FC Viktoria Köln

With the oldest parent club of the "Viktoria", the FC Germania Kalk, founded on 1 July 1904 it is one of the oldest football clubs in the city. In 1909 Germania merged with FC Kalk, which was founded in 1905, to form the SV Kalk 04 and in 1911 this club was, in turn, united with Mülheimer FC to create VfR Mülheim-Kalk 04. The club was renamed VfR Köln 04 rrh. in 1918 after the previously independent towns of Kalk and Mülheim were incorporated into Cologne. In 1926 the VfR won its first Western German football championship and entry to the 1926 German football championship. After the re-organization of German football in 1933 under the Third Reich into sixteen top flight divisions, VfR played in the Gauliga Mittelrhein taking titles there in 1935 and 1937 but then performed poorly at the national level. In 1941 The Gauliga Mittelrhein was split into the Gauliga Moselland and Gauliga Köln-Aachen, with VfR playing in the latter division. Two years later the club joined Mülheimer SV to play as the combined wartime side (Kriegsspielgemeinschaft) KSG VfR 04 Köln/Mülheimer SV 06. Mülheim had also played in the Gauliga Mittelrhein since 1933 claiming titles of its own in 1934 and 1940, and had similarly poor results at the national level. Play in the Gauliga Köln-Aachen was suspended in the 1944–45 season as Allied armies advanced into Germany at the end of World War II.

After the war VfR Köln resumed playing first division football in the Oberliga West, but lasted only a single…

Regionalliga West (IV) Champions: 2016–17, 2018–19 Runners-up: 2017–18 NRW-Liga (V) Champions: 2011–12 Verbandsliga Mittelrhein Champions: 1977–78 (III), 1997–98 (V) Middle Rhine Cup (Tiers III–V) Winners: 1986, 1990, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026