VfB Gießen

VfB 1900 Giessen ( Association for motion games 1900 casting eV ) is a sports club from the central Hessian casting.

The current club was formed by a merger of the two Giessen sports clubs VfB 08 and Game Association in 1900, in 1956, but the official founding date was 1900. It offers a range of sports facilities in all directions and reached up to the withdrawal of the first team, especially regionally significant successes in men's soccer. Since the 2009/10 season, the club plays in the regional league.

  • 2.1 Basketball

Football

History of the football department

08 VfB Gießen

08 VfB Gießen was founded in 1908 and reached in 1911/12 the final round of the West German Championship, but lost in the semifinals of the A- class champions Borussia Mönchengladbach 0:5. After the 2nd World War, the club was refounded as VfR Reichsbahn 1908 casting, but declined in 1947 back to the original name.

SpVgg 1900 casting

The second merger club was founded in 1900 as FK Giessen in 1900 and was under this name in 1909 in the quarterfinals to the West German championship. 1938, stood in the promotion round to Gauliga Hesse, but could not prevail against the competitors, finishing in last place in the group. The name SpVgg 1900 casting was assumed in 1926 after a merger with SpVgg 1904 Giessen.

VfB 1900 Giessen

1951, the men's team rose to the then national league, which was called for a reorganization of the German league system until 2008 Oberliga. The club was able to keep 31 years without ascent or descent in the league and won three times the Hessen Cup (1964, 1972 and 1979). As a result of the last Cup victory you even took part in the DFB Cup, but failed in the first round on FC 08 Homburg. 1982, however, the team could not hold the class and the club was relegated in the national league. In the meantime, you can even put up at the district league, but after the direct re-emergence of the club in 1995 was able to ascend to the Oberliga. The association sought after returning to a climb up to the 2nd Bundesliga and in December 1996, even a 1990 World Cup, Uwe Bein has been committed. There is a very high for the league average attendance of 1,600 spectators on average was achieved, but even the targeted promotion to the Regionalliga remained the team fails. As a result, the average attendance and hence the popularity steadily declined, it was missing more and more sponsors and the financial crisis grew. Due to the lack of funds, the team moved to the 2000 /01 season completely out of the Oberliga Hessen back and in the following season no team was placed in senior football. 2002/ 03 took part in a new team at the Giessen district league B1. After several ascents, the team played in the 2008 /09 season in the league Giessen- Marburg group, which replaced the old Bezirksoberliga and after the reorganization in 2008, is the 7th league in the German league system. Since the 2009/10 season, VfB plays after a renewed rise again in the fifth division Hesse center.

In addition, could the A- youth VfB as Oberliga in the 2007/ 08 season in the second round of the DFB Cup youth teams of Hansa Rostock, which was in Bundesliga North / East on the 2nd place, with 4:3 nV defeat, although the team was behind at half-time 0-3. In the semifinals, you could this sensation against the team of Bayer 04 Leverkusen not repeat and lost with 0:2.

Stadium

Forest Stadium

VfB playing in forest Stadium in casting, with a capacity of 6900 spectators. There is a covered grandstand seating (700 seats) and not covered seat stands ( 6200 seats). Behind the gates no grandstands are erected, but this area is used for standing passengers. To the lawn leads a 400 m long running track. The stadium is used in addition to the use by the VfB for larger matches in Giessen district, about games for the youth teams of the DFB or performances by professional clubs in the preparatory period ( test match Borussia Dortmund against a district selection in 2006 ). In addition, it was the site of several major events in the Giessen area such as the Bizarre Festival.

Artificial turf

After the groundbreaking ceremony for the new artificial turf system was set next to the Giessen forest Stadium on 27 August 2008, took place on 30 November 2008, the official opening with many prominent guests such as the Soccer World Champion Nia Künzer, the former Hessian indoor and Sports Minister Volker Bouffier and the former Giessen mayor instead of Heinz -Peter Haumann. The course was built on the territory of the Justus -Liebig- University, costing € 450,000, which are partially paid by the club itself, the State of Hesse and by the city of Giessen.

Well-known former players

Former and current Premier League players who have played in the past for VfB Gießen:

Women's Soccer

  • Nia Künzer
  • Leonie Pankratz

Other Sports

Basketball

The first team of the basketball department plays under the name VfB Giessen Pointers. The team plays under coach Dejan Kostic in the Regionalliga West and reached in the 2008 /09 season the 4th place, but you missed at the end clearly a possible promotion to the Pro B. For 2010/11 season the team promotion to the Pro B, where you went to basket hunting until the new season 2011/2012. Currently playing the pointer back to the first Regional Southwest.

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