VfB Auerbach
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| VfB Auerbach | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Verein für Bewegungsspiele Auerbach 1906 e.V. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1906 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ground | VfB Stadion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 5,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Joachim Naumann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Steffen Dünger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Oberliga Nordost-Süd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | 7th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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VfB Auerbach is a German football club from the city of Auerbach, Saxony. The club also has a tennis department.
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[edit] History
The association was founded as the Auerbacher Fußball Club on May 17, 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 Middle German Ballplay Clubs), in 1908. AFC was officially registered on June 20, 1913 and after World War I on April 18, 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 re-named BSG Einheit Auerbach on January 6, 1951. BSG was an unheralded local side in and out of the 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 Oberliga Nordost-Süd (IV) where they compete today as a lower to mid-table side.
[edit] Honours
- Landesliga Sachsen champions: 2003
[edit] 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).
[edit] External links
- Official team site
- Abseits Guide to German Soccer
- Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German football league tables (in German)
- eufo.de European football club profiles
| German NOFV-Oberliga Süd (IV) Football Clubs (2006-07) |
| VfB Auerbach | Budissa Bautzen | Chemnitzer FC | FC Energie Cottbus II | SV Dessau 05 | FV Dresden-Nord | FC Eilenburg | Rot-Weiß Erfurt II | Germania Halberstadt | Hallescher FC | FC Carl Zeiss Jena II | Sachsen Leipzig | ZFC Meuselwitz | VFC Plauen | VfB Pößneck | FSV Zwickau |
