VfB Helmbrechts
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| Full name | Verein für Bewgungsspiele Helmbrechts 98 e.V. |
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| Founded | 3 March 1921 |
| Ground | Frankenwaldsportstätte |
| Capacity | 14,000 |
| Chairman | Rudi Rau |
| Manager | Marco Bogdanovic |
| League | Kreisliga Hof (VIII) |
| 2015–16 | Kreisklasse Hof-West (IX), 1st (promoted) |
The VfB Helmbrechts is a German association football club from the city of Helmbrechts, Bavaria.
The clubs most notable era was when it was playing in the 2nd Oberliga Süd, then the second tier of the German football league system, from 1955 to 1963.
The club was formed on 3 March 1921, and played its first game of football one month later.VfB did not have a proper ground until 1924 and competitive matches were rare in the early years. It won the local C-Klasse championship that year and earned promotion to the B-Klasse. The following season, the B-Klasse championship could be won and the VfB moved up to the A-Klasse.
After a number of attempts, Helmbrechts won the A-Klasse championship in 1931 and earned promotion to the tier-two Kreisliga, where it played against well-known local sides like SpVgg Weiden and FC Bayern Hof.
With the rise of the Nazis to power, league football in Germany was restructured in 1933. In Bavaria, the Gauliga Bayern was introduced with the Bezirksligas as the leagues below. Helmbrechts earned promotion to this league in 1934. In this league, the club performed well, earning upper table finishes until 1939. With the outbreak of the Second World War, VfB ceased to compete in league football.
The club restarted its football life in the local third division in 1946, earning a championship there and promotion to the tier-two Landesliga Bayern. After one season there, it had to step down once more. The club failed in promotion round in 1951, to return to what had now become the Amateurliga Bayern but, in 1953, the expansion of the league to two regional divisions allowed the club to return.
As a new club in the Amateurliga Nordbayern, VfB took out the championship straight away in 1954–55, also winning the Bavarian championship when beating southern champions FC Penzberg, and earned the right to compete for promotion to the 2nd Oberliga Süd. In a group with Borussia Fulda and Amicitia Viernheim, it won promotion finishing first, moving up alongside FC Penzberg, SpVgg Neu-Isenburg and VfR Heilbronn.
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