"vfb" won promotion to the oberliga nordrhein (iv) for a two-year stint in 1990. they re-appeared in the fourth tier in 2005 and played in the tier-five oberliga niederrhein until 2015, when they were relegated. a league championship in the landesliga in 2015–16 took the club back up to the oberliga, which they won in 2019 to gain promotion to the regionalliga west.