VfR 07 Limburg
The Club for Lawn Games 07 Limburg is the oldest Limburg football club. The club currently has around 450 members, around 250 of whom are active athletes. In addition to the senior, there is a women's and a youth soccer as well as a table tennis department.
history
On June 6, 1907, the club was founded with 18 members under the name Limburger Fußball-Club . The first chairman was Georg Deifel. The first playing field was the Limburg market square. The Limburg footballers first competed against other clubs in 1910.
After the First World War the club was renamed 1st Limburg Football Club 1907 on February 21, 1919 . At that time there were six football clubs in the city. Three of them, the 1907 football club, FC Viktoria and FC 19, merged in 1920 to form the Club for Lawn Games 07 Limburg . The new association had around 150 members. From 1921 on, games were played on St. Stephen's Hill on the outskirts of the city. In 1922 the hockey department split off and formed the Limburger HC in 1927 . From 1925 to 1935, the VfR recorded several cup wins and successes for the athletics department. During the Second World War , soccer games stopped, but one of the club's athletes won the club's first German championship: Maria Staudt won this title in the 1943 pentathlon in Limburg.
Immediately after the Second World War, the VfR set up a soccer team again, which moved into the Wiesbaden second amateur league in 1950. In 1959 the clubhouse on St. Stephen's Hill was completed, where the simple square was also turned into a sports facility. On December 23, 1961, the club met Eintracht Frankfurt in the DFB Cup and lost 3: 5. In 1964, the VfR rose to the 1st amateur league Hessen, the top division of the state at the time, but could only hold there for one season. This was followed by the descent via the district to the district class. The soccer team currently plays in the regional league Limburg-Weilburg.
In 1984 a women's soccer department was founded, which was the biggest success so far in the 2001/2002 season in the Regionalliga Süd, the second highest division in women's soccer. In 2005, the soccer women won the Hessen Cup and thus the right to participate in the DFB Cup competition for women, where they were eliminated in the first round.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported in August 2018 that the German Football Association was examining whether the chairman of the club Georg Behlau had given the club advantages through his DFB function. Behlau resigned from this position with immediate effect on November 2, 2018. The reason was the internal investigations of the DFB, which have now been concluded.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The DFB can determine , FAZ.net , August 9, 2018.
- ↑ Georg Behlau resigns as VfR boss , Frankfurter Neue Presse , November 3, 2018.