VfB Auerbach

VfB Auerbach

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Full name	Verein für Bewegungsspiele Auerbach 1906 e.V.
Founded	1906
Ground	VfB Stadion
Ground Capacity	5,000
Chairman	Joachim Naumann
Manager	Michael Hiemisch
League	Regionalliga Nordost (IV)
2015–16	9th
Home colours Away colours

VfB Auerbach is a German football club from the city of Auerbach, Saxony. The club also has a tennis department.

History

The association was founded as the Auerbacher Fußball Club on 17 May 1906 making it the second-oldest side in Vogtland. They won their first title in the second class Gau Vogtland, part of the VMBV (Verband Mittledeutschland Ballspiel Verein or Federation of Central German Ballgame Clubs), in 1908. AFC was officially registered on 20 June 1913 and after World War I on 18 April 1919, with the introduction of departments for athletics, tennis, and winter sports re-made itself as the sportsclub VfB Auerbach 1906.

In the aftermath of World War II occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of existing organizations in the country, including sports and football clubs. In the fall of 1945 the club was re-established as the football department of Sport- und Kultur-Kartell Auerbach i.V.. A new sportsclub known as BSG KWU Auerbach was created out of SuKK Auerbach in 1949 and renamed BSG Einheit Auerbach on 6 January 1951. BSG was an unheralded local side in and out of the lower division Berziksliga Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz) in East Germany. In 1989, shortly before the end of the DDR-era BSG was the largest sports club in Auerbach with departments for bowling, boxing, fencing, gymnastics, hiking, roller skating, tennis, and table tennis.

The club returned to its roots after German re-unification when it was re-established as VfB Auerbach and continued to play in what was now the sixth division Berzirksliga Chemnitz. By the mid-90s they were playing in the Landesliga Sachsen (V), and after three second-place finishes (1996, 2001, 2002), finally captured the division title in 2003 to earn promotion to the NOFV-Oberliga Süd (IV). VfB played in the Oberliga for nine seasons, initially struggeling but then achieving three runners-up finishes in its last four seasons there. The last of those, in 2012, qualified the team for the reformed Regionalliga Nordost, where it plays today.

Current squad

As of 28 January 2016

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Benjamin Eißmann 2 MF Björn Lambach 3 DF Markus Möckel 4 MF Felix Lietz 5 DF Steffen Vogel 6 MF Jiri Jedinak 7 MF Marcel Dressel 8 MF Andre Herold 9 MF Philipp Kötzsch 10 MF Arman Melkonian 11 FW Danny Wild 13 GK Maik Ebersbach

No. Position Player 14 FW Stanley Ratifo 15 MF Raul Amaro 18 DF Kevin Hampf 19 FW Marcel Schuch 20 GK Christian Leucht 21 DF Philipp Müller 22 MF Fabian Paradies 25 MF Albert Löser 26 DF Felix Paul 27 DF Alexander Mattern 31 MF Marcel Schlosser

Honours

• NOFV-Oberliga Süd
  • Runners-up: 2009, 2011, 2012
• Landesliga Sachsen
  • Champions: 2003
  • Runners-up: 1996, 2001, 2002

Stadium

The club plays in the VfB Stadion built in 1921. It has a capacity of 5,000 and after renovations features 750 seats (1993) and floodlighting (1995).

External links

• Official website
• Abseits Guide to German Soccer
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German football league tables (in German)
• eufo.de European football club profiles