{{short description|German football club}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox football club | clubname = SG Union Solingen | image = | fullname = Sport-Gemeinschaft Union Solingen 97 e.V. | nickname = | founded = 1949 | dissolved = 1990 | ground = Stadion am Hermann-Löns-Weg | capacity = 15,000 | pattern_la1=|pattern_b1=|pattern_ra1= | leftarm1=ffff00|body1=ffff00|rightarm1=ffff00|shorts1=ffff00|socks1=ffff00 | pattern_la2=|pattern_b2=|pattern_ra2= | leftarm2=ffff00|body2=ffff00|rightarm2=ffff00|shorts2=0000FF|socks2=ffff00| }}
'''SG Union Solingen''' was a German association football club from Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
== History == The side can trace its roots back to an earlier ''Union Solingen'' club founded in 1897 out of the merger of a number of clubs from the district of Ohligs that would over time include ''Ohligs FC 06'', ''VfR Ohligs'', ''Walder Ballspielverein'', and ''BV Adler Ohligs''. Of the club's predecessor sides only ''VfR Ohligs'' would distinguish itself with any time spent in first-division football when they played the 1940–41 season in the Gauliga Niederrhein before being relegated on the heels of last place finish. thumb|115px|left|Logo of ''VfR Ohligs'' ca. 1930.
In 1949, after World War II, the club was re-formed as ''Union Ohligs'' and began play in the 2nd Oberliga West (Gruppe 2). By the early 70s they were playing in the Amateurliga Niederrhein (III). A 1973 merger with ''VfL Wald Ohligs 1897'' led to the formation of a club that played in the Regionalliga West (II) as ''Ohligs SC Solingen'' for a single season before being relegated. Renamed ''SG Union Solingen'' the next year, the team earned promotion to the 2.Bundesliga-Nord by the middle of the decade. They would stay fourteen seasons in the professional ranks with their best finishes being a fifth and sixth in 1984–85. ''Solingen'' returned to the Amateur-Oberliga Nordrhein (III) in 1989: by this time the club was suffering financially and would soon be bankrupt. In 1990 the club was dissolved.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dfb.de/news/detail/union-solingen-und-der-streit-um-die-nachfolge-50235/p/3/|title = Union Solingen und der Streit um die Nachfolge}}</ref>
== Former coaches == * Manfred Krafft (1986–1987) * Eckhard Krautzun (1983) * Erhard Ahmann † (1981–1982) * Gerhard Prokop † (1980–1981) * Horst Franz (1977–1980) * Manfred Krafft (1970–1971)
== Former players == {| width="80%" | valign="top" width="50%" |
* Wolfgang Schäfer * Dirk Hupe * Dimitrios Daras * Fritz Pliska * Meinolf Schulte * Werner Lenz * Ulrich Bittorf * Demir Hotic * Horst Kuballa * Wolfgang Krüger * Klaus-Dieter Dieckmann * Helmut Pabst | valign="top" width="50%" |
* Admir Dzombic * Daniel Jurgeleit * Horst Stockhausen * Volker Diergardt * Manfred Dum * Franz-Josef Steininger * Otto Luttrop * Dieter Kitzmann * Ray Hudson * Erwin Kostedde | valign="top" width="50%" |
* Dirk Römer |} *Domagoj Balarin
== Honours == * Amateurliga Niederrhein champions: 1973, 1975 * Landesliga Niederrhein champions: 1969
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20030606190839/http://abseits-soccer.com/clubs/solingen.html The Abseits Guide to German Soccer]}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Solingen, SG}} Category:SG Union Solingen Category:Defunct football clubs in Germany Category:Defunct football clubs in North Rhine-Westphalia Category:Association football clubs established in 1949 Category:1949 establishments in West Germany Category:Association football clubs disestablished in 1990 Category:1990 disestablishments in Germany Category:Sport in Solingen Category:2. Bundesliga clubs