VfB Gießen

VfB Gießen
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Full nameVerein für Ballsport
1900 Gießen e.V.
Founded5 August 1900 (as Gießener Fußball-Klub)
Dissolved30 June 2018 (football)
GroundWaldstadion
Capacity10,000

VfB Gießen was a German football club based in Giessen, Hesse, that last played in the Gruppenliga Gießen-Marburg (VII).

The club's greatest success was qualifying for the first round of the German Cup in 1979–80 and winning the tier three Amateurliga Hessen in 1962–63.

History

On 17 May 1956 SpVgg 1900 Gießen was merged with VfB 08 Gießen to become VfB 1900 Gießen. VfB first one promotion to the tier three Amateurliga Hessen in 1951 and would play at this level for the next 31 consecutive seasons, mostly as mid-table side the club won the league in 1962–63 but was unable to earn promotion because of the reorganisation of the German football league system that season. VfB returned to its mid-table existence, never coming close to league title again until relegated from the league in 1982. In this area also fall the club's three Hesse Cup triumphs, won in 1964, 1972 and 1979. The later also allowed the club to take part in the 1979–80 DFB-Pokal where it lost to 2–4 FC 08 Homburg in the first round.[1]

For the next six seasons in the tier four Landesliga Hessen-Mitte the club finished in the top three each season but was unable to win promotion back to the Hessenliga. In 1988–89 however it came 14th, one place behind local rival ASV Gießen, and was relegated. It made an immediate recovery, gradually returned to its old form in the league and finally won promotion to Hesse's highest league in 1995 courtesy to a Landesliga title.[1]

VfB spend the next six seasons in the Oberliga Hessen, generally achieving good results but the club withdrew from league in 2000–01 for financial reasons despite finishing sixth.[1][2]

VfB did not play league football at all in 2001–02 and restarted in the Kreisliga B (IX) in 2002 and has continuously worked itself up through the ranks again and, from the 2009–10 to 2016–17 seasons, played in the sixth tier Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte. In this league, they finished runners-up in 2011 but missed out on promotion in the promotion round, and in 2017 finished last out of 17 and was relegated to the Gruppenliga.

In March 2018, VfB announced the closure of their football department[3] which was ceded to Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg.[4] On 1 July, Teutonia was renamed FC Gießen.

Honours

The club's honours:

Last seasons

The last season-by-season performance of the club:[5][6]

Season Division Tier Position
1999–2000 Oberliga Hessen IV 6th
2000–01 Oberliga Hessen 9th (withdrawn)
2001–02 inactive
2002–03 Kreisliga B2 Gießen IX
2003–04 Kreisliga B2 Gießen 3rd ↑
2004–05 Kreisliga A Gießen VIII 7th
2005–06 Kreisliga A Gießen 1st ↑
2006–07 Bezirksliga Gießen-Süd VII 4th
2007–08 Bezirksliga Gießen-Süd 1st ↑
2008–09 Gruppenliga Gießen-Marburg 1st ↑
2009–10 Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte VI 5th
2010–11 Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte 2nd
2011–12 Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte 5th
2012–13 Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte 6th
2013–14 Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte 3rd
2014–15 Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte 4th
2015–16 Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte 4th
2016–17 Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte 17th ↓
2017–18 Gruppenliga Gießen-Marburg VII 15th
  • 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, the majority 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.

Key

↑ Promoted ↓ Relegated

Stadium

VfB Gießen played its home fixtures at the 10,000 capacity Waldstadion.

References

  1. ^ a b c Das deutsche Fussball Archiv (in German) Historic German league tables, accessed: 3 January 2015
  2. ^ Hessenliga tables & results 1994 to present (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 3 January 2015
  3. ^ "VfB 1900 Gießen beendet das Kapitel Fußball" (in German). 9 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Die Mischung macht's" (in German). 30 May 2018.
  5. ^ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
  6. ^ Fussball.de – Ergebnisse Archived 7 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues