VfvB Ruhrort-Laar
The VfvB Ruhrort-Laar (officially: Association for popular movement games Ruhrort-Laar e.V. ) is a sports club from the Ruhrort district of Duisburg . The first men's soccer team played for seven years in the highest amateur league in the Lower Rhine region and once took part in the Tschammer Cup , the forerunner of the DFB Cup .
history
The club was founded in 1900 as the Ruhrort Ballspiel-Verein and from 1903 was called VfvB Ruhrort . This merged in 1945 with the SV Hütte Ruhrort-Meiderich to form today's VfvB Ruhrort-Laar.
Soccer
The footballers rose to the top division for the first time in 1908. Three years later, the team became champions of the A-class Ruhr / Mark and, after a 6-1 victory over Olympia Osnabrück, became West German A-class champions. This qualified the team for the final of the West German Championship, which was lost 3-0 to Duisburg SpV . Nevertheless, VfvB rose to the ten league , but had to be relegated again as the bottom of the table. In the years of the Weimar Republic , the club belonged to the top division in the Niederrhein district and always occupied places in the top half of the table. However, the club couldn't get past the top teams from Duisburg. In 1933 the club was not accepted into the Gauliga Niederrhein and played second class until the end of the war. In 1936 the Ruhrorter u. a. by a 3: 2 n.V. at Hamborn 07 in the Gaupokalrunde for the 1st main round in the Tschammerpokal , where last year's finalist and multiple German champions FC Schalke 04 was a guest on June 14, 1936 , who won against the Ruhrortern with 5: 2 was able to prevail.
After the war ended, VfvB was promoted to the state league in 1949 , which was then the highest amateur league on the Lower Rhine. After the loss of several top performers, he was relegated two years later. The 1960s brought new successes when the Ruhrorter returned to the regional league in 1961 after a 5-1 win in the decider against SpVgg Meiderich 06 . Three years later, he was promoted to the third-class association league Niederrhein , which was set up in the meantime . For the association league, VfvB had to move to the Hamborner Schwelgernstadion . The sixth place in the promotion season 1964/65 formed the sporting zenith of the club after the Second World War. Three relegations in a row between 1969 and 1971 brought the club into the district league.
After promotions in 1973 and 1976, the Ruhrorter returned to the regional league before the club returned to the regional league in 1980 after two relegations in a row. Apart from regional league guest games in the seasons 1989/90, 1995/96, from 2001 to 2005 and from 2007 to 2010, the district league A has become the sporting home of VfvB.
athletics
Otto Fleiter became the German pole vault champion in 1913 .
basketball
1950 was u. a. by Werner Nagel, the basketball department founded. Numerous contacts to France quickly resulted in successes, so in 1956 both men and women rose to what was then the Oberliga West, the top division. In the 1960s, the men were also successful in the Niederrhein basketball district (when it was founded, the Ruhrorters were guests, Werner Nagle was also the first chairman and since 1960 honorary chairman of the district), 6 trophies were won between 1963 and 1969. The first crisis occurred in the 1970s, and in 1978 the department was about to be dissolved. But it went on, youth teams were promoted, which had a positive effect. At the end of the 80s there were 4 men's teams and even rose again to the national league. Since the mid-00s, the department has again suffered from a decline in membership. Recently only two, three or a maximum of 4 teams could be registered for the championships. After all, in 2016 there was a double of the district championship and the district cup in the female area.
Personalities
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ralf Piorr (Hrsg.): The pot is round - The lexicon of Revier football: The clubs . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-356-9 , p. 192-193 .
- ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (Ed.): Football in West Germany 1902/03 - 1932/33 . 2009, DNB 997617357 , p. 48-50 .