VfB Oldenburg

VfB Oldenburg
Basic data
Surname	Association for movement games from 1897 e. V. Oldenburg
Seat	Oldenburg , Lower Saxony
founding	October 17, 1897
Colours	Blue White
president	Klaus Berster
Website	vfb-oldenburg.de
First soccer team
Head coach	Dario Fossi
Venue	Marschweg Stadium
Places	15,200
league	Regionalliga North
2019/20	8th place
home Away

The VfB Oldenburg (officially . Association for movement games from 1897 eV Oldenburg) is a sports club from the Lower Saxon city of Oldenburg . The club has over 1000 members in the football , table tennis , volleyball , cricket , darts departments and a fan and sponsorship department. In earlier times there was also an ice hockey department. In 2000 the boxing department was spun off and re-established in the VFB Oldenburg (Verein für Boxsport).

The club became known for its football department. The first team has been playing in the fourth-class Regionalliga Nord since it was promoted in 2012 . Before that, VfB had belonged to the first-class Oberliga Nord for seven years and the second-highest division for 24 years, five of which were in the 2nd Bundesliga . In 1988 the team became German runners-up for amateurs , four years later they missed promotion to the Bundesliga by just one point. The venue is the Marschweg Stadium .

history

From the foundation to the Second World War

The Herbartgymnasium

In 1897, some high school students at what is now Herbartgymnasium started playing football. On October 17, 1897, FC Oldenburg, the oldest football club in the city and the original cell of today's VfB, was founded. The first venue was the parade ground of the infantry barracks on Kranbergstrasse. The second parent club of VfB, the Germania football club from 1903, was founded on April 29, 1903 by graduates of the local teachers' college. He shared the parade ground with FC for five years before Germania from the monastery brewery rented the former cycling track in what is now the Donnerschwee district and converted it into a football stadium. On February 18, 1919, both clubs merged to form VfB Oldenburg.

Just one year after the merger, VfB won the district championship with a 5-0 victory over FC Deutschland Wilhelmshaven , but was eliminated with a 5-0 defeat against Geestemünder SC in the qualifying round of the North German championship. In 1921 the district championship title was won again and the promotion to the short-lived North German League (Westkreis) was achieved. Again with 0: 5 VfB lost the decider for the Jade relay championship against Werder Bremen two years later . The team then disappeared into the mediocrity of the then first-class Weser / Jade regional league and fell into the shadow of the up-and-coming local rivals SV Frisia . After the football revolution of 1928, the leagues were reorganized and VfB had to go into second division. Three years later, the climb was just missed.

In 1936 VfB won the district championship by a narrow margin over Bremer SV and reached the promotion round to the Lower Saxony Gauliga . Here VfB met Wilhelmsburg 09 and VfB Schinkel . The three teams ended the round with the same number of points, so that the better goal quotient was decisive for the Wilhelmsburg team. Two years later, as the autumn champions, VfB once again hoped for the promotion round when all military club members had to be handed over to the new military sports clubs. As a result, VfB rose at the end of the season. In 1942 VfB was finally included in the Gauliga Weser-Ems ; the team moved up for the dissolved LSV Quakenbrück , but were overwhelmed by sport. VfB lost 0:17 to the champions Wilhelmshaven 05 . The Second World War finally brought about the cessation of gaming operations in 1944.

Turbulent post-war period (1945 to 1963)

In 1946, VfB was included in the Lower Saxony North Oberliga . As fourth in the table, the qualification for the newly created top division, the Oberliga Nord , was just missed. In 1949 the VfB became champions of the Landesliga Weser / Ems and then reached the promotion round to the Oberliga Nord. With a 5-0 win in front of 15,000 spectators over Bergedorf 85 , the Oldenburg team managed to rise.

