VfL Halle 1896

VfL Halle 1896 eV is the oldest sports club in the town of Halle on the Saale in Saxony- Anhalt. Besides football, there are in the club departments handball, volleyball, table tennis and gymnastics. The football department plays in 1910 built Stadion am Zoo (then sports field at the zoo), is one of the oldest and most traditional venues in German football.

Club history

The club was founded on 16 July 1896 as the hall Fußball Club 1896. On December 16, 1900, the club is one of twelve founding members of the Association of German funds ball game clubs ( VMBV ) was. In addition, the club was a founding member of the German Football Association (DFB). In 1909, Hall was the first German football club, bought a private club grounds. In the area of the zoological garden was created in the period following the then most modern sports facility in central Germany, which was inaugurated on September 4, 1910 with a match against VfB Leipzig and 10,000 spectators had room. On September 23, 1919, the club joined the Mercantile Turnverein Hall in the match from now on under the name VfL ​​Halle 1896. Though the merger was already dissolved in April 1920 again, but the new name persisted. After the dissolution of all sports clubs in the year 1945 was founded on the site of VfL on 10 November 1946, the SG Giebichenstein of what ultimately on May 14, 1949 gave rise to the SG cooperatives hall. 1951 arose from the club BSG Empor hall that had existed until the political change in the GDR. On 1 August 1990, the BSG renamed it SV Empor hall before the club on 4 July 1991 its old name VfL ​​Halle received back in 1896.

Football Division

History

Initial successes celebrated footballers of the club beginning of the 20th century, when the club in 1905 the title of the VMBV - Gauliga I ( Halle / Leipzig region ) and in the years 1908, 1909, 1913, 1917, 1918 and 1919 six times the championship founded in 1907 Saalegauliga (Region Halle / Merseburg ) won. The team also won the 1917 and 1919 Central German Championship, which was played out between all of the Gaumeistern VMBV. In 1937 the team was promoted to the Gauliga center, which was the highest German league back then. There, the Halle played up to the attitude of the gaming operation in 1944.

After the war, the first team of the club was only unterklassig represented in the District League and class. Only the offspring successfully played and won in 1953, the East German youth championship ( Youth B ) and 1955 East German Junior Championship (A- Youth). 1980 succeeded the men's team promotion to the second-rate DDR -Liga, but the Halle rose by return again.

In 1991, the club was promoted to the fourth-rate division Saxony-Anhalt and won the 1995 championship with 14 points, which meant promotion to the Oberliga Nordost. There, the club was able to establish in the following years on the front seats and increased in 1999 as Master of the season, even in the South East Regional on. 1997 and 1999, the club also won the FSA Cup and qualified for the main round of the DFB Cup. There, the club was defeated in 1997 against Eintracht Frankfurt ( 0:4 ) and 1999 against 1 FSV Mainz 05 ( 1:2 ), respectively in the first round. In the Regionalliga 1999/2000 season, VfL Halle 96 reached the 14th place in the table. Due to the reduction from four to two squadrons handed this space is not for the league and the team got back into the league.

Well-known former players

  • Jörg Emmerich - 142 second league games for FC Erzgebirge Aue; 1996-2000 played at VfL Halle 96
  • Fritz Conveyor - 11-time German national team; played after the First World War at VfL Halle 96
  • Rico Glaubitz - 11 second division games for FSV Zwickau; 1999-2001 played at VfL Halle 96
  • Steffen Karl - 93 Bundesliga games for Borussia Dortmund and Hertha BSC; played up to the age of 12 at Empor Hall
  • Karsten Oswald - 102 second-division games for the Chemnitz FC and Dynamo Dresden; played up to the age of 14 at VfL Halle 96
  • Marcel Schied - 4 Bundesliga games for Hansa Rostock; played up to the age of 15 at VfL Halle 96
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