VfR Aalen
| VfR Aalen | ||||
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| Surname | Association for lawn games 1921 e. V. Aalen | |||
| Seat | Aalen , Baden-Wuerttemberg | |||
| founding | March 8, 1921 | |||
| Colours | Black-and-white | |||
| Members | 1,110 (July 29, 2017) | |||
| Board | Roland Vogt (Spokesman; Finance / Organization) Walter Höffner (Infrastructure & Other Departments) Michael Weißkopf (Sports) |
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| Website | vfr-aalen.de | |||
| First soccer team | ||||
| Head coach | Roland Seitz | |||
| Venue | Ostalb Arena | |||
| Places | 14,500 | |||
| league | Regionalliga southwest | |||
| 2019/20 | 14th place | |||
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The Association for Lawn Games 1921 e. V. Aalen ( VfR Aalen for short ) is a sports club from Aalen in Baden-Württemberg . He is known for his soccer team, which will compete in the fourth-class regional league southwest in the 2019/20 season . The VfR Aalen has around 1,000 members.
history
Predecessor clubs
With the Arminia , the first football club in the city of Aalen was founded on September 8, 1907, but it had to be dissolved again in 1910 due to insufficient membership. With the support of former Armines, the first Aalen football club and the Pfeil 1910 football club were established in the same year . The latter renamed itself in 1912 to the Association for Lawn Games and joined the Association of South German Football Associations . The club for lawn games played its games on the Wacht am Rhein sports field , while the adjacent restaurant of the same name served as a club house.
With the outbreak of the First World War , the game operations of the VfR came to a complete standstill. After the end of the war there was a severe shortage of members, so that the remaining members joined the newly founded football department of the men's gymnastics club in Aalen.
Founding of a club and first class in the Gauliga
After disputes with the gymnasts and failed efforts to outsource the footballers, on March 8, 1921, the founding meeting of a football club independent of MTV with an athletics department took place, which, like the pre-war VfR, gave itself the name Verein für lawn games .
VfR Aalen played its first game after it was founded on March 20, 1921 against FC 08 Unterkochen . After founding a swimming department and a singing department in August 1921, the club had 318 members. From November 1921 the venue was again the Wacht am Rhein, in 1924 a second venue was built on a field in the western part of the city.
In the 1924/25 season, VfR Aalen won promotion from the district to the district league and was able to establish itself there until the 1936/37 season. After relegation to the district league, the VfR returned directly to the district league under coach Karl Maier in the 1937/38 season and made it to the first-class Gauliga Württemberg in the following season .
Since the football association refused to play the home games on the Wacht am Rhein sports field, the Schlageter -ampfbahn in Rohrwang was expanded into a stadium facility for 70,000 Reichsmarks . The stadium was inaugurated with the first home game of the season on September 19, 1939, around three weeks after the start of the Second World War , against VfB Stuttgart (final score 0: 7). At the end of the season, the fifth of eleven places was occupied, in the following season the seventh. Although it became more and more difficult to assemble a sufficiently large squad as the war progressed, football could be played successfully in the Gauliga. In the 1944/45 season, which was finally canceled due to the turmoil of the war, the team took second place when canceled.
Post-war years and construction of their own stadium
After the end of the war, the VfR Aalen had to return the Schlageter arena to the SSV Aalen , the former workers' gymnastics club Jahn, expropriated by the National Socialists at the instigation of the US occupation forces . In the Aalen district, football games were allowed to take place again from September 1945 onwards, thanks to the influence of VfR functionary Martin Berth. Since the former watch on the Rhine was converted into an allotment garden, VfR Aalen had to play its games away from home before it could agree with the SSV on a temporary joint use of its playing field. In terms of sport, the VfR quickly regained a foothold, and from 1946 they played in the second-class national league.
In March 1947, the city of Aalen finally made a plot of land in the Rohrwang municipal forest available to VfR , where surveying work was carried out until the end of the year. Construction work began in early 1948. On September 4, 1949, the stadium in Rohrwang , which is still used today as the home ground of VfR Aalen, was inaugurated with a friendly match against the zone division club 1. FSV Mainz 05 (final score 3: 5).
First (semi) professional football and return to amateur football
In the fall of 1950, the club's handball department was re-established. The Aalen boxing club joined the VfR as a boxing department, which from then on led successful fights and was temporarily unrivaled in Württemberg. In 1969 the department was dissolved.
After a league reform that introduced a second contract player league, VfR played in the third-class amateur league in the 1950/51 season. The then 38-year-old Franz Seybold was signed as the successor to coach Fritz Teufel . In his first season he was with VfR Aalen master of the amateur league; In the promotion games, a 5-0 win against ASV Feudenheim sealed the promotion to the II. Division and the associated move into paid football. However, the squad was too weak with only 13 contract and 7 amateur players, and Harald Reinhardt, who was newly signed as coach during the season, could no longer prevent relegation and left VfR like many players after the end of the season. Under successor Theo Otto, the second place in the amateur league was achieved in the following season, which again entitled to participate in the promotion games; in these the VfR failed but at FC Wacker Munich and the Offenburg FV . In the following years, the VfR Aalen established itself despite mixed performances in the amateur league, after the 1958/59 season he was relegated to the fourth class 2nd amateur league, but was able to celebrate an immediate rise in 1959/60. In the new season, the team won 12th place. In the same year, the neighboring SSV Aalen became champions of the 2nd amateur league and then played in the same league as the VfR. The planned merger of VfR Aalen and SSV Aalen into one major club failed in June 1959. In early 1961, VfR opened an office in the next room of an inn, next to today's Aalener Marktbrunnen .
