VFC Plauen

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VFC Plauen
VFC Plauen.svg
Basic data
Surname Vogtland Football Club
Plauen e. V.
Seat Plauen , Saxony
founding May 27, 1903
Established June 22, 1990
Colours yellow black
Members 500 (March 2019)
Website vfc-plauen.de
First soccer team
Head coach Falk Schindler
Venue Vogtland Stadium
Places 5000
league Oberliga NOFV-Süd
2018/19 11th place
home
Away

The Vogtland Football Club Plauen , commonly known as VFC Plauen , is a football club from Plauen in Saxony . The club colors are yellow and black. The association has 500 members (as of March 2019). On December 1, 2014, the association filed for insolvency administration at the Chemnitz District Court.

History of the club

Founding and playing until 1917

Logo of the 1st VFC Plauen

Even before the official founding date, probably since October 1901, according to the regional press, a "Vogtland Football Club" held occasional friendly matches against regional opponents. Some indications suggest that it was the direct predecessor of VFC 03 Plauen. The VFC Plauen was officially founded on May 27, 1903 in the Plauen restaurant "Deutsche Flotte". The VFC is today the oldest still existing football club in the entire Vogtland. The club colors were blue and yellow until 1945. On August 2, 1903, the first game was called 1. VFC 03 Plauen against SpVgg ATV Hof (0: 2). From October 1904 the VFC took part in the championship games in the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs (VMBV). He played in the 2nd class of the VMBV Gaues I, opponents were u. a. Wacker Leipzig II, VfB Leipzig II and Hohenzollern Halle. The VFC had been an official member of the German Football Association (DFB) since 1904. From 1905 the VFC played in the newly created 1. Gauklasse Südwestsachsen, the highest regional league at the time. The masters of the Gauklassen determined in knockout games the Central German champion, who in turn played for the German championship. From 1907 to 1914 the VFC was incorporated into the newly created 1st district of the Vogtland district. There he always had to be satisfied with 2nd and 3rd places. The 1914/15 season finally seemed to turn things around - VFC was unbeaten at the top of the table, then the championship was canceled because of the First World War . During the war, the VFC was one of the few clubs in Vogtland that was able to keep the game going. At the two war championships in Vogtland in 1916 and 1917, however, the local rival Konkordia Plauen won . 35 VFC players from all men's teams died on the battlefields of the First World War.

Rise and fall between the world wars

After the war, the VMBV divided its leagues again and again. The VFC now played in the newly formed Westsachsen soccer circle. Placements in the front midfield were achieved. After four seasons the association returned to the old order, the VFC played again in the 1st district Vogtland. In the summer of 1921, the club met the reigning German champions 1. FC Nürnberg and lost 6-0 to half the German national team at that time in front of over 6,000 spectators. Nonetheless, the VFC became a fixture in the Vogtland region, even though the city rivals Concordia and Plauener SpuBC were repeatedly beaten. The dispute with Concordia Plauen over the Vogtlandgau championship title in 1926, which the VFC lost at the green table, is legendary. A golden future was promised by the youth teams of the VFC, which were subscription champions in the Gau. In 1930 and 1932 the men finally won the championship title of the Vogtland and qualified for the final round of the Central German championship. In 1931, the VFC was also designated as a participant in the VMBV finals before the end of the relegation games against Grünbach. The successes in the final round: 1930 round of 16 (out against SV 08 Steinach ), 1931 round of 16 (out against Dresdner SC ), 1932 quarter-finals (out against PSV Chemnitz ). In 1931 and 1932 the Plauener failed against the later Central German master. Plauen was runner-up in 1932/33. For its 30th anniversary in May 1933, FC Bayern Munich was the guest as the reigning German champions. The game ended 0: 4 in front of about 6000 spectators. When the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, the football map of Germany changed with the 1933/34 season. The old district system was abolished, 16 football districts were set up, the highest class of which was the Gauliga. The 16 Gaumeisters determined the German champions directly in knockout rounds. The VFC was assigned to the Gauliga Sachsen . Hopelessly overwhelmed, the team immediately dismounted as the penultimate. For the time being it was the last year in the history of the VFC in which he played in the highest league of his time. From 1934, the team in the Plauen / Zwickau district class could no longer build on their great time and only achieved places between 3 and 10. In the newly created Tschammer Cup , the forerunner of the DFB Cup , the VFC never made it past the first main round. Due to the Second World War , the boundaries of the leagues were tightened. The VFC plays again against its old opponents in a newly created district class Vogtland. Again they were several times 2nd and 3rd in the championship. Only in December 1944 succeeded in winning the championship again. Plauen won both finals 6-0 and 3-0 against the district champion of the Vogtland relay II SpVgg Falkenstein .

