FSV Glückauf Brieske-Senftenberg is a German football club from

Senftenberg Senftenberg ( German, ) or (Lower Sorbian, ) is a town in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, in eastern Germany, capital of the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district. Geography Senftenberg is located in the southwest of the historic Lower Lusatia region at t ...

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, currently playing in the

Landesliga The Landesliga () is a tier of football in some states of the German football league system. In Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia, Bremen, Lower Saxony and Hamburg, the Landesligas are set right below the Oberliga and therefore are the sixth tier. The r ...

Brandenburg-Süd (VII).

History

FSV Glückauf Brieske-Senftenberg was founded on 19 January 1919 as ''Fußballverein Grube Marga'' before becoming ''Fußballsportverein Grube Marga'' in 1928. The club was renamed ''Sportverein Sturm Grube Marga'' in 1933 and played two seasons (1941–43) in the

Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg The Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg was the highest Association football, football league in the provinces of Province of Brandenburg, Brandenburg and Berlin in the Germany, German state of Prussia from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the ...

, one of the country's 16 top-flight regional divisions. After

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, the club was closed before being reformed as ''Sportgemeinde Grube Marga'' and becoming part of the separate football competition that emerged in

East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...

under Soviet occupation. In 1948, it was renamed ''BSG Franz Mehring Grube'' in recognition of leftist politician, journalist and writer Franz Mehring. Two years later the club was known as ''BSG Aktivist Ost Brieske'' and became part of the

DDR-Oberliga The DDR-Oberliga (English: ''East German Premier League'' or ''GDR Premier League'') was the top-level association football league in East Germany. Overview Following World War II, separate sports competitions emerged in the Allied-occupied G ...

(I). On 4 November 1953, the newly built Glück-Auf Stadium was opened with a friendly match against Torpedo Moscow in front of 35,000 spectators. The best-known player of this time was Horst Franke, who played an international match for the East German team in 1953/54. It is not known how long the team played at the Glück-Auf Stadium for. In October 1954, the football section was delegated to the newly founded SC Aktivist Brieske-Senftenberg. The team then played as ''SC Aktivist Brieske-Senftenberg'' between 1954 and 1963, earning their best result in 1958 when they finished third. They were relegated after a 14th-place result in 1963 and the club was broken up. The footballers were delegated to establish ''Sportclub Cottbus'', whose football side became independent as ''BSG Energie Cottbus'' in 1966 and was the predecessor of ''

FC Energie Cottbus FC Energie Cottbus (Lower Sorbian: ''Energija Chóśebuz'') is a German football club based in Cottbus, Brandenburg. It was founded in 1963 as SC Cottbus in what was East Germany. After the reunification of Germany, Energie played six seasons i ...

''. The reserve team of ''SC Aktivist'' merged with ''BSG Aktivist Brieske-Ost'' to form ''BSG Aktivist Senftenberg'' in February 1972 and went on to play in the

DDR-Liga The DDR-Liga (English: GDR League or ''East German League'') was, prior to German reunification in 1990, the second level of football competition in the DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik or German Democratic Republic, commonly East Germany), bei ...

(II). After

German reunification German reunification () was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the East Germany, German Democratic Republic and the int ...

in 1990, the club was renamed ''FSV Glückauf Brieske-Senftenberg'' and became one of the founding members of the

NOFV-Oberliga Mitte The NOFV-Oberliga Mitte was the third tier of the German football league system in the central states of former East Germany and West Berlin. The league existed from 1991 to 1994. It covered the German states of Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anha ...

(III) in the combined German football competition. After the dissolution of the NOFV-Oberliga Mitte, ''Brieske'' qualified for the

NOFV-Oberliga Süd The NOFV-Oberliga Süd is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the southern states of the former East Germany. It covers the German states of Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Saxony and southern Brandenburg. It is one of fourteen Ob ...

in 1994. It was relegated from third-tier competition after finishing 15th in the 1995–96 season. Since then the club has played in the

Brandenburg-Liga The Brandenburg-Liga (VI) (''formerly the Verbandsliga Brandenburg'') is the highest league for football teams exclusively in the German state of Brandenburg and at step six of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3. Li ...

and the Landesliga below that. It has played in the Landesliga since it was once again relegated in 2011.Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
Historical German domestic league tablesFSV Brieske-Senftenberg at Fussball.de
Tables and results of all German football leagues

Honours

The club's honours: * Landesliga Brandenburg-Süd ** Champions: 2009 ** Runners-up: 2014

References

External links

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