Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz

Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz

Full name	Sportvereinigung Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz
Founded	1923
Ground	Jahn-platz
Capacity	15,000 (ca. 1941)
League	Südost
Home colours Away colours

Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz was a

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History

The team had its origins within the gymnastics club Turnverein Vorwärts Gleiwitz established in 1878. That club formed a football department in 1910 which became independent sometime in 1923 as Sport-Club Vorwärts Gleiwitz. A merger with Rasensportverein 1909 Gleiwitz followed in 1926 creating Sportvereinigung Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz.[1]

The newly formed team took part in local level play with occasional advances to Germany's regional Südost league through the 20s and on into the early 30s. Following the reorganization of German football under the

(German Cup) in each year from 1935 to 1941 with the exception of 1937.

The team delivered a series of indifferent performances after a second-place finish in 1941. Part way through the 1944–45 season the Gauliga Oberschlesien collapsed as Soviet forces advanced into the area in as World War II was being fought to its conclusion. VR disappeared with the end of the war.

Honours

• Gauliga Schlesien (I) champions: 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939
• Gauliga Oberschlesien
  (I) champions: 1940
• Oberschlesien champions (II): 1924, 1927

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