Dissolution and gaming operations in the GDR

Club coat of arms of BSG Motor WEMA

All civil associations in the Soviet-occupied zone were dissolved and expropriated on October 31, 1945. The final liquidation of the VFC was not carried out until 1948. The players and those in charge of the former club who had survived the war soon found each other again and were able to play football at the district level. In 1946/47 the game was resumed under the name SG Plauen-West in the Vogtland district class. With the establishment of company sports associations (BSG), the SG was converted into the BSG Sachsenverlag Plauen on August 31, 1949 . 1950 parts included the ZSG rayon Plauen of at BSG Saxony publishing . After the ZSG Zellwolle or its predecessor SG Plauen-Süd had been ahead in regional gaming operations, BSG Sachsenverlag represented Plauen football in the Landesliga Sachsen at the start of the 1950/51 football season and immediately became Saxon champions. This qualified the Vogtlanders for the second-rate GDR league , where they competed in the future as the Plauen rotation . In its first league season, the BSG surprisingly came in third. In 1954, in front of 14,000 spectators, the reigning GDR soccer champion Turbine Erfurt was defeated 4: 1 in his stadium. In 1955, the SDAG Wismut became the new sponsoring company of the BSG, which then called itself Wismut Plauen . However, the new name was unsuccessful, as the second to last in the table Plauen had to relegate to the fourth-class district league Karl-Marx-Stadt in April 1955 . 1956/57 Wismut Plauen qualified for the new 2nd GDR League . This was then dissolved in 1963, which is why Wismut had to play again in the district league despite a 2nd place. During this season, on January 1, 1963, there was another carrier change with the machine tool factory VEB WEMA Plauen and again a new name with BSG Motor WEMA Plauen . After two finals against BSG Motor Brand-Langenau (2: 1, 1: 1), the district championship in 1964 and a second place in the qualifying round brought promotion to the second-rate GDR league.

1965/66 season

After WEMA Plauen had managed to stay in the league season relatively safely as a newcomer with 11th place, the squad was strengthened for the new season. From the upper division Wismut Aue came Wolfgang Uhlig (25 years old), who was already in the upper division, as well as the young players Heinz Krieger (22) and Peter Marquardt (23). The nine-time junior and junior national player Klaus Enold (24) and the young talent Ulrich Maul were brought in from the upper division Motor Zwickau . From SC Karl-Marx-Stadt, Jürgen Thomaschewski (24), who was also able to refer to league appearances, joined. With the exception of the young Maul, all entrants immediately became regular players, but could not prevent Plauen from ending up in the middle of the field after the first series. This was mainly due to the weakness away from home, only five of 16 possible points were fought for. In November 1965, the 31-year-old Hans Speth joined the team, who had experience from 232 league games (including in Rostock and Zwickau) and two international matches. With him as the director, the game of Plauen stabilized, especially in the last third of the season. From the 24th to the 30th of the last match day, WEMA Plauen remained unbeaten and took ten of the 14 possible points and finally landed on 3rd place in the table, again the best placement in the 13-year membership in the GDR league after 1952. This success was fought for by the home strength of the team that won ten of the 15 games in the Vogtland Stadium. The players enjoyed an overwhelming audience for GDR league standards. On average, 7500 spectators came to the home games. In the end, Plauen was well behind the promoted Wismut Gera with a seven point difference, but the balance of the two games against each other was equal with 1: 2 and 1: 0 points. They even remained undefeated with 2: 2 and 2: 1 against BSG Motor Steinach, which was placed before Plauen. The 53-year-old coach Herbert Melzer was able to build on a balanced team, six players from the 19-man squad were in 90 or more percent of the games. With Werner Bamberger he had a reliable goalscorer, 20 of the 56 Plauen goals went to his account, with which he was also top scorer in the GDR league. The main team for the 1965/66 season had the following appearance:

Scharnagel
(23 years, 24 games)
Enold (24/30), Marquardt (23/30), H. Bamberger (26/20)
Krieger (22/30), Speth (31/16)
Schmidt (23/26), Thomaschewski (24/28), W. Bamberger (25/30), Uhlig (25/22), Schneider (21/16)

From 1974 only third and fourth class

In the following years, Motor WEMA moved in the GDR league between midfield and the lower half of the table. After the 1972/73 season, the team rose from the third from last place in the table back into the district league. On June 1, 1976, for the time being, the last change of name in GDR gaming operations. The BSG was now called Motor WEMA / Aufbau Plauen . At the end of the 1977/78 season, the Vogtlanders even had to go into the district class. However, the ascent was achieved after two years. In the 1982/83 season, WEMA / Aufbau, after two clear defeats (0: 4 and 0: 5) against Aufbau dkk Krumhermersdorf, missed the district championship and thus the possible return to the GDR league. In the last district league season under DFV direction 1989/90, the Plauener reached 2nd place and thus qualified for the newly created Landesliga Sachsen , now again under their original name VFC Plauen.

League affiliation 1950 to 1990

  • 1950/51: State League Saxony
  • 1951–1955: GDR League
  • 1956–1957: District League Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1958–1963: II. GDR League
  • 1963/64: District League Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1964–1973: GDR League
  • 1973–1978: District League Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1978–1980: District class Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1980–1990: District League Karl-Marx-Stadt

Game operation after the turn

Balance sheet
season league space Gates Points
1990/91 LL 01. 45:20 35: 9
1991/92 OIL 18th 12:10 4:64
1992/93 LL 09. 38:46 24:28
1993/94 LL 01. 66:20 41:11
1994/95 OIL 02. 54:23 43:17
1995/96 OIL 01. 50:17 66
1996/97 RL 10. 44:50 44
1997/98 RL 10. 55:51 48
1998/99 RL 05. 56:42 59
1999/00 RL 13. 39:51 35
2000/01 OIL 03. 52:33 63
2001/02 OIL 02. 69:18 75
2002/03 OIL 03. 76:23 73
2003/04 OIL 01. 66:24 69
2004/05 OIL 02. 76:30 75
2005/06 OIL 02. 58:38 62
2006/07 OIL 06th 41:34 43
2007/08 OIL 03. 47:33 53
2008/09 RL 14th 52:54 42
2009/10 RL 07th 49:39 50
2010/11 RL 14th 43:48 39
2011/12 RL 10. 46:50 43
2012/13 RL 13. 42:52 29
2013/14 RL 09. 48:49 39
2014/15 RL 16. -: - -
2015/16 OIL 12. 47:66 37
2016/17 OIL 09. 48:41 41
2017/18 OIL 04th 55:53 55
2018/19 OIL 11. 44:46 34
Highlighted in green: ascents; Highlighted in red: descents
Saxony Cup Final 2006 VFC - Chemnitzer FC
Saxony Cup Final 2006 VFC - Chemnitzer FC

