Berliner BC 03 was a German association football club from the city of Berlin. In the 1920s and 1930s, the club was known as ''BBC Brandenburg 92 Berlin'' and then ''FV Brandenburg 92 Berlin'' before eventually becoming part of a later side ''

VfB Lichterfelde Lichterfelder FC was a German association football club from the Berlin district of Lichterfelde. The club had approximately 1,300 members and included the country's largest youth department. History The history of the association was marked ...

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History

The team was established 18 November 1903 and played in the

Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg The Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg, also known as the VBB-Oberliga, was the highest association football competition in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, including Berlin, from 1923 to 1933. The competition was disbanded in 1933 with the rise o ...

(I) for nearly a decade.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag Sent down in 1905 after their first season in the top flight, ''BBC'' returned a year later and played as a middling side until just before the outbreak of

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 fightin ...

. They earned a second-place result in 1913 and then finished the 1913–14 campaign atop their division. That earned ''BBC'' a place on the national stage: they advanced to the semifinals where they were put out 3:4 by eventual German champions '' SpVgg Fürth''. During this period ''BBC'' made a string of Berliner Pokal (Berlin Cup) appearances, advancing to the final in 1907 and 1909. Both of these matches ended in defeat at the hands of ''

Viktoria 89 Berlin Berliner Fußball-Club Viktoria 1889 was a German sports club based in the Tempelhof district of Berlin. Football, rugby, and cricket came to continental Europe in the late 19th century, and these "English games" became immediately popular in ma ...

'' (0:2, 0:4). During the war ''BBC'' played four seasons (1914–18) alongside ''Berliner Turnverein von 1850'' as ''Kriegsvereinigung Berlin'' with their best result coming as a second-place finish in 1915. The club was relegated at the end of the 1917–18 season and continued to compete as a lower-tier side. On 22 July 1921, they merged with ''Sportverein Brandenburg 92 Berlin'' to become Berliner Ballspiel-Club Brandenburg 92 Berlin, which played the 1924–25 season in the Oberliga Berlin. In 1926 they were briefly joined by ''Sportclub Brandenburg 1922 Berlin'' which broke away again that same year to form ''Berliner BC 1926''. In 1929 the club adopted the name Fußballverein Brandenburg 92 Berlin and in 1933 was joined by the membership of ''Fußball-Club Eintract Lankwitz''. Following

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, most organizations in the country, including sports and football clubs, were dissolved by occupying Allied authorities and ''FV'' briefly disappeared. The former membership was re-organized as ''Sportgemeinde Steglitz-Friedenau'' in 1945 before the club resumed its pre-war identity in 1950. On 4 June 1971, ''FV'' joined ''Fußball-Club 1912 Lichterfelde'' to become ''FV Brandenburg-Lichterfeld''. On 2 June 1988 ''FV'' merged with ''Lichterfelder Sport-Union'' to create ''VfB'', which merged with ''Viktoria Berlin'' in 2013 to become ''

FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin Fußball-Club Viktoria 1889 Berlin Lichterfelde-Tempelhof e.V., commonly known as FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin or Viktoria Berlin, is a German association football club based in the locality of Lichterfelde of the borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf in Ber ...

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Honours

* Oberliga Berlin (I) champions: 1914

References

Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Berliner BC 03 Football clubs in Germany Defunct football clubs in Germany Association football clubs established in 1903 Defunct football clubs in Berlin 1903 establishments in Germany 1921 disestablishments in Germany Association football clubs disestablished in 1921