VfB Marburg

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VfB 1905 Marburg
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Basic data
Surname Association for Movement
Games 1905 Marburg e. V.
Seat Marburg , Hesse
founding May 13, 1905
Colours blue White
Website www.vfb-marburg.de
First soccer team
Venue Stadium on Gisselberger Strasse
Places approx. 4,000
league Association League Middle
2018/19 4th Place
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The VfB 1905 Marburg is a football club based in Marburg . Founded in 1905, the association first drew national attention in 1911 when it won the German Academic Championship . In 1937 VfB was forcibly merged with TSV 1860/85 Marburg to form VfL 1860 Marburg . The football team competed under this name until 1992, after which VfB Marburg was re-established. The team from the university town no longer achieved successes beyond the Hessian state borders; since the end of the Second World War it has consistently moved between the highest and second highest amateur league level. 1959 succeeded with the Hessen championship a title win. Most recently, VfB Marburg rose in 2012 from the Association League Middle to the Giessen-Marburg group league . VfB was able to hold out there for two years, until the next relegation to the district league followed in spring 2014, which meant the third relegation since 2011. Since the 2015/16 season, the first men's team has played in the group league again. In the 2016/17 season, the team managed to return to the association league as champions of the group league.

history

Foundation and first years (until 1918)

Football came to Marburg relatively late. Although British students practiced this almost unknown sport in Germany in Marburg in the last decade of the 19th century, and a game by members of the Academic Gymnastics Club is recorded for 1898, it was not until May 13, 1905 that the Bopp Terrassen restaurant was given the Marburg football club founded the first local club, in which the later kicker founder Walther Bensemann was also significantly involved. When the club, anchored in middle-class circles, was renamed the Association for Movement Games 1905 Marburg in October 1908 , it already had over 100 members, had settled on an area on Dammweg and had included the legendary Marburg " Schimmelreiter " in the club's coat of arms. In addition to football, other sports were also offered at VfB 05 at this time.

On the initiative of club member Heinrich Correll and organized by VfB Marburg, a German Academic Championship was held for the first time outside of the "regular" game operations , which VfB promptly won after victories against 1. FC Nürnberg and a 1-0 win against Holstein Kiel . However, only a few Marburgers were involved in this success, the team included foreign students such as Wiesbaden national player Otto Nicodemus and Frankfurt Friedrich Claus . The following year, VfB reached the final in this competition, but lost to Kiel. In "normal" game operations, VfB gradually caught up with the leaders. With a 3-2 victory over Casseler FV , the team became champions of the Hessen / Hanover regional league in 1913, the top division of the West German game association at the time , which they belonged to until the beginning of the First World War .

In the upper game classes (1919 to 1945)

After the war, during which gaming operations were largely suspended, VfB 05 continued the performance of the pre-war years. In 1920/21 the blue-whites reached the final of the district championship, in which they were defeated by 1: 4 against BC Sport Kassel . In the same year, a new, prestigious club area was moved into on Gisselberger Strasse, at the inauguration of which on June 26, 1921, old master VfB Leipzig was a guest. In 1924 VfB qualified for the new, large-scale district class Hessen-Hanover and thus remained “first class”. On August 30, 1925, they joined forces with local rivals SV Kurhessen Marburg to form the sports association VfB 05-Kurhessen . This was founded on April 24, 1917 under the name Marburger FV and had formed the football department of TV 1860 Marburg from 1920 until the "clean divorce" came in 1924 . Despite the merger, things went downhill for a while with the "Schimmelreitern", and in 1927 they were even relegated to the second class for a year. Then the VfB-Kurhessen worked its way back into the top group of the district class, in 1932 they became runner-up in the southern relay of the district class Hessen / Hanover behind Borussia Fulda .

In the 1933/34 round , VfB was one of the founding members of the Gauliga Hessen , but had to leave it after the first season. In the following years, the connection to the regional top did not succeed, even if the Marburg played again from 1935 to 1937 in the top division. On September 25, 1937, VfB Kurhessen was forcibly merged with the local gymnastics pioneer TSV 1860/85 Marburg and subsequently competed under the name VfL 1860 Marburg . In 1941, he managed to return to the Gauliga Kurhessen .

Between national and upper league (1945 to 1992)

After the end of the war, the liaison with the gymnasts and the club name VfL 1860 Marburg was retained. The sporting new beginning was modest: after the first game took place on September 9, 1945, the first team resumed league play in 1946, but was passed over the following year when the Landesliga Hessen was founded as the new regional upper house. In 1950 the club reached a 2-0 win against FSV Frankfurt in front of 5,000 spectators in the cup and in the same year moved up to the - now third-class - regional league, but could not hold the class.

