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| Full name | Verein für Bewegungsspiele Lübeck von 1919 e. V. | ||
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| Founded | 1 June 1919 | ||
| Ground | Stadion an der Lohmühle | ||
| Capacity | 17,849[citation needed] | ||
| Chairman | Holger Leu[citation needed] | ||
| Manager | Guerino Capretti | ||
| League | Regionalliga Nord (IV) | ||
| 2024–25 | Regionalliga Nord, 7th of 18 | ||
| Website | https://vfb-luebeck.de | ||
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VfB Lübeck is aGerman association football club playing inLübeck,Schleswig-Holstein, in the country's north. It is most known for reaching the semifinals of theGerman Cup in the 2003/2004 season. They played in the2. Bundesliga from 1995 to 1997 and 2002 to 2004. Their football home stadium is theStadion an der Lohmühle.
The club is mostly known for itsfootball department, but it is also successful intable tennis.
The earliest origins of the club go back to a pair of predecessor sides;Ballsportverein Vorwärts Lübeck established on 1 April 1919 andSportvereinigung Polizei Lübeck founded in 1921.[1]
SV Polizei Lübeck was the local police sports club.[citation needed] In 1931 it was merged withVerein für Rasensport Lübeck, which was the product of the 1923 union ofFußball Club Alemannia 1905 Lübeck andLübecker Fußball Club Germania 1913.SVP played well enough to earn appearances in the playoff rounds of the senior north German circuit, but did not enjoy[tone] any success.VfR made only a single such appearance, in 1924.
BSV Vorwärts Lübeck played in theArbeiter-Turn- und Sportbund (Worker's Gymnastic and Sport Federation) from its founding until 1933 when it was dismantled by theNazi regime, which regarded workers sports clubs of the sort as politically undesirable. They won city championships in 1927, 1928, and 1931.[citation needed] The club's membership became part ofSVP and the expanded association joined the Gauliga Nordmark, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the 1933 reorganization of German football under theThird Reich.
The club was renamedPolizei Sportverein Lübeck in 1935 and played in theGauliga Nordmark until 1942, with its best results coming as third-place finishes.[2]PSV made unsuccessful qualification round appearances in play for the Tschammerpokal, predecessor of today's DFB-Pokal (German Cup) in 1936–38.[citation needed] In 1942 the club was again renamed, becomingSportgemeinschaft der Ordnungspolizei Lübeck, and moved to theGauliga Schleswig-Holstein when wartime conditions forced the breakup of theGauliga Nordmark into three more local divisions.
Following World War II organizations throughout Germany, including sports and football clubs, were dissolved by occupying Allied authorities. In 1945, the former memberships ofSG OrPo andBSV Vorwärts formed a new association calledVerein für Bewegungsspile Lübeck. The new club resumed play in the top flight, first in the Bezirksmeisterschaft Schleswig-Holstein, and then in 1947, in the newly formed Oberliga Nord.[citation needed] Over the next decade and a halfVfB bounced up and down[tone] between first and second division play; they were consistently a top performer[according to whom?] in the Amateurliga Schlewig-Holstein (II), but completely incapable[vague] of escaping the basement[tone] of the Oberliga Nord (I).
Following the 1963 formation of the Bundesliga, the country's professional first division circuit, the team settled into the Regionalliga Nord (II), generally earning mid-table results. A second-place finish in 1969 ledVfB to the qualification round for the Bundesliga, where they finished last in their group with only a single point from eight matches.
After 1974,VfB slipped from the ranks of second-tier teams to fourth division Landesliga Schleswig-Holstein. They recovered a place in the2. Bundesliga just over two decades later and resumed their role as an "elevator side", moving frequently between the second and third divisions. In 2004, the team reached the semi-finals of theDFB-Pokal (German Cup), but lost toWerder Bremen in extra time. After it was revealed[by whom?] that the club has been suffering[tone] from financial difficulties, it finally filed for bankruptcy at the district court Lübeck in April 2008 and was eventually forcibly relegated to theSchleswig-Holstein-Liga (V) for the 2013–14 season.[citation needed] After a league championship at this level and success in the promotion round the club returned to theRegionalliga (IV) in 2014. They followed up a second-place finish in 2019 with a division title in 2020 and advanced to play in the3. Liga (III).
In July 2009,VfB Lübeck shocked[tone]Bundesliga club1. FSV Mainz 05, beating them 2–1after extra time in the first round of theDFB-Pokal. They were eliminated in the next round byVfB Stuttgart (3–1) after again taking a Bundesliga club into extra time. ConsecutiveSchleswig-Holstein-Pokal wins in 2016 and 2017, and another in 2019, led to additionalDFB-Pokal appearances where the club went out in the first round each time.
The club's honours:[citation needed]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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In addition to its football side, the 1,000-member sports club[citation needed] also has departments for badminton, women's gymnastics,handball, and table tennis.[citation needed]
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