After the abolition of the system of company sports associations due to the economic changes resulting from German reunification, the VFC Plauen was re-established on June 22, 1990. In the state league, the club managed to march straight through to the NOFV-Oberliga , but rose again after a year in the state league. In 1993/94, successful coach Frank Papritz came from Hoyerswerda. The VFC won the national championship title straight away and once again made it into the amateur league. As a newcomer, Plauen promptly took second place. According to today's three-point rule, Wacker Nordhausen would have taken first place. After another impressive 1995/96 season , the VFC was promoted to the Regionalliga Nordost . After initial problems, the VFC improved and in the end took a good 10th place . In the second regional league year , too , after a mixed season, 10th place was achieved. The friendly matches against teams from the 1st Bundesliga are also impressive. So were Arminia Bielefeld and TSV 1860 München 3: 0 literally swept off the pitch. After a brilliant season , VFC achieved a sensational 5th place in 1999. The highlight of the season, however, was the success in the Saxony Cup . In the final, in front of 8,000 spectators in the Vogtland Stadium, VFC won 4-3 on penalties against FC Erzgebirge Aue and thus secured their participation in the DFB Cup . There they won 1-0 against Alemannia Aachen in the 1st round and lost 1: 2 against the Stuttgarter Kickers in the 2nd round . In 2000 the qualification for the newly created regional league was clearly missed. In the end, the VFC was 13th and was relegated to the top division. Then ex-national goalkeeper René Müller was brought in as coach, who immediately reached 3rd place with a newly built team . A year later , second place, one point behind the champions Dynamo Dresden . In 2003 Plauen was third, but René Müller left the club for Erfurt. The Saxony Cup final was lost at home in front of 10,400 spectators with 2: 3 against Dynamo Dresden. 2003/04 was the VFC's most successful year after the fall of the Wall, if not in the club's history. With new trainer Tino Vogel, he won the relay in the southern season of the Oberliga Nordost and took revenge in the Sachsenpokal. With a 1-0 win against the regional division Dynamo Dresden, they won the title and qualified again for the DFB Cup. In the relegation games for promotion to the regional league, they narrowly failed because of the reserve from Hertha BSC (2-4, 3-2). In 2004/05, the team lost 2-1 to Arminia Bielefeld in the first round of the DFB Cup. In the big league she was once again one of the strongest. In the end, VFC Plauen only had to admit defeat to FC Carl Zeiss Jena and landed on an excellent 2nd place in the final table. The Sachsenpokal could not be defended. They were eliminated in the first round against the later finalists Chemnitzer FC . In the following season , the club made nationwide headlines because he succeeded in signing the former world-class player Krassimir Balakow as a sports advisor. For VFC Plauen Balakow also played the last game of his career as a player. In the league, the club came second behind 1. FC Magdeburg and lost the final in the Sachsenpokal at home 0: 1 against Chemnitzer FC. In 2006/07 , coach Tino Vogel was dismissed after the first game of the season and the home defeat it suffered against Energie Cottbus II. He was succeeded by Stefan Persigehl , who was engaged during the summer break . On March 14, 2007, he took his hat again because he could not achieve his goals. In the 2006/07 season there was ultimately a disappointing 6th place. Hermann Andreev, who had already led SV Babelsberg 03 into the 2nd Bundesliga , was signed up as coach for the 2007/08 season . The game year ended in third place behind Halleschen FC and Chemnitzer FC, and promotion to the now fourth-class regional league was achieved for the 2008/09 season. In the 2008/09 regional league season they secured themselves on the last day of play with a 1-0 win at Halleschen FC and ended up 14th. In the Saxony Cup final, the second team of SG Dynamo Dresden failed 2-1 after extra time. The 2009/10 season ended with an excellent 7th place in the Regionalliga. After the club separated from Hermann Andreev before the winter break, the team was able to make the league perfect early on thanks to a convincing second half of the season under interim coach Ronald Färber. In the Sachsenpokal, the VFC failed in the quarter-finals against Dynamo Dresden on penalties. In a mixed 2010/11 season, the VFC Plauen team was constantly fighting to stay in the league. In the end it was very close. In the state cup they failed again in the second main round to SG Dynamo Dresden . In December 2014, the association filed for bankruptcy. Almost 1 million euros in debt plagued the club, and salaries could no longer be paid. Plauen had to be relegated, all results were received without evaluation this season. The club started the 2015/2016 season in the Oberliga Nordost .

