Lower Saxony Football Association

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Lower Saxony Football Association
Logo Niedersächsischer Fußballverband.svg
Founded July 3, 1947
president Günter Distelrath
address Schillerstraße 4
30890 Barsinghausen
Master gentlemen Hannoverscher SC
Cup winners men SV Drochtersen / Assel
Master women Hannover 96
Cup winners women Eintracht Braunschweig
Parent association North German Football Association
Subordinate Associations NFV District Weser-Ems
NFV District Lüneburg
NFV District Hanover
NFV District Braunschweig
region Map-DFB-Regional Associations-NI.png
Clubs (approx.) 2,667 *
Members (approx.) 627,320 (434,244 active) *
Teams (approx.) 16,761 *
* As of 2019
Homepage www.nfv.de

The Lower Saxony Football Association ( NFV ) is the umbrella organization of officially 2,667 football clubs with 627,320 members and 16,761 teams in Lower Saxony . The NFV was founded in 1947 and is one of the three largest of the 21 regional associations of the DFB . The NFV is based in Barsinghausen . Günter Distelrath has been president of the association since 2017 . The association area is divided into the four districts of Braunschweig, Hanover, Lüneburg and Weser-Ems. 33 districts are subordinate to these.

Competitions

The following competitions are held under the supervision of the Lower Saxony Football Association:

Men's

  • NFV Cup
  • NFV championship (from 1995 to 2010 the champion was determined by a "final" of the champions of the Lower Saxony League East against the champions of the Lower Saxony League West (until 2008) or the Oberliga Lower Saxony East and West (2009 and 2010), since the 2010 season / 11 is the first place in the new single-track Oberliga Niedersachsen Niedersachsenmeister)
  • VGH Fairness Cup

Women

Juniors

  • Sparkassen-Cup A-Juniors
  • Sparkassen-Cup B-Juniors
  • NFV Championship C Juniors
  • Sparkassencup (largest European youth tournament)
  • Cup of the Region (competition for talents from the Hanover region)
  • E.ON Avacon Cup (Lower Saxony indoor championship for U13 juniors)
  • E-Youth Cup for children's cancer aid
  • VGH Girls Cup

history

Before and until 1933 there was no “Lower Saxony” as a regional and organizational unit in football. Clubs of today's NFV played in different districts of the North German Football Association , partly also in its West and Central German neighboring associations. During the Nazi era , the Lower Saxony sports district / area was created , which was dissolved again in 1942 due to the war . Its area largely corresponded to that of today's NFV, but also included Bremen .

The NFV was provisionally created in August 1946 in the form of a football division of the Lower Saxony State Sports Association, which was in preparation and was founded in April 1947 . The NFV became an independent professional association on July 3rd of the same year.

A technical integration with Bremen existed until the end of the season 1948/49, in individual cases beyond. It was not until 1951 that the Grafschaft Bentheim was "ceded" by the Westphalian to the Lower Saxony Football Association. Numerous clubs from the area around Hamburg switched to the NFV much later.

organization

The highest decision-making body of the NFV is the Association Day, as well as the Association Youth Day for the youth sector, which meet regularly every 3 years. In the intervening period, resolutions are made by the association's board of directors.

The highest administrative body is the Presidium. The Presidium consists of the President, the Vice-President Finance, the four district chairmen as further Vice-Presidents, the chairmen of the association committees and the director of the NFV. The first two are elected by the Association Day, the four district chairmen are confirmed as Vice Presidents by the Association Day; the director is a full-time employee who is appointed by the presidium and confirmed by the association day. Further administrative bodies are the association committees (game committee, committee for women's and girls' football, youth committee, referee committee, committee for qualification, committee for social responsibility).

The NFV's judicial bodies are the Supreme Association Sports Court and the Association Sports Court.

The association board consists of the members of the presidium (8 people = 8 votes), the chairmen of the association committees (5 people = 5 votes) and the chairmen of the districts (33 people = 150 votes). The votes of the individual district chairmen depend on the number of teams registered in the respective district.

