VfB Speldorf

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VfB Speldorf
Club crest
Basic data
Surname Association for Movement
Games Speldorf eV
Seat Mülheim an der Ruhr - Speldorf ,
North Rhine-Westphalia
founding January 19, 1919
Colours Green white
Chairman Klaus Wörsdörfer
Website www.vfb-speldorf.de
First soccer team
Head coach Dirk Roenz
Venue Ruhrstadion
(facility on Saarner Strasse)
Places 4,999
(approx. 500)
league Landesliga Niederrhein 1
2019/20 17th place
home
Away

The VfB Speldorf is a club from the district Speldorf the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr and since the late 1970s, the most successful football club in the city. The club colors are green and white.

history

The club was founded on January 19, 1919 as the successor to the clubs SC Preußen Speldorf and BV Rheinland Speldorf , which existed before the First World War .

In 1935 and 1936, VfB Speldorf qualified as champions of the Niederrhein district class for the promotion round to the Gauliga Niederrhein , the top division at the time, but did not make the promotion. Due to the Second World War, the club merged in 1943 initially with TSV Broich 85 and later with Mülheimer SV 07 to form the war game community KSG Linksruhr.

After the Second World War, the club first played in 1945/46 in the league for the district championship right Niederrhein (at that time the highest division) and then for a long time in the amateur league of the Niederrhein Football Association . There the club was champion in 1956 and rose to the 2nd Oberliga West , but in the following year it was back down. In addition, the club took part in the final round of the German amateur championship in the promotion year , where it was only defeated in the final with 2: 3 to Spvgg. 03 Neu-Isenburg .

In the 1960s and 1970s, VfB Speldorf rose several times down to the lowlands of the district class. After several promotions they played in the Oberliga Nordrhein in 1983/84 . After the interim relegation to the state league, VfB Speldorf succeeded in the 2004/05 season as champion of the association league of renewed promotion to the Oberliga Nordrhein . In the two following years, relegation was achieved in the upper league, but at the end of the 2007/08 season, VfB Speldorf rose again to the Lower Rhine league .

In the 2008/09 season the club won the championship in the Lower Rhine League and then played in the now disbanded NRW League . On May 27, 2009, VfB won the Lower Rhine Cup with a 3-2 win in the final against Rot-Weiss Essen in their Georg Melches Stadium and was thus qualified for the 2009/10 DFB Cup . There they met in the first main round on the neighboring second division Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and were eliminated from the competition after a 3-0 defeat. For security and capacity reasons, the game took place in the Duisburg MSV-Arena . It later emerged that this encounter was implicated in the betting scandal.

The Mülheimers played in the NRW league for three years, followed by another two in the Niederrhein Oberliga after the restructuring . At the end of the 2013/2014 season, Speldorf was relegated to the state league. For the 2016/2017 season, the club hired former professional Christian Mikolajczak as a player-coach. In his first season he led VfB Speldorf to promotion. In the 2017/2018 season, the Mülheimers confidently held the class as twelfth. After internal quarrels, Mikolajczak resigned in December 2018. His successor, the Japanese Ryoji Ishikawa, did not manage to win a single win in the second half of the season with a completely new team, which meant that the Mülheimers relegated to the national league.

VfB Speldorf belongs to District 9 of the Lower Rhine Football Association. The second team of VfB currently plays in the district league B.

successes

  • Champion of the Niederrhein district class: 1934, 1935
  • Champion of the Lower Rhine League: 1956, 2005, 2009
  • German Vice Amateur Champion: 1956
  • Champion of the Lower Rhine Regional League: 1969, 1996
  • Lower Rhine Cup winner and participation in the DFB Cup: 2009

Stadion

The home games of VfB Speldorf were played in the stadium on Blötter Weg until the end of the 2009/10 season, which had space for 2,500 spectators. The VfB clubhouse was also located on the square. The stadium has now been torn down and turned into a residential area. For the 2010/11 season, the club moved to a new venue on Saarner Straße, where an artificial turf pitch, a club house and the corresponding infrastructure were built. The inadequate infrastructure around the stadium on Blötter Weg was cited as the motivation for the move. Furthermore, the stadium on Blötter Weg was classified as unsuitable for the NRW League, in the 2009/10 season they only played there with a special permit.

As long as VfB is the top club in the city of Mülheim, it has played its home games in the city's Ruhrstadion since the 2010/11 season . The Ruhrstadion, in which 1. FC Mülheim played its games in the second Bundesliga in the 1970s , currently holds 4,999 spectators. The stadium was extensively modernized for the 2010/11 season (artificial turf, security, floodlights, sound, fan separation).

