VfL Witten
VfL Witten | |||
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Full name | Association for physical exercises Witten 07 e. V. |
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place | Witten , North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
Founded | 1907 | ||
Dissolved | 1994 | ||
Club colors | blue White | ||
Stadion | Wullen Stadium | ||
Top league | Oberliga West | ||
successes | Qualification for Oberliga West in 1947 |
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The VfL Witten (officially: Verein für Leibesübungen Witten 07 eV ) was a football club from Witten . The association was founded in 1907. In the 1947/48 season the team belonged to the then first-class Oberliga West . In 1994 VfL Witten merged with Ballfreunde Ardey to form FSV Witten .
history
From the foundation to the league (1907 to 1949)
The club was founded in 1907 as FC Westfalia Witten and was called SuS Witten from 1919 . In 1946 the name was finally changed to VfL Witten. Until the end of the Second World War , the club was always overshadowed by Wittener FC 92 , the oldest football club in the Ruhr area . However, the SuS had a successful youth department. After the end of the war, in 1946, after a 4-0 play-off win in Herne against SuS Recklinghausen, they were promoted to the top regional league of Westphalia .
In the Westphalian upper house, the team managed a strong preliminary round and VfL secured the autumn championship . In the second half of the season the team fell back and lost 9-0 at Borussia Dortmund . At the end of the season, VfL took third place and missed direct qualification for the newly created Oberliga West. In the following additional qualification, the Witten team prevailed together with Hamborn 07 and moved into the Oberliga West.
The league was a size too big for the Wittener. The home game against STV Horst-Emscher was lost 6-1. The highlight of the season was a 2: 3 defeat against FC Schalke 04 in front of 35,000 spectators. With only four wins this season, VfL was bottom of the table and was relegated to the national league. In the following 1948/49 season, the Witten champions were their regional league relay and met in the final round of the Westphalia championship on Arminia Bielefeld and SpVgg Herten . After the round ended in a stalemate, a replay was used. After a 1-0 defeat against Bielefeld in Münster , Arminia rose.
Athletic ups and downs (1949 to 1994)
The Witten continued to play in the II West Division , where the club finished eleventh in the 1949/50 season. For financial reasons, however, VfL's license was withdrawn and the team had to be relegated to the state league. Four years later, after a 2: 5 defeat in the decision-making game after extra time against BV Brambauer, relegation to the then fourth-class district class followed. After the direct resurgence, the VfL missed the qualification for the newly created association league a year later . In the following years the Witten did not get beyond mediocrity in the regional league.
In 1959 the VfL was runner-up behind VfL Schwerte , before relegation to the district class followed three years later. At the end of the 1960s, the club experienced a new boom. The promotion to the regional league in 1966 was followed by promotion to the association league two years later. VfL finished seventh in the association league in 1969 and 1972, before going back to the national league in 1974. Two years later, the Witten avoid relegation to the district class only after a 1-0 win in the decider against SG Castrop-Rauxel . In the following 1976/77 season, VfL rose from bottom of the table.
The 1980s brought an upswing. After two rises in a row, the Witten were back in the association league in 1982. In the 1981/82 season, VfL qualified for the DFB Cup for the first time , where the team was eliminated in the first round after a 2-0 draw at FSV Frankfurt . In the association league, the Witten did not get beyond the relegation battle and had to relegate in 1986 as bottom of the table. The direct resurgence succeeded after a 3-1 playoff win after extra time against Merkur Dortmund . The VfL had to relegate again directly, managed the direct promotion and had to go straight back down to the national league. In 1992 VfL went down to the district league again.
Successor club FSV Witten
Two years later the club merged with Ballfreunde Ardey to form FSV Witten . The Ballfreunde Ardey played in the national league from 1956 to 1958. The FSV Witten rose to the state league in 1995 and was able to hold this division until 2000. Ten years later he was relegated to the district league A, before going down to the district league B in 2013 and two years later down to the district league C, the lowest division. In 2017 they were promoted back to the district league B. With Zlatan Alomerović , FSV Witten produced a professional player.
Stadion
The home ground of VfL Witten is the Wullenstadion in the Annen district , which has a capacity of around 5,000 spectators. The stadium was built in 1927. Since the merger between VfL Witten and Ballfreunde Ardey, FSV Witten has been playing in the Wullenstadion.
Personalities
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ralf Piorr (Hrsg.): The pot is round - The lexicon of Revier football: The clubs . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-356-9 , p. 227-228 .
- ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics: Football in West Germany 1945–1952 . Hövelhof 2011, p. 17 .
- ^ German Sports Club for Soccer Statistics: Soccer in West Germany 1952-1958 . Hövelhof 2012, p. 67 .
- ↑ FSV Witten. Tables Archive.info, accessed on May 10, 2019 .