In the following years the VfR Aalen changed repeatedly between the 1st and 2nd amateur league and rose in the 1967/68 season in the A-class Kocher / Rems. This represented the lowest point in the club's history.
Golden seventies
Coach Manfred Günther took over the team after relegation. The VfR took second place two years in a row and thus only just missed the recovery. In 1970/71 they played with a total of seven newcomers, all of whom came to VfR from clubs in the region; including Helmut Dietterle and Erwin Hadewicz . With them, the championship and thus the return to the 2nd amateur league was achieved five game days before the end of the season.
After the DFB lifted the ban on women's football in October 1970, a women's football team was founded at VfR in 1971.
Under the coaches Norbert Wels and Hans Schiegl, the team also reached the championship of the 2nd amateur league and thus the march from the district to the 1st amateur league in the following season 1971/72. Erwin Hadewicz was the top scorer with 31 goals. With a 3: 5 win over FV Ravensburg , VfR also won the WFV Cup for the first time in its history . For the new season 1972/73, Hans Arnold was hired as a coach and Franz Seybold returned to the club as game manager. Because Seybold had pre-dated the player passes of two newcomers from VfB Stuttgart , the club was penalized with a point deduction of four points. At the end of the season, the team reached second place in the table with four points behind the first SSV Ulm 1846 , but the VfR had the better goal difference. Erwin Hadewicz was top scorer again with 26 goals, but left VfR for the new season and moved to German champions Bayern Munich . Coach Hans Arnold and game director Franz Seybold also left VfR after the end of the season.
In 1973 Werner Bickelhaupt was hired as the new coach . In addition, the team was strengthened with additional newcomers, including Dieter Hoeneß and Karl-Heinz Schroff . Although the club was undefeated in the first 12 games of the season by then, the employment relationship with Werner Bickelhaupt was terminated in October of the same year. His successor was Hellmut Maier from TSG Backnang , who led the club to the championship on the penultimate match day. Due to the league reform, as a result of which the 2nd Bundesliga was introduced instead of the five-track regional league, the VfR was not allowed to move up to the 2nd Bundesliga. Helmut Dietterle left the club and moved to VfB Stuttgart , Karl-Heinz Schroff to the Stuttgarter Kickers . Despite the two departures, the team was able to become champions again in the following season 1974/75, in the entire season they received only 21 goals, 18 of them in the first half of the season. In the promotion games that are now taking place, VfR narrowly failed, and SSV Reutlingen 05 rose instead . At the end of the season, striker Dieter Hoeneß also left the club.
Inconsistency and financial problems
For the 1976/77 season, Klaus-Peter Jendrosch was hired as coach and, among other things, Dieter Gust from SSV Reutlingen 05 was a new goalkeeper. But because several key players were injured, VfR fell to 14th place, which meant relegation to the 2nd amateur league. In the following season 1977/78, the VfR under coach Karl Gauß missed the promotion with fourth place. Thus the club fell back into the fifth division state league, this resulted from the simultaneous introduction of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg as the new state-wide third highest division.
In 1978, Wilhelm Stuzmann, who had been a member of the VfR Board of Directors for a total of 52 years since 1926, stepped down from the Presidium and was appointed honorary chairman. His successor as club president was Herbert Mäurer.
For the national league season 1978/79 Rudi Abele was hired as coach, who led the VfR to the double , consisting of the championship already won two game days before the end of the season and the second WFV cup victory in the club's history. As a result, the VfR played in the 1979/80 season in the fourth-class Verbandsliga Württemberg . The team also became champions in the new league and was promoted to the Baden-Württemberg Oberliga. Thus, for the second time in its history, the VfR managed to march straight through from the fifth to the third division. In the 1980/81 season, the team occupied a place in the middle of the table at the winter break, but broke in the second half of the season and rose two points behind to 15th place.
In the following season, the VfR occupied sixth place in the table under the newly signed coach Max Fischer. For the 1982/83 season, Rudi Abele returned to the Rohrwang as coach and the former captain Helmut Dietterle . The team became champions and rose to the league, Joachim Zeller scored the largest part of the 92 goals this season with 36 goals. In the league seasons 1983/84 and 1984/85, a satisfactory sixth place was achieved twice in a row. After the season, coach Rudi Abele left the club again and was replaced by Manfred Römer, who was dismissed after a bad start to the 1985/86 season with three defeats at 1: 9 goals.
