Tuesday, October 11, 2011

SV Blau Weiss Berlin

Sportplatz Markengrafstraße (Capacity 1.000)

SV Blau Weiss Berlin - SC Union Berlin 06 (0:1) (Berlin Bezirksliga, 11. October 2011)
0:1 Medina Gonzalez (51.)

Attendence: 36
Cost: Free
Programme: Nil

Entrance to the ground
 
Tonights teams
 
Last minute words for both teams
 
One of the change rooms
 
The grill and bar with the other changeroom on the right
 
Corner for SC Union. Lovely weather huh?
 
The away fans!
 
5 x 100m running lanes next to the field
 
View of the pitch looking towards Rathausstrasse
 
And the other way towards Mariendorfer Damm

CLUB HISTORY: (wiki)
Predecessor sides Vorwärts and Union were both founding members of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) at Leipzig in 1900. Vorwärts enjoyed early success with local championships in 1902, 1903 and 1921. In that last championship year, they also sent four players to the national side and played in the German final, which they lost 0:5 to 1. FC Nuremberg. Union took the national title in 1905 with a 2:0 win over Karlsruher FV.
Immediately after the 1927 merger of these two sides the club was relegated from top-flight football in the city. The following season a third side, Arminia 1906 Berlin, joined the newly created club which started to slowly improve returning to the Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg (I) in 1931. Within a couple of years German football was re-organized under the Third Reich into sixteen top-flight divisions with Blau-Weiss joining the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg.

The club was sent down after a last place finish in 1937 but came storming back to win the division title in 1938–39. Blau-Weiß captured a second division title in 1942 and finished third overall nationally. After World War II occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in the country, including sports and football associations. The club was later re-formed as SG Mariendorf which eventually broke up into three separate sides: SpVgg Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin (re-established in 1949), SC Krampe Berlin, and SC Mariendorf.
SG Mariendorf played first division football from 1946 until being relegated in 1948. Blau-Weiß re-joined the top tier Oberliga Berlin in 1950 where they played as a lower to mid-table side until finally being relegated in 1960. After three seasons in the Amateurliga Berlin (II), which included a division title win in 1963, the club secured a place in the newly formed Regionalliga Berlin (II).

Once again a lower to mid-table side the club's performance improved in the early 1970s leading to a Regionalliga title in 1973 and a failed participation in the promotion rounds for the top-flight Bundesliga. League re-organization at the end of the 1973–74 season led to the breakup of the existing Regionalliga: first place Tennis Borussia Berlin was promoted to the Bundesliga, runner-up Wacker 04 Berlin joined the newly formed second tier 2. Bundesliga, while third place Blau-Weiss landed in the Amateurliga Berlin (III).

A poor finish in 1978 led to the club's relegation and they spent the next handful of seasons bouncing between the third and fourth divisions. Blau-Weiß's return to what was now the Oberliga Berlin (III) in 1984 was accompanied by a division title and their second participation in the promotion rounds for the 2. Bundesliga. This time the club was successful and two seasons later surprised with a second place finish that led to advancement to the top-flight Bundesliga in 1986. Blau-Weiß found itself outmatched in the senior professional circuit and was relegated as the last-placed club at the end of just one season. They spent another five seasons in the 2. Bundesliga before declaring bankruptcy in 1992.

SV Blau Weiss Berlin's predecessor club, SpVgg Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin, was declared bankrupt and folded on 28 June 1992. As a result, SV Blau Weiss Berlin was established as an indirect successor club, similar to SV Tasmania-Gropiusstadt 1973. The team entered into the lowest possible local league, the 3. Kreisklasse Staffel C, and have even made it as high as the Landesliga-Berlin in recent years before being relegated again.

HONOURS:
as BTuFC Union
German champions: 1905
Brandenburg football champions: 1905
as Berliner FC Vorwärts 1890
German vice champions: 1921
Brandenburg football champions: 1921
as SpVgg Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin
Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg champions: 1939, 1942
Amateurliga Berlin (II) champions: 1963
Oberliga Berlin (III) champions: 1984
German Under 17 champions: 1979

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