SG OrPo Danzig was a German association football club from the city of Danzig,

West Prussia The Province of West Prussia (german: Provinz Westpreußen; csb, Zôpadné Prësë; pl, Prusy Zachodnie) was a province of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and 1878 to 1920. West Prussia was established as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 177 ...

(today Gdańsk,

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

). It was established in 1920 as ''Sportverein Schutzpolizei Danzig'' as the sports club of the city's

police force The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and th ...

. Through the 1920s the club made regular appearances in the playoff rounds of the regional Baltenverband, but did not enjoy any success there. In 1934, ''SV'' became part of the Gauliga Ostpreussen and from 1935 to 1938 played within the Gauliga Danzig which was a division of the Ostpreussen league. The team was renamed ''Polizei SV Danzig'' in 1939 and took part that year in the opening round of the Tschammerpokal, predecessor to the current-day

DFB-Pokal The DFB-Pokal ( is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It is considered ...

(German Cup), where they were put out 2–3 by ''

Viktoria Stolp Viktoria Stolp was a German association football club formed in 1909, from the city of Stolp, Pomerania which was at the time part of Germany and is today Słupsk, Poland. __TOC__ History The club was founded 5 September 1909 in the Gastwirt ...

''. The team was renamed again in 1941, becoming ''Sportgemeinschaft der Ordnungspolizei Danzig'' in 1941, and from 1940 to 1943, was part of the

Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen The Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen was the highest football league in the former Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia (German: Danzig-Westpreußen), a Nazi administrative unit established partly from German and partly from annexed territory. Overview Th ...

.Grüne, Hardy and Karn, Christian (2009). Das große Buch der Deutschen Fusballvereine Kassel: Agon-Sportverlag. . The club was forced to withdraw from Gauliga competition partway through the 1942–43 season and disappeared in 1945 with the end of

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 ...

when Danzig became part of Poland.

External links

Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables

football in East Prussia and Danzig

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Danzig, OrPo Defunct football clubs in Germany Defunct football clubs in former German territories Sport in Gdańsk History of Gdańsk 1920 establishments in Germany 1920 establishments in Poland Association football clubs established in 1920 Association football clubs disestablished in 1945