Erwin Hadewicz returned to VfR for him , who then acted as player- coach . He also led the VfR in 6th place and after a 7-6 win on penalties in the final against TSG Giengen to win the WFV Cup third in the club's history. After this season, some top performers ended their careers. Well-known newcomers such as Rudi Lorch and Dietmar Hohn could not compensate for this loss, and so the VfR was relegated to the association league again, which exacerbated the club's financial problems. The team stayed together for the most part and earned second place in the league table, which allowed them to participate in the promotion games. These were just won against TSV Wiesental .
After long negotiations, the city of Aalen and VfR Aalen agreed to purchase the stadium and the stadium hall for DM 550,000 . The remaining liabilities nevertheless amounted to more than 250,000 DM.
Coach Erwin Hadewicz had left the club after promotion; his successor for the 1988/89 season was Rudi Kern, who was replaced in November 1988 by the previous assistant coach and former VfR striker Werner Müller. He prevented relegation again and led the team to tenth place. For the new 1989/90 season Günther Huber was hired as a coach. But the team only reached 17th place and was relegated to the association league again. For the new season Werner Müller took over the training management for a year and led the team to seventh place.
Due to displeasure about the still devastating financial situation and the debt level of the club, whose dismantling was made difficult by a high interest rate and a change in club taxation, club president Herbert Mäurer was voted out in 1991 and the hockey department left the club. Rolf Stützel was elected as the new president.
Under the new coach, the former VfR captain Helmut Dietterle , the football team reached eighth place in the table in the 1991/92 season and the second place in the table in 1992/93, which entitles them to participate in the promotion games. In the promotion games they narrowly prevailed against FC Rastatt 04 .
Establishment in the upper league and promotion
In the league season 1993/94 , the team reached eleventh place. With the introduction of the regional league , the upper league became fourth class, the VfR reached tenth place in the 1994/95 season .
With the significant participation of Aalen's mayor Ulrich Pfeifle , an administrative advisory board was founded in 1994 to counteract the association's financial problems.
For the new 1995/96 season the three-point rule was introduced in Germany . The VfR joined at the beginning of the season, among others, Branko Okić , who had already played for FK Sarajevo and quickly became a key player in the team. At the end of the season, the fourth place in the table was achieved with 42:28 goals, the seventh in the 1996/97 season . With other newcomers, including Michael Schiele , and under the new coach Walter Modick , the team achieved sixth place in the table in 1997/98 . At the beginning of the 1998/99 season , the team was strengthened with newcomers such as the Congolese international Francis Makaya and delivered a long-distance duel for the championship with SV Sandhausen . A goal by Slobodan Pajic to the 2: 3 final score on the last matchday away against 1. FC Pforzheim sealed the championship of the Oberliga with 51:26 goals and only one point ahead of pursuers Sandhausen.
Objective 2. Bundesliga
Due to internal tensions between promotion coach Walter Modick and manager Helmut Dietterle , Modick was dismissed in March 2000 and Dietterle took over the training management on an interim basis. With the tenth place in the table he reached the narrow remaining in the regional league, which was reduced by another league reform from four to two seasons. For the new 2000/01 season , the team was able to join the new coach Willi Entenmann with Michael Butrej (from SC Austria Lustenau ), Dennis Hillebrand (from TSF Ditzingen ), Laszlo Kanyuk (from SC Freiburg ), Frank Laviani (from FSV Frankfurt ) show other newcomers. At the end of the season, the seventh place was on the books.
For the 2001/02 season , the club set the goal of promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga with the slogan “We want more” . Willi Entenmann was dismissed, Helmut Dietterle took over the training management again and led the team, three points behind, to the fourth place in the table. In addition, the VfR won the WFV Cup for the fifth time in the season . In the following season the objective could not be achieved either; Coach Dietterle resigned in January 2003, after which his assistant coach Peter Zeidler took over the team. In 2003/04 they failed with two points behind third place, which entitled to promotion because of the championship of the amateurs of FC Bayern Munich . In the final against FSV 08 Bissingen they won the WFV Cup sixth with an 8-0 win.
2004/05 lack of consistency, which resulted in another coach change; As the successor to Peter Zeidler, the former VfR player Slobodan Pajic was committed. The team fell to twelfth place. For the 2005/06 season Pajic was replaced by a team of Frank Wormuth as head coach and Rainer Kraft as assistant coach, who led the team in sixth place. When the goal of promotion got into the distance again in the 2006/07 season , Frank Wormuth was replaced in January 2007 by former Bundesliga player Edgar Schmitt , who had his first position as a coach at VfR. He formed a new team spirit within the team and quickly became popular with the fans, finishing in sixth place at the end of the season. In the following 2007/08 season , VfR found itself on the promotion ranks of the table for almost the entire season. Only in the final spurt of the season was the secure promotion to the second division gambled away and fourth place reached, which qualified for the newly introduced third division .
