VfB Labiau
| VfB Labiau | |||
| Full name | Labiau Movement Games Association | ||
| place | Labiau | ||
| Founded | 1919 | ||
| Dissolved | 1945 | ||
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| Top league | Gauliga East Prussia | ||
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The VfB Labiau was a German sports club from the East Prussian city Labiau (now Polessk ). The football department played one season in the Gauliga East Prussia .
history
After the club was founded in 1919 under the name VfL Labiau , the club played in the league system of the Baltic Lawn and Winter Sports Association , but did not reach the highest divisions. At the beginning of the 1920s , a game operation in the second class, 1st class in Königsberg has been handed down. After relegation to 2nd class, the club managed to return to 1st class in the 1924/25 season. With the introduction of the East Prussian League as the top division, first class Königsberg was only third class from the 1926/27 season. In 1928/29 VfL Labiau won the first class in Königsberg and was promoted to the second-class district league in Königsberg . In 1930/31 the club had to take part in the relegation round due to the seventh place in the table. Since this could not be successfully contested, Labiau went back to the 1st class in Königsberg . The direct return to the second division succeeded in 1931/32. With the first place in the table in the district league in 1933, VfL Labiau qualified for the district class I Königsberg , which was the second division within the newly established soccer district of East Prussia in 1933 .
As VfB Labiau , the club was promoted to the first-class Gauliga East Prussia in 1937/38 . After just one season, the club had to relegate back to the second division due to a reduction in the Gauliga from 28 to 10 teams.
The club also had an ice hockey department.
After the Second World War, the formerly German Labiau was annexed by the Soviet Union. The association expired in 1945 at the latest.
successes
- Participation in the Gauliga East Prussia : 1937/38
swell
- DSFS : Football in the Baltic Sports Association, Part 1: 1903/04 - 1932/33 . DSFS, 2018.
- Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
- Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Associations in East Prussia. Retrieved February 20, 2018 .