VfB Rheine
The VfB Rheine was a sports club from Rheine in Steinfurt . The first women's soccer team played in the Bundesliga for four years . The first men's soccer team played for eight years in the then third-class Oberliga Westfalen .
history
Club history
VfB Rheine was created on June 27, 1971 through the merger of the Rot-Weiß Rheine and FC Rheine clubs . Both parent clubs were also the product of club mergers. Rot-Weiß Rheine was created on June 22, 1969 through the merger of Borussia Rheine and VfL Rheine . The FC Rheine in turn was founded on July 12, 1969 through the merger of BV Rheine with SpVgg Rheine . Borussia Rheine won the Westphalia Championship in 1928 with a 3-2 win against VfB 03 Bielefeld . BV Rheine played three years, SpVgg Rheine one year in the highest Westphalian amateur league. On July 10, 1994, VfB merged with SG Eintracht Rheine to form FC Eintracht Rheine . The women's football department split off on March 10, 1998 as FFC Heike Rheine from FC Eintracht.
Women's soccer
The VfB women's team rose in 1989 to what was then the first-class Regionalliga West and surprisingly qualified as runner-up in the 1989/90 season for the newly created Bundesliga. There the team took third place in the northern group in 1992 and 1993. In both years, the team also reached the semi-finals in the DFB Cup . The best-known player at VfB Rheine is Kerstin Stegemann , who played 191 times for the German national team.
Men's soccer
The men's team of VfB started in the regional league and in 1973 made it to the Association League Westphalia . There the team immediately reached seventh place and an average attendance of 4,160. In 1978 VfB was runner-up in his season after the playoffs against 1. FC Paderborn were lost 0: 1 and 1: 1. The team then had to play playoffs to participate in the German amateur championship . After a 2-1 first leg win against SpVgg Erkenschwick, the Rheinenser lost 2-0 after extra time in the second leg .
VfB was thus qualified for the newly created Oberliga Westfalen. After two years of relegation battle, the team achieved the best placement in the 1980/81 season with sixth place. A year later, VfB celebrated its highest league victory with an 8-1 win at STV Horst-Emscher . In 1983 VfB was unfortunately relegated. Since a second division team was relegated with TuS Schloß Neuhaus and upper division champion Eintracht Hamm-Heessen missed the promotion, the Rheinenser had to relegate as third from bottom.
After a third place in the 1985/86 season, VfB returned to the league two years later as a league champion. On the last day of the match, the club welcomed 12,000 spectators to the home game against Arminia Bielefeld . VfB beat Arminia 2: 1 and provided Bielefeld's competitor Preußen Münster with shooting assistance, who snatched the championship away from Arminia with a 0-0 win at SC Verl . A year later, VfB remained in the league only because of the better goal difference compared to Hammer SpVg . In 1991, the Rheinenser rose again from the league and sank in the midfield of the association league.
Youth football
The B-Juniors of VfB Rheine were Westphalia champions in 1985 and 1986 respectively. In 1986 the male C-youth was also Westfalenmeister.
Personalities
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Hardy Green , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 398.
- ^ Association. (No longer available online.) FFC Heike Rheine, archived from the original on October 7, 2013 ; Retrieved July 20, 2013 . 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.
- ↑ Jens Kirschneck, Marcus Uhlig , Volker Backes, Olaf Bentkämper, Julien Lecoeur: Arminia Bielefeld - 100 years of passion . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-479-0 , p. 209 .
- ↑ Westfalenmeister field. (No longer available online.) FLVW , archived from the original on February 28, 2017 ; accessed on August 4, 2016 . 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.
