VfR Bürstadt

Football club infobox
clubname = VfR Bürstadt


fullname = Verein für Rasensport Bürstadt 1910 e. V.
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founded = 1910
ground = Robert-Kölsch-Stadion
capacity = 12,000
chairman =
manager =
league = Bezirksliga (VII)
season = 2004-05
position = Bezirksliga (VII)
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VfR Bürstadt is a German football club playing out of Bürstadt, Hesse. The team was founded in 1910 as "SC 1910 Bürstadt" and first took on its' current name in 1919. Between 1973 and 1983 they played as "VfR Oli Bürstadt" in recognition of their sponsor.

The club briefly rose to the highest level when playing in the "Bezirksliga Main-Hessen" for one season in 1932-33 but quickly disappeared from this tier again.

Bürstadt stirred some excitement through the 70's and early 80's as an overachieving side playing in Hesse's tier III leagues with occasional brave forays into the Regionalliga Süd (II) and 2.Bundesliga where they were the smallest club playing at that level.

Their run of success ended in the 90's with a series of poor finishes in the Amateur Oberliga Hessen (III) early in the decade. Beginning in the 1993-94 season, they bounced between the Oberliga Hessen (IV) and Landesliga Hessen-Süd (V) for nearly a decade before finally collapsing in 2002 and voluntarily accepting relegation all the way down to Bezirksliga (VII) where they currently play.

Honours

*German amateur champions: 1975
*Oberliga Hessen champions: 1972, 1977, 1979, 1983, 1984
*Landesliga Hessen-Süd champions: 2001

External links

* [http://www.abseits-soccer.com/clubs/burstadt.html The Abseits Guide to German Soccer]
* [http://www.vfr-buerstadt.de/ Official team site]