SV Falkensee-Finkenkrug is a German football club from the communities of

Falkensee Falkensee is a town in the Havelland district, Brandenburg, Germany. It is the most populated municipality of its district and it is situated at the western border of Berlin. History The commune Falkensee was formed in 1923 by the merger of Falk ...

and Finkenkrug in

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a states of Germany, 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 ar ...

, near the western border of Berlin.

History

The club was established in 1913 as ''Neufinkenkruger Ballspiel Club'' and was soon known as ''Sportverein Finkenkrug''. Like other organizations in the country, it was ordered dissolved in the aftermath of World War II by occupying Allied authorities, but was reconstituted in 1945 as ''Sportgemeinde Finkenkrug'', and became part of the separate football league structure that emerged in the Soviet-occupied eastern half of Germany. In 1984, the club was renamed ''BSG Turbine Finkenkrug'' and four years later merged with ''BSG Fleisch und Frischeierproduktion Falkensee'' to become ''SG Falkensee-Finkenkrug''. Established in 1948 as ''SG Falkensee'', ''BSG FuF'' played variously as ''BSG Chemie Falkensee'', ''BSG Chemie Lichtenberg Falkensee'', ''BSG Lok Falkensee'', and ''BSG Motor Falkensee'' before becoming ''FuF'' sometime in the 1970s. With

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 ...

in 1990 the association adopted the more traditional name ''SV Falkensee-Finkenkrug 1913''. The club has long been an unheralded lower-tier side, however, in recent years ''SV'' has earned good results in the

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), culminating in a division title in 2005 and promotion for a single season to the

NOFV-Oberliga Nord The NOFV-Oberliga Nord is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the northern states of the former East Germany and West Berlin. It covers the German states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and northern Saxony ...

(IV). A 15th-place result there saw the team immediately sent down, but after repeating as Verbandsliga titlists in 2008 the team returned to the Oberliga. It was relegated again after two seasons there and now plays in the Brandenburg-Liga.Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
Historical German domestic league tablesSV Falkensee-Finkenkrug at Fussball.de
Tables and results of all German football leagues

Honours

The club's honours: *

(V) ** Champions: 2005, 2008 *

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 ...

** Champions: 2012 ** Runners-up: 2008

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Falkensee-Finkenkrug, Sv Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in East Germany Football clubs in Brandenburg Association football clubs established in 1913 1913 establishments in Germany Havelland (district)