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All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author

NETHERLANDS: GV Bato (B) (1921-1946) / vv Upright (B) (1921-1930, 1933-1938) / WVV (B) (1921-1923) / vv Winschoten (B) (1921-1925) / SBA (B) (1921-1933) / vv OLTO (B) (1921-1922?) / GHBS (B) (1921-1922?) / vv De Adelaar (B) (1922-1923) / vv Winschoter Boys (B) (1926-1928) / NSAB Afd. Winschoten (B) (1930-1934) / SSS (B) (1931-1933) / De Raven (B) (1934-1935?) / SV Rawi (B) (1937-1959?) / SV Bato (B) (1946-1999) / CVW (B) (1946-1960) / vv Bato (B) (1999-±2018) / vv Bato (2018-)

Gemeentelijk Sportterrein Het Sint Vitusholt “Sportpark Sint Vitusholt” terr. 2, Winschoten (main pitch of vv Bato, formerly B pitch of GV Bato / vv Upright / WVV / vv Winschoten / SBA / vv OLTO / GHBS / vv De Adelaar / vv Winschoter Boys / NSAB Afd. Winschoten / SSS / De Raven / SV Rawi / SV Bato / CVW / vv Bato) 

Netherlands, province: Groningen

31 X 2026 / vv Bato - vv Onstwedder Boys 1-3 / District North, Saturday League 4G (= NL level 9)

Timeline

• 1883 / In Winschoten, a town in the eastern half of the Province of Groningen, a gymnastics club sees the daylight. The club is given the name Gymnastiekvereeniging (GV) Bato – Bato being a reference to Baeto, a character in a play by 17th century Dutch playwright P.C. Hooft. Baeto, legendary chief of the Batavian tribe which settled in the Netherlands around the beginning of the Common Era, was chosen as club name to evoke the (alleged) primordial strength of the Dutch. 
• 1896 / A first football club sees the daylight in Winschoten, WVV (Winschoter Voetbalvereeniging).
• 1910 / With various short-lived clubs having co-existed in Winschoten with WVV in the preceding years, a new club is now formed which takes on the name vv Upright. It is unclear where this club played its home matches in the first decade of its existence.
• 1919 / A new football club is formed in Winschoten, with the club taking on the name Wit Blauw Winschoten. It is unclear where the pitch of this club in the first two years of its existence was situated. 
• 1920 / Wit Blauw Wit Winschoten takes on the new name vv Winschoten. That same year, a football branch is added to GV Bato, with Cor Hoekstra becoming the chairman of this section of the club, which joins the Groninger Voetbalbond (GVB), the Groningen sub-branch of the Netherlands’ Football Association (NVB, later renamed KNVB). One source claims the football branch of GV Bato was formed by breakaway members of WVV. Football being included in the myriad of activities of GV Bato coincides with a veritable boom of football clubs being founded in the town of Winschoten. The year 1920 alone sees the establishment of no fewer than five other clubs; OLTO, Fortuna (renamed SBA in 1921), SDO (a club which may not have outlived 1920), HBS (renamed GHBS in 1921), and SSS (renamed The Swallows in 1921). All of these clubs join the GVB or the short-lived OGVB, Oost-Groninger Voetbalbond (which would fold in 1925). The explanation for the sudden growth in the number of clubs in Winschoten is not difficult to find; in the fall of 1920, local authorities announced their plans to lay out a municipal sports ground with football pitches and facilities for other sports in the Sint Vitusholt neighbourhood, on the southern outskirts of the town. All clubs interested to make use of the projected facilities were invited to report to the townhouse. 
• 1921 / On May 15th, 1921, the newly laid-out Gemeentelijk Sportterrein aan de Garst (renamed Gemeentelijk Sportterrein aan het Sint Vitusholt not long after) is inaugurated in the presence of Winschoten’s mayor, H.I. Schönfeld. The sports ground comprises three football pitches laid out end to end as well as facilities for other sports. Although no specific buildings in situ are mentioned in the available sources, these mention municipal architect D. Bolhuis as the designer of the ground as a whole. Apart from two tennis clubs, the gymnastics branch of Bato, and the local scouts movement, the inaugural activities are attended by officials of no fewer than six football clubs which are due to settle at the new location: WVV, GV Bato, vv Winschoten, OLTO, Fortuna, and GHBS; strikingly, vv Upright is not mentioned in this list, although it is clear this club was one of the clubs using the facilities from their inauguration onwards – with the central of the three pitches most probably having been the ‘main’ pitch from the inauguration onwards. I suspect that the footballers of GV Bato, as well as the majority of the other clubs founded in 1920, had been formed in advance, with their activities only commencing once they were able to make use of the new football ground. The aforementioned OLTO as well as two other clubs formed in 1920, may have folded in 1921 or shortly thereafter; GHBS and The Swallows. The year 1921 also saw the foundation of a new club, Albatros, renamed De Adelaar before the end of the year. This club most probably took its place at the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein upon the start of the new season, in the summer of 1922.
• 1923 / Unhappy with the arrangement of having to share the pitches of the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein with so many other clubs, the oldest – and slightly elitist – club in Winschoten, WVV, moves away to a newly laid-out new park elsewhere in Sint Vitusholt, across the street from the Jewish cemetery (with the entrance being situated at a street later given the name Kastanjelaan). Also in 1923, after an existence of a competitive club of no more than one season, De Adelaar folds, ceasing all activities.
• 1925 / vv Winschoten folds following the 1924-25 season, after an existence of six years.
• 1926 / A new football club is established, vv Winschoter Boys, which most probably settled at the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein.
• 1928 / After an existence of barely two years, vv Winschoter Boys folds, ceasing all activities.
• 1930 / vv Upright sees its membership of the GVB and KNVB terminated due to outstanding debts, with the club folding as a result. The year 1930 also saw a new club being founded, simply called ‘Winschoten’ – with this club joining the socialist football federation NSAB (Nederlandse Socialistische Arbeidersbond) and occasionally being referred to as NSAB Afd. (Afdeeling) Winschoten to avoid confusion with other clubs; this club settled on the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein. 
• 1931 / A new football club sees the daylight in Winschoten, SSS, not to be confused with the eponymous club formed in 1920 and renamed The Swallows subsequently. SSS is a club with a Protestant (Evangelical) membership – and instead of seeking membership of the non-confessional GVB (KNVB), this club joins the Christian football federation CNVB (Christelijke Nederlandsche Voetbalbond). 
• 1933 / After a gap of three years, vv Upright is re-established in January 1933, with the club taking its place at the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein. Also in 1933, after an existence of thirteen years, SBA folds, ceasing all activities, as does SSS, barely two years after its foundation.
• 1934 / NSAB club ‘Winschoten’ (NSAB Afd. Winschoten) changes its name to become De Raven – with 1935 being the last year in which a trace of this club can be found in local media. Possibly, the only socialist football club in Winschoten folded that year or shortly thereafter.
• 1937 / Foundation of a new football club in Winschoten, Sportvereniging (SV) Rawi, a company sports team of the local Rawi mattress and bedding factory, which takes its place at the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein. 
• 1938 / The second incarnation of vv Upright folds, with some of its players joining SV Rawi.
• 1946 / With GV Bato meanwhile sporting various other sections – including walking sports and handball – the club is officially renamed Sportvereniging (SV) Bato. That same year, Bato and SV Rawi are joined at Gemeentelijk Sportterrein aan het Sint Vitusholt by a newly founded club, CVW (Christelijke Voetbalclub Winschoten), a club with an integrally Protestant (Evangelical) membership dedicated to playing football on Saturdays rather than on Sundays for religious reasons. 
• 1951 / The year 1951 marks the last trace of SV Rawi as a GVB club; this club must have abandoned the GVB in one of the following years, as we find it featuring as a club in a recreational league of corporate teams in a newspaper article in 1958. It is unclear when SV Rawi folded.
• 1960 / After an existence of fourteen years, CVW allows itself to be absorbed into WVV, with a first team of that club taking part in the Saturday divisions of the GVB from the new season onwards in parallel with the WVV flagship team in the Sunday pyramid. The departure of CVW meant that SV Bato – with the possible exception of company team SV Rawi, which may have prolonged its existence into the 1960s – remained behind as the sole users of the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein aan het Sint Vitusholt.
• 1999 / Sportvereniging (SV) Bato is wound up, with the three remaining branches continuing independently as GV Bato (gymnastics), WV Bato (walking sports), and vv Bato (football).
• 2002 / A thorough renovation of Gemeentelijk Sportterrein is undertaken, involving the development of a new clubhouse, designed by architect Chiel Dijkhuis, as well as a new dressing rooms with a covered stand (much smaller than its predecessor dating back to 1936) with its whimsically-shaped construction being built on top of one of the dressing rooms.
• 2018 / After withdrawing its first team from Sunday League 4 midway through the 2017-18 season, vv Bato returns to first team football, but not in the Sunday pyramid, as the club chooses to turn to Saturday football, starting in Saturday League 5 at the bottom of the league pyramid. Also in or around 2018, vv Bato moved its first team football to the easternmost pitch of Gemeentelijk Sportterrein aan het Sint Vitusholt, with the former main pitch remaining in use for lower team football and training sessions.
• 2023 / Finishing in sixth place in District North’s Saturday League 5F, vv Bato qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out in R1 by vv Bargeres (2-1).
• 2026 / Champions in District North’s Saturday League 5G, 6 points ahead of closest followers vv Pekela, vv Bato wins promotion to Saturday League 4. The successful coach is Martijn Drent. In the latter stages of 2026, having fallen into disuse many years before, the covered stand alongside Terrein 1 of Gemeentelijk Sportpark aan het Sint Vitusholt, dating back to 2002, is knocked down. 

