SC Borea Dresden are a German association football club from the city of

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. The club dropped the name ''FV Dresden-Nord'' on 1 July 2007 and adopted its current name to help encourage new sponsorship support. Boreas is the Greek god of the North Wind.

History

The club was formed as ''Fußballverein Dresden-Nord'' on 15 August 1991 out of the merger of the football sections of ''Motor TuR Dresden-Übigau'' and ''FS Dynamo Dresden-Heide''. The latter had long served as a

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supplying talent to the city's number one club ''

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''. The combined side quickly established itself, advancing out of the Bezirksliga Dresden (VI) to play in the Landesliga Sachsen (V) in 1993. ''FV'' captured the Landesliga championship in 1996 to earn promotion to the Oberliga Nordost-Süd (IV) where they still play today, generally earning mid-table results. Predecessor ''Motor TuR Dresden-Übigau'' was a sports club with departments for athletics, bowling, and fistball in addition to its football side which made several appearances as a third division club in

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between 1959 and German re-unification in 1990. Although their play was generally un-distinguished, the footballers did manage four final appearances in the city cup competition (1967, 1972, 1990, 1991) coming away victorious only in the last of these contests. Suffering from financial difficulties, the club withdrew its Oberliga team after four rounds of the 2011–12 season.Hängepartie nach Aus für Borea Dresden
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(VI) where it was dropped down to the Landesklasse (VII) after finishing at the bottom. In 2015 the club was relegated once more, now to the tier eight Kreisoberliga.Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
Historical German domestic league tablesSC Borea Dresden at Fussball.de
Tables and results of all German football leagues

Stadium

''Borea'' plays its home matches in the Sportanlage Jägerpark which has a capacity of 2,000 (>100 seats).

Honours

* Bezirksliga Dresden (V) ** Champions: 1993 * Landesliga Sachsen (V) ** Champions: 1996 The club's U19 side played the 2003–04 season in their age group's Bundesliga.

References

External links

Official team siteDas deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German football league tables (in German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Dresden, SC Borea Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in Saxony Borea Dresden Association football clubs established in 1991 1991 establishments in Germany