VfB Fortuna Chemnitz is a German association football club from

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

. The club was formed in 2005 out of the fusion of ''VfB Chemnitz'' and ''SV Fortuna Furth Glösa''. __TOC__

History

The older of these two sides is ''VfB'' which was established in 1901 as ''Reunion Chemnitz''. In 1914 the club was renamed ''FC Hohenzollern'' before becoming ''VfB Chemnitz'' in 1919. They played as a mid-table side in the

Kreisliga The Kreisliga (), along with the ''Kreisoberliga'' () and the ''Kreisklasse'' (), are the lowest set of divisions in the German football league system, set at step 8 and below. Structure Whereas the top amateur divisions are organised by the 21 ...

Chemnitz until 1923 and the Gauliga Mittelsachsen until 1933. A 1938 merger with ''SV Teutonia 1901 Chemnitz'' saw the club become ''SpVgg 01 Chemnitz''. Following

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

all organizations in Germany were dissolved, including sports and football clubs. Sometime in 1951 the association was re-constituted as ''SG Chemnitz Schloß''. Clubs playing in what would become

East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...

were subject to frequent name changes at the whim of state sports authorities. ''Schloß'' was soon playing as ''BSG Handel und Sozial-Versicherung Chemnitz''. When the city was renamed in 1953, the club was christened ''BSG Motor Fritz Heckert Karl-Marx-Stadt'' honouring a worker's movement leader of the interwar period. ''Motor'' was promoted to the second division

DDR-Liga The DDR-Liga (English: GDR League or ''East German League'') was, prior to German reunification in 1990, the second level of football competition in the DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik or German Democratic Republic, commonly East Germany), bei ...

in 1978 and competed there as an undistinguished mid-table side until relegation in 1986. They returned to second-tier play in 1989 just before

German re-unification German reunification () was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the East Germany, German Democratic Republic and the int ...

and spent the next two seasons in the transitional NOFV-Liga as the football leagues of the two Germanys were merged. In 1990 Karl-Marx-Stadt was once again Chemnitz and the club in turn became ''Chemnitzer Sportverein 51 Heckert'' before being reformed as ''VfB Chemnitz'' in 1996. The team played third- and fourth-tier football in the

NOFV-Oberliga Süd The NOFV-Oberliga Süd is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the southern states of the former East Germany. It covers the German states of Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Saxony and southern Brandenburg. It is one of fourteen Ob ...

(III) until being relegated in 2003 and going through a financial crisis that contributed to its later merger with ''Fortuna''. It returned to the Oberliga in 2011 and played at this level for two seasons. Relegated back to the

Sachsenliga The Sachsenliga, formerly referred to as ''Landesliga Sachsen'', is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Saxony (German: ''Sachsen''). Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was ...

, it dropped another level in 2014 and now plays in the tier-seven Landesklasse.Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
Historical German domestic league tablesVfB Fortuna Chemnitz at Fussball.de
Tables and results of all German football leagues

Honours

The club's honours: *

** Champions: 2011

References

External links

Official team site
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