In the 2014/2015 season, VfB also played home games as a test on the pitch on Saarner Straße, which is located in the hometown of Speldorf. Approx. 500 spectators are admitted. In the 2015/2016 season, Saarner Straße may also be played subject to certain conditions. Those conditions that are primarily intended to reduce the noise for residents include the installation of soundproof advertising boards and the postponement of the kickoff by half an hour to 3:30 p.m. The poor parking situation around the sports facility is also criticized. Meanwhile, the Speldorfer are playing regularly and at the normal kick-off time on Saarner Straße.

Fans

Since the promotion to the league in 2005, an organized fan scene has formed around VfB Speldorf. Most of the fans of VfB Speldorf come from the urban area of Mülheim an der Ruhr and are actually supporters of higher-class traditional clubs. At the same time, they also support VfB as an association in their city.

Since moving from the stadium on Blötter Weg to the Ruhrstadion, VfB has not only struggled with the number of crowds, but also with increased riots. The club has imposed several stadium bans in the past. Already in the Ruhrstadion and at the latest with the return to Saarner Straße, the active fan scene of the Speldorfer largely died out. However, VfB has a crowd of spectators who also support it in away games.

youth

The youth department is responsible for the football business at the Saarner Straße sports complex, which houses a large and a small pitch made of artificial turf as well as two jumping pits and a clubhouse with a restaurant.

In 2012 the club held an "international U11 tournament" for the first time, in which the youth teams of FC Schalke 04 , Bayer 04 Leverkusen , Borussia Dortmund , Hannover 96 and Eintracht Frankfurt as well as Bohemians 1905 Prague , Djurgårdens IF , HJK Helsinki and Vitesse Arnheim and FC Twente Enschede participated. The winner of the tournament was Hallescher FC ahead of the youth team of MSV Duisburg .

The second edition took place on the first weekend in October 2013, when Rot-Weiss Essen prevailed against FC Schalke 04.

When FC Bayern Munich first took part in 2014, Borussia Dortmund won the tournament against the Danish club Kolding IF . Bayer 04 Leverkusen came third ahead of FC Schalke 04. This was the first time that the four youth teams of the German Champions League representatives were present. 1. FC Köln won in 2015, Bayer Leverkusen in 2016, Mainz 05 in 2017 and Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2018.

Well-known players and coaches

  • Fritz Buchloh , World Cup participant in 1934 and 1938 as well as Olympic participant in 1936, he played 17 international matches and is the record player of the WFV with 25 appearances.
  • Ernst Kuzorra , Schalke football legend, coached VfB at short notice at the end of the 1940s
  • Detmar Cramer , known as the Fifa trainer and success coach of Bayern Munich, was temporarily responsible for coaching work on Blötter Weg in the 1950s
  • Theo Klöckner played 2 A-internationals and 1 B-internationals. He was German champion with Werder Bremen in 1965 and German cup winner with Schwarz-Weiß Essen in 1959
  • Hans Walitza was used three times in the U-23 national team and was considered one of the best goal scorers of the 1970s
  • Theo Schmitz was also used as a goalkeeper and member of VfB in 1957 in the U-23 national team
  • Kurt Zimmermann was considered one of the best players on the Lower Rhine for over a decade and was a representative player many times. In his heyday he turned down offers from FC Schalke 04 and Meidericher SV .
  • Rudi Seliger played in the league season 1983/84 at VfB Speldorf. After the end of his professional career at MSV Duisburg, the national soccer player ended his life as a soccer player with VfB.
  • Werner Schneider acted in the 1980s after his Bundesliga time at Borussia Dortmund and MSV Duisburg as a player-coach at VfB
  • Willi Hausmann was once used by Sepp Herberger in an unofficial B international match and was part of the Lower Rhine selection team that won the national cup in 1951.
  • Dirk Roenz was the crowd's favorite and an accurate striker in the association and state leagues. Between 1990 and 2005 he scored exactly 200 times for VfB before moving to Tus Helene Essen in the national league at the age of 35. Several times he turned down offers from higher-class clubs because he felt at home at VfB. Dirk Roenz was also a youth coach at VfB for a long time.
  • Michael Blum , active for Karlsruher SC and Hansa Rostock in the 2nd Bundesliga, played one year in the Speldorfer Jugend
  • Peter Fenten , Bundesliga player at MSV Duisburg, in his youth at VfB
  • Ingo Pickenäcker , Bundesliga player at Borussia M'gladbach and VfL Bochum, played one more season for VfB at the age of 40 and then worked as the club's sports manager for several years.
  • Thomas Pröpper , who played for Wuppertaler SV and Hannover 96 in the 2nd Bundesliga, ended his career at VfB
  • René Gottwald , second division player at Hansa Rostock, active at VfB from 2001 to 2003
  • Lothar Prehn , Bundesliga player at Bayer Uerdingen
  • Marcel Podszus , Bundesliga player at Borussia M'gladbach, played once for VfB in 2012
  • Stefan Chmielewski , second division player at Rot-Weiss Essen, U18 national player, played for VfB in his youth
  • Torsten Chmielewski , Bundesliga player for Bayer Uerdingen, U21 national player, played for VfB in the youth
  • Günter Schlipper , Bundesliga player for 1. FC Köln and Schalke 04, played one season at VfB in 1985/86
  • Thorsten Schmugge , second division player for Wuppertaler SV, 1. FC Saarbrücken, VfL Bochum and Wattenscheid 09, ended his career at VfB
  • Hans-Günter Bruns , former Bundesliga player from Borussia Mönchengladbach, coached VfB in the 1980s
  • Dirk Pusch , second division player for Rot-Weiss Essen and Wuppertaler SV, VfB coach from 1998 to 2002
  • Frank Kurth , former goalkeeper of Rot-Weiss Essen and Fortuna Düsseldorf, 2002–04 coach of VfB
  • Peter Kunkel , ten years second division player for Wattenscheid 09, 2009–11 coach of VfB
  • Michael Klauß , Bundesliga player for Bayer Uerdingen and VfL Bochum, sports director of VfB from 2003 to 2009
  • Christian Mikolajczak , runner-up and cup winner with Schalke, active in several second and third division teams, led VfB as a coach in the top division in 2017.

