VfB Theley
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| Full name | Verein für Bewegungsspiele Theley |
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| Founded | 7 December 1919 |
| Ground | Schaumbergstadion |
| Capacity | 9,000 |
| Chairman | Erich Müller |
| Head Coach | Nicola Latta |
| League | Verbandsliga Saarland (VII) |
| 2015–16 | Landesliga Nord (VIII), 2nd (promoted) |
| Website | Club home page |
VfB Theley is a German association football club from the Theley suburb of the town of Tholey, Saarland. The club's greatest success has been promotion to the second tier 2. Oberliga Südwest in 1958 where it played for five seasons. After the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963 Theley spent another three seasons at the second tier, now the Regionalliga Südwest before dropping out of higher level football altogether in 1974.
Theley also made two appearances in the DFB-Pokal, in 1974–75 and 1976–77, but was knocked out in the second round at each occasion.
Football was established in Theley after the First World War when British soldiers were stationed in the village for a number of weeks to demarcate the boundary between Germany and the soon to be League of Nations-administrated Saarland and were spotted playing the game by local youth. The club played as a local amateur side for the first couple of decades of its existence.
VfB Theley won promotion to the tier three Amateurliga Saarland in 1955 and spent the first two seasons as a lower table side before winning the league in 1957–58. Promoted, Theley played in the 2. Oberliga Südwest the next five season from 1958 to 1963, playing as a lower table side with two eleventh-place finishes as its best result.
Back in the Amateurliga Theley won the league in 1970 and 1972, earning promotion to the tier two Regionalliga on each occasion. The club spent three seasons in the Regionalliga Südwest, in 1970–71 and from 1972 to 1974 with a tenth place in 1973 as its best result. At the end of the 1973–74 season the Regionalliga was disbanded in favour of the new 2. Bundesliga and the club dropped out of higher league football altogether.
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