Sportfreunde Lotte

VfL Sportfreunde Lotte

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Full name	Verein für Laufspiele Sportfreunde Lotte e.V. von 1929
Founded	1929
Ground	ConnectM-Arena
Ground Capacity	7.474
Chairman	Rolf Horstmann
Manager	Ismail Atalan
League	3. Liga
2015-16	Regionalliga West, 1st (promoted)
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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 won its way to the Verbandsliga Westfalen (V) in 1996 and after a title there in 2004 was promoted to the Oberliga Westfalen (IV), later Regionalliga West, where they play today. They won that league in 2012–13 but lost the relegation game to RB Leipzig. The season after, in 2013–14, the club finished in second place. It 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.

Sportfreunde plays their home matches in the SolarTechnics-Arena (formerly the Lotter Kreuz) which holds 7.474 spectators (5.104 Standing & 2.370 seated).

Notable coaches

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

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

Current squad

As of 31 May 2016
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Dominik Bergdorf 3 DF Tim Wendel 4 DF Gerrit Nauber 5 DF Matthias Rahn 6 MF Tim Gorschlüter 7 MF Alexander Hettich 8 MF André Dej 9 FW Semih Daglar 10 FW Bernd Rosinger 11 DF Felix Frank

No. Position Player 13 MF Daniel Latkowski 15 MF Moritz Heyer 16 DF Nico Neidhart 17 MF Nico Granatowski 19 FW Kevin Freiberger 20 MF Kevin Pires-Rodrigues 23 DF Alexander Langlitz 27 MF Dennis Brock 30 GK Benedikt Fernandez 34 MF Benjamin Siegert

External links

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