SV Tasmania Gropiusstadt

Werner-Seelenbinder-Sportpark KR1 (Capacity 500)


SV Tasmania Gropiusstadt - FC Spandau 06 (2:1) (Landesliga Berlin, 22. March 2012)
1:0 M. Ivanovs (61.), 2:0 D. Matic (67.), 2:1 B. Buadu (86.)

Attendance: 100
Cost: 6 Euro
Programme: Nil

Where tonights game was held

The clubhouse

There was a beautiful sunset

A goalie warming up

Tonights teams

Awaiting kickoff

Tasmania on the attack

Looking towards the clubhouse

Spandau lining up a free kick

View of the pitch

Another view of the pitch

CLUB HISTORY: (wiki)
(as SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin): The team was founded on 2 June 1900 as Rixdorfer TuFC Tasmania 1900, changing its name when Rixdorf was re-named Neukölln in 1912. Tasmania Berlin was a founding club of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball-Bund or German Football Association) in Leipzig in 1900. After World War II, the team was dissolved by the Allied authorities. It was reformed in 1946 as SG Mitte-Neukölln before once again taking on the name of the original sports club and becoming SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin in 1949.
In 1965, Berlin's only Bundesliga side, Hertha BSC, had its license revoked and was relegated for breaking the league's player salary rules. The German Football Association wanted to keep a club in the city of Berlin for political reasons and this led to one of the strangest episodes in the Bundesliga's history.
Both Karlsruher SC and FC Schalke 04 tried to avoid being demoted by laying claim to Hertha's place. It was decided to suspend relegation for one season and increase the number of teams in the league from 16 to 18 to accommodate the two teams which would normally be promoted from the Regionalligen (the Regional Leagues being the leagues below the Bundesliga at the time). Cold War politics led to a space being held for a team from the former capital city to replace Hertha.
The winner of Regionalliga Berlin, Tennis Borussia Berlin, had failed to advance to the Bundesliga through the regular promotion round that saw Bayern Munich and Borussia Mönchengladbach move up. After the Regionalliga second place finisher, Spandauer SV, refused an offer of promotion, the way was clear for third-place club Tasmania 1900 to take up the opportunity to represent Berlin in the Bundesliga — just two weeks before the start of the 1965–66 season.
A top performer in the relatively weak Regionalliga Berlin, Tasmania 1900 would find themselves seriously overmatched in the Bundesliga. Despite a season-opening 2–0 win over Karlsruher SC at the Olympiastadion, they would go on to become the worst team in league history — in a 34-game season they won only twice. They scored only 15 goals while conceding 108 and finished the season in last place earning just 8 of a possible 68 points. The only team not to beat Tasmania was 1. FC Kaiserslautern which managed only two draws (0–0 and 1–1) against them. The 0–0 result at Betzenberg was the only point earned by Tasmania away from their home stadium.
Tasmania were relegated at the end of the season and returned to the Regionalliga Berlin. Although the team made it to the promotion round twice between 1966 and 1973, they never managed a return to the Bundesliga. In 1973, the Neukölln sports association declared bankruptcy.
(as SV Tasmania-Gropiusstadt 1973)
Tasmania-Gropiusstadt's predecessor club, SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin, was already financially insecure in the early 1970s, and so the amateur and youth players of the team decided to establish their own club on 3 February 1973, which they named SV Tasmania 73 Neukölln. Later that year, the former Bundesliga club Tasmania 1900 was declared bankrupt and was disbanded. Many club officials and players followed suit to support the new team in Neukölln.
Tasmania 73 played the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons in the then fourth tier NOFV-Oberliga Nord. In December 2000, the club was renamed SV Tasmania-Gropiusstadt 1973.[1] 2007–08 saw Tasmania-Gropiusstadt play in the Berlin-Liga (V). Following a league restructure and two relegations in succession, the club played the 2009–10 season in the 8th tier Bezirksliga Berlin Staffel 3 before finishing second and gaining promotion to the Landesliga Berlin Staffel 2 (VII) for the 2010–11 season.

HONOURS:

Participation in the final round of the German Championship : 1909 , 1910 (semifinals), 1911 , 1959 , 1960 , 1962
Bundesliga club : 1965/66
Berlin champion : 1909, 1910, 1911 (each in the MFB ), 1959, 1960, 1962 (each in the City League in Berlin ), 1964 and 1971 (both in the Regional Berlin )
Berlin Cup Winners : 1957, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1970 and 1971