VfL Bochum

German professional football club in Bochum
Organization association_football_club Q105861
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Summary

VfL Bochum is an association football club[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of association football club entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,061 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Bochum[3]
  • Country: Germany[4]
  • Home venue: Ruhrstadion[5]
  • League or competition: 2. Bundesliga[6]
  • Headquarters location: Bochum[7]
  • Head coach: Uwe Rösler[8]
  • Commons category: VfL Bochum[9]
  • Inception: April 14, 1938[10]
  • Sport: association football[11], badminton[12]
  • Official website: https://www.vfl-bochum.de/[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:VfL Bochum[14]
  • Participant in: Badminton-Bundesliga 1972/1973[15], Badminton-Bundesliga 1973/1974[16], Badminton-Bundesliga 1974/1975[17], 1962/1963 German Team Badminton Championships[18], 1963/1964 German Team Badminton Championships[19], 1964/1965 German Team Badminton Championships[20]
  • Topic has template: Q14400188[21]
  • Owner of: Ruhrstadion[22]
  • Category for members of a team: Category:VfL Bochum players[23]
  • Official color: navy blue[24], white[25]
  • Social media followers: 1711[26], 25,400[27], 28,000[28], 30,900[29]

Why It Matters

VfL Bochum has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . vfl-bochum.de. vfl-bochum.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9w ago · Nordprinz · 2026-08-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Member count → +33500
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Member count: 33,500"
  2. 11w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Concepts/VfL_Bochum
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Concepts/VfL_Bochum, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
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