Placements since 1980/81

season league space Gates Points Ascent / descent
1980/81 Association league Niederrhein 10. 37:36 28-32
1981/82 Association league Niederrhein 11. 40:49 28-32
1982/83 Association league Niederrhein 2. 50:35 36-24 Ascent
1983/84 Oberliga Nordrhein 17th 22:60 13-51 descent
1984/85 Association league Niederrhein 7th 48:50 35-29
1985/86 Association league Niederrhein 3. 66:37 46-22
1986/87 Association league Niederrhein 6th 59:44 35-25
1987/88 Association league Niederrhein 10. 47:52 27-29
1988/89 Association league Niederrhein 14th 38:61 20-40 descent
1989/90 Landesliga Niederrhein Group 1 3. 64:39 40-20
1990/91 Landesliga Niederrhein Group 3 6th 45:50 31-29
1991/92 Landesliga Niederrhein Group 3 2. 53:33 41-19
1992/93 Landesliga Niederrhein Group 3 5. 54:39 32-28
1993/94 Landesliga Niederrhein Group 3 7th 55:52 36-32
1994/95 Landesliga Niederrhein Group 3 2. 94:25 46-14
1995/96 Landesliga Niederrhein Group 3 1. 77:29 69 Ascent
1996/97 Association league Niederrhein 9. 49:72 40
1997/98 Association league Niederrhein 14th 47:58 30th
1998/99 Association league Niederrhein 10. 38:38 38
1999/00 Association league Niederrhein 5. 50:44 53
2000/01 Association league Niederrhein 3. 65:37 50
2001/02 Association league Niederrhein 4th 56:42 48
2002/03 Association league Niederrhein 4th 71:36 49
2003/04 Association league Niederrhein 8th. 63:44 46
2004/05 Association league Niederrhein 1. 70:26 63 Ascent
2005/06 Oberliga Nordrhein 12. 41:49 37
2006/07 Oberliga Nordrhein 14th 40:47 42
2007/08 Oberliga Nordrhein 16. 42:69 30th descent
2008/09 Lower Rhine League 1. 69:25 79 Ascent
2009/10 NRW League 8th. 47:46 51
2010/11 NRW League 9. 49:46 42
2011/12 NRW League 14th 53:77 34 League dissolved
2012/13 Oberliga Niederrhein 11. 71:77 51
2013/14 Oberliga Niederrhein 18th 41:87 26th descent
2014/15 Landesliga Niederrhein Group 3 8th. 55:47 38
2015/16 Landesliga Niederrhein Group 2 13. 75:71 40
2016/17 Landesliga Niederrhein Group 2 2. 88:39 71 Ascent
2017/18 Oberliga Niederrhein 12. 64:67 47
2018/19 Oberliga Niederrhein 17th 48:87 26th descent
2019/20 Landesliga Niederrhein Group 2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Marcus Lemke: NRW league team Speldorf right in the middle of the betting scandal . ( wp.de [accessed November 8, 2018]).
  2. Test phase on Saarner Straße - reviersport.de; Retrieved September 20, 2014
  3. ^ First team of VfB Speldorf stays at Saarner Straße - derwesten.de; Retrieved June 14, 2015
  4. Article in RevierSport "Speldorf: Chaoten raus" from October 24, 2013, accessed on April 28, 2014
  5. International U11 tournament - website of the youth department (last accessed on October 6, 2014)