Note – Thanks to vv Bato chairman Wim Boven and club archivist Ferdy Bos for their hospitality during my visit and for their help in finding the information for the article above. Further data have been derived from a book published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of WVV, Henk Mulder’s “Onze dierbaarste kleuren. Honderd jaar WVV, een geschiedenis in rood en zwart”, ed. WVV: Winschoten 1996.

All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author

NETHERLANDS: GV Bato (1921-1946) / vv Upright (1921-1930, 1933-1938) / WVV (1921-1923) / vv Winschoten (1921-1925) / SBA (1921-1933) / vv OLTO (1921-1922?) / GHBS (1921-1922?) / vv De Adelaar (1922-1923) / vv Winschoter Boys (1926-1928) / NSAB Afd. Winschoten (1930-1934) / SSS (1931-1933) / De Raven (1934-1935?) / SV Rawi (1937-1959?) / SV Bato (1946-1999) / CVW (1946-1960) / vv Bato (1999-±2018) / vv Bato (B) (±2018-)

Gemeentelijk Sportterrein aan het Sint Vitusholt “Sportpark Sint Vitusholt” terr. 1, Winschoten (B pitch of vv Bato, formerly A pitch of GV Bato / vv Upright / WVV / vv Winschoten / SBA / vv OLTO / GHBS / vv De Adelaar / vv Winschoter Boys / NSAB Afd. Winschoten / SSS / De Raven / SV Rawi / SV Bato / CVW / vv Bato)

