The origins of the club go back to the founding of the German football club VfR Königshütte on 22 August 1910 in what was at the time the coal mining city of Königshütte in Germany.
The origins of the club are rooted in the founding of VfR Königshütte, a German football club, on August 22, 1910, in the town of Königshütte, Germany.