The effects of the club's specification of promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga peaked in the following 2008/09 season . Thanks to the two main sponsors, Imtech Germany and Scholz AG , they started with one of the highest budgets in the league. After one win, two draws and one defeat, coach Edgar Schmitt was dismissed after just four match days and replaced by Jürgen Kohler , who resigned after 80 days with a record of two wins, two defeats and seven draws for health reasons Sports director continued to work for the club. After a game under the interim direction of assistant coach Kosta Runjaic , Petrik Sander was hired as the new coach, who kept Runjaic as assistant coach. During the winter break, under the leadership of sports director Kohler and coach Sander, the squad was redesigned with nine departures and six newcomers. But even this did not help the association to achieve promotion; the thrown together team never found itself. After a sporty decline in the second half of the season and after two defeats against direct competitors, they were relegated four game days before the end of the season. Jürgen Kohler and Petrik Sander then resigned together, Rainer Scharinger was signed by the U-23 of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim as their successor . Under him, the team was able to score only the second away win of the season against the Stuttgarter Kickers with a 4-1 win, won a 3-3 draw against SC Paderborn and lost twice with 1: 2 against promoted Fortuna Düsseldorf and on the last matchday against SpVgg Unterhaching . However, these results were not enough for relegation. The VfR Aalen rose one point behind on the saving 18th place as ninth in the table.
New start and promotion to the 3rd division
As a result of the relegation to the now fourth-class Regionalliga Süd , all player contracts with the exception of Mario Hohn's contract were invalid, as they were all only valid for the third and second leagues; in addition, popular Branko Okić ended his playing career and became assistant coach of the VfR second team, which was competing in the association league. So coach Rainer Scharinger had to plan a new start during the summer break of 2009, for which he took over only three players from the old squad: Mario Hohn, Andreas Hofmann and, from January 2010, Robert Lechleiter . He signed mostly unknown young players from lower leagues, most of whom he had already trained in Hoffenheim, his previous coaching station; the new team had an average age of around 23 years. Aytaç Sulu became the captain and head of defense of the new team and Daniel Bernhardt became the new goalkeeper. The team started the new season well and was able to establish itself at the top of the table. Four game days before the end of the season, the championship and the direct return to the third division were sealed with a 2-0 home win against KSV Hessen Kassel . At the end of the season, the gap between second place in the table, 1. FC Nürnberg II , was eleven points; the main responsibility for the championship wore the defensive department, which allowed only 19 goals against in the entire season. It was also on 26 May 2010 at the final of the WFV Cup of FV Illertissen with 4: 1 defeat, which meant the total seventh Cup win in club history. The team was thus qualified for the first main round of the 2010/11 DFB Cup , where they lost 2-1 to eventual cup winners FC Schalke 04 .
In the 2010/11 season , the VfR played again in the 3rd division . “17th place” was given as the season's goal, as this allowed for relegation. There were 15 new signings, most of them from lower leagues. The majority of the newcomers did not represent the desired reinforcement; After an intermittent high phase, the team was in the winter break after four defeats in a row with one point ahead of the relegation ranks in 16th place in the table. As a result, Rainer Scharinger was released on December 27, 2010; His successor was Ralph Hasenhüttl , who named Michael Schiele, a former VfR player, as assistant coach. Of the newcomers at the start of the season, seven left the club again in winter, but a striker was loaned out with Anton Fink , who had already become the top scorer in the third division under Hasenhüttl, at whose previous coaching station SpVgg Unterhaching . Nevertheless, the relegation was only achieved on the penultimate game day, so that they also took 16th place in the table after the end of the season.
Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga
For the new 2011/12 season , the club's board again named the 2nd Bundesliga as a medium-term goal, while “fourth or fifth place” was specified as the goal for the coming season. The team was rebuilt again and the squad was reduced overall; In addition to captain Aytaç Sulu , 13 other players left the club, but eight newcomers and three youth players came to the team. Two years later there were only six players left of the team that had achieved the double of championship and cup victory in the 2009/10 season. In addition, the post of sports director, which had been shared by coach Ralph Hasenhüttl and the executive vice-president Guido Walter , was filled in August 2011 by Markus Schupp , whom the VfR had tried several times as a coach in previous years. Coach Hasenhüttl appointed the previous vice-captain Benjamin Barg as the new team captain ; However, since he lost his regular place at the beginning of the season due to injury, newcomer Leandro Grech became the new captain. After a moderate start to the season, when they finished 14th in the table with 13 points after eleven games, the Aalen team were only one point behind the relegation place in an extremely even league in eighth place in the table after the end of the first round. After a phase spanning the winter break of just one defeat in 16 games and eight wins in a row, the VfR was top of the league table after thirty games. On the penultimate match day of the 2011/12 season, VfR Aalen made the promotion perfect with a 2-2 draw against VfB Stuttgart II; after the end of the season, the team finished second in the table with 64 points and 50:42 goals.
The team started the first season in the 2nd Bundesliga under difficult conditions: During the preparation for the season, coach Hasenhüttl fell ill and was out for three weeks. For the player Kevin Kampl , who was only signed by VfL Osnabrück in the summer and who made a name for himself in the first three league games with strong performances, the Austrian champions FC Red Bull Salzburg also moved on August 31, 2012, the last day of the transfer period , the release clause in the amount of around three million euros and obliged him. Nevertheless, the team started the season surprisingly well and finished fifth after the end of the first half of the season. At the end of the season he achieved a respectable success with 9th place and 46 points.