The team around playmaker Felix Gerritzen caused a sensation in the north German upper house during the 1949/50 season . Both games were won against neighboring Werder Bremen . The highlight of the season was a 1-0 win against Hamburger SV on October 16, 1949 in front of 18,000 spectators. Ernst-Otto Meyer was the fourth best scorer in the league with 21 goals this season. The ninth rank could not be repeated. Without Gerritzen, who had moved to Preußen Münster , VfB was in danger of relegation and was relegated in 1951 as the penultimate.

In the three following years, the Oldenburg reached the promotion round to the Oberliga Nord. In 1952, the 1-1 win in the opening game against Altona 93 was the only point win. A year later, VfB only took part in the promotion round because of the waiver of master Eintracht Nordhorn , but gambled away the class leap in the last two games. In the third attempt, the promotion finally worked with a 3-2 win after extra time in Hamburg's Rothenbaum Stadium .

Reinforced with ex-national team player Erich Hänel , it reached eleventh place in the 1954/55 season , before relegation followed a year later . Financial problems did not allow top division reinforcements. In 1957 VfB gambled away the leap in class with a 2-0 defeat at Bremer SV . A year later, the Oldenburg team had to play playoffs against Eintracht Osnabrück and VfB Peine , before they failed at VfV Hildesheim .

After VfB finally had to give way to VfB Lübeck in 1959 , the new coach Emil Izsó formed a young team with regional talent. On the last day of the match, after a 5-0 win over the SV Bremen police and the simultaneous 3-0 defeat of SC Victoria Hamburg at SV Friedrichsort, they reached a playoff against Hamburg. VfB won this 2-1 in Hanover's Lower Saxony Stadium. The Oldenburg team was able to hold onto the Oberliga Nord for three years, where they each reached midfield positions.

Regional league years (1963 to 1974)

After the introduction of the Bundesliga as the highest German division, VfB played in the second-rate Regionalliga Nord. This meant a serious turning point for the club. For financial reasons, top performers had to be handed over year after year. One of the few highlights of this time was the derbies against local rivals VfL Oldenburg in the 1963/64 season , which attracted up to 20,000 spectators to the stadium. VfL was relegated at the end of the season and lost some players to VfB, which poisoned the relationship between the two clubs.

In the following seasons, VfB did not get beyond mediocrity and was temporarily in need of relegation. In the mid-1960s, the association needed a fundraiser to survive. Qualification for the DFB Cup in 1967 redeveloped the club. In the first round , VfB met Borussia Dortmund , against whom Oldenburg lost 3-2 despite a 2-0 half-time lead.

Another sell-off of high performers in connection with bad luck with injuries ultimately led to relegation to the Lower Saxony state league in the 1970/71 season . A 1: 2 defeat at Itzehoer SV on the last match day sealed the demotion to the amateur camp. With a strongly rejuvenated team, VfB became Lower Saxony champions and moved into the promotion round. On the last day of the match he had to travel to the Rendsburger TSV , which had not been scored until then . In the end, Oldenburg won 6: 4 after a 3-0 deficit and returned to the Regionalliga due to the better goal difference against Concordia Hamburg and Preußen Hameln .

In 1973 VfB again won the DFB Cup; 32,000 spectators saw a 6-0 defeat against Borussia Mönchengladbach on December 1, 1973 . In terms of sport, the Oldenburg team quickly established themselves in the regional league and reached 6th place in the 1973/74 season . However, this was not enough for the newly created 2nd Bundesliga, as the places were awarded over a five- year period. In this ranking, VfB only came in eleventh.

Senior league years (1974 to 1990)

The successor to the Regionalliga Nord was the third-class Oberliga Nord . After an exciting title race against Arminia Hannover , VfB secured the first championship of the new league. In the promotion round , however, the Oldenburg failed to Westfalia Herne and the outsider Spandauer SV . A year later, VfB qualified third for the German amateur championship . In the semifinals, the team had a penalty shoot the SV Holzwickede beaten. Two years later , the game against SV Baesweiler 09 followed in round one .

