VfB Friedrichshafen

VfB Friedrichshafen
Full name	Verein für Bewegungsspiele Friedrichshafen
Short name	"Häfler"
Founded	1969
Ground	Zeppelin Cat Hall/A1
Manager	Mark Lebedew
Captain	Dejan Vinčić
League	Volleyball-Bundesliga
2020/21	Runners-up
Website	Club home page
Uniforms
Home	Away

VfB Friedrichshafen is a German sports club founded in 1909 and based in Friedrichshafen. The VfB Friedrichshafen men's volleyball team plays in the Bundesliga and the CEV Champions League. The team won the 2006-07 CEV Champions League title. From 2005 to 2011 they won the German championship seven times in a row. In total VfB Friedrichshafen won the championship 13 times and the German cup 16 times. Just before the start of the 20/21 season the city of Friedrichshafen announced the ZF Arena, home of VfB Friedrichshafen since 2004, is closed immediately due to possible rust in the roof structure.^[1] After being forced to train in small gyms and to swap home games with the opponents VfB Friedrichshafen moved to Zeppelin Cat Hall A1 which is a hall of the Friedrichshafen fair. The first match on new terrain was against Berlin Recycling Volleys and took place on November 21, 2020.^[2]^[3]

Honours[]

Domestic[]

Volleyball Bundesliga

Winners (13): 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2014–15

German Cup

Winners (16): 1997–98, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19

German SuperCup

Winners (4): 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19

International[]

CEV Champions League

Winners (1): 2006–07

CEV European Champions Cup

2nd place (1): 1999–2000

Team[]

2020/2021^[4]^[5][]

Team roster – season 2020/2021
VfB Friedrichshafen
No.	Name	Position
1	Joe Worsley	setter
2	Avery Aylsworth	libero
4	Nehemiah Mote	middle blocker
6	Martti Juhkami	outside hitter
7		outside hitter
8	Arno Van De Velde	middle blocker
9	Dejan Vinčić	setter
10		outside hitter
11	Marcus Böhme	middle blocker
12	Linus Weber	opposite
13	Markus Steuerwald	libero
14		opposite
15	David Fiel Rodriguez	middle blocker
16	Nicolas Maréchal	outside hitter
Head coach: Michael Warm Assistant:

2019/2020^[6][]

Team roster – season 2019/2020
VfB Friedrichshafen
No.	Name	Position
1	Joe Worsley	setter
2	Tomas Krisko	outside hitter
3	Thilo Spät-Westerholt	libero
4	Nehemiah Mote	middle blocker
6	Toni Menner	outside hitter
7		outside hitter
8	Jakub Janouch	setter
9	Martti Juhkami	outside hitter
11	Daniel Malescha	opposite
12	Jakob Günthör	middle blocker
13	Markus Steuerwald	libero
14	Nikola Gjorgiev	opposite
16		middle blocker
Head coach: Michael Warm Assistant: Patrick Steuerwald

2018/2019[]

Team roster – season 2018/2019
VfB Friedrichshafen
No.	Name	Position
1		outside hitter
3	Bartłomiej Bołądź	opposite
4		middle blocker
5		middle blocker
7	Jakub Janouch	setter
8		setter
9	Daniel Malescha	opposite
10		outside hitter
11	Athanasios Protopsaltis	outside hitter
12	David Sossenheimer	outside hitter
13		libero/outside hitter
15	Markus Steuerwald	libero
16	Andreas Takvam	middle blocker
Head coach: Vital Heynen