SV Lichtenberg 47 is a German association football club from

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

. The footballers are part of a larger sports club that currently has over 900 members in departments for

bowling Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), though ...

boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

, fitness and

aerobics Aerobics is a form of physical exercise that combines rhythmic aerobic exercise with stretching and strength training routines with the goal of improving all elements of fitness (flexibility, muscular strength, and cardio-vascular fitness). It ...

, gymnastics,

line dancing A line dance is a choreographed dance in which a group of people dance along to a repeating sequence of steps while arranged in one or more lines or rows. These lines usually face all in the same direction, or less commonly face each other.Knight ...

, table tennis, and volleyball.

History

The club was established in 1945 as ''Sportgruppe Lichtenberg-Nord'' in Russian-occupied

East Berlin East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as ...

. It was one of several sides from the district of

Lichtenberg Lichtenberg () is the eleventh borough of Berlin, Germany. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it absorbed the former borough of Hohenschönhausen. Overview The district contains the Tierpark Berlin in Friedrichsfelde, the larger of Berlin ...

that were brought together in 1947 to form ''Sportclub Lichtenberg 47''. The team would play as ''SC Lichtenberg 47'' until 1950 when the club was renamed ''Sportgemeinschaft Lichtenberg 47''. The team would play as ''SG Lichtenberg 47'' until 1969 when the club merged with the worker's club ''

Betriebssportgemeinschaft Sports Associations (german: Sportvereinigung (SV), ) in East Germany were nation-wide sports agencies for certain economic branches of the whole society, which were members of the Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB) Members of biggest social em ...

Elektroproject und Anlagebau Berlin'' to form ''BSG EAB Lichtenberg''. In 1979 the association was renamed ''BSG EAB Berlin 47''. The club spent over four decades as an elevator side that moved frequently up and down between the second and third tiers of

East German 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 ...

football with only a single season (1950–51) in the top-flight to its credit. After

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 and the subsequent merger of the football leagues of the two Germanys, the club adopted the name ''Sportverein Lichtenberg'' and took up play in the

NOFV-Oberliga Mitte The NOFV-Oberliga Mitte was the third tier of the German football league system in the central states of former East Germany and West Berlin. The league existed from 1991 to 1994. It covered the German states of Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anha ...

(III). A poor season saw the team relegated to the

Verbandsliga Berlin The Berlin-Liga (VI), formerly the Verbandsliga Berlin, is the highest league for football teams exclusively in the German capital. Since German reunification in 1990, it has been the highest level of domestic football in the city, replacing the A ...

(IV) and by the mid-1990s they had descended to the Landesliga Berlin (VI). SV Lichtenberg 47 recovered itself in the latter half of the decade and in 2001 captured the championship in what was now the fifth tier Verbandsliga Berlin. The team spent four seasons in 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) until returning in 2005 to the

Berlin-Liga The Berlin-Liga (VI), formerly the Verbandsliga Berlin, is the highest league for football teams exclusively in the German capital. Since German reunification in 1990, it has been the highest level of domestic football in the city, replacing the A ...

(V until 2008). In 2012 they were promoted back to the Oberliga (V) Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
Historical German domestic league tablesSV Lichtenberg 47 at Fussball.de
Tables and results of all German football leagues They played in the Oberliga until 2019, when they were promoted to the

Regionalliga Nordost The Regionalliga Nordost is the fourth tier of German football in the states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia. These comprise the states of former East Germany as well as West Berlin. It i ...

(IV) after winning the Oberliga championship.

Stadium

SV Lichtenberg 47 play their home matches in the Hans-Zoschke-Stadion which has a capacity of 10,000 (1,000 seats). It was built in 1951 on the site of the old ''Sportplatz Normannenstraße'' which had a capacity of 18,000. Named after Hans Zoschke, an athlete and communist resistance fighter who died at the hands of the

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

regime in 1944, the stadium was adjacent to the headquarters of the

Stasi The Ministry for State Security, commonly known as the (),An abbreviation of . was the Intelligence agency, state security service of the East Germany from 1950 to 1990. The Stasi's function was similar to the KGB, serving as a means of maint ...

, East Germany's state police. Local lore has it that Stasi boss

Erich Mielke Erich Fritz Emil Mielke (; 28 December 1907 – 21 May 2000) was a German communist official who served as head of the East German Ministry for State Security (''Ministerium für Staatsicherheit'' – MfS), better known as the Stasi, from 1957 u ...

ordered the building torn down after witnessing the close defeat of his favourite club, BFC Dynamo, from an office window. The building was saved when Zoschke's widow Elfried appealed to Communist party boss

Erich Honecker Erich Ernst Paul Honecker (; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994) was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. He held the posts ...

Honours

* 1. Klasse Berlin (III) ** Champions: 1948 * Kreisliga Berlin (III) ** Champions: 1950 * Bezirksliga Berlin (III) ** Champions (8): 1955, 1964, 1970, 1971, 1981, 1983, 1990, 1991 * Landesliga Berlin (VI) ** Champions: 1996 *

(V) ** Champions: 2001 * NOFV-Oberliga (V) ** Champions: 2019 *

Berliner Landespokal The Berliner Landespokal ( en, Berlin Cup) is an annual football cup competition held by the Berlin Football Association (German: Berliner Fußballverband, BFV). The cup winner qualifies for the national DFB-Pokal. Cup finals are usually held in t ...

** Runners-up: 2013,

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

References

External links

*
The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lichtenberg, SV Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in East Germany Football clubs in Berlin Association football clubs established in 1947 1947 establishments in Germany