Heider FC was 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...

 from the city of Heide

Heide

Heide is a town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the capital of the Kreis Dithmarschen. Population: 21,000.The German word Heide means "heath". In the 15th century four adjoining villages decided to build a church in the "middle of the heath". This remained the town's name to date...

, Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...

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History

The team was established in 1905 as a separate football side out of Männer-Turnverein 1860 Heide. In 1914, they merged with Fußball-Club Holstein Heide to play as Heider Sportvereinigung before taking on the name Verein für Leibesübungen 05 Heide in 1919. VfL was reunited with parent side MTV in the 1930s and played as Verein für Leibesübungen 1860 Heide until sometime in the 40s when the club resumed its traditional identity as MTV 1860 Heide.

In its brief existence as an independent club, FC made a single appearance in the end round of the regional Norddeutscher (North German) championship, advancing to the quarterfinals where they were put out 0:5 by Holstein Kiel

Holstein Kiel

Holstein Kiel is a German association football and sports club based in the city of Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein. Through the 1910s and 1920s the club was a dominant side in northern Germany winning six regional titles and finishing as runners-up another six times...

. Playing as VfL, the team made single season appearances on the senior local circuit, the Bezirksliga Schleswig-Holstein, in 1924–25 and 1927–28, but did not distinguish itself.

External links

• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables