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1974–75 FDGB-Pokal
The 1974–75 season saw the 24th competition for the FDGB-Pokal. 89 teams participated. After a qualifying round pitting 6 clubs from the second-tier DDR-Liga against each other, the first round and an additional intermediate round were played with 55 teams from the 1973-74 DDR-Liga, the teams relegated from the first-tier DDR-Oberliga after the 1973-74 season and the 15 winners of the various 1973-74 Bezirkspokal competitions. By the round of the last 16, all Bezirkspokal winners had been eliminated, and only two second-tier teams, 1. FC Union Berlin and Motor Nordhausen remained in the competition. As had been done in the past two competitions, fixtures were played over two legs from the round of 16 to the semifinals. The semifinal saw a repeat of last year's final, with Dynamo Dresden and FC Carl Zeiss Jena playing each other. Dresden won through and met BSG Sachsenring Zwickau who had beaten BSG Wismut Aue in the semifinal. For the first time since 1950 the final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state was a part of the Eastern Bloc in the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state".Patrick Major, Jonathan Osmond, ''The Workers' and Peasants' State: Communism and Society in East Germany Under Ulbricht 1945–71'', Manchester University Press, 2002, Its territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the end of World War II—the Soviet occupation zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it and West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR. Most scholars and academics describe the GDR as a totalitarian dictatorship. The GDR was establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FSV Union Fürstenwalde
FSV Union Fürstenwalde is a German football club from Fürstenwalde/Spree, currently playing in the NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V). As with many East German clubs at the time, the club has a complicated history of formations, re-formations, ownership changes, legal changes, name-changes and mergers; however the lineage can be traced back as far back as 1919, with the current incarnation formed in 2002. History The roots of the club go back to SC Union 06 Oberschönweide Abt. Fürstenwalde, formed in 1919 as a section of Berlin-based SC Union 06 Oberschöneweide and adopted the name SC Union Fürstenwalde in 1927 after separating from the latter club. ''Union'' went through a number of name changes and merger after 1945 but eventually, in 1971, became SG Dynamo Fürstenwalde. ''Dynamo'', affiliated to sports association SV Dynamo and associated with the Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, experienced some success at the second level of GDR football, the DDR-Liga. With the end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SV Babelsberg 03
SV Babelsberg 03 is a German association football club based in Potsdam-Babelsberg, on the outskirts of Berlin. The team was founded as ''Sport-Club Jugendkraft 1903'' and again as ''SG Karl-Marx Babelsberg'' in 1948 as successor to the pre-war side SpVgg Potsdam 03. History Playing as ''SV Nowawes'' the team gained promotion in 1935 to the first tier Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. The club was relegated after just three seasons at that level never finishing better than eighth in their ten team division. The club returned to the Gauliga as ''SpVgg Potsdam'' in 1943 and earned third- and fourth-place finishes in the two years before the end of World War II. Postwar play in East Germany Following the war, occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in the country, including sports and football associations. The former membership of ''SpVgg'' wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VfB Germania Halberstadt
VfB Germania Halberstadt is a German football club from Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt. History The club was founded on 26 October 1949 as ''Betriebssportgemeinschaft Reichsbahn Halberstadt'' before being renamed ''BSG Lokomotive Halberstadt'' in 1950. Through the 1970s the team played in the East German third division DDR-Bezirksliga. After German reunification in 1990 the team was re-established as ''Eisenbahnsportverein Halberstadt'' and spent two seasons in the Verbandsliga Sachsen-Anhalt (IV) before slipping to the Landesliga Sachsen-Anhalt in 1992. Formed as a sports club for railway workers, the number of rail workers actually represented in the membership of the club dropped below 20% and it lost its affiliation with the Railway Sports Federation in 1993. The club became ''VfB Halberstadt'' that year while the footballers went their own way in 1994 as ''Fußball Club Germania Halberstadt'', adopting the heritage of a local pre-war side. ''VfB Germania Halberstadt'' was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Anker Wismar
FC Anker Wismar is a German association football club based in Wismar, Germany, currently playing in the Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. History The club's origins date back to 1904 when ''FC Elite Wismar'' were established. The following year, the club was renamed to ''Wismarer FC 1905''. From 1909 the club was known as ''Germania Wismar'' and during the World War II, ''TSV Wismar'' played in the Gauliga Nordmark. After the war, the club was renamed no less than four more times (''SG Wismar Süd'', ''ZSG Anker Wismar'', ''BSG Anker Wismar'' and ''BSG Motor Wismar'') before settling on the name ''TSG Wismar'' under which they played in the DDR-Liga (prior to German reunification) up until 1997 when the club was finally renamed FC Anker Wismar and as such they have become champions of the Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern four times – in 2000, 2004, 2010 and 2015. On each occasion the club won promotion to the NOFV-Oberliga Nord but was relegated back to the Verbandsli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Grün-Weiß Wolfen
FC Grün-Weiß Wolfen was a Football in Germany, German association football club from the industrial city of Bitterfeld-Wolfen in southern Saxony-Anhalt. History After an Agfa factory had been founded in Wolfen in 1909, the city experienced a boom that also led to the creation of the ''Wolfener Ballspielclub'' in 1915. This club was later renamed, first becoming ''VfL Wolfen'' and then ''IG Farben Sportverein''. After World War II all sports clubs and associations in Germany were dissolved. ''Sportgemeinde Wolfen'' emerged as a successor side in 1945 and became part of football competition in East Germany. In November 1948, ''SG'' joined ''BSG Agfa Wolfen'' and ''BSG Einheit Wolfen'' to form ''ZSG Wolfen'', which was renamed ''BSG Chemie Agfa Wolfen'' on 7 October 1949. In 1950, the ''Wolfen'' team were promoted to the Landesliga Sachsen-Anhalt, then the third tier of the East German football league system. In their first season there, they earned a respectable 6th-place finish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Stahl Brandenburg
BSG Stahl Brandenburg is a Football in Germany, German association football club based in Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg. History The club was formed in 1950 as ''BSG Einheit Brandenburg'' and played its earliest seasons in the II division of East Germany, East German football. They took on the name ''BSG Stahl Brandenburg'' in 1955 to reflect the backing of the local steel company. With that support, the club was able to assemble competitive sides by offering attractive salaries to the castoffs of other teams. The strategy drew some capable players to their ranks and helped them develop a solid fan base. The side earned promotion to the DDR-Oberliga for the 1984-85 DDR-Oberliga, 1984–85 season and played there until German reunification in 1990. After a name change to ''BSV Stahl Brandenburg'' they spent the 1991-92 2. Bundesliga, 1991–92 season in the 2. Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga Nord. In 1993, with the closing of the local steel mill and the loss of their financial s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Mecklenburg Schwerin
FC Mecklenburg Schwerin is a German football club based in Schwerin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The club was formed from a merger in 2013 and competes in the fifth tier NOFV-Oberliga Nord. The club plays its home matches at the Sportpark Lankow. FC Mecklenburg Schwerin also has gymnastics squads and an Esports department. History FC Mecklenburg Schwerin was established from a merger of FC Eintracht Schwerin and FC Mecklenburg Schwerin on 28 May 2013. The club incorporates the history of several historical football clubs in Schwerin, such as Schweriner FC 03, BSG Einheit Schwerin, SC Traktor Schwerin, BSG Motor Schwerin, SG Dynamo Schwerin and ISG Schwerin. FC Eintracht Schwerin FC Eintracht Schwerin was formally founded as SG Schwerin in 1945, but the club can trace its history back the oldest football club in Schwerin. SG Schwerin was founded as a successor to Schweriner FC 03, which had been founded in 1903. Schweriner FC 03 was dissolved the Allied occupation authoriti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VfL Bergen
VfL Bergen is a German association football club from the city of Bergen auf Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The club was established in 1938 as ''Einheit Bergen'' and following World War II was reorganized as ''Sportgemeinschaft Rugia Bergen'' in Soviet-occupied East Germany. __TOC__ History Over the course of the next four-and-a-half decades the side was known as ''BSG KWU Bergen'' (1949), ''BSG Einheit Bergen'' (1951), and ''BSG Lokomotive Bergen'' (1961).Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag In the 1970s Lok Bergen auf Rügen advanced out of the Bezirksliga Rostock to play three seasons (1972, 1975–76) as a second-division side in the DDR-Liga of the Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR (DFV or East German Football Association). ''Lok'' fared poorly and never managed to place better than 10th. It was also during this period that they took part in the FDGB-Pokal, or East German Cup, but were unable to advance out of the opening round in six app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BSG Wismut Gera
BSG Wismut Gera is a German association football club playing in Gera, Thuringia. The club is the successor to ''1. SV Gera'' whose football department joined ''Blau-Weiß Gera'' and ''Geraer KFC Dynamos'' in 2007 to form ''FV Gera Süd'', which, in turn, changed its name to ''BSG Wismut Gera'' in 2009. __TOC__ History ''SpVgg Gera'' was created in 1922 out of the merger of the predecessor associations ''Allgemeinen Turngemeinde Gera'' and ''1. VfR Gera''. In 1936, ''SpVgg'' was joined by ''Sport Club Concordia Gera-Reuß'' to form ''SV Gera 04''. The new association included as part of its heritage the side ''Sport Club Reuß'' which was established in 1904. ''SV'' made its first appearance in top flight football in 1939 in the Gauliga Mitte, one of sixteen upper divisions created in the 1933 re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. However, their stay in first division competition was short-lived. After narrowly escaping relegation in the two seasons foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dresdner SC
Dresdner Sportclub 1898 e.V., known simply as Dresdner SC, is a German multisport List of football clubs in Germany, club playing in Dresden, Saxony. Founded on 30 April 1898, the club was a Founding Clubs of the DFB, founding member of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fussball Bund) in 1900. The origins of the club go back still further to the predecessor side ''Dresden English Football Club'' formed in 1874 by expatriate Englishmen as Germany's first football club and possibly the earliest in continental Europe: ''Dresdener SC'' was organized by one-time German members of the ''EFC''. History On 30 April 1898, former members of the Dresden English Football Club and of the Neue Dresdner FC (founded in 1893 by former DEFC members and now SpVgg Dresden-Löbtau 1893) founded the Dresdner Sport-Club. Until sports historian Andreas Wittner uncovered the earlier history of the DFC, it was thought to have been founded only in 1890. Early on, ''DSC'' made regular appearances i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FV Preussen Eberswalde
FV Preussen Eberswalde is a German association football club from Eberswalde, Brandenberg northeast of Berlin. History The club was founded on 1 July 1909 as ''FC Preussen Eberswalde'' (FC Prussia Eberswalde) and steadily improved in the period leading up to World War I advancing to play in the top local league. The club nearly collapsed during the war but resumed play in 1920 and soon returned to its previous good form going through the 1922–23 season with only a single loss and advancing to the country's second highest play class. After the rise to power of the Nazis in 1933 German football was re-structured and ''Prussia'' kept its place playing in the second tier Oberliga. In 1936 the team slipped back to local city league competition and after the outbreak of World War II played progressively fewer games. In 1943–44 ''Prussia'' briefly partnered with longtime local rival ''Eberswalde SV 1912'' (originally ''FC Britannia'') as a combined wartime side or Kriegspielgemai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