Under the coach Werner Laue from Dresden, VfL 1860 secured the championship of the northern season of the 2nd amateur league in 1954, and after the team had defeated southern champions Teutonia Watzenberg-Steinberg and survived the promotion round without defeat, they were promoted to the 1st amateur league in Hesse made. The successful team at the time was a typical “Marburg mix” of its own junior staff and many student “guests”, including some foreign players, which was still a rarity at the time. The team around the top performers Erich Fischer, Rolf Gaßmann, Erich Klein and Rudi Berger asserted itself this time in the Hessian upper house, after two placements in midfield followed by Jupp Kraatz in the round 1956/57 even a third place. At the end of the 1950s, the club finally reached its sporting zenith when it moved into the finals of the Hesse Cup in 1958 (0: 1 against Viktoria Urberach ) and won the Hesse Championship in 1959. For the promotion to the contract player camp, however, it was not enough: In the promotion round to the II. Oberliga Süd , VfL failed with two draws and two defeats.

The club never came so close to second-class football. With the growing professionalism of the upper football leagues, the team was noticeably losing touch, and top performers were regularly recruited by more financially strong clubs or left Marburg because they had finished their studies. In 1959, for example, Hessen selection player Walter Schäfer moved to FSV Frankfurt and in 1961 Richard Weber, an amateur national player of VfL, joined the upper division Eintracht Frankfurt . It was possible to stay in the 1st amateur league for a while, but after two other young talents went with Klaus Zaczyk from Sterzhausen (1963 to Karlsruher SC) and amateur national player Günter Keifler (1967 to Eintracht), a crash occurred in the fourth class. In 1966, VfL was relegated from the Hessenliga to the group league and it would be almost 20 years before they reported back to the amateur upper house. Between 1967 and 1984 VfL changed coaches fifteen times, but during this time they never got above average in the fourth division.

It was only when Günther Keifler returned to Marburg as a coach in 1984 that he was promoted to the Hesse amateur league following the 1984/85 season. The corset bars of the team at that time were long-time goalkeeper Gerhard Stengel, libero Rolf Zährl and goal scorer Wolfgang Breitenmoser, and after the rise of the former professional Reiner Künkel from Breidenbach . The first third division game in almost 20 years was lost in front of 7,000 spectators on Gisselberger Strasse against second division Kickers Offenbach, unhappy with 1: 3. At the end of the 1985/86 season, the "Schimmelreiter" took a respectable 12th place, but nothing came of the hoped for long-term establishment in the top division. In 1988 they could only secure relegation in a play-off, but coach Keifler had to take his hat off. The following year, VfL rose again from the Hessen League after only four years. This was followed by a phase as an "elevator team" between the state league and the Oberliga Hessen, the direct rise was followed by immediate descent.

Development as VfB 05 Marburg since 1992

On April 9, 1992, the VfL football department split off from the major club and was re-established as VfB 1905 Marburg . From a sporting point of view, the start-up did not bring any positive impulses, because after relegation from the Hessen League in 1993 it should take six years to return to the amateur upper house. Striker Steffen Endres shot back VfB with 32 goals in 1999 in Hesse's top division. In 2001 the title was even within reach at times, until they lost 3-0 in the top game at FSV Frankfurt. After all, they finally seemed to have established themselves in the Hessenliga, and the positive trend continued in 2002/03 when they were once again in the top group under coach Peter Cestonaro . But already in the following season, under the new board, the biscuit manufacturer Christoph Pauly, who succeeded the deceased chairman Eifert, not only the dreams of promotion to the regional league came to an abrupt end. Already in 2003/04 VfB 05 found themselves in a relegation battle and the following year the club, meanwhile in financial difficulties, rose from the league. Pauly resigned in February 2005. From 2005 to 2013, the former Mayor of Marburg, Dietrich Möller, was president of the association. Thomas Pfeiffer has been President since 2013.

In 2009 the VfB 05 rose again, but could only stay in the Hessian upper house for two years. Then it went steeply downhill - mainly due to the difficult financial situation - and VfB was relegated to the regional league Gießen-Marburg Nord.

Under the direction of the newly formed board of directors Pfeiffer, Feiber and Müller, relegation to the Northern District League was followed by immediate promotion to the group league in the 2014/2015 season and promotion to the association league in 2017.

Venue

Most of the games are played by the VfB Marburg teams in the club's own stadium on Gisselberger Straße , where the club has been at home since 1921 and has a capacity of around 4,000 spectators. Friendlies against higher-class teams sometimes take place in the Georg Gaßmann Stadium , which has a capacity of 12,000 . Most of the youth teams play on the urban artificial turf fields adjacent to the two stadiums.

successes

Well-known former players

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