Helmut Mrosla then took over as coach and led the team to the championship in 1980 and the associated promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga. A few weeks later, the DFB decided to convert the previously double-track 2nd Bundesliga into a single-track one from 1981. 15th place was by far not enough to stay in the league. The highlight of the season was the 3-0 defeat against Werder Bremen in front of 18,000 spectators. After relegation, new financial difficulties plagued the club, which only held the class in 1983 because of the better goal difference.

In 1984 Hans-Dieter Schmidt took over the coaching position and led VfB back to better regions. In 1986 the Oldenburg team were runner-up behind FC St. Pauli and were promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga. There the team started with a 5-0 victory over Rot-Weiss Essen , before four defeats in a row broke their dreams of promotion. Two years later , VfB reached third place and qualified again for the German amateur championship . The team reached the final via Tennis Borussia Berlin and TSV Vestenbergsgreuth , which was lost to Eintracht Trier 4-5 on penalties .

In 1990 VfB won the league championship for the third time and prevailed in the subsequent promotion round together with TSV Havelse . At the same time, the club sold the Donnerschwee stadium to the city for 2.8 million marks , making it debt-free.

Between the 2nd Bundesliga and the regional league (1990 to 1997)

The team trained by Wolfgang Sidka and managed by Rudi Assauer reached 12th place in the promotion season. With a home game against SC Freiburg on June 16, 1991, VfB said goodbye to the Donnerschwee stadium and moved to the Marschweg stadium for the following season . Surprisingly, the Oldenburg team around goal scorer Radek Drulák made it into the promotion round to the Bundesliga.

In this VfB remained unbeaten for seven games before they lost 3-2 at FC St. Pauli. After further victories over Hertha BSC and at SV Meppen, the Oldenburg runners-up. One point was missing from Bayer 05 Uerdingen in the final score . Radek Drulák was the top scorer in the 2nd Bundesliga North with 21 goals . A year after the greatest success in the club's history, they were relegated to the league. With 90 goals conceded, VfB had the worst defense in the league.

After the promotion was missed in the next two seasons, Hubert Hüring came as coach on July 1, 1995 , who surprisingly led the strongly rejuvenated team around goalkeeper Hans Jörg Butt to the championship. Thus VfB met the champions of the Regionalliga Nordost, Tennis Borussia Berlin. After a 1-1 draw in Berlin, the Oldenburg team won 2-1 after extra time in the second leg and returned to the 2nd Bundesliga. The promotion team was overwhelmed in the second division season 1996/97 in spite of the later signed ex-national player Mirko Votava and rose again as bottom of the table.

Bankruptcy and decline (1997 to 2007)

As a result of the relegation, VfB again suffered severe financial problems, so that the team quickly slipped into the mediocrity of the regional league. The situation escalated during the 1999/2000 season when bankruptcy proceedings were initiated against VfB . In March 2000 the responsible judge rejected such a procedure because 300,000 marks were missing. Since the club was threatened with dissolution, a successor club was founded with FC Germania Oldenburg .

With the help of the Wilhelmshaven lawyer Naraschweski, the insolvency proceedings were finally successfully concluded. Benefit games against Hamburger SV, Werder Bremen and FC Schalke 04 also contributed to the success . In terms of sport, VfB was unable to provide a competitive team that season and was relegated bottom of the table with a full 14 points. From 2001 the Cloppenburg entrepreneur Albert Sprehe got involved financially in the club, which was then able to celebrate the championship of the Oberliga Niedersachsen / Bremen .

In the promotion games to the Regionalliga, the Oldenburg met the amateurs of Hamburger SV. After a goalless draw at home, VfB lost 5-2 in Hamburg. Once again there was turbulence after the missed ascent. In 2004, the Oberliga Nord was back on a single track. The eighth place necessary for qualification was missed by two points, so that the Oldenburg had to be in the fifth division for the first time. For the first time in 40 years, they met city rivals VfL there.

