SV Babelsberg 03

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SV Babelsberg 03

Full name

SV Babelsberg 03

Nickname(s)

Nulldrei (Zero-Three)

Founded

1948

Ground

Karl-Liebknecht-Stadion

Capacity

15,000

Chairman

Ralf Hechel

Manager

Rastislav Hodul

League

NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV)

2005-06

NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV), 3rd





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SV Babelsberg 03 is a German football club based in Potsdam-Babelsberg, on the outskirts of Berlin. The team was founded as SG Karl-Marx Babelsberg in 1948 as a successor to the pre-war side SpVgg Potsdam 03/SC Nowawes.

Nowawes earned promotion in 1935 to the first tier Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. The club was relegated after just three seasons of play at that level never finishing better than eighth in their ten team division. The club returned to the Gauliga as SpVgg Potsdam in 1943 and earned third and fourth place finishes in the two years before the end of World War II. In 1949, they merged with another local club SG Drewitz and the following year were re-named BSG Motor Babelsberg.

The side was a perennial II division team in East Germany's DDR-Liga. After German reunification in 1990 the club took on its current name and played as a IV or V division side through the early '90's. By 1997-98 they had worked their way up to the Regionaliga Nord (III). The team's budget increased ten-fold in the period 1996-99 and in 2001-2002 they advanced to 2.Bundesliga. This was in spite of the suicide of the team's sponsor and his wife. Babelsberg's turn in the II division was a short one. They finished last and by 2003-04 had fallen all they way back to Oberliga Nordost, Nord (IV) where they toil today.

The club declared bankruptcy in 2003 but managed to continue playing through the adoption of a creditor supported bankruptcy plan.