BV Cloppenburg is a German association football club

Football in Germany

Association football is the most popular sport in Germany. The German Football Association is the sport's national governing body, with 6.6 million members organized in over 26,000 football clubs. There is a league system, with the 1. and 2. Bundesliga on top, and the winner of the first...

 located in Cloppenburg

Cloppenburg

Cloppenburg is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, capital of Cloppenburg District. It lies 38 km south-south-west of Oldenburg in the Weser-Ems region between Bremen and the Dutch border. Cloppenburg is not far from the A1, the major motorway connecting the Ruhr area to Bremen and Hamburg...

, Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...

. The club was founded after World War I in 1919 as the successor to SV Cloppenburg 1911. Through the 50's they played in the Amateurliga Niedersachsen-West (II), and in the 60's in the Verbandsliga Niedersachsen West (III), before falling out of sight in the early 70's to become an obscure local side. In recent years, BV managed to rise as high as the third division Regionalliga Nord in 1998 for a couple of seasons, before falling back to the Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen (IV).

Today Cloppenburg plays in the Oberliga Nord (IV) and narrowly missed promotion after a second place finish there in 2006. They won their first German Cup berth in the 2006–07 tournament by way of a Niedersachsen Cup win last season over third division side VfL Osnabrück

VfL Osnabrück

VfL Osnabrück is a German multi-sport club in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. It currently fields teams in basketball, gymnastics, swimming, table tennis, and tennis, but is by far best known for its football section.- Foundation to WW2 :...

. They were eliminated from the competition in the first round after losing 1–0 to Bundesliga

Fußball-Bundesliga

The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...

 side 1. FC Nuremberg at home.

Stadium

Cloppenburg plays its home games in the Stadion an der Friesoyther Strasse which has a capacity of 6,000 (~2,000 seats). Work on improving the venue by expanding it was recently undertaken, and the installation of floodlights is being considered.

Current squad

Former Managers

• Franz Gerber
  Franz Gerber
  Franz Gerber is a German former professional footballer who is currently general manager of SSV Jahn Regensburg.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Wolfgang Steinbach
  Wolfgang Steinbach
  Wolfgang "Maxe" Steinbach, born 21 September 1954 in Schönebeck is a former German football player and manager who spent most of his career playing for 1. FC Magdeburg in the DDR-Oberliga. In 2006 he was elected Best 1. FC Magdeburg Player of All Times in a telephone vote.Steinbach started his...
  
  
• Hubert Hüring
• Tom Saintfiet
  Tom Saintfiet
  Tom Saintfiet is Belgian association football manager and former player. He played football between 1983 to 1997 before becoming a football manager at the age of 24, becoming the youngest manager in Belgian football....
  
  
• Jörg Uwe Klütz
• Alexander Woloschin
• Jörg Goslar

External links

• Official team site
• Abseits Guide to German Soccer
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German football league tables