Sportfreunde Lotte
Encyclopedia
VfL Sportfreunde Lotte is a German association football club
from Lotte
, North Rhine-Westphalia
. The football team is part of a sports club with approximately 1400 members and departments for handball, walking, gymnastics, and swimming, as well as other activities.
departments.
Lotte won its way to the Verbandsliga Westfalen (V) in 1996 and after a title there in 2004 was promoted to the Oberliga Westfalen (IV) where they play today.
Sportfreunde plays their home matches in the SolarTechnics-Arena
(formerly the Lotter Kreuz) which holds 7.474 spectators (5.104 Standing & 2.370 seated).
Football in Germany
Association football is the most popular sport in Germany. The German Football Association is the sport's national governing body, with 6.6 million members organized in over 26,000 football clubs. There is a league system, with the 1. and 2. Bundesliga on top, and the winner of the first...
from Lotte
Lotte, Germany
Lotte is a municipality in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.-Geography:Lotte is situated on the north side of the Teutoburg Forest, close to the border of Lower Saxony and approx. 10 km west of Osnabrück....
, North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...
. The football team is part of a sports club with approximately 1400 members and departments for handball, walking, gymnastics, and swimming, as well as other activities.
History
The association was established as the gymnastics club Turnverein Lotte in 1929. After World War II the club was re-established as VfL Sportfreunde Lotte on 9 February 1946 and was built around football and handballTeam handball
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...
departments.
Lotte won its way to the Verbandsliga Westfalen (V) in 1996 and after a title there in 2004 was promoted to the Oberliga Westfalen (IV) where they play today.
Sportfreunde plays their home matches in the SolarTechnics-Arena
PGW Arena
connectM-Arena is a multi-use stadium in Lotte, Germany. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Sportfreunde Lotte. The stadium currently has a capacity of 7,414 spectators and opened in 1929.-External links:*...
(formerly the Lotter Kreuz) which holds 7.474 spectators (5.104 Standing & 2.370 seated).
Honours
- Bezirksliga Westfalen champions: 1989
- Landesliga Westfalen champions: 1996
- Verbandsliga Westfalen champions: 2004
- Promoted to the Regionalliga West: 2008
Current squad
Notable players
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External links
- Official team site
- Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German football league tables (in German)
- eufo.de European football club profiles