Football team

Dresden

Club · Germany · 2. Bundesliga South

«VC Dresden»

151 Matches

77 wins

74 losses

303–284 Sets

+19 Difference

2.0 Average per match

Form L L W W W W

Eric Grosche wore the captain's armband when Volleyball Club Dresden climbed into the 1. Bundesliga in 2012, the high point for a club founded in 1996 out of a social project rather than any old sporting lineage. The team reached the play-off quarter-finals that same season, only for the operating company behind it to file for insolvency in December 2014, costing Dresden its top-flight licence.

The rebuild started from the second team: the reserve side won the 3. Liga Ost in 2015/16 and carried the club back into the 2. Bundesliga South, a division VC Dresden has gone up from five times since, most recently in 2020/21, when other clubs' failed licence applications handed them the place at the green table.

The academy behind that recovery has sent players further than the first team itself has gone: Sebastian Rösler made his debut at fifteen before moving on to TSV Unterhaching, and Simon Hirsch progressed through Dresden into the German national team. None of it has produced a national title — that belongs to the unrelated Dresdner SC, whose green and white have nothing to do with the black and yellow worn at the Volleydome Bürgerwiese, a 560-seat hall that has been home since 2014.

Saxony's derby is played against L.E. Volleys of Leipzig, the one fixture on the calendar that needs no promotion push to matter.

Latest results

Fixtures and results

1 Nov	2. Bundesliga South	Friedrichshafen 2 A	3:1	W
31 Oct	2. Bundesliga South	Keiler Volleys Stuttgart A	3:0	W
24 Oct	2. Bundesliga South	L.E. Volleys H	3:1	W
17 Oct	2. Bundesliga South	Muhldorf H	3:2	W
4 Oct	2. Bundesliga South	Regensburg A	0:3	L
26 Sep	2. Bundesliga South	Gotha H	0:3	L