After a third place in the 2004/05 season, the Oldenburg failed a year later only because of the poorer goal difference at SV Ramlingen-Ehlershausen . In the 2006/07 season, VfB finally became champions under coach Josef Zinnbauer and returned to the Oberliga Nord.

Present (since 2007)

The 2007/08 season was about qualifying for the Regionalliga Nord. The direct qualification was missed as seventh; VfB took part in a relegation round due to the denial of license for TuS Heeslingen , in which he failed at FC Oberneuland . A year later , VfB secured the championship of the Lower Saxony-West Oberliga; in the season there was an 11-1 win against Heeßeler SV . In the promotion relegation, the team met the master of the east relay, Goslarer SC 08 . The Oldenburg won the first leg in Goslar 1-0. The second leg in front of 11,740 spectators in Oldenburg, however, decided the Goslar team 2-1 for themselves and rose due to the away goals rule . After the game there were riots.

In 2010 VfB missed the promotion as runner-up behind TSV Havelse, but qualified for the now single-track Oberliga Niedersachsen . A year later, VfB was able to qualify for the DFB Cup again after a long time. In the first main round the Oldenburg lost against Hamburger SV 1: 2. In 2012 , after another league reform, as third in the table, he was finally promoted to the re-introduced Regionalliga Nord. VfB finished third there in 2014 and even runner-up in 2016 behind the second team from VfL Wolfsburg.

successes

• German amateurs runner-up in 1988
• Champion of the amateur league Lower Saxony-West 1952, 1957, 1959
• Champion of the Regionalliga Nord 1996
• Champion of the Oberliga Nord 1975, 1980, 1990
• Champion of the Oberliga Niedersachsen-West 2009
• Champion of the Lower Saxony League West 2007
• Champion of the Lower Saxony / Bremen Oberliga in 2002
• Champion of the Lower Saxony State League in 1972
• Champion of the Landesliga Weser / Ems 1949

First team

Current squad 2019/20

No.	Nat.	player	Date of birth	in the team since	Last club
goalkeeper
01		Dominik Kisiel	April 15, 1990	2018	FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin
13		Thilo Pöpken	01/26/1999	2018	JFV Northwest U19
Defense
04th		Leon Deichmann	02/24/1997	2019	FC St. Pauli II
03		Dominique Ndure	10/25/1999	2018	JFV Northwest U19
14th		Bernard Suffner	08/02/1999	2018	JFV Northwest U19
23		Fabian Herbst	05/21/2000	2019	JFV Northwest U19
05		Jeffrey Volkmer	07/22/1991	2018	BSV Rehden
25th		Kevin Kalinowski	01/22/1994	2018	BSV Rehden
27		Andrej Startsev	06/07/1994	2019	Energy Cottbus
17th		Justin Plautz	04/09/1999	2020	SönderjyskE
		Mirko Schuster	07/21/1994	2020	SV Waldhof Mannheim
midfield
10		Gazi Siala	11/09/1994	2017	BSV Rehden
20th		Ibrahim Temin	09/21/1992	2015	Kickers Wahnbek
18th		Pascal Richter	10/10/1996	2017	VfL Osnabrück
08th		Kai Bastian Evers	05/05/1990	2018	BSV Rehden
21st		Nico Matern	11/27/1992	2019	Indy Eleven
06th		Patrick Posipal	03/03/1988	2019	SV Meppen
15th		Jakob Bookjans	07/21/2000	2019	JFV Northwest U19
30th		Fynn Friedrichs	04/27/2000	2019	JFV Northwest U19
37		Dennis Rosin	06/27/1996	2019	SV Elversberg
22nd		Efkan Erdogan	12/11/1996	2019	VfL Oldenburg
24		Aleksandar Jankovic	09/16/1995	2019	De hits
Storm
26th		Jan Rosenthal	04/07/1986	2019	without a club, paused
17th		Justin Dähnenkamp	02/27/1997	2019	FC Hagen / Uthlede
11		Kifuta	01/08/1988	2016	BSV Rehden
07th		Pascal Steinwender	08/02/1996	2018	VfL Oldenburg
16		Maik Łukowicz	02/01/1995	2018	Eintracht Braunschweig II
09		Enis Bytyqi	02/18/1997	2019	Würzburger Kickers

