Apart from football, the club also operates an ice hockey team in the Landesliga Baden-Württemberg, the VfR Blue Gold Stars.

In 1911–12, out of 17 clubs in two divisions in this league, seven came from Pforzheim, including the three sides that would merge at the end of it to become VfR.

VfR was unable to rise to the highest level again in the following era of the Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden, from 1923 to 1933 and only returned to division one in 1943, when the Gauliga Baden had become the top tier in the region.

[6] The club recovered immediately and returned to the Amateurliga the following season but lasted only two years before having to drop down again.

Because the league's champions, the second team of Karlsruher SC, was ineligible for promotion, VfR took part in it instead and succeeded.

[9] In its sole season in the tier-two Regionalliga Süd, 1965–66, the club was heavily outclassed and came last with only eleven points to its name, 122 goals against and a 16-point gap to the second-last SpVgg Weiden.

VfR had to finish in the top five of its league in 1977–78 to qualify for the new Oberliga but, coming eighth, was grouped in the Verbandsliga instead.

The season after saw it finish second in the league and earning the right to compete in the promotion round to the tier-three Regionalliga Süd.

[16] The club managed to beat SpVgg Bayreuth 4–0 but then lost 1–3 to Eintracht Frankfurt Amateure, ending all dreams.

[17] The club's finances were in a disastrous state and it had to withdraw from the Oberliga, taking up the place of its reserve team in the Bezirksliga (VII) instead.

Despite this difficult situation, it archived a ninth place in its league in 1995–96 and unexpectedly avoided relegation.