Yorck Boyen Insterburg was a German association football club from the city of

Insterburg Chernyakhovsk (russian: Черняхо́вск) – known prior to 1946 by its German name of (Old Prussian: Instrāpils, lt, Įsrutis; pl, Wystruć) – is a town in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, where it is the administrative center of ...

East Prussia East Prussia ; german: Ostpreißen, label=Low Prussian; pl, Prusy Wschodnie; lt, Rytų Prūsija was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 187 ...

(today

Chernyakhovsk Chernyakhovsk (russian: Черняхо́вск) – known prior to 1946 by its German name of (Old Prussian: Instrāpils, lt, Įsrutis; pl, Wystruć) – is a town in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, where it is the administrative center of ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

). The team was founded in 1921 as ''Sport-Verein Yorck Insterburg.'' In 1934, it was merged with ''Militär Sport-Verein von Boyen Tilsit'' to form the army side ''Militär Sport-Verein Yorck von Boyen Insterburg''. The Tilsit club had been formed in 1923 as ''Sport-Verein von Boyen Tilsit''. The name of the association recognized the Prussian generals

Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg Johann David Ludwig Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (born von Yorck; 26 September 1759 – 4 October 1830) was a Prussian ''Generalfeldmarschall'' instrumental in the switching of the Kingdom of Prussia from a French alliance to a Russian allianc ...

and

Hermann von Boyen Leopold Hermann Ludwig von Boyen (20 June 1771 – 15 February 1848) was a Prussian army officer who helped to reform the Prussian Army in the early 19th century. He also served as minister of war of Prussia in the period 1810-1813 and later aga ...

. Prior to the merger, ''SV Yorck'' played a season in the

Gauliga Ostpreußen The Gauliga Ostpreußen was the highest football league in the Prussian province of East Prussia (German: Ostpreußen) and the Free City of Danzig from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reorganised the administrati ...

, one of 16 top flight regional divisions created in the re-organization of German football under the

Third Reich Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

in 1933. ''MSV Yorck-Boyen'' carried on in Gauliga play, winning its group within the division and then beating '' SV Prussia-Samland Königsberg'' (5:1, 1:2) in the division final to earn a place in the national playoffs where they went out in the opening round.Grüne, Hardy (1996). Vom Kronprinzen bis zur Bundesliga. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ''MSV'' played the next three seasons in the Gauliga Gumbinnen – which was part of the Gauliga Ostpreußen – winning its group each year, but failing to capture the overall division title. They made a second appearance in the preliminary round of the national playoff in 1938, but again fared poorly. ''Insterburg'' also took part that year in the Tschammerspokal, predecessor of today's

DFB-Pokal The DFB-Pokal ( is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It is considere ...

(German Cup) and went out in the second round. The club's participation in first division play ended after they finished last in the 1938–39 season. In addition, most military clubs were no longer permitted to take part in Gauliga competition. The club disappeared after the region was annexed by the

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following World War II.

Honours

(I) champions: 1935

References

Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables

External links

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