• As of September 29, 2019

Coach and supervisor staff 2019/20

Surname	Nat.	function
Alexander Kiene		Trainer
Dennis Offermann		Assistant coach
Thomas Wegmann		Goalkeeping coach
Cumhur Demir		Team manager
Jürgen Hahn		Sports director
Felix Lönecke		Athletics coach
Till Loenecke		Athletics coach
Dr. Bjorn Jespersen		Team doctor
Yannic Horn		Physiotherapist
Wolfgang Weichbrodt		supervisor
Gerd Windels		supervisor

Personalities

Former players

Karsten Baumann  Hans Jörg Butt  Florian Bruns  Paulo da Palma  Radek Drulák  Ralf Eilenberger  Horst Elberfeld  Felix Gerritzen  Thomas Gerstner  Erich Hänel  Jerzy Hawrylewicz

Carsten Linke  Oldrich Machala  George Stanley Mbwando  Werner Meier  Addy-Waku Menga  Ernst-Otto Meyer  Frank Ordenewitz  Jonny Otten  Jürgen Prange  Michael Schulz

Hayri Sevimli  Wolfgang Sidka  Wolfgang Steinbach  Arne Tammen  Arie van Lent  Miroslav Votava  Dimo Wache (youth)  Harald Witt  Markus Wuckel  Krzysztof Zając

Trainer

until Sep. 1949: Fritz Blaschke Sep 1949 - 1951: Hans Pilz 1951 - 1952: Kurt Schmidt 1952 - 1954: not known 1954 - 1955: Hans Tibulski 1955 - 1956: Heinz Carolin 1956 - 1958: not known 1958 - 1960: Emil Izsó 1960-1965: Kurt Koch 1965-1967: Erich Hänel 1967-1970: Emil Izso 1970 - 1971: Kurt Koch 1971 -?: Gerd Kolbert ? - 1972: Uwe Strohwasser 1972 - 1976: Helmut Mrosla 1976 - 1978: Enno Bäumer 1978 - November 1980: Helmut Mrosla Nov. - Dec. 1980: Edgar Schöneich

Dec. 1980 - 1982: Gerd Bohnsack 1982 -?: Bata Tijanic ? - 1984: Jan Liberda 1984 - 1988: Hans-Dieter Schmidt 1988 - Sep. 1989: Joachim Krug October 1989 - February 1993: Wolfgang Sidka Feb. 1993 - 1993: Werner Fuchs 1993 - April 1994: Wolfgang Steinbach Apr. 1994 - May 1995: Horst Wohlers May 1995 - 1995: Krzysztof Zając 1995 - 1997: Hubert Hüring 1997-1998 : Mirko Votava 1998 - Sep. 1998: Klaus-Peter Nemet Sep 1998 - November 1999: Willi Belke Nov. 1999 - 2002: Wolfgang Steinbach 2002 - February 2004: Alfons Weusthof

Feb. 2004 - 2004: Willi Belke 2004 - December 2004: Dirk Lellek Dec. 2004 - 2005: Uwe Cording 2005 - 2010: Josef Zinnbauer 2010 - April 2011: Torsten Fröhling Apr. - Oct. 2011: Timo Ehle Nov. 2011 - Apr. 2013: Andreas Boll Apr. 2013 - June 2014: Alexander Nouri July 2014 - Oct. 2014: Kristian Arambasic Oct. 2014 - Sep. 2015: Pedrag Uzelac Sep 2015 - Sep. 2015: Stephan Ehlers Sep 2015 - Aug. 2017: Dietmar Hirsch Aug. 2017 - Sep. 2017: Ralf Voigt Sep 2017 - Sep. 2018: Stephan Ehlers Sep 2018 - June 2019: Marco Elia since July 2019: Alexander Kiene

Former officials

The singer of the Schlager duo Klaus and Klaus , Klaus Baumgart ("the fat Klaus"), was vice-president of the club from 1990 to 1993 during the successful period of VfB Oldenburg. In 2009 Baumgart was excluded because of his personal attacks against the team, coach and board of directors, which he expressed on local television.

