Saturday, September 8, 2012

BFC Preussen

Preussen Stadion (Capacity: 7.000)

BFC Preussen - SW Hohen Neuendorf (1:0) (Berlin-Pokal, 08. September 2012)
1:0 Moeckel (71.)

Attendance: 30
Cost: 4 Euro
Programme: Nil

Approaching the entrance

Teams entering the pitch

Awaiting kickoff

Those rainclouds certainly brought plenty of rain

Preussen on the attack in the first half

Neundorf returning the favor

View of the field

I'm a fan of the angles in the stands

Behind the goals

The clubhouse and imbiss stand

Not many people on this side today re: none

Players heading off for the half time break

Another view of the pitch

Celebrating the winning (and only) goal

Neuendorf looking for an equaliser

Inside the clubhouse

Full time and victory for the home side


CLUB HISTORY: (wiki)
BFC Preussen is a German football club from Berlin. The team is part of a sports club which also has departments for handball, volleyball, athletics, gymnastics, and ice hockey. Preussen was one of the founding clubs of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900.

The club was formed as BFC Friedrich Wilhelm on 1 May 1894 by a number of players who had left Hevellia Berlin.[1] By 1895, they were called Preussen, named after the Kingdom of Prussia, and were on their way to success playing in the VDBV (Verband Deutscher Ballspiel Vereine or Federation of German Ballgame Teams). The team lost the league final in 1898 before going on to win three consecutive titles in 1899, 1900, and 1901, and then repeating as champions in 1910 and 1912. While Preussen remained a prominent side playing in the Verbandsliga Berlin-Brandenburg and Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg through to the early 1930s, they earned just mid-table results.
In 1933 German football was re-organized under the Third Reich into sixteen first division Gauligen. However, an uncharacteristically poor finish to the 1932–33 season that saw Preussen finish in last place put the club out of top-flight football. In the aftermath of World War II occupying Allied authorities banned organizations throughout Germany, including sports and football clubs. The club was dissolved, then re-established in 1949.

By the 1970s Preussen had settled into third-tier competition in the Amateurliga Berlin (III). A short-lived breakthrough to the Regionalliga Berlin (II) lasted two seasons from 1972–74 before the team briefly crashed to the Landesliga Berlin (IV) in 1974–75. The team's quick return to the third tier Amateur Oberliga Berlin was marked by five exceptional seasons in which they earned three first and two second place finishes. They narrowly missed promotion to the 2. Bundesliga in 1980 when they lost the playoff to SC Göttingen 05 (0–1 and 1–1). Preussen played out the balance of the 1970s and into the early 1990s in the third division.
The team soon found itself in the fifth tier Verbandsliga Berlin and slipped as low as the Landesliga Berlin-1 (VI) in 1999–2000.

HONOURS:
Brandenburg football champions: 1899, 1900, 1901, 1910, 1912
Oberliga Berlin (III) champions: 1972, 1977, 1980, 1981
Verbandsliga Berlin (V) champions: 2005
Berliner Landespokal:
Winners 1979, 1980, 1981
Runners-up 1988

STADIUM HISTORY: (wiki)
The Preussen Stadium is a football stadium in the Berlin district of Lankwitz (district Steglitz-Zehlendorf ). The football club BFC Preussen carries out its home games at the stadium, which is approved for 7,000 spectators, including 200 seats. At the opening on 23 October 1938 was the capacity is 20,000 spectators.

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