SV Nord Wedding 1893 is a German association football club that plays in the

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district of the city of

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History

Their complicated lineage includes a number of clubs and they can trace their roots back to some of the city's earliest football sides. ''Wedding'''s predecessors include two clubs which were part of the founding of the DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund, en: German Football Association) at

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in 1900 – ''Rapide 93 Berlin'' and '' Favorit 96 Berlin''. On 1 October 1893, a group of 17-year-old school boys formed a club they called ''Berliner FC Rapide Niderschönhausen''. The team was also known as ''Berliner Tor- und Fußball Club Rapide'' or ''Berliner Fußball und Cricket Club'' – Berliner Football and Handball Club. This team is recognized as the "founding side" of the present day club. This club's growth was impeded throughout its early history by the lack of a home ground they could claim as their own. Logo SC Rapide Wedding

In 1906 another club called ''Reinickendorfer BC'' was formed. This side merged with ''BFC Wedding'' (1914) to create ''SC Wedding'' (1914). Both ''Rapid'' and ''Wedding'' played within the various levels of football in Berlin until World War II. After the war the football and handball departments of this group of clubs came together as ''Sportgemeinschaft Schillerpark'' which was renamed ''SC Wedding'' in 1948. Two years later the club reached back to its origins to take on the name ''SC Wedding-Rapide 93''. The other thread of ''SV Nord Weddings history begins on 15 October 1896 with the founding of ''Berliner Sport Club Favorit''. Under the

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German football was re-organized. Politically undesirable blue collar worker's clubs were dissolved, often forced into mergers with other associations. In 1933 ''Favorit'' became home to the members of worker's league champions ''Pankower 1908 SC''. After the war the club was re-formed and played as ''SG Nordbahn'' before being re-named '' VfL Nord'' in 1947. The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 effectively split up the club by isolating the ''Pankowers'' in the east, greatly reducing the side's strength. In response, what was left of ''Nord'' merged with ''BFC Nordstern 07'' to form ''SV Nord-Nordstern 1896''. Finally, in 2001, ''SV Nord-Nordstern'' and ''SC Wedding-Rapide'' came together to form ''SV Nord Wedding 1893''. This successor side currently plays in the tier ten Kreisliga Berlin B.

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'' adopted their name from the founding club ''Rapide Berlin''.

External links

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Team site

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