Sportfreunde Lotte

VfL Sportfreunde Lotte

Full name	Verein für Laufspiele Sportfreunde Lotte e.V. von 1929
Nickname(s)	Blau-Weiß
Founded	1929; 95 years ago (1929)
Ground	Stadion am Lotter Kreuz
Capacity	10,059
Chairman	Hans-Ulrich Saatkamp
Manager	Imke Wübbenhorst
League	Oberliga Westfalen (V)
2022–23	Oberliga Westfalen, 4th of 18
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

VfL Sportfreunde Lotte is a German association football club from Lotte, North Rhine-Westphalia. The football team is part of a sports club with approximately 1400 members and departments for handball, walking, gymnastics, and swimming, as well as other activities.

History

The association was established as the gymnastics club Turnverein Lotte in 1929. After World War II the club was re-established as VfL Sportfreunde Lotte on 9 February 1946 and was built around football and handball departments.

Lotte reached the Verbandsliga Westfalen (V) in 1996 and after a title there in 2004 were promoted to the Oberliga Westfalen (IV), later Regionalliga West. They won that league in 2012–13 but lost the promotion play-off to RB Leipzig. In 2013–14, the club finished in second place. They won the Regionalliga West once more in 2015–16 and, after defeating Waldhof Mannheim in the play-off, earned promotion to the 3. Liga for the first time.^[1] On 18 May 2019, they were relegated back to the Regionalliga.^[2]

Sportfreunde plays their home matches in the Frimo Stadion (formerly the Sportpark am Lotter Kreuz) which holds 10,059 spectators.

Honours

The club's honours:

• Regionalliga West
  • Champions: 2013, 2016
• Verbandsliga Westfalen
  • Champions: 2004
• Landesliga Westfalen
  • Champions: 1996
• Bezirksliga Westfalen
  • Champions: 1989
• Westphalia Cup
  • Winners: 2015

Players

Current squad

As of 31 January 2022

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 Jhonny Peitzmeier 3 DF  GER Manasse Fionouke 4 DF  GER Luis Allmeroth 5 DF  GER Dominic Minz 6 MF  GER Timo Brauer 7 FW  GER Emre Aydinel 8 MF  GER Emir Terzi 9 FW  GER Hakim Traoré 10 MF  GER Cedric Euschen 11 DF  GER Dominique Domröse 12 FW  ENG Robert Nnaji 13 MF  KOR Han Ka-ram 14 DF  KOR Kim Tae-ho

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 MF  GER Niklas Determann 18 FW  GER Maximilian Franke (on loan from SC Verl) 19 MF  USA Austin Amer 20 DF  GER Florent Berisha 20 DF  GER Luis Sprekelmeyer (on loan from VfL Osnabrück) 21 MF  GER Konstantinos Keissoglou 23 MF  GER Exauce Andzouana 24 GK  COD Michael Luyambula 27 DF  GER Cinar Sansar 29 FW  GER Drilon Demaj 36 DF  GER Jakob Duhme 39 MF  GER Erhan Yilmaz — FW  POL Jarosław Lindner

Out on loan

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

Notable coaches

• Manfred Wölpper (2008)
• Maik Walpurgis (2008–2013)

References

External links

• Official website
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German football league tables (in German)
• Racism accusations against SF Lotte players

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