VfB Giessen

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VfB Giessen
Logo of VfB Giessen
Full name Association for Movement Games 1900 Giessen eV
place Giessen , Hesse
Founded 17th May 1956
Dissolved 2018 (football department)
Club colors blue White
Stadion Waldstadion Giessen
Top league Oberliga Hessen
successes Hessian champion 1963
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The VfB 1900 Gießen (officially: Association for Movement Games 1900 Gießen e.V. ) is a sports club from the central Hessian town of Gießen . The club was created through a merger of the two Giessen sports clubs VfB 08 and Spielvereinigung 1900 in 1956, but the official founding date remained in 1900. It offers a wide range of sports in all directions and achieved particularly significant regional successes in men's football.

Soccer

History of the football department

VfB 08 Giessen

VfB 08 Gießen was founded in 1908 and reached the final round of the West German championship in 1911/12, but lost 5-0 to the A-class champions Borussia Mönchengladbach in the semi-finals. After the Second World War , the association was re-established as VfR Reichsbahn in Gießen in 1908 , but took on its original name again in 1947.

SpVgg 1900 Giessen

The second merger club was founded in 1900 as Gießener FK 1900 and was under this name in the quarter-finals of the West German championship in 1909. In 1938 they were in the promotion round to the Gauliga Hessen , but could not prevail against the competitors and took the last place in the group. The name SpVgg 1900 Gießen was adopted in 1926 after a merger with SpVgg 1904 Gießen.

VfB 1900 Giessen

In 1951, the men's team was promoted to the then regional league, which was called the Oberliga until 2008 after the German league system was reorganized. The club was able to stay in the league for 31 years without promotion or relegation and won the Hessen Cup three times (1964, 1972 and 1979). As a result of the last cup win, they even took part in the DFB Cup , but failed in the first round at FC 08 Homburg . In 1982, however, the team could not keep the class and was relegated to the state league. In the meantime, they even got relegated to the district league, but after the direct resurgence, the club was able to rise again to the league in 1995. After their return, the club aimed for promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga , and in December 1996 a world champion from 1990 , Uwe Bein , was committed. The average for the league was very high, with an average of 1,600 spectators, but the team did not even achieve promotion to the regional league . As a result, the average attendance and with it the popularity fell steadily, there was a lack of sponsors and the financial problems grew. Due to the lack of funds, the club withdrew completely from the Oberliga Hessen after the 2000/01 season and did not take part in men's football in the following season. 2002/03 joined a new team in the Gießen District League B1. After several promotions, the team played in the 2008/09 season in the Giessen-Marburg group league, which replaced the old regional league and after the reorganization in 2008 is the 7th division in the German league system . From 2009 to 2017, VfB played again in the Association League Hessen Mitte after a renewed promotion.

In addition, the A-youth of VfB as a league team in the 2007/08 season won the A-youth of Hansa Rostock , who was in 2nd place in the Bundesliga North / Northeast, 4: 3 n in the round of 16 of the DFB Cup . Defeat V. although the team was 3-0 down at halftime. This sensation against Bayer 04 Leverkusen could not be repeated in the semifinals and lost 2-0. In March 2018, the dissolution of the football department was announced, which joined the SC Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg and plays under the name FC Gießen in the Hessenliga .

Stadion

Forest stadium

VfB plays in the Waldstadion in Gießen with a capacity of 6900 spectators. There is a covered seating grandstand (700 seats) and uncovered standing grandstands (6200 seats). There are no grandstands behind the gates, but this area is used for standing room.

Artificial grass pitch

After the groundbreaking ceremony for the new artificial turf facility next to the Gießen forest stadium on August 27, 2008, the official opening took place on November 30, 2008 with many prominent guests such as soccer world champion Nia Künzer , the then Hessian interior and sports minister Volker Bouffier and the former Gießen Lord Mayor Heinz-Peter Haumann took place. The square was built on the site of the Justus Liebig University and cost € 450,000, some of which is borne by the association itself, the state of Hesse and the city of Gießen.

Trainer

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Players

Other sports

basketball

The first team in the basketball department plays under the name VfB Giessen Pointers. The team plays under coach Dejan Kostic in the Regional Southwest, reaching in 2008/09 to 4th place, but you can clearly missed at the end of a possible promotion to the Pro B . For the 2010/11 season, the team was promoted to the Pro B, where they went basketball until the 2011/2012 season. Most recently, the Pointers played again in the 1st Regionalliga Südwest . In May 2018 the basketball department was spun off.

Handball

The women's handball team played from 1978 to 1983 and 1984/85 in the southern season of the then two-part 1st Bundesliga . The best placement in the ten-team relay was a sixth place in the 1979/80 season. The VfB team clearly missed qualifying for the single-track Bundesliga in the 1984/85 season with an eighth place in the south relay.

literature

  • Christian von Berg: Back then on the forest sports field. VfB 1900 and soccer in Gießen . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2014. ISBN 978-3-7307-0140-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. VfB 1900 Gießen ends the chapter on football
  2. It's all in the mix
  3. ^ Gießener Anzeiger: "Best football turf" for VfB 1900 Gießen
  4. ^ Gießener Allgemeine: Artificial turf soccer field on the Kugelberg inaugurated
  5. In the future, basketball players will no longer be based at VfB 1900 Gießen

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