FSV Glückauf Brieske-Senftenberg is a German football club from

Senftenberg Senftenberg ( wen, Zły Komorow) is a town in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany, capital of the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district. Geography Senftenberg is located in the southwest of the historic Lower Lusatia region at the border with Saxony. It ...

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an area of 29,480 sq ...

, currently playing in the Landesliga Brandenburg-Süd (VII).

History

FSV Glückauf Brieske-Senftenberg was founded on 19 January 1919 as ''Fußballverein Grube Marga'' before becoming ''Fußballsportverein Grube Marga'' in 1928. The club was renamed ''Sportverein Sturm Grube Marga'' in 1933 and played two seasons (1941–43) in the

Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg The Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg was the highest football league in the provinces of Brandenburg and Berlin in the German state of Prussia from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reorganised the administrative regio ...

, one of the country's 16 top-flight regional divisions. After

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

, the club was closed before being reformed as ''Sportgemeinde Grube Marga'' and becoming part of the separate football competition that emerged in

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 ...

under

Soviet occupation During World War II, the Soviet Union occupied and annexed several countries effectively handed over by Nazi Germany in the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939. These included the eastern regions of Poland (incorporated into two different ...

. In 1948, it was renamed ''BSG Franz Mehring Grube'' in recognition of leftist politician, journalist and writer

Franz Mehring Franz Erdmann Mehring (27 February 1846 – 28 January 1919) was a German communist historian, literary critic, philosopher, and revolutionary socialist politician who was a senior member of the Spartacus League during the German Revolution of 191 ...

. Two years later the club was known as ''BSG Aktivist Ost Brieske'' and became part of the DDR-Oberliga (I). The team then played as ''SC Aktivist Brieske-Senftenberg'' between 1954 and 1963, earning their best result in 1958 when they finished third. They were relegated after a 14th-place result in 1963 and the club was broken up. The footballers were delegated to establish ''Sportclub Cottbus'', whose football side became independent as ''BSG Energie Cottbus'' in 1966 and was the predecessor of ''

FC Energie Cottbus FC Energie Cottbus (Lower Sorbian: ''Energija Chóśebuz'') is a German football club based in Cottbus, Brandenburg. It was founded in 1963 as SC Cottbus in what was East Germany. After the reunification of Germany, Energie played six seasons i ...

''. The reserve team of ''SC Aktivist'' merged with ''BSG Aktivist Brieske-Ost'' to form ''BSG Aktivist Senftenberg'' in February 1972 and went on to play in the

DDR-Liga The DDR-Liga (English: GDR League or ''East German League'') was, prior to German reunification in 1990, the second level of football competition in the DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik or German Democratic Republic, commonly East Germany), bei ...

(II). After German reunification in 1990, the club was renamed ''FSV Glückauf Brieske-Senftenberg'' and became one of the founding members of the

NOFV-Oberliga Mitte The NOFV-Oberliga Mitte was the third tier of the German football league system in the central states of former East Germany and West Berlin. The league existed from 1991 to 1994. It covered the German states of Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anha ...

(III) in the combined German football competition. After the dissolution of the NOFV-Oberliga Mitte, ''Brieske'' qualified for the

NOFV-Oberliga Süd The NOFV-Oberliga Süd is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the southern states of the former East Germany. It covers the German states of Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Saxony and southern Brandenburg. It is one of fourteen Oberl ...

in 1994. It was relegated from third-tier competition after finishing 15th in the 1995–96 season. Since then the club has played in the

Brandenburg-Liga The Brandenburg-Liga (VI) (''formerly the Verbandsliga Brandenburg'') is the highest league for football teams exclusively in the German state of Brandenburg and at step six of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3. Li ...

and the Landesliga below that. It has played in the Landesliga since it was once again relegated in 2011.Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
Historical German domestic league tablesFSV Brieske-Senftenberg at Fussball.de
Tables and results of all German football leagues

Honours

The club's honours: * Landesliga Brandenburg-Süd ** Champions: 2009 ** Runners-up: 2014

References

External links

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FSV Glückauf Brieske-Senftenberg FSV Glückauf Brieske-Senftenberg is a German football club from Senftenberg in Brandenburg, currently playing in the Landesliga Brandenburg-Süd (VII). History FSV Glückauf Brieske-Senftenberg was founded on 19 January 1919 as ''Fußballve ...