Netherlands, province: Groningen

31 X 2026 / vv Bato Reserves - vv BNC Reserves 1-0 / District North, Reserves' Saturday League 5 - group 12

Timeline

• 1883 / In Winschoten, a town in the eastern half of the Province of Groningen, a gymnastics club sees the daylight. The club is given the name Gymnastiekvereeniging (GV) Bato – Bato being a reference to Baeto, a character in a play by 17th century Dutch playwright P.C. Hooft. Baeto, legendary chief of the Batavian tribe which settled in the Netherlands around the beginning of the Common Era, was chosen as club name to evoke the (alleged) primordial strength of the Dutch. The founding meeting is held at Hotel Tivoli under the aegis of Jan Jansonius, a teacher at the local primary school.
• 1896 / A first football club sees the daylight in Winschoten, WVV (Winschoter Voetbalvereeniging).
• 1910 / With various short-lived clubs having co-existed in Winschoten with WVV in the preceding years, a new club is now formed which takes on the name vv Upright. It is unclear where this club played its home matches in the first decade of its existence.
• 1912 / vv Upright joins the so-called Groninger Voetbalbond (GVB), the Groningen sub-branch of the Netherlands’ Football Association (NVB, later renamed KNVB).
• 1914 / In its second competitive season, vv Upright manages to win promotion from GVB (Sunday) Division 1 to District North’s (Sunday) League 3 – the second-highest level of the District North pyramid, with no League 1 having been formed yet.
• 1915 / As so many other clubs in the Netherlands in the course of World War I, in which the country remained neutral, but kept its army mobilised for years, vv Upright has to cease its activities due to a lack of available players.
• 1918 / After a pause of three years, vv Upright resumes its activities.
• 1919 / One year after resuming its activities, vv Upright manages to win promotion from GVB Division 1 to District North’s League 2 – with no League 3 being organised in the 1919-20 season. That same year, a new football club is formed in Winschoten, with the club taking on the name Wit Blauw Winschoten. It is unclear where the pitch of this club in the first two years of its existence was situated. 
• 1920 / vv Upright finishes as runner-up in District North’s League 2, 1 point behind champions GVV (Groningen). Also in 1920, one year after its foundation, Wit Blauw Wit Winschoten takes on the new name vv Winschoten upon joining the GVB. That same year, a football branch is added to GV Bato, with Cor Hoekstra becoming the chairman of this section of the club, which joins the GVB. One source claims the football branch of GV Bato was formed by breakaway members of WVV. Football being included in the myriad of activities of GV Bato coincides with a veritable boom of football clubs being founded in the town of Winschoten. The year 1920 alone sees the establishment of no fewer than five other clubs; OLTO (meaning abbreviation unknown), Fortuna (renamed SBA in 1921), SDO (Sterk Door Oefening, a club which may not have outlived 1920, as no further information is available beyond its foundation), HBS (Houdt Braaf Stand, renamed GHBS – Groninger Houdt Braaf Stand? – in 1921), and SSS (Sport Staalt Spieren, renamed The Swallows in 1921). All of these clubs join the GVB or the short-lived OGVB, Oost-Groninger Voetbalbond (which would fold in 1925). The explanation for the sudden growth in the number of clubs in Winschoten is not difficult to find; in the fall of 1920, local authorities announced their plans to lay out a municipal sports ground with football pitches and facilities for other sports in the Sint Vitusholt neighbourhood, on the southern outskirts of the town. All clubs interested to make use of the projected facilities were invited to report to the townhouse. 
• 1921 / Champions in District North’s League 2B, vv Upright wins promotion to League 1, the top division of the Netherlands’ football pyramid at that time. That same year – specifically on May 15th, 1921 – the newly laid-out Gemeentelijk Sportterrein aan de Garst (renamed Gemeentelijk Sportterrein aan het Sint Vitusholt not long after) is inaugurated in the presence of Winschoten’s mayor, H.I. Schönfeld. The sports ground comprises three football pitches laid out end to end as well as facilities for other sports. Although no specific buildings in situ are mentioned in the available sources, these mention municipal architect D. Bolhuis as the designer of the ground as a whole. With athletics and netball events being staged on the inaugural day, the highlight is a football match between an East Groningen XI and a Groningen City XI, including several players of League 1 club GV&QV Be Quick, with the surprise result being a 1-0 win for the East Groningen squad. Apart from two tennis clubs, the gymnastics branch of Bato, and the local scouts movement, the inaugural activities are attended by officials of no fewer than six football clubs which are due to settle at the new location: WVV (meanwhile one of the football powerhouses in the north of the Netherlands, playing in District North’s League 1), GV Bato, vv Winschoten, OLTO, Fortuna, and GHBS; strikingly, vv Upright is not mentioned in this list, although it is clear this club was one of the clubs using the facilities from their inauguration onwards – with the central of the three pitches most probably having been the ‘main’ pitch from the inauguration onwards – with Terrein 2 / B, closest to the entrance gate, being the first of the two side-pitches (Terrein 3 / C, at the westernmost end of the ground, was used mainly as a training pitch even in pre-war years). I suspect that the footballers of GV Bato, as well as the majority of the other clubs founded in 1920, had been formed in advance, with their activities only commencing once they were able to make use of the new football ground. The aforementioned OLTO as well as two other clubs formed in 1920, may have folded in 1921 or shortly thereafter; GHBS and The Swallows. The year 1921 also saw the foundation of a new club, Albatros, which joins the GVB in December of that year with a different name, De Adelaar. This club most probably took its place at the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein upon the start of the new season, in the summer of 1922.
• 1922 / vv Winschoten wins promotion from GVB (Sunday) Division 1 to NVB District North’s (Sunday) League 3 (with no League 4 level having been formed in District North yet) for the first time, going on to manage a runner-up finish at that level in the following season.
• 1923 / In the best season in club history, vv Upright finishes in seventh place in District North’s League 1. That same year, gaining promotion from GVB (Sunday) Division 1, GV Bato wins promotion to NVB District North’s (Sunday) League 3 for the first time. That same year, unhappy with the arrangement of having to share the pitches of the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein with so many other clubs, the oldest – and slightly elitist – club in Winschoten, WVV, moves away to a newly laid-out new park elsewhere in Sint Vitusholt, across the street from the Jewish cemetery (with the entrance being situated at a street later given the name Kastanjelaan). Also in 1923, after an existence of a competitive club of no more than one season, De Adelaar folds, ceasing all activities.
• 1924 / Finishing bottom of the table in District North’s League 1 after a fierce relegation battle with WVV, vv Upright drops back into League 2 after three years. That same year, crowning themselves champions in District North’s League 3A, 6 points ahead of closest followers – and groundsharers – vv Winschoten, GV Bato wins promotion to League 2.
• 1925 / GV Bato finishes as runner-up in District North’s League 2A, 1 point behind champions vv HSC. Meanwhile, vv Winschoten finishes as runner-up in League 3A for the third year running – with this club sadly folding following the 1924-25 season, after an existence of six years.
• 1926 / Finishing in joint first place in District North’s League 2B with GVAV, GV Bato meets the club from Groningen in a tie-break match, played at HSC’s Terrein Achter Hommes in Sappemeer. Suffering defeat in this encounter (2-1), the club has to leave the title as well as the ticket for the championship play-offs to GVAV. The year 1926 also sees the foundation of a new football club, vv Winschoter Boys, which joins the ranks of the GVB – most probably settling at the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein.
• 1928 / After finishing bottom of the table in District North’s League 2B, vv Upright saves its skin in the relegation play-offs, thus staying up at this level. Also in 1928, after an existence of barely two years, vv Winschoter Boys folds, ceasing all activities.
• 1929 / In the best achievement in club history, GV Bato wins the title in District North’s League 2B, 5 points ahead of closest followers vv HSC and vv Noordster. However, Bato fails to win promotion to League 1 in the ensuing round of championship play-offs against GVV and LAC Frisia 1883, having to leave the honours to the club from Leeuwarden.
• 1930 / Finishing bottom of the table in District North’s League 2B, vv Upright goes on to suffer defeat in a promotion-relegation play-off against the champions in League 3C, vv Zuidbroek. As a result, Upright descends into Sunday League 3. However, in October 1930, Upright sees its membership of the GVB and KNVB terminated due to outstanding debts, with the club folding as a result. The year 1930 also saw a new club being founded, simply called ‘Winschoten’ – with this club joining the socialist football federation NSAB (Nederlandse Socialistische Arbeidersbond) and occasionally being referred to as NSAB Afd. (Afdeeling) Winschoten to avoid confusion with other clubs; this club settled on the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein. 
• 1931 / A new football club sees the daylight in Winschoten, SSS (Sport Staalt Spieren), not to be confused with the eponymous club formed in 1920 and renamed The Swallows subsequently. SSS is a club with a Protestant (Evangelical) membership – and instead of seeking membership of the non-confessional GVB (KNVB), this club joins the Christian football federation CNVB (Christelijke Nederlandsche Voetbalbond). 
• 1933 / After a gap of three years, vv Upright is re-established in January 1933, with the club taking its place at the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein again while being placed in the GVB divisions in the 1933-34 season. Also in 1933, after an existence of thirteen years, all of them spent in the GVB divisions, SBA folds, ceasing all activities, as does SSS, barely two years after its foundation.
• 1934 / NSAB club ‘Winschoten’ (NSAB Afd. Winschoten) changes its name to become De Raven – with 1935 being the last year in which a trace of this club can be found in local media. Possibly, the only socialist football club in Winschoten folded that year or shortly thereafter.
