VfV 06 Hildesheim

VfV 06 Hildesheim

Full name	Verein für Volkssport Borussia von 1906 e. V. Hildesheim
Founded	1 July 2003;18 years ago (1 July 2003)
Ground	Friedrich-Ebert-Stadion
Capacity	8,000 [1]
Chairman	Christoph Gerke
Manager	Benjamin Duda
League	Oberliga
2018–19	Oberliga, 7th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

VfV 06 Hildesheim is a German association football club from the town of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony. The club's greatest success has been promotion to the tier four Regionalliga Nord in 2015.

History

Predecessor clubs

VfV 06 Hildesheim was formed on 1 July 2003 in a merger of the football department of VfV Hildesheim and Borussia 06 Hildesheim. ^[2]

Of the two merger clubs, VfV Hildesheim, formed in 1945, was the more successful of the two. It had played, on a number of occasions at the highest level of football in the region. The club played in the tier one Oberliga Nord from 1958 to 1963, after which the league was disbanded in favour of the Bundesliga. VfV's best season came in 1961–62 when it finished third in the league, behind Hamburger SV and Werder Bremen. It qualified for the 1962–63 Intertoto Cup but finished last in its group, its only win coming against Blauw-Wit Amsterdam. ^[3] In this era, the club also qualified for the DFB-Pokal twice, in 1960–61 and 1961–62, advancing to the quarter finals in the latter, where the club was knocked out after an 11–0 defeat by 1. FC Nürnberg. After 1963 the club gradually declined. It played in the tier two Regionalliga Nord for four more seasons between 1963 and 1967, finishing in the bottom third of the table each year. After dropping back to the tier three Amateurliga Niedersachsen the club finished runners-up in 1968 but was relegated from this level, too, the season after. The club made another DFB-Pokal appearance in 1977–78, advancing to the third round where it lost 6–0 to Hamburger SV. After almost two decades in lower amateur football the club returned to the highest league in Lower Saxony, now the tier four Verbandsliga Niedersachsen in 1987. Playing as a lower table side the club missed an opportunity to return to Oberliga level in 1994 when the Regionalligas were reintroduced, finishing sixteenth when the top fourteen moved up. VfV instead was grouped in the western division of the now split Verbandsliga and achieved much better results at this level, culminating in a league championship in the season before the merger, 2001–02. It thereby won promotion to the Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen where it came twelfth in 2002–03. ^{[2] [4]}

Borussia 06 Hildesheim, formed in 1946, never played above the Amateurliga Niedersachsen, which it belonged to from 1952 to 1960 and 1961 to 1963. Until 1958 it shared this league with VfV, when the latter was promoted to the Oberliga. From the early 1960s onwards the club's results declined and, by the time of the merger, it had dropped into local amateur football in the form of the Kreisliga Hildesheim. ^{[2] [4] [5]}

Both clubs, also only formed after the Second World War, trace their origins back to earlier clubs. Borussia's line dates back to the FC Hildesheim (later merged into RSV 06 Hildesheim), formed in 1906 while VfV's roots origin in the football club Britania, formed in 1904 and later merged into Hildesheim 07. ^[2]

VfV 06 Hildesheim

The new club did not start well, suffering relegation from the Oberliga in its first season, 2003–04. It played in the western division of the Verbandsliga for the next four seasons, finishing in the top half of the table each year. In 2008, alongside the introduction of the 3. Liga, the Oberliga Nord was disbanded and the Verbandsligas in Lower Saxony received Oberliga status, thereby remaining on the fifth tier of the league system. VfV played a season in the western division, followed by a season in the eastern. An eight place finish in 2009–10 was enough for the club to qualify for the now unified Oberliga Niedersachsen, commonly referred to as Niedersachsenliga. VfV's results in this league varied, coming fifth in 2011 and twelfth in 2012. A runners-up finish in the league in 2014–15 qualified the club for the promotion round to the Regionalliga Nord where it successfully competed with Bremer SV and TSV Schilksee and won promotion. ^[6]

Current squad

As of 7 November 2019 ^[7]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   GER Nils Zumbeel 2 DF   GER Niklas Rauch 3 DF   GER Tristan Heine 5 DF   GER Steffen Suckel 6 MF   GER Dominik Franke 7 DF   GER Mohammad Baghdadi 8 FW   GER Leon Heesmann 9 FW   LBR Abdulmalik Abdul 10 MF   MKD Jane Zlatkov 11 FW   GER Thomas Sonntag 16 MF   TUR Rezzan Bilmez 17 MF   TUR Adem Avcı

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF   GER Cedric Jahnel 19 FW   LBN Hady El Saleh 20 MF   GER Leon-Malte Schrader 21 FW   GER Benedict Plaschke 22 GK   GER Paul Wemmer 23 FW   GER Edwin Hertel 24 DF   GER Andreas Hinrichsen 26 MF   GER Lucas Pillich 27 DF   GER Meik Erdmann 31 DF   GER Marcel Kohn 32 DF   CIV Anderson Kipre 33 MF   GER Yannik Schulze

Honours

The club's honours:

• Niedersachsenliga
  • Runners-up: 2015

Seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club: ^{[4] [6]}

Season	Division	Tier	Position
2003–04	Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen	IV	15th ↓
2004–05	Verbandsliga Niedersachsen-West	V	7th
2005–06	Verbandsliga Niedersachsen-West		5th
2006–07	Verbandsliga Niedersachsen-West		6th
2007–08	Verbandsliga Niedersachsen-West		6th
2008–09	Oberliga Niedersachsen-West		13th
2009–10	Oberliga Niedersachsen-Ost		8th
2010–11	Niedersachsenliga		5th
2011–12	Niedersachsenliga		12th
2012–13	Niedersachsenliga		10th
2013–14	Niedersachsenliga		8th
2014–15	Niedersachsenliga		2nd ↑
2015–16	Regionalliga Nord	IV	10th
2016–17	Regionalliga Nord		15th
2017–18	Regionalliga Nord		16th ↓

• With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.

↑ Promoted

↓ Relegated

References

1. Friedrich-Ebert-Stadion. stadiumdb.com. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
2. Historie (in German) VfV 06 Hildesheim website — Club history, accessed: 22 May 2015
3. Intertoto Cup 1962/63 Pawel Mogielnicki, accessed: 23 May 2015
4. Historic German football league tables (in German) Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 22 May 2015
5. Borussia 06 Hildesheim at Fussball.de (in German) accessed: 22 May 2015
6. VfV 06 Hildesheim at Fussball.de (in German) accessed: 22 May 2015
7. "Regionalliga Team" (in German). VfV 06 Hildesheim. Retrieved 13 February 2018.

External links

• Official team site (in German)
• VfV 06 Hildesheim at Weltfussball.de (in German)