VfR Pforzheim
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| Full name | Association for lawn games Pforzheim eV |
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| place | Pforzheim | ||
| Founded | 1897 (as FC Alemania Pforzheim) 1912 (merger to VfR) |
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| Dissolved | June 30, 2010 | ||
| Club colors | Blue White | ||
| Stadion | Holzhofstadion | ||
| Top league | Regional league south | ||
| successes | Promotion to the Regionalliga Süd in 1965 |
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The VfR Pforzheim was a sports club with around 800 members from the Baden city of Pforzheim . The popular sports club was best known for its football department. Their team played in the 1965/66 season in the then second-rate Regionalliga Süd . In addition to football, the club also offered cycling , hiking and ice hockey .
On July 1, 2010, VfR Pforzheim merged with 1. FC Pforzheim to form the 1. Club for lawn games Pforzheim 1896 , or 1. CfR Pforzheim for short .
history
The club was founded in 1897 as FC Alemania Pforzheim . On September 12, 1912, FC Alemania merged with the clubs FC Viktoria Pforzheim and Phönix Pforzheim, founded in 1906, to form VfR Pforzheim . In 1919 FC Oststadt Pforzheim joined the VfR and was part of it.
In 1965, the first football team made it to the then second-rate Regionalliga Süd.
In the 1990s, the footballers of VfR Pforzheim made it into a higher-class league for the last time with promotion to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg . Most recently, the club only played on the Pforzheim district level.
In 2010 VfR merged with 1. FC Pforzheim to form 1. CfR Pforzheim .
Venue
The club's footballers played their home games in the Holzhofstadion , one of the oldest and most traditional venues in German football.
Well-known former players
- Edgar Schneider , later German champion and DFB Cup winner with Bayern Munich
- Stephan Loboué
- Klaus Mirwald , before his time at VfR, professional footballer at VfB Stuttgart
- Jörg Wolff , professional soccer player a. a. at VfB Stuttgart, SpVgg Bayreuth and SV Waldhof Mannheim
- Steffen Menze , professional soccer player at FC St. Pauli, Hannover 96 and Eintracht Frankfurt
- Daniel Reule , currently at SV Kickers Pforzheim
- Georg Beichle , professional footballer in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga and amateur national player
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1. CfR Pforzheim 1896 e. V. (Hrsg.): Historie des VfR Pforzheim , URL: http://www.1cfr.de/ , o. J., accessed on February 11, 2012