VfR Mannheim

Predecessor sides FG Mannheim, Mannheimer FG Union and Viktoria Mannheim were each founding members of the German Football Association in 1900. These various Mannheim teams were members of the VSFV (Verband Süddeutscher Fussball Vereine or Federation of South German Football Clubs) and after their merger in 1911 played as VfR through the 1910s and 1920s in the Westkreis-Liga. The club emerged as the league champions of the Kreisliga Odenwald in 1922 and the Bezirksliga Rhein in 1925. They took part in the national playoffs after their Bezirksliga title and subsequent regional Süddeutschland win, but went out in an eighth final to TuRu Düsseldorf. The club finished in mid-table throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s in the Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar.

Success through the 1930s and 1940s

After the 1933 re-organization of German football under the Third Reich into sixteen top flight regional leagues, Mannheim began play in the Gauliga Baden. The club performed well in the years leading up to World War II and the throughout the conflict, taking division titles in 1935, 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. However they could not translate this success in league play into success in the national playoffs with their best result being an advance to the 1943 quarterfinals where they were put out 2–3 by eventual vice-champions FV Saarbrücken. Mannheim repeated as division champions in 1944. Wartime conditions made playing football increasingly difficult in the country, so much so that…

The club's honours:

League

German football championship Champions: 1949 Southern German championship Champions: 1925

Regional

Westkreis-Liga (I) Champions: 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914 Kreisliga Odenwald (I) Champions: 1922 Runners-up: 1920, 1921 Bezirksliga Rhein (I) Champions: 1925, 1926 Runners-up: 1924, 1927 Gauliga Baden (I) Champions: 1935, 1938, 1939, 1943, 1944 Runners-up: 1934, 1937, 1940 Amateurliga Nordbaden (III) Champions: 1973, 1976 Verbandsliga Nordbaden (V) Champions: 2004 Runners-up: 2011 Southern German Cup Winners: 1959 North Baden Cup (Tiers III-VII) Winners: 1972, 1997, 2001 Runners-up: 2004, 2026

Other sports

The club has won the German championship in baseball in 1965, 1966 and 1970.