In the summer of 2019, there was another upheaval when the chairman of the board, the second board member and another board member resigned within a week.

League affiliation from 1990

VFC league game

successes

  • Season winner Oberliga: 1996, 2004
  • Champion State League Saxony : 1951, 1991, 1994
  • District master of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district (Chemnitz): 1957, 1964
  • District Master Untervogtland: 1950
  • Gaumeister Vogtland: 1930, 1932, 1945
  • Saxon Cup Winner : 1999, 2004
  • District cup winner District Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz): 1982

Stadion

Vogtland Stadium in Plauen

VFC Plauen plays its home games in the Vogtland Stadium in Plauen . The inner part of the stadium, in which the regional league games take place, was renamed the Sternquell Arena on March 3, 2011 . The stadium is located in the north of Plauen in the Haselbrunn district on the edge of the city forest. It is the largest open-air sports area in the city. It has a capacity of 10,500 people and is equipped with a floodlight system and an electronic display board. The red tartan track that surrounds the field is used for athletics events.

In addition to the main square, there is another turf play area as well as a hard and modern artificial turf pitch in the stadium area . These are used for training purposes and for games of the 2nd / 3rd Team, the women's team, the old men and the junior teams.

The stadium has been extensively rebuilt since November 2009 and, once the construction work is complete, will have a capacity of 16,400 seats.

Fan friendships

The fans of VFC Plauen maintain a friendship with the supporters of the SpVgg Bayern Hof, about 40 km away, and with the fans of the Czech club FK Hvězda Cheb .

people

Players and coaches of particular importance

  • Krassimir Balakow ,
    played his last competitive game before the end of his career for VFC Plauen against     1. FC Magdeburg on August 7, 2005
  • Werner Bamberger , from
    1962 to 1973 with Wema, previously 13 league games in Aue
  • Kemo Ceesay , who
    played for VFC in 2004, was the     Gambia international at the time
  • Skerdilaid Curri ,
    1999 to 2003 in Plauen, then 85 second division games in Aue
  • Klaus Enold ,
    1965 to 1972 with Wema, previously 47 league games in Aue and Zwickau, 9 junior international games
  • Pardis Fardjad-Azad ,
    2009 to 2010 in Plauen, then national player of Azerbaijan
  • Faruk Hujdurović ,
    2006 to 2008 in Plauen, before that 10 Bundesliga games for Energie Cottbus
  • Wolfgang Ihle ,
    1987 to 1990 with Wema, 178 league games in Karl-Marx-Stadt and Dresden, 22 international youth games
  • Horst Jura ,
    in Plauen until 1957, then 252 league games in Zwickau, 1 international B game, 3 junior international games
  • Heinz Krieger , from
    1965 to 1967 with Wema, then 137 league games in Zwickau
  • René Müller ,
    coach at VFC from 2000 to 2003, previously 290 league games for Lok und Chemie Leipzig, 46 times goalkeeper for the GDR national team
  • Joachim Posselt ,
    with Wema until 1965, then 47 league games in Karl-Marx-Stadt, 1 junior international game
  • Andreas Richter ,
    2001 to 2003 at VFC, then 43 × 2. Bundesliga in Erfurt and Koblenz
  • Horst Scherbaum ,
    until 1950 in Plauen, then 253 league games with Chemie Leipzig, ASK forward, rotation Leipzig, 5 A-internationals, 2 B-internationals
  • Ronald Schmidt ,
    until 2000 in Plauen, then 66 second division games for Wacker Burghausen
  • Wolfgang Schneider ,
    1967 to 1970 with Wema, before 37 league games in Zwickau
  • Hans Speth ,
    1966 to 1967 with Wema, before 232 league games in Halle, Thale, Rostock and Zwickau, 2 international matches
  • Arnd Spranger ,
    with Wema until 1983, then 23 league games in Karl-Marx-Stadt, 44 × 2. Bundesliga for Chemnitz and Zwickau
  • Hans-Ulrich Thomale ,
    coach at VFC from 1999 to 2000, previously senior division coach in Jena, Aue, Leipzig (1. FC Lok)
  • Jürgen Thomaschewski ,
    1965 to 1972 with Wema, previously 4 league games in Karl-Marx-Stadt

First team

Current squad 2019/20

(As of August 10, 2019)

No. Nat. player Date of birth size Weight former clubs
goalkeeper
01 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Ondřej Čáp 08/02/1994 1.90 m FK Olympia Radotin, SK Viktorie Jirny, SpVgg Grün-Weiß Deggendorf
12 GermanyGermany Leon Seefeld 05/17/2000 1.90 m 86 kg VFC Plauen, FC Erzgebirge Aue
Defense
04th GermanyGermany Tim Sluga 02/11/2000 1.86 m 75 kg VFC Plauen
07th GermanyGermany Marian Albustin 10/17/1984 1.83 m 82 kg FSV Zwickau, FC Erzgebirge Aue, FFC Viktoria Frankfurt / Oder, Union Fürstenwalde
08th GermanyGermany Tim Limmer 02/27/2001 1.83 m 69 kg VFC Plauen, FSV Bau Weischlitz
11 GermanyGermany Stefan Schumann 06/05/1984 1.88 m 81 kg FSV Zwickau, RB Leipzig, Hertha BSC, Chemnitzer FC
14th GermanyGermany Marc Schröder 11/23/1999 FC Carl Zeiss Jena II
17th GermanyGermany Steve Zöphel 01/03/2001 VFC Plauen
19th GermanyGermany Philipp Dartsch 08/29/1993 1.86 m 81 kg FSV Budissa Bautzen, Bayern Hof, VFC Plauen
22nd GermanyGermany Kevin Walther 10/14/1999 1.76 m 74 kg FC Erzgebirge Aue
29 GermanyGermany Lucas Albert 09/02/1999 1.88 m 81 kg FC Erzgebirge Aue, FC Carl Zeiss Jena
midfield
06th GermanyGermany RussiaRussia Nils Fischer 01/24/2000 1.83 m 66 kg VFC Plauen, 1. FC Wacker Plauen
09 GermanyGermany Tim Wüstenhagen 04/14/1998 1.78 m 68 kg FSV Zwickau, Energie Cottbus
10 LatviaLatvia Aleksandrs Guzlajevs 06/05/1997 1.73 m 69 kg FSV Zwickau, BFC Daugavpils
15th GreeceGreece Kyriakos Andreopoulos 01/18/1994 ZFC Meuselwitz, AO Trikala, AE Larisa, AOK Kerkyra
16 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Ondřej Nýber 05/21/1997 FK Ostrov
21st LithuaniaLithuania Edvardas Lucenka 12/28/1996 1.78 m 74 kg Chemnitzer FC, FC Zalginus Vilnius
30th GermanyGermany Patrick Grandner 04/28/1988 1.80 m 76 kg FSV Zwickau, Lok Leipzig, VfL Hohenstein-Ernstthal, FC Erzgebirge Aue
attack
13 LatviaLatvia Nikita Dobratulins 07/20/1995 Rezeknes FA, BFC Daugavpils
18th GermanyGermany Max Schmetzer 04/09/2001 VFC Plauen, FSV Zwickau
23 HungaryHungary Botond Bach 04/06/2000 FSV Zwickau, Viktoria Cologne
24 GambiaGambia Samba Fatajo 12/02/1998 1.86 m 70 kg VFC Plauen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b VfC-Plauen.de: Membership
  2. ↑ Report on filing for insolvency on the association's website. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 12, 2014 ; accessed on December 1, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vfc-plauen.de
  3. ^ Cancellation of all results in RL Northeast 2014/15
  4. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/sport/2015-03/vfc-plauen-insolvenz-nofv
  5. ^ Announcement on the renaming of the stadium section on the club's website. Retrieved March 4, 2011 .
  6. ↑ VFC squad on the club side. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '27.6 "  N , 12 ° 7' 35.1"  E