952 and 1955, as well as finishing runners-up in 1949 and 1954 and third in 1950 and 1953. The pinnacle of the club's success came with a 2–1 win over Alemannia Aachen in the 1953 DFB-Pokal final, followed by a national championship in 1955 when it beat 1. FC Kaiserslautern 4–3. The following season, Rot-Weiss became the first German side to qualify for the European Cup.

The club remained competitive for the remainder of the 1950s, continuing to finish in the division's top half, but 1961 saw a sharp decline leading to relegation from the Oberliga West at the end of the season. The club then played most of the 1960s as a second division side, though it did make a first appearance in the top-flight Bundesliga in 1966–67. It returned to the Bundesliga for two seasons in 1969–70, and again, for four seasons beginning in 1973–74.

Financial problems and slow decline

Between 1978 and the end of the century Rot-Weiss was a second- or third-tier club, with just one season spent in the regional Oberliga Nordrhein (IV) in 1998–99. During this period, the club was plagued by financial problems that saw it denied a licence in 1984, 1991, and 1994, leading to relegation from the 2. Bundesliga each time as a result. Bright spots during this period included winning the German amateur championship in 1992 and an appearance in the 1994 DFB-Pokal final, which they lost 1–3 to SV Werder Bremen.

RWE returned to the Regionalliga Nord (III) in 1999, but dropped to the Oberliga (IV) the next season. In 2004, they won promotion back to the 2. Bundesliga, but stumbled to a 17th-place finish and were relegated once again.

In November 2005, Pelé became an honorary club member (membership number 23101940).[1][2]

The team reappeared in the 2. Bundesliga after winning the Regionalliga Nord in 2006, but narrowly missed staying up when they lost the critical final match of the 2006–07 season 3–0 to MSV Duisburg.

Rot-Weiss became a fourth division side following the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 and a fifth division team after insolvency in 2010.[citation needed] They won the fifth level NRW-Liga in 2010–11 and returned to Regionalliga West for the 2011–12 season.

Stadium

Until 2012 Rot-Weiss played in the Georg-Melches-Stadion (capacity 15,000), named in honour of a former club president. In 1956, the team's home field became the first stadium in West Germany to have floodlights.[3]

Since August 2012, RWE has played in the new Stadion Essen (capacity 20,000). The naming rights to the stadium include RWE AG.

Supporters

Rot-Weiss Essen visiting Magdeburg in May 2008

Rivalries

Fortuna Düsseldorf, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Wuppertaler SV are local rivals when they are playing in the same league (as took place in the 2007–08 season). The club's fiercest rivalry is with MSV Duisburg.[4] The club is also has a big rivalry with FC Schalke 04, from nearby Gelsenkirchen, with whom they contest the Ruhrderby.

In the past, the local derbies versus Schwarz-Weiß Essen were big events, sometimes followed by more than 30,000 fans, however since their rivals decline the rivalry has waned in importance. [5][6] Although often described in political terms, with the "reds" allegedly being left-wing and the "blacks" right-wing, in reality there was no substantive distinction. The rivalry was more based on the geography of the city, a north (RWE) versus south (SWE) city divide.[7] and with northern Essen being predominantly working class historically and the south of the city being generally regarded as a wealthier area, inhabited by the upper-middle class.[8]

Friendships

The RWE followers have a strong fan friendship with SV Werder Bremen. There is also a friendship with Borussia Dortmund, although some disagreements have taken place since 2018.[9]

Honours

The club's honours:

League

Cup

Current squad

As of 3 September 2024[10]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Germany GER Jakob Golz
2 DF Germany GER Julian Eitschberger (on loan from Hertha BSC)
4 DF Germany GER Michael Schultz (captain)
6 MF Germany GER Ahmet Arslan
7 FW Belgium BEL Robbie D'Haese
8 MF Netherlands NED Jimmy Kaparos
10 MF Germany GER Thomas Eisfeld
11 FW Netherlands NED Ramien Safi
14 MF Germany GER Lucas Brumme
16 DF Germany GER Mustafa Kourouma
17 DF Germany GER Ekin Çelebi
18 MF Germany GER Nils Kaiser
19 DF Germany GER Eric Voufack
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 FW Germany GER Leonardo Vonić
21 FW Kosovo KOS Dion Berisha
22 MF Germany GER Joseph Boyamba
23 DF Germany GER José-Enrique Ríos Alonso
25 FW Germany GER Manuel Wintzheimer (on loan from 1. FC Nürnberg)
26 FW Germany GER Torben Müsel
28 MF France FRA Tom Moustier
29 FW Guinea GUI Moussa Doumbouya
30 FW Germany GER Kelsey Meisel
31 GK Germany GER Ole Springer
33 DF Germany GER Tobias Kraulich
35 GK Germany GER Felix Wienand
39 DF Germany GER Gianluca Swajkowski

Notable players

Main category: Rot-Weiss Essen players

Former coaches

References

  1. ^ "RW Essen ernennt Pelé zum Ehrenmitglied" (in German). fussball.com. 28 October 2005. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  2. ^ "Pelé Ehrenmitglied bei RWE" (in German). Morgenpost.de. 29 October 2005. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Vereinsgeschichte" (in German). Rot-weiss-essen.de. 27 June 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  4. ^ Spletter, Martin (2024-04-06). "Rot-Weiss Essen gegen den MSV: Hochspannung vor dem Derby". www.waz.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-26.
  5. ^ "Vor dem Essen-Derby: Die goldenen Jahre von RWE und ETB: Barfuß und Lackschuh". 11freunde.de. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  6. ^ Schmahld, Ralf. "ETB gegen RWE: Schwarz Weiss Essen gewinnt Derby und Pokalfinale". turus.net. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  7. ^ "Schwarz-Weiss Essen". abseits-soccer.com. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  8. ^ Weiguny, Bettina (14 January 2013). "Armut und Reichtum: Essen: Die gespaltene Stadt". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  9. ^ Herten, David (2022-05-15). "Borussia Dortmund: Ultras zeigen überraschendes Spruchband – das steckt dahinter". DerWesten.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-26.
  10. ^ "Team" (in German). Rot-Weiss Essen. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
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