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Saarland Football Association

Regional football association in Saarland, Germany

Summary

Regional football association in Saarland, Germany

Field	Value
name	Saarland Football Association
Logo	Logo Saarländischer Fußball-Verband.svg
Badge_size	150
Founded
Headquarters	Hermann-Neuberger-Sportschule
Location	Saarbrücken, Saarland
Membership	97,954 (2017)
Region	DFB
Region affiliation	1956
Subregion	FRVS
Subregion affiliation	1956
Subregion2	FIFA
Subregion2 affiliation	1950–1956
Subregion3	UEFA
Subregion3 affiliation	1954–1956
President	Franz Josef Schumann
Website

The Saarland Football Association (; SFV) is one of 21 state organisations of the German Football Association, the DFB, and covers the state of Saarland.

The SFV is also part of the Southwestern Regional Football Association (FRVS), one of five regional federations in Germany. The other member of the regional association are the Southwest German Football Association and the Rhineland Football Association.

In 2017, the SFV had 97,954 members, 370 member clubs and 2,276 teams playing in its league system.

History

DFB, its five regional and 21 state associations

Formed in Sulzbach on 25 July 1948, in what was then the Saar Protectorate, the Saarländischer Fußball Bund (SFB) became the organising body of football in the region, when Saar was split from the rest of occupied Germany. The SFB rejected membership in the French Football Federation on 17 July 1949 when 67 per cent of the delegates of the association voted against it. Instead the SFB was admitted as a member of FIFA in June 1950. From 1950 onwards Hermann Neuberger, later to become president of the German Football Association, the DFB, led the SFB and negotiated the admission of the latter to FIFA. The Saarland national football team took part in international competitions, among them the qualifying rounds to the 1954 FIFA World Cup where it played against West Germany. In 1956, following the reunification of the protectorate with West Germany, the SFB became part of the DFB again and was renamed to Saarländischer Fußball-Verband.

References

[https://www.dfb.de/verbandsstruktur/landes-regionalverbaende/ Regional Associations] ''DFB'' website - Map and details of the regional associations, accessed: 4 April 2015
"Mitglieder-Statistik 2017". Deutscher Fussball-Bund.
de ''SFV'' website, accessed: 4 April 2015

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