VfL 1945 Pinneberg
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| Full name | Verein für Leibesübungen Pinneberg e.V. |
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| Founded | 1945 |
| Ground | Stadion 1 an der Fahltsweide |
| Capacity | 6,000 |
| Chairman | Carsten Lienau |
| Head Coach | Michael Fischer |
| League | Oberliga Hamburg (V) |
| 2015–16 | 13th |
VfL Pinneberg is a German association football club from the town of Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein. Despite its location in Schleswig-Holstein the club plays in the football leagues of near-by Hamburg.
The club's greatest success has been promotion to the tier two Regionalliga Nord in 1973, where it played for a season. VfL also made one appearance in the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, in 1976–77, where it lost 4–0 to FC Augsburg in the first round.
Apart from football the club also offers other sports like volleyball, field hockey and basketball.
Formed in 1945 VfL Pinneberg entered league football in the 1946–47 season at the lowest level in Hamburg, eventually working its way up to what was then the tier two Amateurliga Hamburg in 1960. VfL became a strong side at this level which dropped to the third tier after the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963. After a number of league titles and unsuccessful promotion rounds to the Regionalliga the club finally moved up in 1973.
The 1973 Landesliga title earned the club promotion to the Regionalliga Nord, the level below the Bundesliga in Northern Germany at the time. VfL came last in the 1973–74 Regionalliga season, with the league disbanded at the end of it. Back in the Landesliga VfL won the league in 1975 and 1977 and, after the latter, earned promotion to the Oberliga for the first time.
The club played a single season in the Oberliga Nord in 1977–78 but finished 18th and was relegated again. For the next fifteen seasons VfL was back in Hamburgs highest league again, now renamed to Verbandsliga, earning top-four finishes most years. At the end of the 1993–94 season, with the Oberliga Nord disbanded, a fourth place was enough for the club to qualify for promotion.
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