• 1936 / Champions in GVB (Sunday) Division 1, vv Upright goes on to finish as runner-up in the championship play-offs behind vv Wildervank, but ahead of GVAV III, vv ten Post, and vv Eenrum – sufficient to win promotion to District North’s (Sunday) League 3. That same year, a covered grandstand, partly built in wood, is constructed at Gemeentelijk Sportterrein aan het Sint Vitusholt. A gala match is held to mark the occasion on June 7th, 1936, with a combined team of GV Bato and vv Upright players taking on vv Veendam (2-2). 
• 1937 / Foundation of a new football club in Winschoten, Sportvereniging (SV) Rawi, a company sports team of the local Rawi mattress and bedding factory. SV Rawi joins the GVB, taking its place at the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein. That same year, a new Protestant (Evangelical) football club is formed in Winschoten, Vitesse, but this short-lived club – which folded in 1938 – did not play its football on the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein.
• 1938 / Finishing bottom of the table in District North’s League 3B, vv Upright descends into the ranks of the GVB again after two seasons. However, in August 1938, the club folds, with some of its players joining SV Rawi.
• 1944 / Finishing in joint first place in District North’s Sunday League 2B with vv Emmen, GV Bato goes on to meet this club in a tie-break match for the title. With the first encounter finishing in a 3-3 draw, a second match has to be staged – with the ground of vv Achilles in Assen being the chosen venue – in which vv Emmen proves too strong (4-1).
• 1946 / With GV Bato meanwhile sporting various other sections – including walking sports and handball – the club is officially renamed Sportvereniging (SV) Bato. That same year, Bato and SV Rawi are joined at Gemeentelijk Sportterrein aan het Sint Vitusholt by a newly founded club, CVW (Christelijke Voetbalclub Winschoten), a club with an integrally Protestant (Evangelical) membership dedicated to playing football on Saturdays rather than on Sundays for religious reasons. The new club takes its place in the fledgling Saturday pyramid of the GVB.
• 1948 / Finishing bottom of the table in District North’s Sunday League 2B, SV Bato drops back into Sunday League 3 after 24 years. That same year, only two years after its foundation, CVW wins promotion from GVB Saturday Division 1 to Saturday League 4 – the top division of the Saturday pyramid in District North at that time.
• 1949 / CVW crowns itself champions in District North’s Saturday League 4B, 1 point ahead of closest rivals CVV Oranje Nassau (1918). The club does not win promotion, as no Saturday League 3 would be added to the league pyramid in District North until 1954.
• 1951 / CVW finishes as runner-up in District North’s Saturday League 4B alongside SV De Heracliden, 4 points behind champions vv Poolster. The year 1951 also marks the last trace of SV Rawi as a GVB club; this club must have abandoned the GVB in one of the following years, as we find it featuring as a club in a recreational league of corporate teams in a newspaper article in 1958. It is unclear when SV Rawi folded.
• 1955 / In spite of finishing second from bottom in District North’s Saturday League 4C – no relegation place in normal circumstances – CVW does not feature at League 4 level in the new year, with the two clubs below them in the 1954-55 season, vv Eems Boys and VVS Scheemda having retained their place. Possibly, CVW withdrew into the ranks of the GVB voluntarily.
• 1960 / After an existence of fourteen years, CVW allows itself to be absorbed into WVV, with a first team of that club taking part in the Saturday divisions of the GVB from the new season onwards in parallel with the WVV flagship team in the Sunday pyramid. The departure of CVW meant that SV Bato – with the possible exception of company team SV Rawi, which may have prolonged its existence into the 1960s – remained behind as the sole users of the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein aan het Sint Vitusholt.
• 1968 / Finishing bottom of the table in District North’s Sunday League 3D, SV Bato descends into Sunday League 4 for the first time, alongside the club in second-last place, vv PJC.
• 1974 / A first clubhouse at the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein aan het Sint Vitusholt is constructed, with the inaugural ceremony being held on May 18th, 1974. The facility has been built to the eastern side of the grandstand.
• 1976 / Finishing in joint first place in District North’s Sunday League 4G with vv Musselkanaal, SV Bato goes on to suffer defeat in a tie-break match for the title against that club (2-0) at Sportpark De Goorns in Gieten.
• 1980 / SV Bato finishes as runner-up in District North’s Sunday League 4G, 2 points behind champions vv PJC.
• 1982 / The clubhouse at the Gemeentelijk Sportterrein aan het Sint Vitusholt is further extended with a boardroom. 
• 1984 / Champions in District North’s Sunday League 4G, 4 points ahead of closest rivals SV THOS, SV Bato manages a return to Sunday League 3 after an absence of sixteen years.
• 1985 / SV Bato striker Jan Redmeijer signs a professional league contract with SC Veendam.
• 1986 / Jan Redmeijer is part of the squad of SC Veendam which wins a historic first-ever promotion to the top tier of the Netherlands’ football pyramid, the Eredivisie, via the play-offs.
• 1987 / After two years with SC Veendam, ending in relegation from the Eredivisie, Jan Redmeijer returns SV Bato.
• 1989 / SV Bato reaches the final of the WCNO-Cup, in which the club suffers a heavy (5-1) defeat against SC Stadskanaal.
• 1990 / Reaching the final of the WCNO-Cup for the second year in a row, SV Bato manages to take home the trophy this time around, defeating vv ZNC in the final (3-2), played at Sportpark aan de Langeleegte Noord of vv Veendam 1894. The club goes on to defeat vv LTC from Assen in the so-called DGP Supercup, played at Sportpark Pagedal in Stadskanaal (3-1).
• 1993 / Finishing in third-last place in District North’s Sunday League 3D, SV Bato drops back into Sunday League 4, along with FC Amboina and bottom club vv HSC.
• 1995 / Finishing bottom of the table in District North’s Sunday League 4G, SV Bato has to suffer the ignominy of descending into GVB Sunday Division 1, a level at which the club had last featured 72 years before, along with the club in second-last place, vv Pekelder Boys.
• 1998 / With GVB Sunday Division 1 having been reformed to become Sunday League 5 in 1996, SV Bato wins promotion from that level via the play-offs after finishing in fourth place in District North’s Sunday League 5E. The successful coach is Henk Drenth.
• 1999 / Coached by Henk Drenth, SV Bato finishes in second-last place in District North’s Sunday League 4D, resulting in the club dropping back into Sunday League 5 after one year only, along with bottom club vv Farmsum. That same year, Sportvereniging (SV) Bato is wound up, with the three remaining branches continuing independently as GV Bato (gymnastics), WV Bato (walking sports), and vv Bato (football).
• 2001 / Champions in District North’s Sunday League 5E, 5 points ahead of closest followers vv Bareveld, vv Bato wins promotion to Sunday League 4. The successful coach is Thomas Bronsema.
• 2002 / In a particularly tense title race, vv Bato eventually crown themselves champions in District North’s Sunday League 4E, 1 point ahead of three clubs; vv Pekelder Boys, vv Wildervank, and vv Meeden. As a result, the club achieves back-to-back promotions, acceding to Sunday League 3. The successful coach is Thomas Bronsema. Also in 2002, a thorough renovation of Gemeentelijk Sportterrein is undertaken, involving the development of a new clubhouse, designed by architect Chiel Dijkhuis, as well as a new dressing rooms with a covered stand (much smaller than its pre-war predecessor which sadly has to make way) with its whimsically-shaped construction being built on top of one of the dressing rooms.
• 2003 / Coached by Thomas Bronsema, vv Bato finishes bottom of the table in District North’s Sunday League 3C, thus descending into Sunday League 4, along with the club in second-last place, vv Bedum.
• 2007 / Runner-up in District North’s Sunday League 4E, 4 points behind champions vv Siddeburen, vv Bato goes on to win the promotion play-offs, resulting in the club winning promotion to Sunday League 3. The successful coach is Geert Meijer.
• 2008 / Coached by Geert Meijer, vv Bato finishes bottom of the table in District North’s Sunday League 3D, thus dropping back into Sunday League 4 after one year only, alongside the club in second-last place, vv Hoogezand.
• 2009 / Coached by Geert Meijer, vv Bato finishes in third-last place in District North’s Sunday League 4D, with the club thus suffering back-to-back relegations, descending into Sunday League 5 along with FVV and bottom club vv Borgercompagnie.
• 2010 / Finishing in sixth place in District North’s Sunday League 5F, vv Bato qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club knocks out SV Hoogersmilde in R1 (5-3 aggr.), going on to defeat SC Boornbergum ’80 in the final (4-2). As a result, the team of coach Henk Tuin wins promotion to Sunday League 4.
• 2011 / Runner-up in District North’s Sunday League 4C, 11 points behind runaway champions vv Groninger Boys, vv Bato qualifies for the promotion play-offs, in which the club is knocked out by vv Veelerveen (2-2 aggr. & penalty shoot-out). In a lucky loser competition for one extra promotion place, the club eliminates vv Muntendam in R1 (1-0), but stumbles over RKVV MKV ’29 in R2 (0-3).
• 2013 / Champions in District North’s Sunday League 4D, 1 point ahead of closest rivals vv Alteveer, vv Bato wins promotion to Sunday League 3. The successful coach is Gerrie Drenth.
• 2014 / Coached by Gerrie Drenth, vv Bato finishes bottom of the table in District North’s Sunday League 3C, thus descending into Sunday League 4 after one season only, alongside vv ASVB and vv Gruno.
• 2017 / vv Bato withdraws its flagship team from District North’s Sunday League 4C midway through the season, in December 2017.
• 2018 / vv Bato returns to first team football, but not in the Sunday pyramid, as the club chooses to turn to Saturday football, starting in Saturday League 5 at the bottom of the league pyramid. Also in or around 2018, vv Bato moved its first team football to the easternmost pitch of Gemeentelijk Sportterrein aan het Sint Vitusholt, with the former main pitch remaining in use for lower team football and training sessions.
• 2026 / In the latter stages of 2026, having fallen into disuse many years before, the covered stand alongside Terrein 1 of Gemeentelijk Sportpark aan het Sint Vitusholt, dating back to 2002, is knocked down. 

Note – Thanks to vv Bato chairman Wim Boven and club archivist Ferdy Bos for their hospitality during my visit and for their help in finding the information for the article above. Further data have been derived from a book published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of WVV, Henk Mulder’s “Onze dierbaarste kleuren. Honderd jaar WVV, een geschiedenis in rood en zwart”, ed. WVV: Winschoten 1996.

All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author

EAST GERMANY: TSV Tiefenort (1926-1933) / SpVgg Tiefenort (1933-1944) / SG Kaiseroda (1946-1947) / SG Glückauf Kaiseroda (1947-1948) / SG Glückauf Tiefenort (1948-1951) / BSG Aktivist Kaiseroda-Tiefenort (1951-1953) / BSG Aktivist Kaiseroda (1953-1956) / BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort (1956-1964, 1966-1990) / FSV Kali Werra Tiefenort (1990-2009) / SG Tiefenort-Frauensee (2009-2015) / SG FSV Kali Werra Tiefenort (2015-2024) / SG BSG Kali Werra Tiefenort (2024-)

Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen, Tiefenort (SG BSG Kali Werra Tiefenort, formerly TSV Tiefenort / SpVgg Tiefenort / SG Kaiseroda / SG Glückauf Kaiseroda / SG Glückauf Tiefenort / BSG Aktivist Kaiseroda-Tiefenort / BSG Aktivist Kaiseroda / BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort / FSV Kali Werra Tiefenort / SG Tiefenort-Frauensee / SG FSV Kali Werra Tiefenort)

East Germany (former GDR / DDR), state: Thuringia = Thüringen

25 X 2026 / SG BSG Kali Werra Tiefenort - SG FC Schweina-Gumpelstadt II 0-1 / West-Thuringian District League, Group 2 (= BRD level 9)

Timeline

• 1888 / In Tiefenort, a village in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen in the German Empire, a gymnastics club is formed – the first sports club to be founded in Tiefenort.
• 1913 / Founding of a first football club in Tiefenort, Fussballklub (FK) Adler. The founding meeting was held on 13 February 1913 at the Gasthaus ‘Zur Erholung’, initiated by Gustav Helm and Bruno Gröbel. With no proper football pitch being available, the first training sessions took place in a meadow.
• 1914 / In the first recorded result of the club, FK Adler manages a 4-1 win against ATV (Arbeiterturnvereing) Bad Salzungen.
• 1915 / A second club sees the daylight in Tiefenort, Fussballklub (FK) Victoria, with the founding meeting being held at the Gasthaus ‘Zur Post’.
• 1919 / Following the First World War – when the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen was absorbed into the Free State of Thuringia, which in its turn became a component of the Weimar Republic – a merger takes place between FK Adler and FK Victoria, resulting in the founding of Spielvereinigung (SV) Tiefenort, possibly due to a decline in membership of the two respective predecessor clubs. The merger is agreed upon at a founding meeting held at the Gasthaus ‘Zum Stern’ on 4 May 1919. At the time, there still was not the luxury of a proper football pitch in Tiefenort; matches and training sessions took place on various meadows, as well as in the so-called Kleine(s) Kaffeetälchen, a small valley just outside the village used as an event ground and practice ground for the local rifle club, which has its clubhouse on that location. In winter, the club moved to various meadows along the River Werra.
• 1921 / SV Tiefenort takes on the adapted name Turn- und Sportvereinigung (TSV) Tiefenort, which probably coincided with the club’s joining the so-called Arbeiter-Turn- und Sport-Bund (ATSB), the socialist football association in the young Weimar Republic.
• 1923 / Municipal authorities give the green light for turning the location of the Kleine(s) Kaffeetälchen, already in use for footballing activities during parts of the year, into a proper football pitch. Due to financial difficulties, no doubt related to the hyperinflation raging in the Weimar Republic in the early 1920s, the construction works take a couple of more years to get underway.
• 1924 / TSV Tiefenort clinches the Gaumeisterschaft (regional title) in Thuringia District V following a win over SV Preussen Langensalza in the final (4-1).
• 1925 / After a delay of two years, works get underway on laying out a football pitch at the Kleine(s) Kaffeetälchen, with part of the costs involved being taken care of by Kaliwerk Kaiseroda, the potash salt mine firm in nearby Kaiseroda. While the works are underway, football is being played alternately on various meadows alongside the River Werra, on a meadow on the Heerstatt Island on the southern edge of the village as well as on locations known locally as Märzengraben and Breitenborn.   
• 1926 / Thanks largely to the voluntary efforts of club members and local residents, construction work is completed after about a year, with the Waldstadion being officially inaugurated on 12 September. As it happens, the local Turnhalle (gymnasium) was inaugurated on the same day. Rather than grass, the Waldstadion pitch featured a sandy playing surface. The first match, against SK Handorf, ended in a convincing 5-2 victory for TSV Tiefenort.
• 1927 / The first official league matches are played at the Waldstadion, with the grounds continuing to serve other purposes as well, notably for village festivals and as a venue for school sports.
• 1929 / TSV Tiefenort clinches the ATSB Bezirksmeisterschaft (regional title) as well as hosting the Danish national team in a gala match at the Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen. ATSB membership lists show the name of the club as TSV Tiefenort, with one other source giving the name as Sportgemeinschaft (SG) Tiefenort by the early 1930s instead.
• 1933 / Following the Nazi Machtübernahme in the spring of 1933, the German socialist football federation ATSB is banned, with TSV Tiefenort (or SG Tiefenort) being refounded as a bourgeois club under the name Spielvereinigung (SpVgg) Tiefenort, which joins the regular German Football Association (DFB). In the 1933-34 season, the club is placed in Division 3 Thuringia – with further league reforms following in subsequent years.
• 1934 / SpVgg Tiefenort wins promotion from Division 3 Gau Henneberg to Division 2 of this regional pyramid.
• 1938 / Having switched from Gau Henneberg to the Eisenach District (Wartburggau), SpVgg Tiefenort now wins the title in Wartburggau Division 2, however failing to win promotion in the subsequent championship play-offs.
• 1939 / Clinching the title in Wartburggau Division 2, SpVgg Tiefenort goes on to win promotion to Division 1 in the ensuing round of championship play-offs. The decisive points are clinched in a 4-2 win over (SK?) Creuzburg (3 goals by Wagner, 1 by Krug) at Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen in front of a crowd of some 1,200. That same year, the club entertains SC Union Wien in a gala match in Tiefenort; strikingly, the matchday poster mentions the club as the football branch of Turn- und Sportverein (TSV) Tiefenort rather than SpVgg Tiefenort, which may mean that the club reverted to its original name in the years following 1933, but no clarity exists on the matter.
• 1940 / Suffering relegation from Wartburggau Division 1, SpVgg Tiefenort drops back into Division 2 of the said league pyramid.
• 1941 / SpVgg Tiefenort wins promotion from Wartburggau Division 2 to Division 1.
• 1942 / In its first season back in Wartburggau Division 1, SpVgg Tiefenort wins the title.
• 1944 / In the final stages of World War II, all footballing activities in Thuringia come to a standstill.
• 1946 / With football activities being resumed in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany – due to become the German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR, in 1949) – the football club in Tiefenort is re-established under the name Sportgemeinschaft (SG) Kaiseroda. By this time, the Kaliwerk Kaiseroda mine has been nationalised and renamed VEB Kalibetrieb Ernst Thälmann, with the Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen as well as the football club becoming an integral part of this state firm.
• 1947 / In the nascent football pyramid in East Germany, SG Kaiseroda clinches the Kreismeisterschaft (regional title) in the Eisenach regional competition. That same year, the club takes on the new name SG Glückauf Kaiseroda.
• 1948 / SG Glückauf Kaiseroda takes on the new name SG Glückauf Tiefenort.
• 1949 / Finishing in third place in Thuringia’s Regional Championship (Bezirksklasse Thuringen) behind SG Vorwärts Gotha and SG Einheit Breitungen, SG Glückauf Tiefenort wins promotion to Thuringia’s State Division (Landesklasse Thüringen) – with extra promotion places being available following the founding of the Oberliga as the top tier of the East German football pyramid. The state divisions temporarily serves as the antechamber of the Oberliga.
• 1950 / SG Glückauf Tiefenort descends from Thuringia’s State Division into the district league level (Kreisklasse). Also in 1950, the pitch of the Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen is extended, with dressing rooms being installed in the former rifle clubhouse.
• 1951 / SG Glückauf Tiefenort wins promotion from Kreisklasse to Thuringia’s State Division (Landesklasse Thüringen) – by now the third tier of East Germany’s football pyramid following the introduction of the so-called DDR-Liga as the second division, below the Oberliga, in 1950. Also in 1951, SG Glückauf Tiefenort takes on the new name Betriebssportgemeinschaft (BSG) Aktivist Kaiseroda-Tiefenort.
• 1952 / Clinching the title in Thuringia’s State Division, 2 points ahead of closest rivals BSG Einheit Sonneberg, BSG Aktivist Kaiseroda-Tiefenort wins promotion to the DDR-Liga, the antechamber of East Germany’s football pyramid, for the first time. That same year, further renovation work is carried out at the Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen, involving an extensive excavation to lower the level of the playing field, allowing more spectators to watch matches from the newly created artificial embankments surrounding the pitch. On the eastern touchline, an open terrace is added to the set-up as well.
• 1953 / Finishing in second-last place in DDR-Liga Group 1, BSG Aktivist Kaiseroda-Tiefenort descends into the Bezirksliga or Regional League – the newly created third tier in East German football, due to become the fourth level following the introduction of the II. DDR-Liga in 1955 – alongside SG Dynamo Erfurt and bottom club BSG Einheit Spremberg. Also in 1953, BSG Aktivist Kaiseroda-Tiefenort is renamed BSG Aktivist Kaiseroda.
• 1954 / BSG Aktivist Kaiseroda finishes as runner-up in Bezirksliga Suhl, 9 points behind runaway champions BSG Motor Oberlind.
• 1956 / In what would be the last act of an ongoing avalanche of name changes within a decade, BSG Aktivist Kaiseroda takes on the new name BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort.
• 1957 / Finishing in third place in Bezirksliga Suhl, BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort wins promotion to the II. DDR-Liga alongside champions BSG Motor Suhl and runner-up BSG Motor Sonneberg – with extra promotion places being available due to the number of II. DDR-Liga groups being extended from two to five.
• 1959 / A record crowd of over 8,000 spectators flocks to the Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen to see BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort taking on SC Turbine Erfurt in R2 of the East German cup (FDGB-Pokal, result: 1-4). That same year, the terrace on the eastern touchline of the ground is transformed into an uncovered all-seater stand with wooden bleachers. 
• 1963 / With the II. DDR-Liga being abolished after an existence of eight years, BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort, in spite having finished in a respectable fifth place in II. DDR-Liga Group 5 that season, is placed in the Bezirksliga Suhl in the 1963-64 season, effectively staying put at the third tier of East German football. Also in 1963, a new football pitch was officially inaugurated next to the gymnasium (Turnhalle) on Heerstatt Island. The occasion was marked by a gala match in which BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort defeated BSG Motor Steinach (3-1). The pitch was laid out as a temporary alternative in anticipation of the forthcoming construction work at the Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen.
• 1964 / Champions in Bezirksliga Suhl Group 2, 5 points ahead of closest followers BSG Motor-Mitte Suhl, BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort goes on to suffer defeat in the play-off against Group 1 winners BSG Empor Ilmenau (3-2 aggr.), thus missing out on the championship play-offs and the opportunity to win promotion to the DDR-Liga. Following the 1963-64 season, all activities of BSG Aktivist are temporarily moved to Heerstatt Island, while works get underway at the Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen, involving the sand pitch being replaced by a grass playing field. However, this requires extensive drainage work, to be carried out by the Kalibetrieb. The work proves extremely time-consuming, with the inauguration of the new pitch being delayed on multiple occasions.
• 1965 / BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort finishes as runner-up in Bezirksliga Suhl Group 2, 2 points behind champions ASG Vorwärts Meiningen.
• 1966 / Champions in Bezirksliga Suhl Group 1, 7 points ahead of closest followers BSG Motor Veilsdorf, BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort goes on to win the play-off against Group 1 winners BSG Motor-Mitte Suhl (3-1 aggr.). As such, the club qualifies for the championship play-offs, but, with two promotion places being at stake, the club finishes bottom of the table in a group of five, thus missing out on promotion alongside BSG Motor West Karl-Marx-Stadt and TSG Gröditz, with the tickets for the DDR-Liga going to BSG Motor Nordhausen West and BSG Chemie Jena. As a small compensation, BSG Aktivist succeeds in conquering the Suhl Regional Cup (FDGB-Bezirkspokal Suhl), seeing off BSG Motor Veilsdorf in the final (3-0). In the summer of 1966, after two years spent on Heerstatt Island, BSG Aktivist is finally able to move back to the Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen, which now features a state-of-the-art grass playing surface.
• 1967 / Champions in Bezirksliga Suhl for the second year running, 5 points ahead of closest rivals BSG Motor-Mitte Suhl, BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort qualifies for the championship play-offs, but, yet again, the club finishes bottom in a group of five, thus failing to break down the door to the DDR-Liga along with BSG Chemie Riesa and FC Karl-Marx-Stadt II, with the two promotion tickets going to FC Carl Zeiss Jena II and FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt II.
• 1968 / Champions in Bezirksliga for the third time in a row, finishing 7 points ahead of closest followers ASG Vorwärts Meiningen II, BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort now finally succeeds in crowning its season with promotion to the DDR-Liga in the championship play-offs, finishing top of their group, ahead of BSG Chemie Riesa – which grabs the second promotion ticket – FC Karl-Marx-Stadt II, BSG Motor Rudisleben-Ichtershausen, and BSG Stahl Maxhütte. The decisive points are clinched in a 1-0 away win in Rudisleben, with Peter Filler scoring the all-important goal.
• 1969 / Finishing in joint third-last place in DDR-Liga Group South with BSG Chemie Zeitz, BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort avoids the drop only by virtue of its marginally better goal difference (-4 vs. -5).
• 1970 / In an impressive season, BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort manages a fourth place in DDR-Liga Group South, behind champions 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig as well as BSG Wismut Gera and BSG Sachsenring Zwickau II.
• ± 1971 / On the hillside along the western touchline of the Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen, a terraced earth stand is put in place, with part of it being equipped with wooden bleachers. Also in the early 1970s, the so-called White House (Weisses Haus) on the same side of the pitch, which had previously served as a living house for several club players, is renovated to serve as dressing rooms. Also in the early 1970s, a gravel pitch is laid out on the other side of the old rifle clubhouse – turned clubhouse of Kali Werra in the post-war years – for lower team football and training sessions as well as the occasional first team match on days when the stadium playing field fails inspection. 
• 1973 / Finishing in second-last place in DDR-Liga Group E, BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort descends into the Bezirksliga level after five years, alongside BSG Motor Hemsdorf and bottom club BSG Chemie Glas Ilmenau.
• 1974 / Runaway champions in Bezirksliga Suhl, 13 points ahead of closest followers BSG Chemie Glas Ilmenau and without suffering a single defeat all season, BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort manages a return to the antechamber of the East German football pyramid, the DDR-Liga.
• 1975 / Finishing in joint ninth place in DDR-Liga Group E with FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt II, BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort only avoids relegation thanks to its marginally better goal difference (-4 vs. -5).
• 1977 / BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort finishes as joint runner-up in DDR-Liga Group E with BSG Motor Suhl, 4 points behind champions BSG Wismut Gera.
• ± 1978 / Maximum capacity of the Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen is further raised following the addition of a south terrace as well as extensions to each side of the east stand, which runs the full length of the pitch from this time onwards.
• 1980 / In one of the best achievements in club history, BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort finishes in third place in DDR-Liga Group E, only 3 points behind champions BSG Wismut Gera.
• 1985 / With the DDR-Liga having been reduced from five groups to only two the previous season, BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort proves unable to cope with the higher standard of play in the 1984-85 season, finishing in second-last place in Group B, thus descending to the Bezirksliga level alongside BSG Aufbau DKK Krumhermersdorf and bottom club BSG Robotron Sommerda.
• 1986 / Runaway champions in Bezirksliga Suhl, 12 points ahead of closest followers BSG Lokomotive Meiningen, BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort qualifies for the championship play-offs. Finishing top of a group of five, the club manages an immediate return to the DDR-Liga alongside runner-up BSG Chemie WPSt Guben, at the expense of BSG Aufbau DKK Krumhermersdorf, TSG Gröditz, and BSG JENAer Glaswerk Jena. The icing on the cake is the club’s second Suhl Regional Cup win, defeating BSG Motor ESKA Hildburghausen in the final, held at the Sportanlage der Deutsch-Sowjetischen Freundschaft in Hildburghausen (3-4 A.E.T.).
• 1988 / Finishing in second-last place in DDR-Liga Group B, BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort drops back into the Bezirksliga after two seasons, along with BSG Fortschritt Weida and bottom team FC Carl Zeiss Jena II.
• 1989 / BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort finishes as runner-up in Bezirksliga Suhl, 4 points behind champions BSG Chemie IW Ilmenau.
• 1990 / Runaway champions in Bezirksliga Suhl, 10 points ahead of closest followers BSG WK Schmalkalden, BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort goes on to win the championship play-offs, thus gaining promotion to the DDR-Liga along with BSG Aktivist Borna at the expense of BSG Fortschritt Neustadt an der Saale, BSG EAB 47 Berlin, and BSG Motor Zschopau. Meanwhile, following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the SED regime in East Germany has crumbled, with the ties of BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort to the (previously) state-owned – and by now ailing – potash salt mine company  (which closes its doors once and for all in 1993) being severed as a result. Nonetheless, the reference to the mining industry is retained in the adapted club name Fussballsportverein (FSV) Kali Werra Tiefenort.
• 1991 / In the last-ever season under the auspices of East German football federation DFV, FSV Kali Werra Tiefenort finishes in second-last place in Group B of the DDR-Liga, resulting in the club suffering relegation alongside bottom finishers SV Germania Ilmenau. In the 1991-92 season, with all East German clubs being absorbed into the West German DFB leagues, FSV Kali Werra Tiefenort is placed in the Thuringia State League (Landesliga Thüringen) at the fourth level of the football pyramid.
• 1992 / With the majority of the club’s players having left to play for higher salaries across the former West German border, FSV Kali Werra Tiefenort has an abysmal season in the Thuringia State League, finishing in second-last place and thus suffering relegation – its second in a row – along with SV Preussen Bad Langensalza, SV Germania Ilmenau, FSV Steinbach-Hallenberg, and bottom club SV Versco Walldorf. In the 1992-93 season, FSV Kali Werra is placed in the South-Thuringian Regional League (Bezirksliga Südthüringen), the fifth tier of the German football pyramid.
• 1993 / FSV Kali Werra Tiefenort finishes as runner-up in the South-Thuringian State Regional League, 7 points behind champions SG Viernau. Due to a reorganisation of the football pyramid, the Bezirksliga Südthüringen sits at the sixth – rather than the fifth – tier of German football from 1994 onwards.
• 1995 / Champions in the South-Thuringian Regional League, 9 points ahead of closest followers VfL Meiningen 04, FSV Kali Werra Tiefenort manages a return to the Thuringian State League after three years.
• ± 1996 / With parts of the Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen having fallen into disrepair following the club’s descent into the lower reaches of the football pyramid in previous years, the south terrace, the side-terraces of the east terrace, as well as the PA tower are all demolished.
• 2000 / Finishing in third-last place in the Thuringian State League, FSV Kali Werra Tiefenort descends into the West-Thuringian State Division (Landesklasse Thüringen West), at the sixth tier of the football pyramid, alongside SV Motor Altenburg and bottom club SSV Lobeda 77.
• 2001 / Finishing in thirteenth place in the West-Thuringian State Division, FSV Kali Werra Tiefenort suffers back-to-back relegations, being retrograded into the South-Thuringian Regional League (Bezirksliga Südthüringen), at the seventh tier of the football pyramid – and the eighth following a league reorganisation in 2008 – with FSV Grün-Weiss Steinbach-Hallenberg, SV Empor Erfurt, FSV Drei Gleichen Mühlberg, and bottom club SSV Marksuhl-Burhardtroda being the other four drop-outs.
• 2009 / A joint sporting arrangement is formed between FSV Kali Werra Tiefenort and SV 1930 Frauensee, resulting in all teams of the two clubs being merged and competing under the name Spielgemeinschaft (SG) Tiefenort-Frauensee. First team football moves to the Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen in Tiefenort, with the Sportanlage an der Sandspitze in Frauensee remaining in use for lower team football and training sessions.
• 2010 / In a reorganisation of the football pyramid, the Bezirksliga Südthüringen is rebranded as one of Thuringia’s Regionalklasses (Regional Divisions).
• 2012 / Finishing bottom of the table in Thuringia’s Regional Division Group 7, SG Tiefenort-Frauensee descends into the Bad Salzungen District League (Kreisliga Bad Salzungen, becoming the Kreisliga Westthüringen or West-Thuringian District League the following year), at the ninth tier of the German football pyramid. That same year, the wooden bleachers of the west stand are renovated in a refurbishment round which also sees an upgrade of the so-called White House.
• 2014 / Clinching the title in the West-Thuringian District League Group 2, with an equal number of points as runner-up SG Bremen-Rhön, but with a better goal difference (+37 vs. +33), SG Tiefenort-Frauensee wins promotion to the West-Thuringian Upper District League (Kreisoberliga Westthüringen), at the eighth tier of German football.
• 2015 / The joint sporting arrangement (Spielgemeinschaft, SG) between SV 1930 Frauensee and FSV Kali Werra Tiefenort is officially renamed Spielgemeinschaft (SG) Fussballsportverein (FSV) Kali Werra Tiefenort.
• 2017 / Finishing bottom of the table in the West-Thuringian Upper District League, SG FSV Kali Werra Tiefenort drops back into the West-Thuringian district leagues after three years, alongside the club in second-last place, FSV Rot-Weiss Tabarz. 
• 2021 / Plans are drawn up to replace the natural grass pitch at the Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen with an artificial surface. However, following considerable opposition – not least from the groundhopping community, whose members had come to cherish the atmosphere of this unique lower-league football ground – the proposal was eventually abandoned.
• 2024 / SV Blau-Weiss 09 Kieselbach joins the joint sporting arrangement with FSV Kali Werra Tiefenort and SV 1930 Frauensee, with the three clubs continuing under the label Spielgemeinschaft (SG) Breitensportgemeinschaft (BSG) Kali Werra Tiefenort and with the grounds of all three remaining in use for club activities.
• 2025 / The former clubhouse on the southern side of the Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen – the old rifle clubhouse dating back to the early stages of the 20th century – is deemed beyond repair and knocked down.

Note – Important parts of the information given above has been derived from a publication published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of the Waldstadion Kaffeetälchen: “Mythos Kaffeetälchen. Ein Jahrhundert Leidenschaft. Jubiläumsausgabe 1926-2026”, written by Astrid & Heiko Adler (ed. BSG Kali Werra Tiefenort e.V.: Tiefenort 2026). Thanks to Heiko Adler and other club officials for their hospitality on my matchday visit in Tiefenort.

All photos: (c) W.B. Tukker / www.extremefootballtourism.blogspot.com. Publication of any of these images only after permission of author