SV Tasmania Berlin is a German football club based in the locality of Neukölln of the homonymous

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of Neukölln in

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, Germany. The team is currently playing in the fifth tier

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History

Tasmania's predecessor club,

SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin was a German football club based in the Berlin district of Neukölln. History The club was founded as ''Rixdorfer TuFC Tasmania 1900'' on 2 June 1900. It is believed the founders of the club were about to migrate to ...

, was already financially insecure in the early 1970s, and so the amateur and youth players of the team decided to establish their own club on 3 February 1973, which they named ''SV Tasmania 73 Neukölln''. Later that year, the former

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club Tasmania 1900 was declared bankrupt and was disbanded. Many club officials and players followed suit to support the new team in Neukölln. Tasmania Berlin League Performance

Tasmania 73 played the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons in the then fourth tier

. In December 2000, the club was renamed ''SV Tasmania-Gropiusstadt 1973''. 2007–08 saw Tasmania-Gropiusstadt play in the

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(V). Following a league restructure and two relegations in succession, the club played the 2009–10 season in the 8th tier

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Berlin Staffel 3 before finishing second and gaining promotion to the Landesliga Berlin Staffel 2 (VII) for the 2010–11 season. In 2011, the club was renamed ''SV Tasmania Berlin''. After finishing first in the 2011–12 Landesliga season the club was promoted once again to the Berlin-Liga. Tasmania won the 2018–2019 season and was promoted to the fifth-tier NOFV-Oberliga for the 2019–2020 season.

Stadium

Tasmania's home matches are played at the 3,000-capacity Werner-Seelenbinder-Sportpark in Berlin-Neukölln, directly next to the site of the former Berlin Tempelhof Airport.

League positions since 1978

Honours

The club's honours: * NOFV-Oberliga ** Champions: 2021 *

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** Champions: 1997, 2019 *

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** Runners-up:

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, 2015

References

External links

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