VfB Wissen
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| Full name | Verein für Bewegungsspiele Wissen 1914 e.V. |
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| Founded | 28 February 1914 |
| Ground | Dr.-Grosse-Siegstadion |
| Capacity | 8,000 |
| Chairman | Thomas Nauroth |
| Manager | Wolfgang Leidig |
| League | Bezirksliga Rheinland-Ost (VII) |
| 2015–16 | 6th |
The VfB Wissen is a German association football club from the town of Wissen, Rhineland-Palatinate.
The club's greatest success has been a single season spent in the tier two 2. Oberliga Südwest in 1962–63 and to become a founding member of the tier three Regionalliga West/Südwest in 1994.
The origins of an organised sports club in Wissen goes back to 1889 when the TV Wissen was formed, a gymnastics club. Attempts to form a football department within this club failed because of the club rejecting football as a suitable sport for young men. Attempts were made to form an independent football club in 1910 but this club soon folded again. With the industrialisation of Wissen and the considerable growth of the town just before the First World War a football club was finally formed on 28 February 1914.
The war soon interrupted regular play and it took until 1919 for VfB to renter league football. The club was grouped in the B-Klasse of the Westphalia region but won the league and entered the A-Klasse from the next season. The club was able to maintain a football team well into the last year of the Second World War.
The club reformed in 1946 with the permission of the French occupation authorities but had to official disband and reform again the following year. The club was now grouped in the part of Rhineland region that would later become the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate rather than in Westphalia.
VfB Wissen was promoted to the Rheinlandliga, then the Amateurliga Rheinland, in 1956. The club played in the eastern division of the league, then split into two regional groups and won the league in 1961 and 1962. While it failed to win the Rhineland championship in 1961 it did so in 1962 and was promoted to the tier two 2. Oberliga Südwest. Wissen finished in sixth place but the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963 and the changes in the league system meant that the club had to drop back to the Amateurliga. The club also won the Rhineland Cup on two occasions in this era, in 1959 and 1961.
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