VfR Bürstadt
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| Full name | Verein für Rasensport Bürstadt 1910 e. V. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1910 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ground | Robert-Kölsch-Stadion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 12,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Bezirksliga (VII) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004-05 | Bezirksliga (VII) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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VfR Bürstadt is a German football club playing out of Bürstadt, Hesse. The team was founded in 1910 as SC 1910 Bürstadt and first took on its' current name in 1919. Between 1973 and 1983 they played as VfR Oli Bürstadt in recognition of their sponsor.
Burstadt stirred some excitement through the 70's and early 80's as an overachieving side playing in Hesse's tier III leagues with occasional brave forays into the Regionalliga Süd (II) and 2.Bundesliga where they were the smallest club playing at that level.
Their run of success ended in the 90's with a series of poor finishes in the Amateur Oberliga Hessen (III) early in the decade. Beginning in the 1993-94 season, they bounced between the Oberliga Hessen (IV) and Landesliga Hessen-Sud (V) for nearly a decade before finally collapsing in 2002 and voluntarily accepting relegation all the way down to Bezirksliga (VII) where they currently play.
