VfL Kirchheim/Teck

The VfL ​​Kirchheim / Teck is a sports club based in Kirchheim / Teck.

With over 4,000 members and 18 sports departments it is one of the major sports clubs in Baden-Württemberg. The offer includes inter alia Football, basketball, gymnastics, table tennis and athletics, Aikido, Badminton, Basketball, fist ball, fencing, handball, judo, karate, wrestling, swimming, water polo, sports bowling, tennis, triathlon and more offers of leisure, seniors and invalids sport. The club colors are blue and white. The nickname of the club is The Blues.

Club history

On July 6, 1881, the club was founded in 1861 as a TV Kirchheim. In 1911, the football section of the club as VfB Kirchheim made ​​independently. These merged on 20 May 1933, the TSV 1861 Kirchheim for Gymnastics and Sports Association Kirchheim. This was created by a merger between the original club TV 1861 Kirchheim and the separation of TB in 1888 Kirchheim 1922. The Gymnastics and Sports Association separated already at February 26, 1935 back to the original clubs, but these merged again in 1945 to VfL Kirchheim.

The second division team of basketball players Kirchheimer was spun off into a company, the Kirchheim Knights 2006.

Football

History

The largest and most successful department make the playing in the Oberliga Baden- Württemberg footballer dar. As VfB Kirchheim the men's team had let sit up for the first time in the early 1940s. In the promotion round to the then prime Gauliga Württemberg they failed in 1941 as Second only just.

From 1946 to 1952 she played in the first amateur league Württemberg.

From 1986, the Football Men played in the third-class Oberliga Baden -Württemberg. After the descent In 1991, as an association league champions the immediate resurgence. For the third class, introduced in 1994 Regionalliga Süd you could not qualify and remained in the Oberliga Baden- Württemberg.

As master of this class succeeded in 1997 promotion to the Regionalliga Süd. With only three wins this season, you got no chance, however, as Table after only one season again. After three more years took place in 2001 even the renewed relegation from the top league in the fifth division Württemberg. As an association, league champions in 2007 managed to return to the league. There, the team managed under the equal Trainerduo Michael Rentschler / Christian Hofberger the league.

After Rentschler at the end of the season his departure direction Württembergischem Football Association ( WFV ) had announced and the Treaty of Christian Hofberger was surprisingly not extended, was Dietmar Sehrig, former coach of Bundesliga club VfL Sindelfingen woman, obliged. Sehrig but was dismissed for lack of success after six games - under him VfL had taken only one point and was Table. New coach, Hans -Martin Kleitsch, former youth coach of VfB Stuttgart. After only three weeks, he left the club but again, his successor was the former VfL player Rolf Baumann, who took over the team in second to last place in the table and nine points behind the league. Under Baumann VfL Kirchheim still held the class and ended the 2008/09 season in tenth place in the table. At the beginning of the 2009/10 season was the team until early September unbeaten on the first place in the table of the Oberliga Baden- Württemberg and went behind the TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II as a table runner-up in the winter break. At the end of the season they missed the rise of places but clear.

On 26 July 2011, the first team had to be withdrawn before the start of season 2011/ 2012 for the operation of gambling in the Oberliga Baden- Württemberg. Reason was a gap in the budget amounted to € 100,000, according to department manager Jörg Mosolf. Backgrounds for the shortfall were missing revenue from sponsors to low gate receipts, rising insurance premiums for contract players as well as obvious failings in salary negotiations due to excessive risk-taking. In the 2012/13 season the new first team entered in the fifth division, from which it descended, however.

The Wolves and Catania

The VfL ​​football department was the first club in Germany, had an active foreigners team in the play mode. From 1976, the VfL ​​-Catania - Eleven, a team playing with only Italian players in the Italian league Württemberg. At that time, Werner Hansel, the all-rounder at VfL, your " Il Präsidente ".

The team took a short time also participating in the German game mode. After two ascents during a District League but was terminal, because the space in this league was already occupied by VfL with the second team. After the football rules, two teams of a club can not compete in the same class. So parted in 1993, the Italian friends from VfL Kirchheim, Kirchheim order henceforth to tread its own way under the newly founded club AC Catania 1993.

To this day, both clubs combines a comradely relations.

Achievements

  • Master of the Oberliga Baden- Württemberg 1997
  • Master of the fifth division Württemberg in 1986, 1992, 2007
  • WFV Cup winner in 1961, 2003
  • WFV Cup finalist in 1988, 1997

Well-known former players

Stadium

The Sports Centre at Jesinger Avenue includes five lawn and an artificial turf field. The main pitch in the stadium can accommodate about 10,000 spectators, with 400 audience will be on the covered grandstand seats.

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