Bureau

  • President: Günter Distelrath
  • Vice President Finance: Hans-Heinrich Hahne
  • Vice-president: Egon Trepke (SSV Kästorf, Gifhorn district) as chairman of the Braunschweig district
  • Vice-President: August-Wilhelm Winsmann (TuSpo Heinsen, Holzminden district) as Chairman of the Hanover District
  • Vice-President: Hans-Günther Kuers (SG Eldingen, Celle district) as chairman of the Lüneburg district
  • Vice President: Dieter Ohls as chairman of the Weser-Ems district
  • Chairman of the Game Committee: Jürgen Stebani
  • Chair of the Women's and Girls' Committee: Karen Rotter
  • Chairman youth committee: Walter Fricke
  • Chairman Referee Committee: Bernd Domurat
  • Chairman of the Qualification Committee: Dieter Neubauer
  • Chairman of the Committee for Social Responsibility: Frank Schmidt
  • Directors Steffen Heyerhorst, Jan Baßler

Chair of the committees

  • Match committee: Jürgen Stebani (SV Ilmenau, Heide-Wendland district)
  • Committee for women's and girls' football: Karen Rotter (Hannover Region)
  • Youth Committee: Walter Fricke (Ostfriesland district)
  • Referee Committee: Bernd Domurat (SV Wilhelmshaven eV, Jade-Weser-Hunte district)
  • Qualification Committee: Dieter Neubauer (Wolfsburg district)
  • Social Responsibility Committee: Frank Schmidt (Osnabrück district)

Chairman of the sports courts

  • Supreme Association Sports Court: Ralph-Uwe Schaffert (Hildesheim district)
  • Association sports court: Jörg Firus (Heide-Wendland district)

List of presidents of the NFV

  • 1947–1969 Karl Laue (Hanover)
  • 1969–1988 August Wenzel (Einbeck)
  • 1988–2005 Engelbert Nelle (Hildesheim)
  • 2005–2017 Karl Rothmund (Barsinghausen)
  • since 2017 Günter Distelrath

List of managing directors / directors of the NFV

  • 1947–1949 Heinrich Schwake
  • 1949–1959 Annemarie Bruns
  • 1959–1990 Otto Gereke
  • 1990-2005 Karl Rothmund
  • 2005–2019 Bastian Hellberg
  • since 2019 Steffen Heyerhorst, Jan Baßler

structure

The 4 districts and 33 districts are not legally competent. However, they have their own bodies, in particular the district assembly or district assembly, board and committees as well as courts. They handle the game operations on the levels below the upper league (state league and district league for the districts; district league and several district classes at district level). While the boroughs are all similar in size, the size of each county is vastly different. While the largest districts of Heide-Wendland and Ostfriesland have 117 clubs and 163 clubs respectively, the two districts of Braunschweig and Osnabrück-Stadt only have 55 clubs and 36 clubs (as of January 1, 2019).

Only two clubs from Lower Saxony, Buchholz 08 and Buxtehuder SV , belong to the Hamburg Football Association .

Braunschweig district

The Braunschweig district is divided into 8 districts. No other district has more clubs than Braunschweig with 721.

  • Braunschweig district (55 clubs; 193 km²)
  • District of Gifhorn (88 clubs; 1,568 km²)
  • District of Göttingen-Osterode (created in 2013 from the former districts of Göttingen and Osterode; 168 associations; 1,756 km²)
  • District of Helmstedt (67 clubs; 676 km²)
  • District of North Harz (created in 2012 from the former districts of Goslar, Salzgitter and Wolfenbüttel; 145 clubs; 1,916 km²)
  • Northeim-Einbeck district (100 clubs; 1,269 km²)
  • District of Peine (63 clubs; 537 km²)
  • Wolfsburg district (35 clubs; 205 km²)

Hanover district

The Hanover district is divided into just 7 districts. 643 clubs belong to this group.

  • Diepholz district (78 clubs; 1,991 km²)
  • Hameln-Pyrmont district (61 clubs; 798 km²)
  • District Region Hannover (created in 2018 from the former districts of Hannover-Land and Hannover-Stadt; 234 associations; 2,297 km²)
  • Hildesheim district (118 clubs; 1,208 km²)
  • Holzminden district (41 clubs; 694 km²)
  • District of Nienburg (55 clubs; 1,401 km²)
  • Schaumburg district (56 clubs; 676 km²)

Lueneburg district

The Lüneburg district, which is the largest in terms of area, has 608 associations in 9 districts.

