VfL Bochum

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VfL Bochum is one of the oldest sports associations in the world. It claims that it was founded on 26 July 1848, when an report in Markischer Sprecher - a local newspaper - called for establishment of a gymnastics club. It was named the Turnverein zu Bochum was then officially founded on February 18th, 1849. The club was disbanded on December 28, 1852, due to political reasons , and was reestablished on 19 June 1854. The club was changed in May 1904 to Turnverein zu Bochum, gegrundet 1848. It was then incorporated into an official football club on 31 January 1911. On April 1, 1919, the club joined into Spiel und Sport 08 Bochum to create Turn- und Sportverein Bochum 1848. On February 1, 1924 the two clubs of the merger earlier split into Bochumer Turnverein 1848 (gymnastics department) and Turn- und Sportverein Bochum 1908 (football handball, track and field department, tennis and hockey).

Bochumer Turnverein 1848 was forced by the Nazi regime to join with Turn- und Sport Bochum 1908 and Sportverein Germania Vorwarts Bochum 1906 to form the present-day football club VfL Bochum on 14 April 1938. Following this merger VfL Bochum continued to play in the top division in the Gauliga Westfalen.

In the years as World War II progressed, playing in Germany became more difficult because of player shortages as well as travel issues and damage to football pitches caused by Allied bombing attacks. VfL became part of the wartime side Kriegsspielgemeinschaft VfL 1848/Preussen Bochum alongside Preussen 07 Bochum before re-emerging as a separate side again after the war. Although they had teams that were competitive but they suffered the unfortunate circumstance of being with the division of Schalke 04, which was the top team of the time. The best performance of VfL was only a distant second in 1938-39.

After World War II, the football team was re-established as an autonomous VfL Bochum 1848 and played its first season in second division. Oberliga West was established in 1949, and Preussen Bochum went on to lower-tier amateur play. VfL won the division title in 1953 and advanced into the Oberliga West for a single season. They repeated their win in the division in 1956 before returning to the top of the table before being dropped following the 1960-61 campaign.

In the wake of the Bundesliga, Germany's newest professional league in 1963, VfL discovered itself in the Amateurliga 3rd tier the Westfalen. The first place finish there in 1965 elevated them into the Regionalliga West (II), and they then started a steady climb up the league ladder to the Bundesliga in the year 1971. As they climbed, Bochum also played its way to the final of the 1967-68 DFB-Pokal in which they fell 1-1 to 1-4. FC Koln.

Although it was a lower table team, Bochum developed a reputation for its determination on the field over the course of 20 seasons in the top division. Bochum had a chance to make a return performance during the DFB-Pokal final in 1988, but lost 1-0 against Eintracht Frankfurt. After finishing 16th in the 1992-93 season the club has evolved into an iconic "yo-yo club" moving around between the 2. Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. The club finished 5th position in the Bundesliga in 1996-97 as well as 2003-2004 which saw them play for the UEFA Cup. The year 1997 saw them reached the third round, but they were knocked out by Ajax In 2004, they were eliminated by Ajax they were eliminated at the beginning of the round due to home goals (0-0 or 1-1) by Standard Liege. In the season 2020-21, the team took home the 2.Bundesliga which earned them promotion up to Bundesliga.

The club today has more than 5,000 members including the football department making up more than 2200 of the. Other sections of the club include badminton, athletics, fencing, dance, basketball handball, gymnastics swimming, field hockey, table tennis, tennis and volleyball.

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As of 14 July 2022

A
Nicolas Abdat
Jonas Acquistapace
Charles Atsina
Mirkan Aydın
Mimoun Azaouagh
B
Ridvan Balci
Thorsten Barg
Michael Bemben
Frank Benatelli
Robin Benz
Sören Bertram
Udo Böckmann
Philipp Bönig
Stefan Brasas
Dirk Bremser
Florian Brügmann
David Buchholz
Delron Buckley
Onur Bulut
Mike Busch (footballer)
Heiko Butscher
C
Mounir Chaftar
Matias Concha
Claus Costa
Markus Croonen
Piotr Ćwielong
David Czyszczon
D
Christoph Dabrowski
Mamadou Diabang
Bakary Diakité
Mirko Dickhaut
Felix Dornebusch
Olaf Dreßel
Jürgen Duah
E
Markus Ehrhard
Justin Eilers (footballer)
Dirk Eitzert
Daniel Engelbrecht
Tim Erfen
Michael Esser
Wolfgang Euteneuer
Hólmar Örn Eyjólfsson
F
Patrick Fabian (footballer)
Frank Fahrenhorst
Harry Fechner
Giovanni Federico
Cristian Fiél
Marcus Fischer
Kevin Freiberger
Paul Freier
Danny Fuchs
G
Nikoloz Gelashvili
Hermann Gerland
Daniel Gordon (footballer)
Florian Gothe
Moritz Göttel
Fabian Götze
Dimitrios Grammozis
Dennis Grote
Dilaver Güçlü
Patrick Guillou
Faruk Gül (footballer)
Henrik Gulden
Ä°lkay GündoÄŸan
Selim Gündüz
Jan Gyamerah
H
Knut Hartwig
Frank Heinemann
Daniel Heuer Fernandes
Sebastian Hille
Fabian Holthaus
Helmut Horsch
Gisbert Horsthemke
Nurdin Hrustic
Michael Hubner
I
Zak Ibsen
Ivo Iličević
Ken Ilsø
J
Maximilian Jansen
Aurélien Joachim
Andreas Johansson (footballer, born 1982)
Björn Joppe
Florian Jungwirth
K
Cagatay Kader
OÄŸuzhan Kefkir
Polat Keser
Lukas Klostermann
Peter Knäbel
Kreso Kovacec
Christoph Kramer
Dieter Kramer
Martin Kree
Sven Kreyer
Enes Küç
Michael Kühn
Laurynas Kulikas
Peter Kursinski
Sinan Kurt (footballer, born 1995)
L
Andreas Luthe
M
César M'Boma
Jan Majewski
Marcel Maltritz
Gaetano Manno
Michaël Maria
Marijo Marić
Lars Marten
Marvin Matip
Mërgim Mavraj
Meinolf Mehls
Martin Meichelbeck
Smail Morabit
Detlef Müller (footballer)
N
David Niepsuj
O
Matthias Ostrzolek
Walter Oswald
Oti (footballer)
P
David Pallas
Fotis Papadopoulos (footballer, born 1954)
Pascal Pellowski
Marc Pfertzel
Roman Prokoph
R
Jacek Ratajczak
Thomas Rathgeber
Thomas Reis
René Renno
Dirk Riechmann
Carsten Rothenbach
Marc Rzatkowski
Michael Rzehaczek
S
Dirk Sadowicz
Marc Sand
Andreas Sandt
Kevin Scheidhauer
Sebastian Schindzielorz
Jannis Schliesing
Heinrich Schmidtgal
Lukas Schmitz
Thorsten Schmugge
Markus Scholz
Werner Scholz
Christopher Schorch
Rouven Schröder
Sebastian Selke
Sascha Siebert
Lukas Sinkiewicz
Goran Slavkovski
Cebio Soukou
Hendrik Starostzik
Jannik Stevens
Stefan Studtrucker
T
Toni Tapalović
Alexander Thamm
Deran Toksöz
Dino Toppmöller
Faton Toski
Haluk Türkeri
U
Eyyüp Hasan UÄŸur
V
Christian Vander (footballer)
Luciano Velardi
Kevin Vogt
W
Stefan Wächter
Tobias Weis
Kevin Wölk
Y
Antar Yahia
Z
Reinhold Zagorny
Adnan Zahirović
David Zajas
Gianluca Zavarise

• 2. Bundesliga champions: 1993–94, 1995–96, 2005–06, 2020–21
• DFB-Pokal finalists: 1967–68, 1987–88
• Bundesliga UEFA Cup qualification: 1996–97 (5th), 2003–04 (5th)
• Bundesliga top goal scorer: 1985–86 (Stefan Kuntz, 22 goals), 2002–03 (Thomas Christiansen, 21 goals (w/Giovane Élber)), 2006–07 (Theofanis Gekas, 20 goals)
• Promoted to Bundesliga: 1970–71 (1st Regionalliga West, 1st promotion group #1), 1993–94 (1st), 1995–96 (1st), 1999–2000 (2nd), 2001–02 (3rd), 2005–06 (1st), 2020–21 (1st)
• 2. Bundesliga top goal scorer: 1993–94 (Uwe Wegmann, 22 goals), 2015–16 (Simon Terodde, 25 goals)
• Regionalliga West champions: 1969–70, 1970–71

• German Under 19 championship
  • Champions: 1969
  • Runners-up: 2004, 2005
• German Under 17 championship
  • Champions: 1985
• Under 19 Bundesliga West
  • Champions: 2004, 2005

VfL Bochum II (also known as VfL Bochum Amateure or VfL Bochum U-23) was the reserve team of German football club VfL Bochum.

The team has made two appearances in the first round of the DFB-Pokal, in 1984–85 and 2005–06. Since 2008 the team has been playing in the tier four Regionalliga West. The team was intended to be the final step between Bochum's youth setup and the first team, and was usually made up of promising youngsters between the age of 18 and 23, with a few veteran players drafted in to provide experience.

The team's honours:

• Landesliga Westfalen
  • Champions: 1975
• Verbandsliga Westfalen
  • Champions: 1982
  • Runners-up: 1989, 1997
• Oberliga Westfalen
  • Champions: 1999
  • Runners-up: 2001, 2003, 2005
• Westphalia Cup
  • Runners-up: 2005

Ruhrstadion (also called Vonovia Ruhrstadion in a sponsorship arrangement) is one of the initial modern soccer-only arenas to be built in Germany. It was constructed in the 1970s on the old field that was TuS Bochum 08 at the Castroper Strasse, north of the city's centre.

The capacity of the fully-covered venue is 27,599 and includes space for standing for 12,025.

As of 1 August 2020

Name	Position
Thomas Reis	Head coach
Heiko Butscher	Assistant coach/U-19 head coach
Markus Gellhaus	Assistant coach
Peter Greiber	Goalkeeping coach
Jörn Menger	Fitness coach
Stefan Bienioßek	Fitness coach