SV Blau-Gelb Berlin

SV Blau-Gelb Berlin is a German football club from the city of Berlin. The club was the product of the post World War II Soviet-occupation of East Germany and, unlike most German clubs, lays no claim to any earlier tradition. Throughout its history, ''SV'' has been a multi-sports club and at various times has included departments for athletics, billiards, bowling, boxing, canoeing, cycling, gymnastics, handball, ice hockey, sailing, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, and weightlifting. Many of these departments were lost following German reunification in 1990.

History

''SV'' was established 12 May 1951 as ''Betriebssportgemeinschaft Aufbau Weißensee'' serving as the sports club for a number of small civil engineering firms that were later grouped together as VEB Tiefbau Berlin, then Kombinat Tiefbau Berlin.

In 1954, ''Weißensee'' merged with ''BSG Vorwärts Gosen'' to become ''BSG Aufbau Tiefbau Berlin'' which played lower tier city football. Three years later, the club was joined by ''BSG Motor Weißensee-Süd'' and the football department of ''Sportclub Aufbau Berlin'' and took up the place of ''SC'' in the fourth division Bezirksliga Berlin. The following season the team was renamed ''BSG Tiefbau Berlin'' and in 1960 won promotion to the 2. DDR-Liga (III) where they would spend three seasons before being sent down through league restructuring. They made their first appearance in FDGB-Pokal (East German Cup) play in the 1963–64 tournament and were quickly eliminated in the first round.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7. Vereinslexikon. Kassel: Agon-Sportverlag. .

''Tiefbau'' remained a fifth-division side over the next two decades until advancing to the Berziksliga Berlin (IV) in 1984. They gradually improved their standing until finally earning a second-place result in 1990 on the eve of the reunification of Germany. The separate football competitions of East and West Germany were combined and, like many former East German clubs, the team abandoned its old name becoming ''Sportverein Blau-Gelb Berlin''. ''Blau-Gelb'' spent 1991–93 as part of the Landesliga Berlin (V) before slipping all the way down to ninth-tier play in subsequent seasons. It was during this period that the club made three more cup appearances – in each case going out in the first round – in the FDGB-Pokal in 1989–90, the transitional NOFV-Pokal in 1990–91 and the DFB-Pokal (German Cup) in 1991–92. A first-place finish in 2007 in the Kreisliga Berlin (VIII) saw the team promoted to the Bezirksliga Berlin (VII). League restructuring in 2008 following the creation of the 3. Liga (III) saw the leagues below it, including the Bezirksliga and Kreisliga, demoted by one level. Another first-place finish in 2012 earned ''Blau-Gelb'' a place in the Landesliga Berlin (VII) but was moved back to the Bezirksliga after finishing bottom in 2015.

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Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in Berlin
Football clubs in East Germany
Association football clubs established in 1951
1951 establishments in East Germany