SV Nord Wedding
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| Full name | Sportliche Vereinigung Nord Wedding 1893 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1893 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ground | Schillerpark Ungarn Strasse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 3,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Landesliga Berlin, Staffel 1 (VI) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004-05 | Verbandsliga Berlin (V), 17th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SV Nord Wedding 1893 is a German football club that plays in Berlin. Their complicated lineage includes a number of clubs and they can trace their roots back to some of the city's earliest football sides.
In 1893 a group of 17-year-old school boys formed a club they called Berliner FC Rapide Niderschönhausen (also known as Berliner Tor- und Fussballclub Rapide) which would become the "founding side" of the present day club. This club's growth was impeded throughout its early history by the lack of a home ground they could claim as their own.
In 1906 another club called Reinickendorfer BC was formed. This side merged with BFC Wedding (1914) to create SC Wedding (1914). Both Rapid and Wedding played within the various levels of football in Berlin until World War II. After the war the football and handball departments of this group of clubs came together as Sportgemeinschaft Schillerpark which was re-named SC Wedding in 1948. Two years later the club reached back to its origins to take on the name SC Wedding-Rapide 93.
The other thread of SV Nord Wedding's history begins in 1896 with the founding of BSC Favorit. Under the Nazi regime German football was re-organized. Politically undesirable blue collar worker's clubs were dissolved, often forced into mergers with other associations. In 1933 Favorit became home to the members of worker's league champions Pankower 1908 SC. After the war the club was re-formed and played as SG Nordbahn before being re-named VfL Nord in 1947. The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 effectively split up the club by isolating the Pankowers in the east, greatly reducing the side's strength. In response, what was left of Nord merged with BFC Nordstern 07 to form SV Nord-Nordstern 1896.
Finally, in 2001, SV Nord-Nordstern and SC Wedding-Rapide came together to form SV Nord Wedding 1893. This successor side currently plays in Landesliga Berlin, Staffel 1 (VI).
[edit] Team trivia
- Austrian club SK Rapid Wien adopted their name from the founding club Rapide Berlin.
- Wedding's predecessors include two clubs which were part of the founding of the DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) in 1900 – Rapide 93 Berlin and Favorit 96 Berlin.