Despite the relegation, which was never endangered in sports, the license for the following season was in danger when the long-time main sponsor Imtech surprisingly left the club and thus confronted VfR with considerable financial problems. Also due to liabilities that were taken on under the supervisory board chairman and Imtech director Johannes Moser (who then did not stand for election at the first general meeting for five years in October 2013, but was also not discharged), the DFL demanded guarantees in the amount of 6.155 million euros, which VfR President Berndt-Ulrich Scholz took over after an unsuccessful search for sponsors .
A strict austerity program was issued for the new 2013/14 season , which is why both the total budget and the licensed player budget were reduced. With Martin Dausch , Tim Kister , Thorsten Schulz and Marco Haller , important players left the club before; Although it was possible to sign the Canadian international André Hainault and the Finnish international Joel Pohjanpalo on loan, the squad was smaller than last year. Trainer Ralph Hasenhüttl resigned and asked for his current contract to be terminated. His successor was Stefan Ruthenbeck , who had previously headed the VfR youth performance center and the second team, but had never worked in professional football himself. Sports director Markus Schupp was dismissed in December 2013, his duties were taken over by managing director Ferdinand Meidert . The team kept up again well in a relatively balanced league and also had some exclamation marks with games such as the 4-0 home win against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, who were promoted as a candidate for promotion (immediately after a 5-1 away defeat against the later relegated Energie Cottbus ) put. At the end of the season, Aalen occupied 11th place in the table and scored 44 points, only two fewer than last year.
In its third season in the 2nd Bundesliga, the VfR was deducted two points due to a violation of commercial licensing requirements by resolution of March 24, 2015. The complaint submitted by VfR Aalen was rejected by the DFL board, after which VfR Aalen appealed to the Permanent Court of Arbitration , which also dismissed the complaint. The VfR played nicely throughout the season, but still lost numerous games. Even before the last game of the season at 1. FC Nürnberg , VfR had been relegated.
New start in the 3rd division and bankruptcy
VfR not only had to accept the departure of its coach Stefan Ruthenbeck and almost all of his squad (only 9 players followed VfR into the third division), but also major financial problems impaired the squad structure and season preparation. President Bernd-Ulrich Scholz finally announced that VfR would be free from debt and thus make the 2015/16 season possible. As the new coach, Peter Vollmann was hired, who brought quality thanks to several experienced players, but could not go into quantity, so that VfR was facing a season in which player failures were difficult to compensate. In the first round of the DFB Cup , VfR curiously lost the penalty shoot-out against 1. FC Nürnberg: Daniel Bernhardt saved three penalties from the club, but VfR missed three of their own penalties and was eliminated. At the end of the 2015/16 season , VfR Aalen finished in 15th place in the table with 44 points - one point ahead of the relegation zone. President Scholz resigned from office at the end of the season.
In the 2016/17 season, the black and whites had to struggle with numerous departures from strong players (including Dominick Drexler , Sebastian Neumann ) and tried again to maintain relegation by promoting young players. Contrary to expectations, VfR only had three defeats at the winter break and was at the top of the table in the chasing field.
Triggered by a demand for payment by the tax office as a result of an audit for the years 2008-2012, the VfR filed for insolvency on February 14, 2017 by means of planned insolvency (opened by the Aalen District Court on April 1, 2017; concluded by the creditors' meeting on May 5, 2017 - thus the association was free of debt). The DFB then imposed a 9-point deduction, against which the club tried to defend itself through several association bodies, but ultimately unsuccessful. The players were not impressed by this and played an outstanding second half of the season, in which the threat of relegation due to the deduction of points was quickly forgotten, and VfR reached 11th place at the end of the season, without the deduction of points it would even have been 5th.
After nine seasons in professional football, relegation to the regional league was already clear on the 35th matchday of the third division 2018/19 season .
