BV Cloppenburg

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BV Cloppenburg

Full name

BV Cloppenburg e.V.

Nickname(s)

BVC

Founded

1919

Ground

Stadion an der Friesoyther Strasse

Capacity

6,000

League

Oberliga Nord (IV)

2005-06

Oberliga Nord (IV), 2nd





Home colours





Away colours

BV Cloppenburg is a German football club located in Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony near Bremen. 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 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: the club will be pitted against 1. FC Nürnberg in early September.

[edit] 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.