Deutscher Sportverein Victoria was a
football club from
Zemun
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(nowadays
Serbia
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), Belgrade. Local
Germans
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from Zemun and other parts of
Syrmia mainly played for the club.
History
This squad was founded before 1939, and competed in the unfinished 1941 football championship of the
Independent State of Croatia
The Independent State of Croatia ( sh, Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH; german: Unabhängiger Staat Kroatien; it, Stato indipendente di Croazia) was a World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. It was established in p ...
.
In that season, the club took 8th place, the penultimate position. In the
1942 Croatian First League, Victoria ended the competition in the first group stage. Victoria finished last in Group C, behind squads from
Osijek Hajduk,
HŠK Građanski Osijek,
Radnik Osijek and city rival
Građanski.
After the end of the Second World War, the club was disbanded, as it was the case with other clubs that competed in the championship of wartime Croatia.
External links
Croatia Domestic Football Full Tables
Football clubs in Yugoslavia
Defunct football clubs in Serbia
Independent State of Croatia
German diaspora in Europe
Syrmia
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