VfL Bochum is a German football club based in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia.VfL is one of the oldest sports organizations in Germany claiming an origin date of July 1848 when planning began for the creation of a new gymnastics club. Bochumer TV was then formally established on February 18, 1849. However, the honour of being Bochum's first football club goes to the predecessor side Fußballklub 06, later known as SV Germania 06 Bochum.Another ancestor - SuS Bochum - was formed in 1908, and played its first football match versus VfL Hamm in 1911. After a merger with another local side in 1919, they took on the name TuS Bochum 1848.
