1. FC Neukölln is a German association football club from the city of

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

. The club's men's team's greatest success has been the four seasons spent in the tier one

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in the late 1920s as well as promotion to the tier two

Regionalliga Berlin The Regionalliga Berlin was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the city of West-Berlin in Germany from 1963 until the formation of the 2. Bundesliga in 1974. It was by far the smallest of the five Regionalligas. Over ...

, where it played from 1965 to 1974. The club's women's team, now defunct, was a founding member of the Women's Bundesliga, where it played for one season in

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History

Formed in 1895 the club first played at the highest level of football in Berlin from 1926 to 1930 in what was then the

. In post-

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football, the club played as SG Rixdorf in one of the four regional divisions of what was to become the tier one Oberliga Berlin. It dropped to the second level in 1946 and to the third in 1949, each time because of reductions in league strength, but also adopted its old name, 1. FC Neukölln again in 1949. 1. FC Neukölln was promoted to the tier two

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in 1953, where it played for four seasons before being relegated again in 1958. It made a return to the Amateurliga in 1963, to a league that had now slipped to third tier because of the

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. The team won the Amateurliga Berlin in 1967 and earned promotion to the

, the second tier of the league system below the

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. Neukölln played the next seven seasons in the league, generally achieving lower table finishes. The club's best result came in 1968–69 when it finished sixth but a seventh place in 1973–74, after which the league was disbanded, meant the team did not qualify for the new

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. The club dropped back to the Amateurliga, now renamed to Oberliga Berlin, where it played for two more seasons before being relegated to the fourth tier Landesliga Berlin. It dropped out of this level as well but made a return from 1979 to 1987 without ever coming close to promotion to Berlin's highest league again. In post- German reunion football Neukölln briefly rose to the highest level in Berlin, now the

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, in 1999 but was relegated again after just two seasons. Since then the club has fluctuated between the Landesliga and the Kreisliga A, playing in the former again since 2015. The club made headlines when, in a game against the third team of German-Jewish club

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, 1. FC Neukölln players had threatened to knife Makkabi players; verbal attacks that were seen as connected to the

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as 1. FC Neukölln has a strong Muslim membership.

Women's department

The club's women's team, now defunct, was a founding member of the Women's Bundesliga, where it played for one season in

. The team came last in the northern division of the league, losing all 18 season games and scoring just eight goals while conceding 102. The team also made three appearances in the Women's DFB-Pokal, in 1989–90, 1991–92 and

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, advancing to the third round in 1992–93 as its best result.German Women's DFB-Pokal seasons
rsssf.org, accessed: 4 December 2015

Honours

The club's honours: *

** Champions: 1966–65 * Bezirksliga Berlin ** Runners-up: 2014–15 * Kreisliga A Berlin ** Runners-up: 2013–14 *

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** Runners-up: 1925

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:Historic German football league tables
Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 4 December 20151. FC Neukölln at Fussball.de
accessed: 4 December 2015 * With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the

3. Liga The 3. Liga is a professional association football league and the third division in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2. Bundesliga and the fourth-tier Regionalliga. The modern 3. Liga was formed for th ...

in 2008 as the new third tier, below the

, all leagues below dropped one tier.

References

External links

Official team site

1. FC Neukölln at Weltfussball.de
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