The VfR Warbeyen (officially Verein für Rasenspiele Schwarz-Weiß Warbeyen 1945 e. V.) is a German association football club from the town of Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia. Its women's team will play in the 2. Bundesliga from the 2025–26 season onwards.
History
Having played in the Landesliga throughout the 2000s and 2010s, Warbeyen's women's team won promotion to the fourth-tier Niederrheinliga in 2018. After an eighth place in 2019, the team was crowned as Niederrheinliga champions in 2020 on a points-per-game basis, as the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic - with Warbeyen having sat third on points with two games in hand. In 2021–22, Warbeyen won the Niederrheinpokal and thereby qualified for the 2022–23 DFB-Pokal. They were beaten 1:2 by Borussia Bocholt during the first round. Having finished third and second in the preceding seasons of the Regionalliga West, Warbeyen played a dominant season in 2024–25, winning promotion four matches in advance. Their title-winning season, one which earned them their maiden promotion to the 2. Bundesliga, ended on a controversial note: head coach Sandro Scuderi and his coaching team had decided to announce during a training session in the week of their title-clinching match against Bayer Leverkusen II that eight players, including captain Pauline Dallmann, her sister Jule, and top goalscorer Jolina Opladen would not be included in the club's plans going into the 2025-26 season. This led to the players initially forming up in two separate groups following the Leverkusen game, before eventually being convinced into taking a group photo.
Squad
Honours The club's honours:
Women's
League Regionalliga West (III) Champions: 2025 Niederrheinliga (IV) Champions: 2020 Landesliga Niederrhein (V) Champions: 2018
Cup Niederrheinpokal Winners: 2022
Recent seasons The recent season-by-season performance of the club:Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv Historical German domestic league tablesFussball.de – Ergebnisse Tables and results of all German football leagues
Women's Season Division Tier Position2003–04Landesliga Niederrhein, Gruppe 3V7th2004–05Landesliga Niederrhein, Gruppe 37th2005–06Landesliga Niederrhein, Gruppe 33rd2006–07Landesliga Niederrhein, Gruppe 25th2007–08Landesliga Niederrhein, Gruppe 24th2008–09Landesliga Niederrhein, Gruppe 2 9th2009–10Landesliga Niederrhein, Gruppe 2 8th2010–11Landesliga Niederrhein, Gruppe 2 2nd2011–12Landesliga Niederrhein, Gruppe 2 7th2012–13Landesliga Niederrhein, Gruppe 2 3rd2013–14Landesliga Niederrhein, Gruppe 13rd2014–15Landesliga Niederrhein, Gruppe 14th2015–16Landesliga Niederrhein, Gruppe 1 2nd2016–17Landesliga Niederrhein, Gruppe 1 3rd2017–18Landesliga Niederrhein, Gruppe 11st ↑2018–19NiederrheinligaIV 8th2019–20Niederrheinliga1st* ↑2020–21Regionalliga West III6th*2021–22Regionalliga West 5th2022–23Regionalliga West 3rd2023–24Regionalliga West 2nd2024–25Regionalliga West1st ↑2025–262. Bundesliga II 14th ↓ *Season abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ↑ Promoted↓ Relegated
References
External links Official team site Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables