Germânia Halberstadt

Halberstadt play in the Oberliga NOFV-Süd, the fifth tier, run by the North-East German Football Association (NOFV). They have been here before and have done better. They won this league in 2010–11 and finished runners-up in 2016–17.

The Saxony-Anhalt Cup has been the club's route to bigger occasions. Halberstadt have reached the final five times: 2009–10, 2012–13, 2016–17, 2018–19 and 2023–24. Two of those runners-up finishes still took them into the German Cup (DFB-Pokal), in 2017/18 and 2019/20.

The club in its current form dates from 3 September 1997, and it is a merger of two traditions. One is the original FC Germania, formed in 1900. The other is the post-war works side BSG Reichsbahn, founded in 1949 and renamed BSG Lokomotive a year later. After reunification the football department split off in 1994 as FC Germania 1900 Halberstadt, while the multi-sport club became VfB Halberstadt 1949. Three years later the two came back together as VfB Germania Halberstadt. Both 1900 and 1949 count as founding dates.

Two players carry the club's name furthest. Jürgen Sparwasser played for Lokomotive from 1956 to 1964 and later scored for East Germany at the 1974 World Cup. Nils Petersen came through the academy between 2001 and 2004 and went on to play in the Bundesliga for Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen.

The local rivalry is with FC Einheit Wernigerode, and their meetings are known as the Harz-Derby. The home shirt is red and the away kit black.

The Saxony-Anhalt Cup final has beaten them each of those five times. The senior men's title in that competition is still missing.