Sportfreunde Lotte

VfL Sportfreunde Lotte
Full name Verein für Laufspiele Sportfreunde
Lotte e.V. von 1929
Nickname(s) Blau-Weiß
Founded 1929 (1929)
Ground Frimo Stadion
Capacity 10,059
Chairman Hans-Ulrich Saatkamp
Manager Nils Drube
League 3. Liga
2017–18 16th
Website Club website

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.

Historical chart of Sportfreunde Lotte league performance

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. They won that league in 2012–13 but lost the promotion 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.[1]

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:

Players

Current squad

As of 31 August 2018

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

No. Position Player
1 Germany GK Steve Kroll
2 Germany DF Michael Schulze
3 Germany MF Tim Wendel
4 Poland DF Kevin Pytlik
5 Germany DF Matthias Rahn
6 Germany MF Jonas Hofmann
7 Poland MF Marcus Piossek
8 Netherlands FW Jules Reimerink
10 Germany FW Maximilian Oesterhelweg
11 Germany FW Danny Breitfelder
13 Germany FW Gerrit Wegkamp
14 Germany MF Tino Schmidt
15 Democratic Republic of the Congo DF Paterson Chato
16 Canada DF Adam Straith
No. Position Player
18 Turkey MF Aygün Yıldırım
19 Turkey FW Sinan Karweina
20 Germany MF Noah Plume
21 Germany DF Junior Ebot-Etchi
22 Germany DF Lars Dietz (on loan from Union Berlin)
23 Germany DF Alexander Langlitz
24 Poland FW Jaroslaw Lindner
25 Germany DF Jeron Al-Hazaimeh
26 Germany DF Noah Awassi
27 Germany DF Nico Neidhart
28 Germany MF Joshua Putze
30 Germany GK Norman Quindt
33 Germany GK Yannick Zummack
37 Germany MF Dennis Rosin

Notable coaches

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

References

  1. ↑ "Regensburg, Lotte und Zwickau steigen in die 3. Liga auf" (in German). Retrieved 29 May 2016.


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