VfL Stettin
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| Full name | Association for physical exercises Stettin | ||
| place | Szczecin | ||
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1912 (within the Stettiner Turnverein) 1925 (independent) |
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| Dissolved | 1945 | ||
| Club colors | Blue White | ||
| Stadion | German Mountain (2,500) Prussia Sports Field (10,000) |
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| Top league | Gauliga Pomerania | ||
| successes | Gaumeister Pomerania 1940 | ||
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The VfL Stettin was a German football club in Stettin in Pomerania .
history
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In 1912 the Stettiner Turnverein (corp.) Founded in 1847 acquired a football department. This department did not report any particular success when it separated from the gymnastics club in 1923 and became an independent association for physical exercises. In the period that followed, it is only noteworthy that the club set up its own sports field on the “Deutsche Berg” with a capacity of 2500 spectators.
That changed when in 1930 after the bankruptcy of FC Titania Stettin most of its players joined VfL. With the quantity came the quality and with it the football success of the blue-whites. In the seasons 1931/32 and 1932/33 each managed to move into the Pomerania finals and there the fourth place. VfL qualified for the new Gauliga Pomerania (-West), from which he, however, relegated to midfield positions in the previous years in the 1935/36 season.
With the return in 1939/40 there was the greatest success in the club's history: The club not only finished the season first, but was also won after three games (2: 1, 0: 1, 5: 2) against the "Ost- Winner “ Germania Stolp Pomeranian Master. This allowed VfL to take part in the final round of the German championship, but in the preliminary round group 1a against the Berlin-Brandenburg champions SC Union Oberschöneweide and the East Prussia champions VfB Königsberg they had no chance and finished last without winning points.
Two more Gauliga years followed, one relegation and one promotion and in 1944/45 three games in the Gauliga Stettin before the war brought an end to football. After the end of the Second World War , VfL Stettin was dissolved.
Venue
VfL Stettin played its home games in the 1940/41 season on the Prussian sports fields in Stettin-Neuwestend. The sports field there held 10,000 spectators. The audience record (1922) was 5,000.
successes
- Master Gauliga Pomerania : 1940
- Participation in the German soccer championship : 1940
literature
- Gilbert Bringmann (Ed.): Football Almanac 1900–1943. 2nd Edition. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-928562-13-4 .
- Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
- Pomerania on the ball. Football history in an east German province. Traditional community of Pomeranian gymnastics and sports clubs, Hamburg 1970.