VfR Bürstadt
Full name | Verein für Rasensport Bürstadt 1910 e. V. | ||
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Founded | 1910 | ||
Ground | Robert-Kölsch-Stadion | ||
Capacity | 12,000 | ||
League | Kreisoberliga Bergstraße (VIII) | ||
2019–20 | 12th | ||
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VfR Bürstadt is a German association football club playing out of Bürstadt, Hesse. The team was founded 1 February 1910 as SC 1910 Bürstadt and took on the name VfR on 23 August 1919. Between 1973 and 1983 they played as VfR Oli Bürstadt in recognition of sponsoring firm Otto Limburg Bürstadt-Bobstadt.
History
The club briefly rose to the highest level when playing in the
Kickers enjoyed their greatest success during its sponsorship by OLI and stirred some excitement through the 1970s and 1980s as an overachieving side playing in Hesse's tier III leagues with occasional brave forays into the Regionalliga Süd (II) and
Their run of success ended in the 1990s with a series of poor finishes in the Amateur
After a drop to the ninth tier in 2008–09 the club has recovered again and moved back up to the Gruppenliga (VII) in 2011–12, followed by promotion to the Verbandsliga in 2013. The team won the league title in the Verbandsliga in 2014 as well but, instead of accepting promotion to the Hessenliga the club withdrew to the tier eight Kreisoberliga Bergstraße instead for financial reasons.
Honours
The club's honours:
League
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Cup
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Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[4][5]
Season | Division | Tier | Position |
1999–2000 | Landesliga Hessen-Süd
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V | 3rd |
2000–01 | Landesliga Hessen-Süd | 1st ↑ | |
2001–02 | Oberliga Hessen
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IV | 18th ↓ |
2002–03 | Bezirksliga Darmstadt-Süd | VII | ↓ |
2003–04 | Kreisliga A Bergstraße | VIII | 1st ↑ |
2004–05 | Bezirksliga Darmstadt-Süd | VII | 2nd |
2005–06 | Bezirksliga Darmstadt-Süd | 6th | |
2006–07 | Bezirksliga Darmstadt-Süd | 5th | |
2007–08 | Bezirksliga Darmstadt-Süd | 15th ↓ | |
2008–09 | Kreisliga A Bergstraße | IX | 2nd ↑ |
2009–10 | Kreisoberliga Bergstrasse | VIII | 6th |
2010–11 | Kreisoberliga Bergstrasse | 1st ↑ | |
2011–12 | Gruppenliga Darmstadt | VII | 8th |
2012–13 | Gruppenliga Darmstadt | 1st ↑ | |
2013–14 | Verbandsliga Hessen-Süd | VI | 1st (withdrawn) |
2014–15 | Kreisoberliga Bergstraße | VIII | 15th |
2015–16 | Kreisoberliga Bergstraße | 10th | |
2016–17 | Kreisoberliga Bergstraße |
- With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. Also in 2008, a large number of football leagues in Hesse were renamed, with the Oberliga Hessen becoming the Hessenliga, the Landesliga becoming the Verbandsliga, the Bezirksoberliga becoming the Gruppenliga and the Bezirksliga becoming the Kreisoberliga.
↑ Promoted | ↓ Relegated |
References
- ISBN 978-3-89784-147-5.
- ISBN 3-928562-85-1
- ^ "VfR-Chronik (VfR history)". Archived from the original on 24 March 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
- ^ Fussball.de – Ergebnisse Archived 7 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
External links
- Official website (in German)
- The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
- Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) historical German domestic league tables