VfB Pößneck

VfB Pößneck
Full name	Verein für Bewegungsspiele 1909 Pößneck e.V.
Founded	1909
Ground	Sportpark Warte
Capacity	2,500
Chairman	Rudi Wohlfahrt
Manager	Jörn Schwinkendorf
League	Kreisliga Jena-Saale-Orla Staffel Süd (IX)
2015–16	9th
Home colours	Away colours

Last updated April 14, 2019

VfB Pößneck is a German association football club from the city of Pößneck, Thuringia with a membership of roughly 400.

Football is the most popular sport in Germany. The German Football Association is the sport's national governing body, with 6.6 million members organized in over 26,000 football clubs. There is a league system, with the Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga and 3. Liga on top. The winner of the Bundesliga is crowned the German football champion. Additionally, there are national cup competitions, most notably the DFB-Pokal and DFL-Supercup.

Pößneck is a town in the Saale-Orla-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 19 km east of Rudolstadt, and 26 km south of Jena.

History

former logo of VfB Pößneck (1909-1945)

Vereins für Bewegungsspiele Pößneck was founded 2 August 1909 and established its own ground at Sportpark an der Warte in May 1925. All organizations in Germany, including sports and football clubs, were dissolved by Allied authorities in the aftermath of World War II. The club was re-established in 1950 and played as BSG Fortschritt Pößneck until being renamed BSG Rotasym Pößneck in 1980. East German clubs were typically connected to a local industry, service, or branch of government and these name changes reflect the club's affiliation with a fabrics factory, and later, the Rotasym firm.

Following German re-unification in 1990 the football departments of Rotasym and BSG Rotation Pößneck merged to form Sportgemeinschaft Pößneck. This club was re-christened SV WSD Pößneck in 1991 and on 27 May 2004 re-claimed its traditional identity as VfB 09 Pößneck. The team played its way into the fifth division Landesliga Thüringen (V) in 1996 and after a championship season there in 2001–02 joined the Oberliga Nordost-Süd (IV). Former DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik or German Democratic Republic) star player Lothar Kurbjuweit became trainer in 2003 and led the club to a solid 7th place finish in Oberliga play, but left the club after a disagreement with management.

East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic, was a country that existed from 1949 to 1990, when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. It described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state", and the territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces at the end of World War II — the Soviet Occupation Zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it; as a result, West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR.

Lothar Kurbjuweit is a former German footballer and football manager.

After eight seasons in the NOFV-Oberliga Süd the team was relegated in 2010 and suffered consecutive relegations until withdrawing from the tier seven Landesklasse to the tier ten 1. Kreisklasse Staffel Süd in 2012. Consecutive promotions have since taken the club back up to the tier eight Kreisoberliga but the club was relegated back to the Kreisliga in 2015.^[1]

The NOFV-Oberliga Süd is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the southern states of the former East Germany. It covers the German states of Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Saxony. It is one of fourteen Oberligas in German football. Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the fourth tier of the league system, until the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 the third tier.

Honours

The club's honours:

Landesliga Thüringen (V)
- Champions: 2002
Landesklasse Thüringen (VI)
- Champions: 1996

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References

↑ VfB Pößneck at Fussball.de (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues, accessed: 12 February 2015

External links

Official team site
Abseits Guide to German Soccer
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German football league tables (in German)

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[1] VfB Pößneck at Fussball.de (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues, accessed: 12 February 2015