Stadion

→ Main article: Marschweg Stadium

VfB Oldenburg has been playing its home games in the city's Marschweg Stadium since the 1991/92 season. It has space for 15,200 spectators, 4,500 of which are covered seats. Before that, they played regularly in the club's own smaller stadium Donnerschwee and only at games with large numbers of visitors in the Marschweg Stadium. With the sale of the stadium, the first men's team finally moved to the Marschweg Stadium. The sale of the stadium in Donnerschwee is still very controversial among fans and members. The games against Hamburger SV in 1960 and Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1973 saw a record attendance of 32,000 .

THE BLUE

On April 3, 2005 the official stadium magazine of VfB Oldenburg appeared for the first time under its new name DAS BLAUE for the home game against SC Spelle Venhaus in the Niedersachsenliga West season 2004/05 . The stadium magazine appears for every home game of VfB Oldenburg in the local Marschweg Stadium.

Filled with reports on interesting facts about VfB Oldenburg, DAS BLAUE informs about the current opponent and keeps fans and stadium visitors as well as sponsors up to date with the latest news. DAS BLAUE is distributed free of charge in front of and in the Marschweg Stadium. It is offered as a PDF file for free download on the official homepage of VfB Oldenburg . The editions published so far are archived under the heading Stadium / Stadium newspaper .

Former departments

Cricket

In 2004, the Oldenburg Cricket Club , which plays in the top German league, joined VfB as a cricket department. In 2007 the cricket department broke away from VfB and reactivated the Oldenburger Cricket Club e. V. (OCC). On December 1, 2016, a new cricket department was founded at VfB Oldenburg. A decisive reason for the establishment was the increasing number of people from cricket-loving countries in the Oldenburg city area, due to the political situation in the Near and Middle East.

ice Hockey

→ Main article : EC Wilhelmshaven

The ice hockey department of VfB Oldenburg existed between 1981 and 1984. It was founded by members of ESV Stickhausen and played under the name VfB-ESV Oldenburg-Stickhausen . The team played from 1981/82 in the regional league, in the following season they even achieved promotion to the league . However, the ascent could not be implemented because the department could not agree on the ice rental with the hall operator. As a result, the department separated again from VfB Oldenburg in 1984.

literature

• Heinz Arndt: VfB Oldenburg. Sutton, Erfurt 2002, ISBN 3-89702-469-1 .
• Matthias Schachtschneider: 100 years of VfB Oldenburg - a chronicle. Imken, Oldenburg 1997.
• Axel Bullwinkel, Uwe Nuttelmann: VfB Oldenburg 1978–1996: The statistics of the German clubs. Nuttelmann, Jade 1996, ISBN 3-930814-08-0 .

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 , pp. 233-235.
2. ↑ ^{a b} vfb-oldenburg.de: History ( Memento from August 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ 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 , p. 150.
4. ↑ Grüne (1996), p. 231.
5. ↑ Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 , p. 81.
6. ↑ Grüne (1997), p. 174.
7. ↑ hallofamilie.de: Longing for Hell
8. ↑ rsssf.com: (West) Germany - Second Level Top Scorers (English)
9. ↑ nwzonline.de of June 7, 2009: 1: 2 - VfB missed promotion - riot after the game . Retrieved July 29, 2016.
10. ↑ nwzonline.de of July 6, 2009: Baumgart excluded from VfB. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
11. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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.