VfL Leverkusen
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VfL Leverkusen is a German association football club
from the central district of Küppersteg in the city of Leverkusen
, North Rhine-Westphalia.
League re-structuring saw the club sent down to fourth division play in 1956. VfL returned to the Amateurliga Mittlerhein (III) in 1964 for a two season turn before falling back through the Landesliga Mittelrhein (IV) into lower division play by 1966. They returned to the Landesliga in 1972 and narrowly escaped relegation in each of the next several seasons until finally being sent down in 1977.
Leverkusen finally recovered a place in the Landesliga Mittelrhein in 2003, capturing the division title that same year, winning immediate promotion to the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein
(V).
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 central district of Küppersteg in the city of Leverkusen
Leverkusen
Leverkusen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the South, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne and to the North is the state capital Düsseldorf....
, North Rhine-Westphalia.
History
The club is the product of the 25 July 1950 union of Turn- und Sport 1904 Manfort, established 21 June 1904 as Ballspielverein Manfort, and Turn- und Sport Jahn 1914 Küppersteg, established 15 February 1914. Küppersteg played the 1949–50 season in the Amateurliga Mittelrhein (II); the newly combined side took up their place and competed there through the early- to mid 50s before slipping into the Landesliga Mittelrhein (III).League re-structuring saw the club sent down to fourth division play in 1956. VfL returned to the Amateurliga Mittlerhein (III) in 1964 for a two season turn before falling back through the Landesliga Mittelrhein (IV) into lower division play by 1966. They returned to the Landesliga in 1972 and narrowly escaped relegation in each of the next several seasons until finally being sent down in 1977.
Leverkusen finally recovered a place in the Landesliga Mittelrhein in 2003, capturing the division title that same year, winning immediate promotion to the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein
Verbandsliga Mittelrhein
The Mittelrheinliga, formerly the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein, is the highest Football League in the region of Mittelrhein which is part of the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. It is the 6th tier of the German football league system...
(V).
External links
- Official team site
- Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables