SV Concordia Königsberg was a German association football club from the city of

Königsberg Königsberg (; ; ; ; ; ; , ) is the historic Germany, German and Prussian name of the city now called Kaliningrad, Russia. The city was founded in 1255 on the site of the small Old Prussians, Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teuton ...

East Prussia East Prussia was a Provinces of Prussia, province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's ...

History

Established in 1911, the team played two seasons in the Bezirk Königsberg, a city-based circuit that was part of 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 several top-flight regional divisions in Germany. ''SV'' finished fourth in the 1936–37 and 1938–38 campaigns and returned to lower level play in 1938–39 when the Gauliga was reorganized. The Königsberg club disappeared in 1945 following the end of World War II when the city was annexed by the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

and renamed

Kaliningrad Kaliningrad,. known as Königsberg; ; . until 1946, is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, an Enclave and exclave, exclave of Russia between Lithuania and Poland ( west of the bulk of Russia), located on the Prego ...

References

Der Fußball in Ostpreußen und Danzig
(en: Football in East Prussia and Danzig)
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Konigsberg, Concordia Defunct football clubs in Germany Association football clubs established in 1911 Association football clubs disestablished in 1945 Defunct football clubs in former German territories Sport in Königsberg