TuS Bövinghausen will definitely play against SpVgg Erkenschwick after last week’s cancellation. Beyond that, however, much remains unclear.

These are exciting days for Oberliga club TuS Bövinghausen. It all started with a poor start to the season. After four games without a point and only one goal scored, the newly appointed coach, Baris Özbek, left the club.

Since then, Dimitrios Kalpakidis and Danny Voß have been in charge of the team. But things have not calmed down since then. The new coaching team has also failed to pick up a single point in any of the nine games played so far.

On September 17, the next piece of bad news followed for TuS Bövinghausen: the club is insolvent.

As a result, Kalpakidis’ team will have nine points deducted due to the ongoing insolvency proceedings. After the insolvency, first chairman Ajan Dzaferoski made it clear to Forecasting: “TuS Bövinghausen’s match operations are not at risk at any time. All scheduled games will take place as planned.”

No way! On Sunday, amateur sports in Dortmund were rocked by the news that TuS Bövinghausen had abandoned the game after trailing 0-8 at halftime. The reason: Bövinghausen did not have seven fit players available for the second half.

At the beginning of the new week and ahead of the upcoming match against Spielvereinigung Erkenschwick (October 11, 7:30 p.m.), much about the future of TuS Bövinghausen’s match operations seemed unclear. But now, at least one question appears to have been resolved. As Kalpakidis told Forecasting, TuS Bövinghausen will continue to try to keep the club running: “For us, it’s clear: we will play against Erkenschwick on Friday.”

The reason for this is that the personnel situation has improved somewhat. The 45-year-old explains: “We have more players available again. Some are still doubtful, but we will have at least twelve players available in Erkenschwick on Friday. I hope that there will be more and that we will play better overall on Friday.”

However, Kalpakidis does not want to blame the turmoil within the club for the sporting failure. He emphasizes: “The routines and training are still the same for the players. We had a discussion with the players on Tuesday, but no one really commented on this issue. I don’t know what effect the situation is having on the players’ morale, but I assume it’s not too bad.”

The 45-year-old was unable to say how long TuS Bövinghausen will be able to continue playing and how things will progress on the sporting front: “These are matters for the board, about which I have no information. We’re taking it one game at a time and obviously want to finish the season. However, I can’t say at this point whether we’ll only continue until winter or until summer. One thing is clear: we’ll fight through this difficult situation and try to do better in the coming weeks.”