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Verbandsliga Norddeutschland
The Verbandsliga Norddeutschland (English: Football Association League Northern Germany) was one of several association football first tier leagues in the German Empire. The league only existed for one season and covered the area administered by the Northern German Football Association. History Until 1913 various local championships were played in the area of the Northern Germany, the champions of those qualifying for the Northern German football championship. A unified top level league was finally introduced for the 1913–14 season. The new ''Verbandsliga Norddeutschland'' replaced the Northern German championship play-offs and its winners qualified directly for the German football championship. Founding members From Bremen: * FV Werder Bremen From the Duchy of Brunswick: * Eintracht Braunschweig From the Prussian Province of Hanover: * Hannover 96 * Eintracht Hannover * Borussia 04 Harburg1 From Hamburg: * Eimsbütteler TV * SC Victoria Hamburg From the Prussian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of The German Football League System
Today, the German football league system consists refers to a series of hierarchically interconnected leagues for association football clubs in Germany, in which all leagues are bound together by the principle of promotion and relegation. As of 2015, the league systems spans up to 14 levels and consists of over 2,300 divisions in total, that stands at the end of a development starting around the year 1900 with different district leagues, was then organized over decades on a regional basis and saw the first edition of a nationwide league as late as 1963. Until 1933 Until the foundation of the German Football Association there had already been different regional and district championships' respective leagues and it was not until 1906 that there was a consistent mode to determine the participants of the German championship that was played as a final tournament until the foundation of the Bundesliga. For that reason football in Germany was divided into seven regions which had their o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SC Victoria Hamburg
SC Victoria Hamburg is a German association football club from the city of Hamburg. The football team is part of a larger sports club that has departments for badminton, handball, hockey, athletics, tennis, table tennis (playing as SG Victoria Eppendorf), gymnastics, baseball (the ''Wildcats''), and softball (the ''Oysters''). __TOC__ History The club was founded 5 May 1895 as FC Victoria Hamburg out of the youth clubs Cito and Excelsior and was briefly affiliated with SV Hamburg before finally becoming a fully independent football club in the fall of 1897. It was one of the founding members of the DFB (Deutscher Fußball Bund or German Football Association) at Leipzig in 1901. Victoria joined the HAFV (Hamburg-Altonaer Fußball Verband or Hamburg-Altona Football Federation) a year later, capturing the league title in 1905. The team won two consecutive north German championships in 1907 and 1908 and advanced as far as the quarterfinals in national championship play in both s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising France, Russia, and Britain) and the Triple Alliance (containing Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburger SV
Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. (), commonly known as Hamburger SV () or Hamburg (), is a German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its football section. Though the current HSV was founded in June 1919 from a merger of three earlier clubs, it traces its origins to 29 September 1887 when the first of the predecessors, SC Germania, was founded. Up until the 2017–18 Bundesliga season, which found the team relegated for the first time in history, HSV's football team had the distinction of being the only team that had played continuously in the top tier of the German football league system since the founding of the club at the end of World War I. It was subsequently the only team that had played in every season of the Bundesliga since its foundation in 1963. HSV has won the German national championship six times, the DFB-Pokal three times and the former League Cup twice. The team's most successful period was from the mid-1970s until the mid-1980s when, in ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATSV 1860 Bremen
ATSV 1860 Bremen was a German association football club playing in Bremen. Today the sports club no longer fields a football side and has departments for badminton, basketball, cheerleading, dancing, fencing, handball, Judo, Karate, pool-billiards, rhythmic gymnastics, rugby union, skating, Taekwon-do, and volleyball. The club was formed as ABTS Bremen in 1920 out of the union of football club Bremer SC 1891, gymnastics club ATV 1860 Bremen, and aquatics club Bremer Schwimm-Club. This combined association fielded competitive sides in the Westkreisliga/Bezirksliga Weser-Jade through the 1920s, capturing a league title in 1922. ABTS was bankrupted in 1929 and re-formed as Sportfreund 85/91 Bremen. Spfr Bremen briefly played top-flight football from 1942 to the end of World War II in the Gauliga Weser-Ems. The Gauliga Weser-Ems had emerged from the split of the Gauliga Niedersachsen, one of the top-flight divisions formed in the earlier re-organization of German football under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borussia Harburg , Heidelberger student corps
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Borussia is the Latin name for Prussia. Football clubs * Borussia Dortmund * Borussia Fulda * Borussia Mönchengladbach * Borussia Neunkirchen * HSV Borussia Friedenstal * SC Borussia Lindenthal-Hohenlind * Tennis Borussia Berlin * Wuppertaler SV Borussia * Borussia ECE Rennes * BFC Preussen * SC Preußen Münster * SV Viktoria Preußen 07 * Preußen Danzig Other uses * Borussia-Park, the stadium of Borussia Mönchengladbach * , a number of steamships including: ** ''Borussia'' (built 1855), Germany's first screw-propelled ship * Corps Borussia Bonn, student corps * Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg The Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg is a German Student Corps at the University of Heidelberg. History Saxo-Borussia was established on 16 December 1820. Its motto is ''Virtus sola bonorum corona!''. In 1829 Robert Schumann became a lifelong me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eintracht Hannover
Eintracht (German for ''accord, agreement, harmony'') may refer to German-language newspaper '' Eintracht'' 1922–2017 from Chicago or the following football and sports clubs: ''Germany'' * FC Eintracht Altona * Eintracht Bad Kreuznach * FC Eintracht Bamberg * Eintracht Baunatal * Eintracht 01 Berlin * Eintracht Braunschweig * TSC Eintracht Dortmund * Eintracht Duisburg 1848 * Eintracht Frankfurt * Eintracht Frankfurt Basketball * Eintracht Frankfurt Rugby * Eintracht Hildesheim, a team in Handball-Bundesliga * Eintracht Mahlsdorf * FC Eintracht Norderstedt 03 * Eintracht Nordhorn * FC Eintracht Rheine * FC Eintracht Schwerin * TSV Eintracht Stadtallendorf * SV Eintracht Trier 05 * Eintracht Wetzlar * SpVgg Eintracht Glas-Chemie Wirges ''Other countries'' * S.C. Eintracht, United States * SK Eintracht Wels FC Wels is an Austrian association football club founded in 2003 by the merger of the traditional clubs ''SK Eintracht Wels'' and ''FC Union Wels''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914 German Football Championship
The 1914 German football championship, the 12th edition of the competition, was won by SpVgg Fürth, defeating VfB Leipzig 3–2 after extra time in the final. It was the last edition of the championship before the First World War, with the next edition not held until after the war in 1920. For SpVgg Fürth it was the first national championship won with two more to follow in 1926 and 1929 as well as a losing appearance in the 1920 final. VfB Leipzig, the first-ever German champions in 1903, had also won the 1906 and 1913 editions as well as making a losing appearance in 1911 and was the most successful club in the pre-First World War era of the competition. Fürth's Karl Franz was the top scorer of the 1914 championship with five goals. Eight clubs qualified for the competition played in knock-out format, the champions of each of the seven regional football championships as well as the defending German champions. Overview The German championship final was contested by SpVgg F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Duchy Of Oldenburg
The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg (, also known as Holstein-Oldenburg) was a grand duchy within the German Confederation, North German Confederation and German Empire that consisted of three widely separated territories: Oldenburg, Eutin and Birkenfeld. It ranked tenth among the German states and had one vote in the Bundesrat and three members in the Reichstag. Its ruling family, the House of Oldenburg, also came to rule in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Greece and Russia. History The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg came into existence in 1815 combining the territory of the old Duchy of Oldenburg with the Principality of Birkenfeld. Whilst Oldenburg was elevated to a Grand Duchy at the Congress of Vienna, the first two Grand Dukes continued to style themselves as merely Dukes and it wasn't until 1829 that the newly acceded Augustus used the title of Grand Duke. Although paternalist, the early Grand Dukes did not grant a constitution until events overtook them in 1848. The European Revolu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Duchy Of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was a territory in Northern Germany held by the House of Mecklenburg residing at Schwerin. It was a sovereign member state of the German Confederation and became a federated state of the North German Confederation and finally of the German Empire in 1871. Geography Like its predecessor, the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the Schwerin lands upon the incorporation of the extinct Duchy of Mecklenburg-Güstrow in 1701 comprised the larger central and western parts of the historic Mecklenburg region. The smaller southeastern part was held by the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz branch of the grand ducal house, who also ruled over the lands of the former Bishopric of Ratzeburg in the far northwest. The grand duchy was bounded by the Baltic coast in the north and the Prussian province of Pomerania in the northeast, where the border with the Hither Pomeranian (formerly Swedish Pomeranian) region ran along the Recknitz river, the Peene, and Kummerowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Duchy Of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a territory in Northern Germany, held by the younger line of the House of Mecklenburg residing in Neustrelitz. Like the neighbouring Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, it was a sovereign member state of the German Confederation and became a federated state of the North German Confederation and finally of the German Empire upon the unification of 1871. After World War I and the German Revolution of 1918–19 it was succeeded by the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Geography It consisted of two detached parts of the Mecklenburg region: the larger Lordship of Stargard with the residence of Neustrelitz to the southeast of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and the Principality of Ratzeburg on the west. The first was bounded by the Prussian provinces of Pomerania and Brandenburg, the second bordered on the Duchy of Lauenburg (incorporated into the Province of Schleswig-Holstein in 1876) and the territory of the Free City of Lüb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free City Of Lübeck
The Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Freie und Hansestadt Lübeck) was a city-state from 1226 to 1937, in what is now the German states of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. History Imperial Free City and the Hanseatic League In 1226, Emperor Frederick II declared the city of Lübeck to be a Free Imperial City. Lübeck law was the constitution of the city's municipal form of government developed after being made a free city. In theory, Lübeck law made the cities which had adopted it independent of royalty. In the 14th century, Lübeck became the "Queen of the Hanseatic League", and at that time, the largest and most powerful member of this medieval trade organization. In 1359, Lübeck bought the ducal Herrschaft of Mölln from the indebted Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Bergedorf-Mölln, a branch of the ducal house of Saxe-Lauenburg. The City and Duke—with the consent of the Duke's brother Eric—agreed on a price of 9,737.50 Lübeck marks. The parties also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
