VfL Eintracht Hagen

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VfL Eintracht Hagen
Logo from VfL Eintracht Hagen
Full name Association for physical exercises Eintracht Hagen from 1863 eV
Founded 1863
Hall Krollmann Arena
Places 3,402
president Detlef Spruth
executive Director Volker Wulf
Trainer vacant
league 3rd league
2019/20
rank 2nd place
DHB Cup 1 round
Website hagen-handball.de
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The VfL Eintracht Hagen (full name: Verein für Leibesübungen Eintracht Hagen from 1863 ) is a sports club from Hagen .

Club history

On June 5, 1920, the Wehringhausen gymnastics club founded in 1863 , the Wehringhausen gymnastics association and the Hagen sports union in 1910 merged to form VfL Hagen von 1863 . This was in constant competition with TV Eintracht Hagen, founded in 1878 . Both clubs were particularly successful in the fields of athletics and handball .

In 1962, VfL Hagen and TV Eintracht were merged; On March 10, 1962, the founding meeting of VfL Eintracht Hagen from 1863 took place in the Hagen car park.

The association, to which around 600 members belonged in 2010, is active in the sports of handball, spring football , badminton , table tennis , gymnastics , athletics and volleyball .

Spring football department

The spring football department existed from 1990 to 2011. The spring footballers played in the Bundesliga and won national and international titles. This department has not been active since 2011.

Handball department

Of the 600 members of the club, 300 are members of the handball department. The sport has been practiced at VfL since 1921. The club maintains men's, women's and youth teams.

The first men's team rose in 1971 to the then second-rate Regionalliga West and remained in this league until 1989, which was the third-highest division since 1981 after the introduction of a 2nd Bundesliga . In 1972 and 1974 VfL took part in the promotion games of Regionalliga West to the 1st Bundesliga, but failed both times. In 1989 they were promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga, where VfL played eleven years in a row until relegation in the 1999/2000 season . In the 1991/1992 season , VfL Eintracht Hagen became champion in the short-lived second division middle, but only finished fourth in the subsequent relegation round to the 1st Bundesliga and thus missed promotion to the 1st Bundesliga for the third time. From 2000 the team played again continuously in the regional league until the introduction of the 3rd division . In 2010, Eintracht Hagen qualified second in the Regionalliga West for the 3rd division, where the club competed until the 2014/2015 season. As runner-up in the West Season, you qualified for the promotion relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga, which took place on May 23, 2015 in Dresden. After a win against the hosts HC Elbflorenz and a draw against handball friends Springe, VfL and Springe had been promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga. For more than three decades, the VfL team has played in the second or third highest division.

In addition to the relay championship in the 2nd Bundesliga 1991/92 center, reaching the round of 16 in the DHB Cup in the 2000/01 season is the club's greatest success at national level.

The A-Jugend rose to the DHB (JBLH) youth league for the first time in the 2017/2018 season and was able to repeat this success again in the following 2018/2019 season. In the 2019/2020 season, VFL Eintracht Hagen is now playing in the A-Jugend Bundesliga for the third season in a row.

Seasonal balances since 2011

season Division space Sp S. U V Gates Diff. Points
2011/12 3rd League West 14th 30th 10 3 17th 866: 917 - 051 23:37
2012/13 3rd League West 09 28 12 2 14th 824: 829 - 5th 00 26:30
2013/14 3rd League West 05 30th 16 4th 10 844: 784 + 060 36:24
2014/15 3rd League West 02 30th 26th 1 03 927: 762 +165 53: 07
2015/16 2nd Bundesliga 19th 40 12 3 25th 1050: 1118 - 065 27:53
2016/17 3rd League West 02 30th 23 3 04th 984: 800 +184 49:11
2017/18 2nd Bundesliga 12 38 17th 0 21st 1010: 1074 - 064 34:42
2018/19 2nd Bundesliga 19th 38 11 2 25th 983: 984 -101 24:52
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Athletics Department

In the course of its history, the athletics department has had a number of national successes: At the German Championships in Stuttgart in 1950, the 4 x 400 meter relay with Waldemar Richter , Herbert Hosbach , Wolfgang Miedecke and Willi Böhm landed in a new West German record time of 3 : 18.0 minutes German runner-up; Waldemar Richter was German runner-up over 400 meters in 54.8 seconds. In 1965 Lothar Reinshagen became German marathon champion in Duisburg ; together with Wilhelm Heuser and Friedrich-Wilhelm Wigger Hausen he was German for the second time team champion. The marathon runners won their first team championship title back in 1963 with Reinshagen, Heuser and Helmut Knobloch . Wiggershausen was runner-up in the marathon in 1966 and the team also won the runner-up title in 1964 and 1966.

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