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SV Babelsberg 03 is a German association football club based in
Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...
- Babelsberg, on the outskirts of
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. The team was founded as ''Sport-Club Jugendkraft 1903'' and again as ''SG Karl-Marx Babelsberg'' in 1948 as successor to the pre-war side SpVgg Potsdam 03.


History

Playing as ''SV Nowawes'' the team gained promotion in 1935 to the first tier Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. The club was relegated after just three seasons at that level never finishing better than eighth in their ten team division. The club returned to the Gauliga as ''SpVgg Potsdam'' in 1943 and earned third- and fourth-place finishes in the two years before the end of World War II.


Postwar play in East Germany

Following the war, occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in the country, including sports and football associations. The former membership of ''SpVgg'' was re-organized as ''SG Karl Marx Babelsberg'' in 1948 in the Soviet-occupied eastern half of the country. On 1 August 1949, they merged with the local club ''SG Drewitz'' and the following year were renamed ''BSG Motor Babelsberg''. The side was a perennial second division team 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 ...
's DDR-Liga with the exception of short spells in the third tier in 1968–71, 1972–73, and 1980–81. The club's record in league matches and in regular FDGB-Pokal (East German Cup) tournament appearances was undistinguished. Just prior to
German reunification German reunification (german: link=no, Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a united and fully sovereign state, which took place between 2 May 1989 and 15 March 1991. The day of 3 October 1990 when the Ge ...
the team suffered relegation from the second division.


Post-unification

On 10 December 1991 ''Motor'' adopted the name ''Sportverein Babelsberg 03''. They remained a lower division side in the united Germany until breaking through to the NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV) in 1996. The team's budget increased tenfold in the period from 1996 to 1999. They immediately captured the league title there and won promotion to the Regionalliga Nordost (III). A second-place finish in 2001 in what had become the Regionalliga Nord (III) advanced the club to the
2. Bundesliga The 2. Bundesliga ( ) is the second division of professional football in Germany. It was implemented 11 years after the founding of the Fußball-Bundesliga as the new second division for professional football. The 2. Bundesliga is ranked below ...
. ''SV'' also played its first DFB-Pokal (German Cup) matches in 2000 and 2001, but was eliminated in the early rounds. ''Babelsberg's'' time in the second division was a short one. They finished at the bottom of the table and by 2003–04 had fallen all the way back to the Oberliga (IV). The club declared bankruptcy in 2003 but managed to continue playing through the adoption of a creditor supported bankruptcy plan. ''SV'' fielded strong sides and achieved several top three finishes until they were promoted to the Regionalliga Nord (III) for the 2007–08 campaign. In 2009–10 season Babelsberg were promoted back to the
3. Liga The 3. Liga is a professional association football league and the third division in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2. Bundesliga and the fourth-tier Regionalliga. The modern 3. Liga was formed for t ...
after finishing champions of the Regionalliga Nord. After three seasons at this level the club was relegated again in 2013 and now plays in the Regionalliga Nordost again.Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
Historical German domestic league tables
SV Babelsbergs 03 at Fussball.de
Tables and results of all German football leagues


Supporters

''Filmstadt Inferno 99'' are the clubs ultras group. The fanatics stand in the North part of the stadium. The supporters hold
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and
anti-fascist Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals. Beginning in European countries in the 1920s, it was at its most significant shortly before and during World War II, where the Axis powers were ...
political views. As a result, they have strong friendships with
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and
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. They also had a strong friendship with
Partizan Minsk FC Partizan Minsk ( be, ФК Партызан Мінск) was a Belarusian football club based in Minsk. History The club was founded as MTZ-RIPO Minsk in 2002 as a merger of two Minsk teams from the Second League ( Traktor Minsk, a club wi ...
, but this was discontinued after the club was disbanded. Babelsberg 03 have a fierce rivalry with nearby club Energie Cottbus, a faction of whose supporters hold
far-right Far-right politics, also referred to as the extreme right or right-wing extremism, are political beliefs and actions further to the right of the left–right political spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of being ...
political views.


Honours

The club's honours: * Bezirksliga Potsdam (III) ** Champions: 1973 * Bezirksliga Potsdam-Süd (III) ** Champions: 1981 *
Verbandsliga Brandenburg 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. L ...
(V) ** Champions: 1996 * NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV) ** Champions: 1997, 2007 * Regionalliga Nord (III-IV) ** Champions: 2010 ** Runners-up: 2001 *
Brandenburg Cup The Brandenburgischer Landespokal ( en, Brandenburg Cup), known as the '' Krombacher Pokal Brandenburg'' for sponsorship reasons, is an annual football cup competition, held by the ( en, Brandenburg Football Association). It is one of the 21 re ...
** Winners: 1999, 2000, 2006–2011,
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Current squad


References


External links


Official website



Ultras website
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