Werner Nievelstein

Werner Nievelstein (12 February 1941 – 31 March 2023) was a German footballer. Nicknamed "Futt", he played as a right-back and as a midfielder throughout his career with Alemannia Aachen in the 1960s, overseeing the clubs brief promotion to the Bundesliga until its relegation in 1970.

Career Nievelstein moved from the youth of in 1958 to the Oberliga club Alemannia Aachen. In the 1960–61 season, the former player of the amateur team was taken over into the contract squad of the Oberliga team. On the tenth matchday, 16 October 1960, he made his debut as a right-back in the home game against Meidericher SV in the Oberliga West. In the fourth minute of the game, he caused the "Zebras" to take a 1-0 lead with an own goal. Two goals from Alfred Glenski secured the 2-1 home victory. At the end of the round, Alemannia was in eighth place and Nievelstein had played 17 games. In the last two seasons of the high league Oberliga 1961–62 and 1962–63, he was on the pitch in all 60 competitive games for the team from Old Tivoli. The last Oberliga match was played on 11 May 1963 with Aachen defeating Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 to finish the season in fifth place. Nievelstein formed the defensive pair with Herbert Krisp and secured the game-defining line of runners with Josef Martinelli, Branko Zebec and Christian Breuer. In total, the defender made 78 Oberliga appearances from 1960 to 1963.

Since Aachen had not been nominated for the Bundesliga, which had its inaugural first season, Nievelstein played with Alemannia from 1963–64 to 1966–67 in the substructure of the Bundesliga, the Regionalliga West. Although he was able to celebrate becoming the annual Regionalliga West champions in the 1963–64 season, the club would fail to qualify in the promotional round. Even as runners-up in the 1964–65 Regionalliga, Alemannia could not hold their own in the promotion round but had a successful run in the 1964–65 DFB-Pokal After victories over VfL Osnabrück, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Hannover 96 and in the semi-finals against FC Schalke 04, Nievelstein had difficulties facing Reinhard Libuda. Following the club's eventual victory, the team from the Regionalliga West made it to the cup final against Borussia Dortmund in Hanover on 22 May 1965. The Bundesliga team prevailed with 2-0 goals with Nievelstein had mostly fought hard duels with Reinhold Wosab.