VfR Achern is a German football club from the city of

Achern Achern (; gsw, label= Low Alemannic, Achre) is a town in Western Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located approximately 18 km southwest of Baden-Baden and 19 km northeast of Offenburg. Achern is the fourth largest town in the distric ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

near the

Hornisgrinde The Hornisgrinde, 1,164 m (3,820 ft), is the highest mountain in the Northern Black Forest of Germany. The Hornisgrinde lies in northern Ortenaukreis district. Origin of the name The name is probably derived from Latin, and essentiall ...

mountain. The club was established on 17 October 1907 as ''Fußball-Club Achern'' and adopted the name ''Verein für Rasenspiele Achern'' in 1910. __TOC__

History

For most of its history ''Achern'' played in lower-tier local competition. They briefly came to notice in the late 1930s when they captured the title in the Bezirksliga Freiburg (II) and subsequently played a single season in the wartime Gauliga Baden-Süd (I). With the outbreak of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

in 1939, German football was reorganized to deal with player shortages and travel restrictions. The Gauliga Baden-Süd was one of 16 top flight regional leagues in the country. Originally made up of 10 teams in a single division, it was expanded to include 20 teams playing in 5 sub-divisions. Each sub-division was a city-based local circuit to help reduce the need for travel. ''Achern'' finished atop the Staffel Offenburg in the 1939–40 season and took part in the combined Gauliga playoff where they fared poorly. The following season, the Gauliga Baden-Süd returned to a 10 team regional format; ''Achern'' did not qualify and returned to lower-tier play.Grüne, Hardy (1996). Vom Kronprinzen bis zur Bundesliga. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag After the war occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of most organizations in the country, including sports and football clubs, as part of the process of

denazification Denazification (german: link=yes, Entnazifizierung) was an Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of the Nazi ideology following the Second World War. It was carried out by remov ...

. New associations soon appeared and ''VfR'' was reestablished on 13 July 1946 as Sportverein Achern. They advanced to the Amateurliga Südbaden (II) in 1949 where they earned a third-place result. On 2 September 1950, ''SV'' reassumed its traditional identity as ''VfR'' and spent another 5 seasons as a lower table club in the Amateurliga until finally being sent down in 1955. ''Achern'' resurfaced for a single season in the now third-tier Amateurliga in 1965–66, but were promptly relegated. They immediately bounced back with a division championship in the 2. Amateurliga Südbaden (IV) and spent three more seasons in third-division play. They took part in preliminary round play for the DFB-Pokal (German Cup) in 1977 and made their last appearance in the Amateurliga in the 1977–78 season. The team, for a long period of time, competed in the Landesliga Südbaden 1 (VI), having last played in the tier-four Verbandsliga Südbaden in 1993. In 2011, ''VfR'' was relegated from the Landesliga to the Bezirksliga, quickly returned to the Landesliga play after a title win in 2013 but was relegated again in 2014. the following season the club dropped another level, now to the Bezirksliga. Another relegation followed in the 2015–16 season, now to the Kreisliga A.

Honours

* Bezirksliga Freiburg (II) ** Champions: 1939 * 2. Amateurliga Südbaden (IV) ** Champions: 1967 * Bezirksliga Baden-Baden (VIII) ** Champions: 2013

References

External links

Official team siteDas deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Achern, VfR Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in Baden-Württemberg Association football clubs established in 1907 1907 establishments in Germany Ortenaukreis Sport in Freiburg (region)