until 2015, when it was relegated to the Westfalenliga for finishing at the bottom. Honours The club's honours: Oberliga West Champions: 1959 Westphalia Cup Winners: 2006 Westfalenliga (III/IV/V) Champions: 1970, 1975, 1999, 2005 Notable players Three players have represented the German national team whilst playing for Herne, most notably Hans Tilkowski, who played in the 1966 World Cup final. The other two players are Helmut Benthaus and Alfred Pyka. Sönke Wortmann, now a famous director in Germany with films like Little Sharks, Der bewegte Mann and especially The Miracle of Bern - a story about a returning soldier in the atmosphere of winning the worldcup by the German Squad in 1954 - played for Westfalia in the season 1980–81. He also is the director of Deutschland: Ein Sommermärchen, a documentary of the German team while the world cup of 2006. Michael Steinbrecher played for Herne in 1985–86. He now moderates amongst others the well known "Das aktuelle Sportstudio", a sport magazine on Saturday evening. In popular culture In the 1980 German movie , starring Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Theo, the main character, has tickets for his "game of the century", a DFB-Pokal match of SC Westfalia Herne versus FC Schalke 04 but misses the game due to his truck being stolen. In reality, there was no such game in this era. Squad References External links Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in North Rhine-Westphalia Association football clubs established in 1904 1904 establishments in Germany Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia 2. Bundesliga clubs