Arminia Bielefeld

DSC Arminia Bielefeld (; full name: ; commonly known as Arminia Bielefeld, also known as Die Arminen or Die Blauen ), or just Arminia, is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Just like association football, Arminia offers the sports of field hockey, figure skating, and cue sports. The club has 12,000 members and the club colours are black, white and blue. Arminia's name derives from the Cheruscan chieftain Arminius, who defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The club is dominated by its professional football team, which will play in the 3. Liga in the 2023–24 season. The team mostly played in the first or second tier of the German football league system, among them 17 seasons in the Bundesliga. Arminia's most successful years were the 1920s, the early 1980s and the middle 2000s. In 1947 and in the 1950s Arminia had sunk down to a team playing in a rather local area in the third tier (later third tiers covered larger areas). Arminia has been playing their home games at the Bielefelder Alm Stadium since 1926. Since 2004 the stadium has been named SchücoArena through a sponsorship deal. History