Fußball-Club Viktoria 1889 Berlin Lichterfelde-Tempelhof e.V., commonly known as FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin or Viktoria Berlin, is a German

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

club based in the locality of

Lichterfelde Lichterfelde may refer to: * Lichterfelde (Berlin), a locality in the borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf in Berlin, Germany * Lichterfelde West, an elegant residential area in Berlin * Lichterfelde, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in the Stendhal Distric ...

of the

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Steglitz-Zehlendorf Steglitz-Zehlendorf () is the sixth borough of Berlin, formed in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform by merging the former boroughs of Steglitz and Zehlendorf. Home to Free University of Berlin, the Berlin Botanical Garden, and a variety of mu ...

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 club was formed on 1 July 2013 from a merger of

BFC Viktoria 1889 Berliner Fußball-Club Viktoria 1889 was a German sports club based in the Tempelhof district of Berlin. Football, rugby, and cricket came to continental Europe in the late 19th century, and these "English games" became immediately popular in ma ...

and

Lichterfelder FC Lichterfelder FC was a German association football club from the Berlin district of Lichterfelde. The club had approximately 1,300 members and included the country's largest youth department. History The history of the association was marked ...

. The club has the largest football department in Germany. The club also has 1,600 active members.

History

Viktoria 1889 Berlin was formed in a merger of BFC Viktoria 1889 and Lichterfelder FC on 1 July 2013. BFC Viktoria 1889 was one of the oldest football clubs in Germany. It was the dominant club in Berlin in the early 1900s and won the German championship in

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and

1911 A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...

. Lichterfelder FC, on the other hand, was a club which had gone through a number of name changes and mergers before. Lichterfelder FC had a women's team in the

Frauen-Regionalliga The Frauen-Regionalliga is the third-tier of German women's association football. The Frauen-Regionalliga is made up of five separate leagues. Until 2017, the champion of each league was promoted to the 2. Frauen-Bundesliga for the next season, so ...

by the time of the merger. Viktoria Berlin made its debut in the 2013–14 Regionalliga Nordost, courtesy of a victory for BFC Viktoria 1889 in 2012–13

NOFV-Oberliga The NOFV- Oberliga is a division at step 5 of the German football league system. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, it became the successor of the DDR-Oberliga, and functions today as a 5th division in the former territory of East Germany and the ...

.Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
Historical German domestic league tablesFC Viktoria 1889 Berlin at Fussball.de
Tables and results of all German football leagues The club won the 2013–14

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and thereby qualified for the first round of the

2014–15 DFB-Pokal The 2014–15 DFB-Pokal was the 72nd season of the annual German football cup competition. It began on 15 August 2014 with the first of six rounds and ended on 30 May 2015 with the final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. Bayern Munich were the two ...

. The club was drawn against

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club

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. Viktoria Berlin lost 2–0 in front of 10,514 spectators at the

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark The Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark is a multi-purpose sports complex located in the western part of the locality of Prenzlauer Berg in the borough of Pankow in Berlin. The sports complex covers an area of approximately 22 hectares and comprises ...

. Viktoria Berlin has the largest football department in Germany. The club had 65 teams with 1,600 members as of 2016. The club qualified for the

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after a very successful 2020–21 season. The club led 2020–21 Regionalliga Nordost when the

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(NOFV) decided to end the season prematurely after eleven rounds played due to the

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. The team had won all eleven matches played during the short season.

Stadium

The home ground of Viktoria Berlin is the

Stadion Lichterfelde The Lichterfelde Stadium is a football stadium in Berlin, Germany. It is home to FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin. There are also six running lanes surrounding the field, which is a natural grass surface. History On October 30, 1924, the Berlin city ...

. The stadium has a capacity of 4,300 spectators and is also the location of the club offices. The facility also comprises two additional pitches with artificial turf. The Stadion Lichterfelde was the former home ground of Lichterfelder FC. BFC Viktoria 1889, on the other hand, played its home matches at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stadion in the locality of

Tempelhof Tempelhof () is a locality of Berlin within the borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. It is the location of the former Tempelhof Airport, one of the earliest commercial airports in the world. The former airport and surroundings are now a park called ...

of the borough of

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. The Friedrich-Ebert-Stadion is now used by the U19 team of Viktoria Berlin for its matches in the

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. The Stadion Lichterfelde currently does not meet the requirements for play in the

. Among several requirements, a capacity for 10,000 spectators, underfloor heating and a VIP-area are needed. The stadium can not be easily converted as it is also a

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of cultural importance. The club had to find a new home ground in order to obtain a license for the 2021-22 3. Liga. Several alternatives were considered, including the

Mommsenstadion The Mommsenstadion is a multi-purpose stadium in the locality of Westend in Berlin, Germany, named after the historian Theodor Mommsen. It is currently used mostly for football and hosts the home matches of Tennis Borussia Berlin and SCC Berlin. ...

and the

Olympiastadion Olympiastadion is the German, Finnish and Swedish word for Olympic Stadium and may refer to: * Stockholm Olympic Stadium, the host of the 1912 Summer Olympics (though mostly referred as simply ''Stockholms Stadion'') * Olympiastadion (Berlin), the ...

. The club was finally allowed to play at the

in the locality of

Prenzlauer Berg Prenzlauer Berg () is a locality of Berlin, forming the southerly and most urban district of the borough of Pankow. From its founding in 1920 until 2001, Prenzlauer Berg was a district of Berlin in its own right. However, that year it was incorp ...

in the borough of

Pankow Pankow () is the most populous and the second-largest borough by area of Berlin. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform, it was merged with the former boroughs of Prenzlauer Berg and Weißensee; the resulting borough retained the name Pankow. P ...

. The operating permit for the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion originally expired on 31 December 2020 and the complex is awaiting a major redevelopment. But the Department for the Interior and Sports of the

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decided to made the stadium available for Viktoria Berlin for two years. However, the capacity of the stadium will be reduced to 10,000 seats.

Seasons

Honours

Regional

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) ** Winners:

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(III-VII) ** Winners: 2013–14, 2018–19, 2021–22 ** Runners-up: 2019–20

Current squad

References

External links

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