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| Full name | Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V. | |||
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| Founded | 1907[contradictory] | |||
| Ground | Benteler-Arena | |||
| Capacity | 15,000[citation needed] | |||
| President | Elmar Volkmann[citation needed] | |||
| Head coach | Lukas Kwasniok | |||
| League | 2. Bundesliga | |||
| 2023–24 | 2. Bundesliga, 7th of 18 | |||
| Website | Club website | |||
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Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V., commonly known as simply SC Paderborn 07 (pronounced [ʔɛs t͡seː paːdɐˈbɔʁn nʊl ziːbm̩]) or SC Paderborn, is a German association football club based in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has enjoyed[tone] its greatest success[tone] since the turn of the millennium,[clarification needed] becoming a fixture[vague] in the 2. Bundesliga before securing promotion to the Bundesliga in the 2013–14 season. However, they got relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after only a season in the top division, and then again to the 3. Liga the season after. This relegation streak almost continued as low as the Regionalliga West, but were saved in the 2016-17 season because 1860 Munich were refused a license. The club returned to 2. Bundesliga, reaching 2nd place in the 2018–19 season and was promoted to the Bundesliga. The club finished 18th in the 2019–20 season and returned to the 2. Bundesliga.