Formation | 21 December 1946 |
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Type | Football association |
Headquarters | Sövener Straße 60 |
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Membership
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343,381 (2016) |
Alfred Vianden | |
Parent organization
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German Football Association |
Website | fvm.de |
The Middle Rhine Football Association (German: Fußball-Verband Mittelrhein, FVM) is the umbrella organization of the football clubs in the German mid-Rhein area and covers the football districts of Aachen, Berg, Bonn, Düren, Euskirchen, Heinsberg, Cologne, Rhein-Erft-Kreis and Rhein-Sieg-Kreis. The FVM was founded in 1946 and has its headquarters at the Sportschule Hennef. President of the association is Alfred Vianden.
The FVM belongs to the Western German Football Association and is one of 21 state organizations of the German Football Association (German: Deutscher Fussball-Bund - DFB).
In 2016, the FVM had 343,381 members from 1,147 football clubs with 7,658 teams.
The FVM is provider of the Sportschule Hennef.
Sportschule Hennef is one of Europe's leading sports schools for football and is also the national training center for boxing and wrestling in Germany. It is the regional training center in North Rhine-Westphalia for weightlifting and judo. Numerous attendances of the German national football team, especially before the 1954 FIFA World Cup, and other top international teams from different sports have made the Sportschule Hennef well known nationwide. In 2005 the Argentina national football team attented the Sportschule Hennef during the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup.