VfB Germania Halberstadt

VfB Germania Halberstadt

Full name	Verein für Bewegungsspiele Germania Halberstadt e. V.
Founded	1949
Ground	Friedensstadion
Capacity	4,999
Chairman	Olaf Herbst
Manager	Maximilian Dentz
League	Regionalliga Nordost (IV)
2021–22	15th
Home colours Away colours

VfB Germania Halberstadt is a German football club from Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt.

The club was founded on 26 October 1949 as Betriebssportgemeinschaft Reichsbahn Halberstadt before being renamed BSG Lokomotive Halberstadt in 1950. Through the 1970s the team played in the East German third division DDR-Bezirksliga.

After German reunification in 1990 the team was re-established as Eisenbahnsportverein Halberstadt and spent two seasons in the Verbandsliga Sachsen-Anhalt (IV) before slipping to the Landesliga Sachsen-Anhalt in 1992. Formed as a sports club for railway workers, the number of rail workers actually represented in the membership of the club dropped below 20% and it lost its affiliation with the Railway Sports Federation in 1993. The club became VfB Halberstadt that year while the footballers went their own way in 1994 as Fußball Club Germania Halberstadt, adopting the heritage of a local pre-war side. VfB Germania Halberstadt was formed when the two clubs were reunited in 1997.

A third-place result in the Landesliga Sachsen-Anhalt Mitte (VI) and successful promotion playoff returned Halberstadt to Verbandsliga (V) competition in 2000, and after winning the division title in 2003, they advanced to the Oberliga Nordost-Süd (IV). They went on to win the Oberliga (V) in 2011 and advance to the Regionalliga Nord (IV). That league saw Germania and other northeastern clubs move to the Regionalliga Nordost on its refoundation in 2012 where it played for the next four seasons until relegation in 2016.^[1][2] It was immediately promoted back to the Regionalliga Nordost in 2017 after finishing runners-up in the Oberliga Süd and beating Optik Rathenow in a play-off.^[3]

As of 11 March 2023^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Lukas Cichos (captain) 3 DF  GER Simran Dhaliwal 4 DF  GER Fynn Kleeschätzky 5 DF  GER Bastian Schrewe 6 DF  GER Hendrik Kuhnhold 7 DF  GER Pascal Hackethal 8 DF  GER Paul Grzega 9 FW  UKR Ilya Glynianyi 10 MF  GER Jona Renner 14 MF  GER Silvio Rust 15 MF  USA Creighton Braun 16 MF  GER Nikita Marusenko

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 FW  GER Irwin Pfeiffer 18 DF  FRA Jean-Cedric Bro 19 FW  GER Louis Malina 23 FW  GER Bennet Mingramm 24 FW  DOM Darlin van der Werff 25 DF  GER Nico Lübke 27 MF  GER Nick Paul Sauer 28 DF  GER Patrick Baudis 31 MF  GER Ole Hoch 32 GK  GER Fabian Guderitz 33 GK  GER Pascal Sparwasser 34 FW  GER Justin Eilers

The club's honours:

• NOFV-Oberliga Süd (V)
  • Champions: 2010–11
  • Runners-up: 2016–17
• Verbandsliga Sachsen-Anhalt (V)
  • Champions: 2002–03
• Saxony-Anhalt Cup
  • Runners-up: 2009–10, 2012–13, 2016–17, 2019, 2024

• Official website (in German)
• Abseits Guide to German Soccer