VfL Halle 1896
Full name | Verein für Leibesübungen Halle 1896 e.V. | ||
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Founded | 16 July 1896 | ||
Ground | Stadion am Zoo | ||
Capacity | 8,200 | ||
Chairman | Volker Flemming | ||
Manager | Manfred Kampa | ||
League | NOFV-Oberliga Süd (V) | ||
2018–19 | 12th | ||
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VfL Halle 1896 is a German football club from the city of Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt.
History
The oldest club in the city of Halle was founded as Hallescher Fußballclub von 1896 on 16 July 1896. HFC was one of a dozen clubs that formed the VMBV (Verbandes Mitteldeutscher Ballspielvereine or Federation of Middle German Football Teams) on 16 December 1900 and was a founding member of the DFB (Deutscher Fußball-Bund) in Leipzig in January 1900.
In 1909 the club was the first in the country to purchase its own grounds and on 10 September 1910 hosted
German football was reorganized under the
In the aftermath of the war, the Allied occupying authorities banned all organizations in the country, including sports and football clubs. In November 1946, the club was re-established as SG Giebichenstein, becoming SG Genossenschaften Halle in May 1949, and BSG Empor Halle in 1951. The club played anonymously in the lower divisions of
After German reunification in 1990 the team played in the seventh tier Berziksliga as SV Empor Halle where they won the division championship and earned promotion to the Landesliga Sachsen-Anhalt (VI). They re-claimed the name VfL Halle the following year and continued to play well, advancing through the Verbandsliga Sachsen-Anhalt (V) and NOFV-Oberliga Süd (IV) on their way to a breakthrough into the Regionalliga Nordost (III) in 1999.
While the footballers put forward a decent effort it was not enough to stay up in the Regionalliga as the league went through restructuring. The following season the club was forced out of the Oberliga (IV) in spite of a sixth-place finish because of financial difficulties. VfL made a return to the Oberliga in 2009 where it plays today.[1][2]
Honours
The club's honours:
- Central German football championship
- Winners: 1917, 1919
- NOFV-Oberliga Süd (IV)
- Champions: 1999
- Verbandsliga Sachsen-Anhalt (V/VI)
- Champions: 1995, 2009
- Saxony-Anhalt Cup (Tiers III-VI)
- Winners: 1997, 1999
- Runners-up: 1996, 2000, 2015
References
- ^ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
- ^ VfL Halle 1896 at Fussball.de (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues