Vereinigte Breslauer Sportfreunde was a
German association football club from what was at the time the city of
Breslau,
Lower Silesia
Lower Silesia ( pl, Dolny Śląsk; cz, Dolní Slezsko; german: Niederschlesien; szl, Dolny Ślōnsk; hsb, Delnja Šleska; dsb, Dolna Šlazyńska; Silesian German: ''Niederschläsing''; la, Silesia Inferior) is the northwestern part of the ...
in Germany and is today
Wroclaw, Poland. The club was established in 1919 through the merger of predecessor sides ''
SC Preußen Breslau'' and ''Verein Breslauer Sportfreunde''. They dominated play in the regional Südostdeutschland league in the period immediately following World War I.
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History
Sportclub Preußen Breslau was established 15 December 1902 and made a single appearance in the regional Südostdeutschland (I) championship round in 1913. After qualifying through a 1–0 victory over
Britannia Posen
FC Britannia Posen was a German association football club from the City of Posen, in the German Reich. The short-lived club was established sometime within the first decade of the 20th century and lost in 1920 under the Polish rule.
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they went on to face
Askania Forst
Askania Forst was a German association football club in what was the city of Forst (Lausitz), Brandenburg and is today Zasieki, Poland. Established in 1901, the team earned a number of championships in the 1910s, but disappeared from top flight ...
in a semifinal contest. They lost the match 2–1, but the result was annulled and the game replayed. The rematch ended in another 2–1 victory for ''Forst'' which stood. After World War I the team merged with ''Verein Breslauer Sportfreunde''.
SC 1904 Breslau was established in 1904 and took the name ''Verein Breslauer Sportfreunde'' in 1911. They advanced to the league final in 1913–14 beating
Beuthen 09
Beuthener SuSV 09 was a German association football club from the city of Beuthen, Upper Silesia in what was then part of Germany but is today Bytom, Poland.
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History
The club was established on 15 June 1909 as ''Sport-Verein Britannia ...
3–2 in qualifying before eliminating
Viktoria Forst 2–1. In the final they were beaten 3–1 by old rival ''Askania''.
World War I severely curtailed football competition in Germany, which was suspended or local in character between 1914 and 1919. Following the conflict, ''VBS'' became the dominant side in Südost regional play.
[Grüne, Hardy (1996). Vom Kronprinzen bis zur Bundesliga. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ] They again beat ''Beuthen'' in qualifying (5–1) before avenging themselves on ''Askania'' through a 1–0 semifinal victory. The team then claimed the division title by way of a 6–2 win over ''Viktoria Forst''. The title win advanced ''Breslau'' to the national stage. They defeated
Union Oberschöneweide
1. Fußballclub Union Berlin e. V., commonly known as 1. FC Union Berlin () or Union Berlin, is a professional German football club in Köpenick, Berlin.
The club's origins can be traced to 1906, when its predecessor FC Olympia Oberschöneweid ...
3–2 in the quarterfinals before going out 4–0 to
SpVgg Fürth. The club's 1920–21 campaign ended in another divisional title win through a 2–1 victory over ''Viktoria'', but they suffered another early exit from the national playoffs when beaten 2–1 by
Wacker Halle
Turbine Halle is a sports club based in the quarter of Giebichenstein in the city of Halle in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt. With about 1,000 members in departments for track and field, association football, speedskating, table tennis ...
.
''VBS'' earned three more Südostdeutschland championships from 1922 to 1924. In 1922, they were eliminated in qualifying play for the national championship by ''Viktoria Forst'' (6–1 loss), but captured the division title by beating ''Viktoria'' 7–3 in the semifinals and then overcoming
Preußen Kattowitz 5–1 in the final. Quarterfinal appearances in the German championships ended in defeat in each of the following two seasons; 4–0 to ''SpVgg Fürth'' in 1923, and 3–0 to
Hamburger SV
Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. (), commonly known as Hamburger SV () or Hamburg (), is a German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its football section. Though the current HSV was founded in June 1919 from a merger of three ...
in 1924.
The team claimed its last title in 1927 and made losing national eighth-final appearances in 1927, 1928, and 1930. In 1933, ''VBS'' merged with
Breslauer Sportclub 08 to form
Breslauer SpVg 02. That club went on to first division play in the
Gauliga Schlesien
The Gauliga Schlesien was the highest football league in the region of Silesia (German:''Schlesien''), which consisted of the Prussian provinces of Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the ...
and
Gauliga Niederschlesien
A Gauliga () was the highest level of play in German football from 1933 to 1945. The leagues were introduced in 1933, after the Nazi takeover of power by the National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise.
Name
The German word '' ...
before disappearing at the end of World War II.
Camillo Ugi
Camillo Ugi (21 December 1884 – 9 May 1970) was a German footballer who played as a forward, competing in the 1912 Summer Olympics. In the main he played for his hometown club VfB Leipzig with which he won a national championship, but had num ...
represented predecessor side ''Preußen'' on the
Germany national team, earning a single cap before leaving for