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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Verein für
Leibesübungen Bochum 1848 Fußballgemeinschaft, commonly referred to as
simply VfL Bochum, is a German football club based in the city of
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. VfL Bochum is one of the oldest sports
organizations in Germany claiming an origin date of July 26, 1848 when
an article in the Märkischer Sprecher - a local newspaper - called for
the creation of a gymnastics club. The Turnverein zu Bochum was then
formally established on 18 February 1849. The club was banned on 28
December 1852 for political reasons and then reestablished on 19 June
1860. The club was reorganized in May 1904 as Turnverein zu Bochum,
gegründet 1848 and formed a football department on 31 January 1911.
