SC Apolda was a German football club from the town of

Apolda Apolda () is a town in central Thuringia, Germany, the capital of the Weimarer Land district. It is situated in the center of the triangle Weimar–Jena–Naumburg near the river Ilm, c. east by north from Weimar. Apolda station lies on the Ha ...

Thuringia Thuringia (; officially the Free State of Thuringia, ) is one of Germany, Germany's 16 States of Germany, states. With 2.1 million people, it is 12th-largest by population, and with 16,171 square kilometers, it is 11th-largest in area. Er ...

. It was established in 1910 as ''Ballspiel-Club Apolda'' and later adopted the name ''Sport-Club Apolda''. The team enjoyed a measure of success in the late 1920s playing top flight regional football in central Germany. __TOC__

History

In 1927 the ''Apolda'' took part in the Mitteldeutscher-Pokal (Central German Cup) where they went out in a semifinal match to '' Chemnitzer BC'' (1:5). They went on to take part in top flight regional play and between 1928 and 1930 participated in the Mitteldeutscher playoffs which decided a representative for the national finals. They advanced as far as the semifinals in 1929 where they were drubbed 1:16 by ''

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'' and were put out in the quarterfinals in each of their next two appearances. They made one final appearance in the playoff round in 1932 and went out in the opening rounds.Grüne, Hardy (1996). Vom Kronprinzen bis zur Bundesliga. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag German football was reorganized in 1933 under the

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into 16 top flight regional divisions. ''Apolda'' failed to qualify for the new competition and remained in lower-tier football until a successful promotion playoff advanced the club to the

Gauliga Mitte The Gauliga Mitte was the highest football league in the Prussian province of Saxony and the German states of Thuringia and Anhalt from 1933 to 1945, all located in the center (German:''Mitte'') of Germany. Shortly after the formation of the leagu ...

in 1940. They fared poorly and were sent down after a single season of play there. The club briefly disappeared following the end of World War II when occupying Allied authorities banned most organizations across the country, including sports and football clubs. The team was reestablished in late 1945 as ''SG Apolda-Nord'' and became part of the separate football competition that emerged in Soviet-occupied

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. They underwent name changes in the late 1940s, playing as ''SG Blaugold Apolda'' in 1947, before becoming ''BSG Aufbau Apolda'' the following year. The Apolda side has since remained an anonymous local club playing lower-tier football. Following the

reunification of Germany German reunification () was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic and the integration of i ...

in 1990 the club returned to its roots and adopted the name ''SC Apolda 1910''. In the mid-1990s the club became defunct.

References

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