page_title: VfL Wolfsburg
section_title: Postwar play
hierarchical_section_title: VfL Wolfsburg / History / Postwar play
caption_attribution_description: English: Chart of end-season table positions of VfL Wolfsburg in the football league system of Germany. Data source: RSSSF, wikipedia, f-archiv.de, fussball.de Deutsch: Historische Tabellenplatzierungen von VfL Wolfsburg im Fußball-Ligasystem in Deutschland English: Результаты «Вольфсбурга» в чемпионате Германии. Указаны места в таблице по итогам каждого сезона.
context_page_description: Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg or Wolfsburg, is a German professional sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club grew out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of Wolfsburg. It is best known for its football department, but other departments include badminton, handball and athletics.
  The men's professional football team play in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system. Wolfsburg have won the Bundesliga once in their history, in the 2008–09 season, the DFB-Pokal in 2015 and the DFL-Supercup in 2015.
  Professional football is run by the spin-off organization VfL Wolfsburg-Fußball GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group. Since 2002, Wolfsburg's stadium is the Volkswagen Arena.
context_section_description: The club made slow but steady progress in the following seasons. They captured a number of amateur level championships, but were unable to advance out of the promotion playoffs until finally breaking through to the top tier Oberliga Nord in 1954 with a 2–1 victory over Heider SV. Wolfsburg, however, struggled in the top flight, narrowly missing relegation each season until finally being sent down in 1959. When Germany's first professional football league, the Bundesliga, was formed in 1963, Wolfsburg was playing in the Regionalliga Nord (II) having just moved up from the Verbandsliga Niedersachsen (III), reaching the German Amateur Championship Final that same year (0–1 vs. VfB Stuttgart Amat.).
caption: Historical chart of Wolfsburg league performance after WWII
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