successes
Championships and cup wins
- Winning the WFV Cup : 1972 , 1979 , 1986 , 2001 , 2002 , 2004 , 2010
- Master of the amateur league: 1951 (Württemberg), 1974 , 1975 (both in Northern Württemberg )
- Champion of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg: 1999
- Champion of the Regionalliga Süd: 2010
Participation
- first class Gauliga Württemberg : 1939–1945
- 2nd Oberliga Süd : 1951/52
- Promotion games to the 2nd division: 1951, 1953, 1975
- Participation in the German amateur championship : 1974
- 2nd Bundesliga : 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15
League history
Legend
| Ascent | |
| descent |
During the Gauliga period (1933–1945)
| season | League level | league | space | Gates | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933/34 | 2 | District League | |||
| 1934/35 | 2 | District League | |||
| 1935/36 | 2 | District League | |||
| 1936/37 | 2 | District League | |||
| 1937/38 | 3 | District League | 1. | ||
| 1938/39 | 2 | District League | 1. | ||
| 1939/40 | 1 | Gauliga Württemberg | 5. | 15:33 | 6-14 |
| 1940/41 | 1 | Gauliga Württemberg | 7th | 62:59 | 22-22 |
| 1941/42 | 1 | Gauliga Württemberg | 5. | 29:30 | 16-20 |
| 1942/43 | 1 | Gauliga Württemberg | 8th. | 24:49 | 11-25 |
| 1943/44 | 1 | Gauliga Württemberg | 6th | 35:41 | 16-20 |
| 1944/45 | 1 | Gauliga Württemberg | - (a) | 38:16 | 11-3 |
Since 1950
| season | League level | league | space | Gates | Points |
| 1950/51 | 3 | 1st Amateur League Württemberg | 1. | 96:51 | 49:19 |
| 1951/52 | 2 | 2nd Division South | 18th | 35:98 | 14:54 |
| 1952/53 | 3 | 1st Amateur League Württemberg | 2. | 85:40 | 38-22 |
| 1953/54 | 3 | 1st Amateur League Württemberg | 5. | 58:45 | 34-26 |
| 1954/55 | 3 | 1st Amateur League Württemberg | 6th | 47:42 | 33-31 |
| 1955/56 | 3 | 1st Amateur League Württemberg | 6th | 41:48 | 31-29 |
| 1956/57 | 3 | 1st Amateur League Württemberg | 12. | 42:63 | 26-34 |
| 1957/58 | 3 | 1st Amateur League Württemberg | 11. | 45:43 | 33-35 |
| 1958/59 | 3 | 1st Amateur League Württemberg | 17th | 37:66 | 19-45 |
| 1959/60 | 4th | 2. Amateur League Württemberg 3 | 1. | 47-9 | |
| 1960/61 | 3 | 1st Amateur League Württemberg | 12. | 45:46 | 30-34 |
| 1961/62 | 3 | 1st Amateur League Württemberg | 15th | 33:71 | 15-45 |
| 1962/63 | 4th | 2. Amateur League Württemberg 3 | 1. | 39-21 | |
| 1963/64 | 3 | 1st Amateur League Württemberg | 14th | 38:71 | 28-36 |
| 1964/65 | 4th | 2. Amateur League Württemberg 3 | 5. | 54:36 | 34-26 |
| 1965/66 | 4th | 2. Amateur League Württemberg 3 | 3. | 77:52 | 44-32 |
| 1966/67 | 4th | 2. Amateur League Württemberg 3 | 11. | 61:69 | 32-40 |
| 1967/68 | 4th | 2. Amateur League Württemberg 3 | 14th | 34:54 | 23-37 |
| 1968/69 | 5 | A-Class Kocher-Rems | 2. | ||
| 1969/70 | 5 | A-Class Kocher-Rems | 2. | ||
| 1970/71 | 5 | A-Class Kocher-Rems | 1. | ||
| 1971/72 | 4th | 2. Amateur League Württemberg 3 | 1. | 84:24 | 51-9 |
| 1972/73 | 3 | Amateur League North Württemberg | 2. | 61:29 | 41-19 |
| 1973/74 | 3 | Amateur League North Württemberg | 1. | 102: 35 | 50-14 |
| 1974/75 | 3 | Amateur League North Württemberg | 1. | 63:21 | 48-12 |
| 1975/76 | 3 | Amateur League North Württemberg | 3. | 50:42 | 38-26 |
| 1976/77 | 3 | Amateur League North Württemberg | 14th | 34:55 | 24-36 |
| 1977/78 | 4th | 2. Amateur League Württemberg 3 | 4th | 71:51 | 38-22 |
| 1978/79 | 5 | State League Württemberg 2 | 1. | ||
| 1979/80 | 4th | Association League Württemberg | 1. | 79:38 | 51-25 |
| 1980/81 | 3 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 16. | 50:64 | 28-40 |
| 1981/82 | 4th | Association League Württemberg | 6th | 68:46 | 43-29 |
| 1982/83 | 4th | Association League Württemberg | 1. | 92:37 | 54-18 |
| 1983/84 | 3 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 6th | 64:55 | 38-30 |
| 1984/85 | 3 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 6th | 50:39 | 39-29 |
| 1985/86 | 3 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 6th | 49:50 | 40-32 |
| 1986/87 | 3 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 16. | 35:48 | 29-39 |
| 1987/88 | 4th | Association League Württemberg | 2. | 83:53 | 48-24 |
| 1988/89 | 3 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 10. | 52:55 | 34-34 |
| 1989/90 | 3 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 17th | 33:86 | 19-49 |
| 1990/91 | 4th | Association League Württemberg | 7th | 56:43 | 36-32 |
| 1991/92 | 4th | Association League Württemberg | 8th. | 45:40 | 34-34 |
| 1992/93 | 4th | Association League Württemberg | 2. | 50:25 | 44-24 |
| 1993/94 | 3 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 11. | 31:44 | 30-38 |
| 1994/95 | 4th | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 10. | 46:34 | 31-33 |
| 1995/96 | 4th | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 4th | 42:28 | 52 |
| 1996/97 | 4th | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 7th | 53:43 | 40 |