  • District of Celle (53 clubs; 1,551 km²)
  • District of Cuxhaven (95 clubs; 2,059 km²)
  • Harburg district (65 clubs; 1,248 km²)
  • Heidekreis district (52 clubs; 1,881 km²)
  • Heide-Wendland district (created in 2018 from the former Lüchow-Dannenberg, Lüneburg and Uelzen districts; 117 clubs; 4,018 km²)
  • Osterholz district (39 clubs; 653 km²)
  • Rotenburg district (94 clubs; 2,075 km²)
  • District of Stade (52 clubs; 1,267 km²)
  • Verden district (41 clubs; 789 km²)

Weser-Ems district

The Weser-Ems district is divided into 9 districts. It consists of 695 clubs.

  • District of Bentheim (38 clubs; 982 km²)
  • District of Cloppenburg (52 clubs; 1,420 km²)
  • District of Emsland (121 clubs; 2,884 km²)
  • District of Jade-Weser-Hunte (created in 2018 from the former districts of Ammerland, Friesland, Oldenburg-Stadt, Wesermarsch and Wilhelmshaven; 121 clubs; 2,375 km²)
  • District of Oldenburg-Land / Delmenhorst (created in 2012 from the former districts of Oldenburg-Land and Delmenhorst; 45 clubs; 1,127 km²)
  • Osnabrück-Land district (91 clubs; 2,122 km²)
  • Osnabrück-Stadt district (36 clubs; 120 km²)
  • District of Ostfriesland (created in 2017 from the former districts of Aurich, Emden, Leer and Wittmund; 163 clubs; 3,142 km²)
  • District of Vechta (28 clubs; 813 km²)

Awards

The following awards are given by the Lower Saxony Football Association.

Higher-class teams

The following clubs from the NFV played at levels above the NFV in the 2017/18 season

Men's

Bundesliga:

2nd Bundesliga:

3rd league:

Regional league:

Women

Bundesliga:

  • VfL Wolfsburg

2nd Bundesliga:

  • SV Meppen
  • BV Cloppenburg
  • VfL Wolfsburg II

Regional league:

A juniors

Bundesliga:

  • VfL Wolfsburg
  • Hannover 96
  • Eintracht Braunschweig
  • VfL Osnabrück

Regional league:

  • JLZ Emsland
  • TSV Havelse
  • JFV Northwest
  • FT Braunschweig
  • JFV Calenberger Land
  • Eintracht Braunschweig
  • JFV RWD Rehden
  • VfL Osnabrück

B juniors

Bundesliga:

  • VfL Wolfsburg
  • Eintracht Braunschweig
  • Hannover 96

Regional league:

  • SV Meppen
  • VfL Wolfsburg II
  • Hanover 96 II
  • VfL Osnabrück
  • JFV Northwest

C juniors

Regional league:

  • JLZ Emsland
  • VfL Wolfsburg
  • Hannover 96
  • Eintracht Braunschweig
  • JFV Northwest
  • VfL Osnabrück

literature

  • Jankowski, Bernd (Red.): Football in Lower Saxony. 50 Years of the Lower Saxony Football Association , ed. from NFV, Peine 1996

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b DFB: Membership Statistics 2019 , accessed on August 8, 2019; supplemented by information on the NFV website (NFV statistics) , status: 2019, accessed on August 8, 2019
  2. ↑ VGH-Fairness-Cup - Niedersächsischer Fußballverband eV Accessed on August 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ 7th VGH Girls Cup - VGH Girls Cup. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Jankowski, Bernd (Red.): Football in Lower Saxony. 50 Years of the Lower Saxony Football Association , ed. from NFV, Peine 1996, page 17
  5. ↑ In 1947 Werder Bremen was Lower Saxony champion.
  6. ↑ www.nfv.de: Günter Distelrath
  7. ↑ a b NFV: History , accessed on October 24, 2017

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