VfB Pößneck is a German association football club

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 the city of Pößneck

Pößneck

Pößneck is a town in the Saale-Orla-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 19 km east of Rudolstadt, and 26 km south of Jena....

, Thuringia with a membership of roughly 400.

History

Vereins für Bewegungsspiele Pößneck was founded 2 August 1909 and established its own ground at Sportpark an der Warte in May 1925. All organizations in Germany, including sports and football clubs, were dissolved by Allied authorities in the aftermath of World War II. The club was re-established in 1950 and played as BSG Fortschritt Pößneck until being re-named BSG Rotasym Pößneck in 1980. East German clubs were typically connected to a local industry, service, or branch of government and these name changes reflect the club's affiliation with a fabrics factory, and later, the Rotasym firm.

Following German re-unification in 1990 the football departments of Rotasym and BSG Rotation Pößneck merged to form Sportgemeinschaft Pößneck. This club was re-christened SV WSD Pößneck in 1991 and on 27 May 2004 re-claimed its traditional identity as VfB 09 Pößneck. The team played its way into the fifth division Landesliga Thüringen (V) in 1996 and after a championship season there in 2001–02 joined the Oberliga Nordost-Süd (IV). Former DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik or German Democratic Republic) star player Lothar Kurbjuweit

Lothar Kurbjuweit

Lothar Kurbjuweit is a former German football player, who works as Director of Sport for FC Carl Zeiss Jena.-International career:...

 became trainer in 2003 and led the club to a solid 7th place finish in Oberliga play, but left the club after a disagreement with management.

Honours

• Landesklasse Thüringen (VI) champions: 1996
• Landesliga Thüringen
  Landesliga Thüringen
  The Thüringenliga is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Thuringia . Until the introduction of the 3...
  
  (V) champions: 2002

External links

• Official team site
• Abseits Guide to German Soccer
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German football league tables (in German)
• eufo.de European football club profiles