| 1997/98 | 4th | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 6th | 42:31 | 45 |
| 1998/99 | 4th | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 1. | 51:26 | 60 |
| 1999/00 | 3 | Regional league south | 10. | 51:54 | 46 |
| 2000/01 | 3 | Regional league south | 7th | 45:37 | 49 |
| 2001/02 | 3 | Regional league south | 4th | 67:60 | 56 |
| 2002/03 | 3 | Regional league south | 10. | 48:55 | 47 |
| 2003/04 | 3 | Regional league south | 6th | 61:63 | 51 |
| 2004/05 | 3 | Regional league south | 12. | 41:59 | 43 |
| 2005/06 | 3 | Regional league south | 6th | 43:33 | 54 |
| 2006/07 | 3 | Regional league south | 6th | 51:46 | 49 |
| 2007/08 | 3 | Regional league south | 4th | 64:45 | 57 |
| 2008/09 | 3 | 3rd league | 19th | 38:60 | 39 |
| 2009/10 | 4th | Regional league south | 1. | 51:19 | 74 |
| 2010/11 | 3 | 3rd league | 16. | 40:52 | 41 |
| 2011/12 | 3 | 3rd league | 2. | 50:42 | 64 |
| 2012/13 | 2 | 2nd Bundesliga | 9. | 40:39 | 46 |
| 2013/14 | 2 | 2nd Bundesliga | 11. | 36:39 | 44 |
| 2014/15 | 2 | 2nd Bundesliga | 18th | 34:46 | 31 |
| 2015/16 | 3 | 3rd league | 15th | 35:40 | 44 |
| 2016/17 | 3 | 3rd league | 11. | 52:36 | 48 |
| 2017/18 | 3 | 3rd league | 12. | 48:57 | 50 |
| 2018/19 | 3 | 3rd league | 20th | 45:62 | 31 |
| 2019/20 | 4th | Regionalliga southwest | 14th | 27:25 | 26th |
Teams
First team
The first team of VfR Aalen has been playing in the Regionalliga Südwest since the 2019/20 season . Before that, she belonged to the 2nd Bundesliga from 2012 to 2015 and to the 3rd division from 2015 to 2019 , from which she was relegated to 20th and last place in the table in the 2018/19 game year.
Squad for the 2019/20 season
Status: February 21, 2020
Coaching team
| Surname | function | nationality | in function since |
| Roland Seitz | Head coach |
|
2019 |
| Christian Demirtas | Assistant coach |
|
2019 |
| Erol Sabanov | Goalkeeping coach |
|
2018 |
Transfers season 2019/20
Second team
The second team of VfR Aalen, acting as U23, played in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in the 2014/15 season after being promoted from the sixth class Verbandsliga Württemberg and finished the season in 13th place in the table. For financial reasons, the second team was withdrawn from play for the 2015/16 season and thus dissolved.
Young talent center
The young talent center (own name: TAAlentschmiede Ostalb ) organizes the eight youth teams of VfR Aalen, which include the age groups U11 to U19. U19, U17 and U15 play in the respective age group of the EnBW-Oberliga. In the VfR football school , children between the ages of eight and twelve are taught basic football skills. Football camps for children and young people are also held regularly. In addition, the youth teams are involved in various social projects and a. in nature conservation, care for the elderly and the disabled, as well as for the homeless and refugees.
Association organs
By resolution of a general meeting in 2000, the association's executive board , supervisory board and honorary council were introduced. Wilhelm Stuzmann was made honorary president in 1978. The executive bodies are currently composed as follows:
Roland Vogt (responsible for finances and organization in the presidium) acts as spokesman for the presidium. Further members of the executive committee are Walter Höffner (infrastructure and other departments) and Michael Weißkopf (sport).
Members of the supervisory board are Nikolaus Albrecht, Peter Kummich, Peter Peschel, Hermann Rieger, Heiko Rössel and Thomas Taferner.
Gerhard Wünsch is chairman of the honorary council. The committee also includes Winfried Mack , Ansgar Kaufmann, Rudolf Kaufmann and Horst Rolletschek.
The management of the association is incumbent on Giuseppe Lepore.
Well-known former chairmen and presidents
- Berndt-Ulrich Scholz (2003-2016)
Well-known former players
Well-known former coaches
Stadion
The Ostalb Arena in Aalen has served as the home arena since 1949 . The Rohrwang Stadium, which originally belonged to the club, was sold to the city of Aalen in 1988 for financial reasons and renamed the Städtisches Waldstadion . After the name rights were sold to today's Scholz Holding , the venue was renamed Scholz Arena from 2008 . After Scholz Holding terminated the naming rights without notice, the stadium was renamed Ostalb Arena on July 14, 2017 . With the construction of a mobile standing stand in 2015, the Ostalb Arena has over 14,500 seats.
Fan scene and audience
The fan scene is organized in the fan club umbrella organization Fanoffensive Rohrwang , in which both the official fan clubs and individuals are members. The fan representative, the board of directors of the Rohrwang fan offensive and representatives of the fan clubs form the fan advisory board, which advises the board of VfR Aalen and represents the interests of the fans against the club.
