VfR Pforzheim
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| Full name | Verein für Rasenspiele Pforzheim e.V. |
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| Nickname(s) | Die Rassler |
| Founded | 1897 |
| Dissolved | 30 June 2010 |
| Ground | Stadion Holzhof |
| Capacity | 10,000 |
| League | Defunct |
The VfR Pforzheim was a German association football club from the city of Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg. The club achieved notability by playing in Germany's second division in the 1965–66 season. In 2010 the club merged with 1. FC Pforzheim to form 1. CfR Pforzheim.
Apart from football, the club also operates an ice hockey team in the Landesliga Baden-Württemberg, the VfR Blue Gold Stars.
The club was formed in 1897 under the name of FC Alemania Pforzheim. Pforzheim was then a leading city in the development of German football and had, with the 1. FC Pforzheim, already a strong club. In 1906, two more football clubs were formed in Pforzheim, the FC Viktoria and Phönix. These later two merged with Alemania to form VfR on 12 September 1912. In 1919, a fourth club joined this merger, the FC Oststadt.
From the beginning, the VfR, then Alemania, stood in the shadow of the 1.FCP. While the later played in the tier-one Südkreis-Liga, Alemania played in the second division, then the B-Klasse Mittelbaden. In 1911–12, out of 17 clubs in two divisions in this league, seven came from Pforzheim, including the three sides that would merge at the end of it to become VfR.
Despite the merger in 1912, VfR could not rise to the highest level in the region before the First World War, but, in 1919, football in the region was reorganised and the club became part of the new Kreisliga Südwest. It played at this level for three seasons before suffering relegation in 1922. VfR was unable to rise to the highest level again in the following era of the Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden, from 1923 to 1933 and only returned to division one in 1943, when the Gauliga Baden had become the top tier in the region.
After the Second World War, the club became part of the tier-two Landesliga Nordbaden.VfR played at this level with some success, winning the southern group of the league in 1948. In 1950, the Landesliga Nordbaden became the Amateurliga Nordbaden and, because of the creation of the 2nd Oberliga Süd, was now only the third tier of the league system. VfR was relegated from the league in 1952, slipping to the tier-four 2nd Amateurliga Mittelbaden.
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