VfR Frankenthal

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VfR Frankenthal
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Basic data
Surname Association for lawn games 1900 Frankenthal eV
Seat Frankenthal / Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate
founding June 22, 1900 (as FC 1900 Frankenthal)
Colours blue-white-black
Board Salvatore Mauro
Website www.vfrfrankenthal.de
First soccer team
Venue East Park Stadium
Places 8,350
league District league Vorderpfalz
2018/19 9th place
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The Association for Lawn Games 1900 Frankenthal eV (short: VfR Frankenthal) is a football club from Frankenthal in the Upper Palatinate . After several decades in high-class amateur football, after winning the championship title in the district league Vorderpfalz, from the 2013/14 season the VfR will play in the seventh-rate regional league of the Southwest German Football Association .

history

Today's VfR Frankenthal was created in 1937 through the merger of the Frankenthal clubs FV Kickers 1914 and FV 1900/02 . The latter was in turn the product of the merger of FV Palatia in 1902 with VfB 1900 , which had been founded on June 22, 1900 as FC 1900 Frankenthal . All previous clubs of the VfR played no role in national football.

The successful time of VfR Frankenthal began in 1939 with the promotion to the Gauliga Südwest , Saarpfalz Staffel, which two years later merged into the Gauliga Westmark . The best placement of VfR until the war-related cessation of game operations after the 1943/44 season was third place (1940 and 1944).

After the end of the war, it took the VfR a few years to find its way back up. In the first short league season in 1946 a good placement was achieved, but after the autumn series 1946/47 was canceled, the VfR could not qualify for the restart in January 1947; For four and a half years he remained in the midfield of the amateur league table. In the 1951/52 season, Frankenthal's second league year, initially succeeded in staying in the class. With a sensational 1-0 win at 1. FC Kaiserslautern on the last day of the match, the people of the Upper Palatinate even spoiled the reigning German champions' participation in the championship finals. Shortly after the start of the 1952/53 season, however, an attempted bribe from the previous season was proven, so that VfR after a completed game (3: 4 against VfR Kaiserslautern ) excluded from the league and was hopelessly overwhelmed by Hassia Bingen , who was in the Oberliga Last year-third of the 2nd League Southwest, was replaced.

Already in the 1953/54 season the team from the "Stadion am Kanal" was up again, and this time they stayed there until 1961. At the start of the season on August 8, 1953, the newly promoted VfR Frankenthal defeated the reigning German champions 1. FC Kaiserslautern in their home Ostparkstadion with 4: 2. An estimated 16,000 spectators attended this largest game in the club's history. On the part of the Kaiserslautern team, the eventual world champions Horst Eckel , Werner Liebrich , Werner Kohlmeyer and Ottmar Walter were called up, while Walter Blech, Wilfried Gaa, Manfred Graefenstein, Kurt Islinger, Günter Jansen , Franz Löffler and Erich Rendler played for the VfR . Fritz Walter was injured and condemned to watch; National coach Josef Herberger also stayed in the stadium .

In 1957 VfR Frankenthal was only two points short of second place, which would have qualified for participation in the championship finals. Otherwise, the Frankenthalers always had to be content with a place in the middle of the table. In 1961 they went down again, in 1962 again.

With the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963, VfR was divided into the newly founded Regionalliga Südwest . Here the Frankenthalers mostly played against relegation, which they could no longer prevent in 1969. Although the club, which competed in the amateur league under the name VfR Pegulan Frankenthal , succeeded in winning the championship immediately and thus getting promoted again, but after two years it went back to the amateur league, this time for good. In 1978 the VfR was not taken over into the amateur league for sporting reasons. Since then, he has disappeared from the higher-class amateur football.

Known players

  • Heinz Siefert , born on November 30, 1922, came to VfR Frankenthal as a goalkeeper from Phönix Ludwigshafen. He had been retired from Phönix Ludwigshafen because of his age and came to VfR Frankenthal in 1955 and played for them for a few more years. He was called "World Training Champion" at VfR Frankenthal because he trained so hard. For training, he drove his motorcycle from his home in Ludwigshafen-Friesenheim, where he still lives today, to Frankenthal. He signed his contract as a player at VfR Frankenthal with a handshake. He was next to Heinz Kubsch (FK Pirmasens) one of the best goalkeepers in the Oberliga Südwest. Professionally, he worked for BASF's plant security in Ludwigshafen. After the end of his career as a goalkeeper, he trained the handball team of VfR Frankenthal and TV Hochdorf.
  • Manfred Rößler , born on August 30, 1939, was Heinz Siefert's successor in the goal of VfR Frankenthal. He emerged from the youth of VfR Frankenthal. Although he had offers from Bundesliga clubs to play for them, he remained loyal to VfR Frankenthal until the end of his footballing career. He was employed by Stadtwerke Frankenthal and still lives in this city today.

Trainer

  • Paul Oßwald (1938–1941)
  • Fritz Teufel (early fifties)
  • Fritz Pölsterl (1953–1955)
  • Fritz Pliska (1955–1957)
  • NN, Donndorf
  • Fritz Teufel (1960–1961)
  • Hans Pilz (1960–1961)
  • Heinz Krausser (1962–1963)
  • Fred Schreiber (1963-1965)
  • Hans Pilz (1965–1967)
  • Kurt Sommerlatt (1968–1969)
  • Ratzel (1972-73)
  • Richard Klauss (1976–1978)
  • Heinz Wilhelmi (1980–1984, player-coach)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel Nickel: Fritz Walter angrily leaves the Ostparkstadion. In: Die Rheinpfalz , local edition of August 8, 2013