Berliner SV

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Berliner SV

Full name

Berliner Sport Verein 1892 e.V.

Founded

1892

Ground

Stadion Wilmersdorf

Capacity

35,000

League

Bezirksliga Berlin, Staffel 1

2005-06





Home colours





Away colours

Berliner SV 92 is a German football club from the district of Wilmersdorf in Berlin. BSV is one of the country's oldest clubs and was a founding member of the DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) in 1900.

1 History
- 1.1 National championship denied
- 1.2 Berliner SV
2 Selected former players
3 Selected former managers
4 Trivia
5 Honours
6 External links

[edit] History

The club was founded as Berliner Thor- und Fussball Club Britannia in 1892 and fielded both football and cricket teams, which alongside rugby were English sports becoming popular in continental Europe at the time. The team began to appear in the city's top flight competition in 1899.

[edit] National championship denied

BTuFC Britannia was scheduled to appear in the 1904 national final against VfB Leipzig, regarded at the time as a weaker side despite being the country's defending champion. However, the match was never played. Britannia had earlier defeated Karlsruher FV 6:1 in a game played in Berlin. KFV protested the result because the match had not been played at a neutral venue as required under league rules. The DFB cancelled the final match which was to be held in Kassel and the Viktoria trophy was not awarded that year.

[edit] Berliner SV

After World War I the club merged with BFC Fortuna and dropped its name association with wartime foe Britain to become Berliner SV 92. The team played as a mid-table side in the Verbandsliga Berlin-Brandenburg/Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg throughout the 20s and into the early 30s. After the re-organization of German football into sixteen top flight divisions under the Third Reich in 1933, BSV appeared in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg. They won divisional titles in 1936 and 1938 before being relegated in 1941. Upon their return to first division football in the 1942-43 season BSV immediately claimed another divisional championship, followed by a fourth title in the war-shortened 1944-45 season. In each case the club was unable to advance beyond the preliminary round of the national playoffs.

After World War II most organizations in Germany, including sports and football clubs, were ordered disbanded by occupying Allied forces. BSV was re-formed as SG Wilmersdorf and resumed play in the Berlin league in 1945 where they won Gruppe A and then took the league title in a four team playoff. The Berlin league became the Oberliga Berlin (I) the next season and Wilmersdorf earned two consecutive second place finishes. The club took on its old name for the 1948-49 season and as Berliner SV went on to capture divisional titles in 1949 and 1954 before once again going out early in the national playoffs.

The team did not seriously challenge again through the late 50s and early 60s. When the Bundesliga, Germany's new professional football league, was formed in 1963, the club found itself playing in the second division Regionalliga Berlin. 1974 brought the beginning of a slide that would see the team descend through the Amateurliga Berlin (III) to the Landesliga Berlin (IV) by the end of the decade. By the turn of the millennium BSV was playing seventh division football in the Bezirksliga Berlin. Today the team plays in the Landesliga Berlin-1 (VI).

[edit] Selected former players

Edwin Dutton

[edit] Selected former managers

Steve Bloomer

[edit] Trivia

Thorball or torball was a German word in use in the 1890s and early 1900s for the sport of cricket. Several early clubs playing the new "English" games of football, rugby, and cricket incorporated it into their name. The term never caught on and did not enter into common usage, soon being abandoned by sports clubs. Today torball may be used to refer to a form of football played by the blind or vision-impaired.