The active fan scene consists of the Crew Eleven ( Ultras ), the black elite (ultra-oriented) and active unorganized fans. It is located in Block V on the east rear grandstand. There is a friendship between the entire fan scene and SV Sandhausen , parts of the fan scene maintain friendly contacts with SC Paderborn , SSV Ulm , and the ultras of the Landshut ice skating club (ice hockey). The greatest rivalry is with local rivals 1. FC Heidenheim , further rivalries with the Stuttgarter Kickers and SSV Reutlingen. There is antipathy towards FC Ingolstadt and SSV Jahn Regensburg due to their friendship with Heidenheim and the Stuttgarter Kickers.
At the so-called Ostalbderby on May 17, 2015 against local rivals, the Scholz-Arena was sold out for the first time in its own soccer game and the record number of 14,500 spectators was set. During participation in the 2nd Bundesliga between 2012 and 2015, a total of 381,658 spectators attended VfR Aalen's games, which corresponds to an average number of 7,483 spectators per game and an average occupancy rate of 54.83%. For the 2015/16 season, 3,300 season tickets were sold by the start of the season, around 200 more than in the previous season.
The stadium announcer has been the Aalen original and musician Michael "Flex" Flechsler, a member of the Swabian dialect band Mr. Stumpfes Zieh & Zupf Kapelle , who had already taken on this role on an interim basis in the previous season, has been the stadium announcer since the 2019/20 season .
Sponsors and suppliers
Since Imtech withdrew as the main sponsor at the end of the 2012/13 season, the cleaning agent distributor Prowin International was the main sponsor of VfR Aalen from 2013/14, with Prowin announcing on December 16, 2015 that it would withdraw as the main sponsor at the end of the season. Telenot has been the main sponsor of VfR Aalen since the 2016/17 season . The naming rights to the Ostalb Arena were acquired from a merger of several local companies. The supplier will be Sport-Saller from the 2015/16 season . In total, VfR Aalen currently has around 150 sponsors.
Other departments
As early as 1921, the club had an athletics department in addition to the football department . In 1927 a handball and a snowshoe department followed. In 1946 a table tennis department was founded , in which members of the soccer team also participated. In 1950 the boxing club Aalen joined the VfR Aalen as a boxing department . A swimming and a women's gymnastics department was also established by 1962 . After the DFB lifted the women's football ban in October 1970 , a women's football team was also founded at VfR in 1971.
In the anniversary year 1981 existed in the club also still Kinderturnen-, a cone - a volleyball - a sport & recreation and a referee department. A badminton department was also added by 1996 .
Today, in addition to the football department, consisting of the first and junior teams, the club has a table tennis, a cheerleader , an AH gymnastics department and a senior department.
literature
- Achim Pfeifer : The history of VfR Aalen. The long way up . Verlag Sport und Historie, Bielefeld / Aalen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9807905-5-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kicker.de: Club data - VfR Aalen
- ↑ VfR Aalen welcomes 1000th member at: vfr-aalen.de, accessed on June 3, 2014.
- ↑ Achim Pfeifer: The history of VfR Aalen. (see section Literature), p. 44.
- ↑ Achim Pfeifer: The history of VfR Aalen. (see section Literature), p. 96.
- ↑ Werner Röhrich: “That’s fourth or fifth place for me” on: schwäbische-post.de, accessed on August 31, 2011.
- ↑ Alexander Haag: Seven new ones for the VfR ( memento from July 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), on: schwaebische-post.de, October 30, 2013.
- ↑ Manuela Harant: Overtaken by its own bow wave , swp.de, April 23, 2013.
- ↑ Werner Röhrich: A sigh of relief in Aalen , swp.de, May 23, 2013.
- ↑ See Reise ins Ungewisse , swp.de, July 18, 2013.
- ↑ Aalen's descent finally sealed sport1.de May 21, 2015
- ↑ VfR Aalen goes into plan insolvency , schwaebische.de, February 14, 2017, accessed on February 14, 2017.
- ↑ VfR Aalen squad
- ↑ Second division relegated VfR Aalen dissolves U23 team ( memento from June 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), on swp.de, accessed on June 6, 2015.
- ↑ An overview of the organs of VfR Aalen on vfr-aalen.de, accessed on February 29, 2020.
- ↑ Your contacts at VfR Aalen at: vfr-aalen.de, accessed on February 29, 2020.
- ^ The fan club umbrella organization ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 2, 2015.
- ↑ Fan Advisory Board at: vfr-aalen.de, accessed on July 2, 2015.
- ↑ The spiral of violence in the ultra scene rises in: Südfinder from July 9, 2014, accessed on July 2, 2015 (PDF).
- ↑ 2012/13 audience season. weltfußball.de, accessed on July 3, 2015 .
- ↑ viewers 2013/14. weltfußball.de, accessed on July 3, 2015 .
- ↑ viewers 2014/115. weltfußball.de, accessed on July 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Season ticket table: Dynamo again the clear leader. In: liga3-online.de. August 7, 2015, accessed August 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Schwäbische Post : "VfR Aalen loses Prowin" ( Memento from May 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) from December 16, 2015.
- ↑ Partner at: vfr-aalen.de, accessed on February 29, 2020.
- ↑ Achim Pfeifer: The history of VfR Aalen. (see section Literature), p. 77.