FC Teutonia Ottensen
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| Full name | FC Teutonia Ottensen von 1905 e.V. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1905 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| League | Landesliga Hamburg (V) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FC Teutonia Ottensen or FC Teutonia Altona-Ottensen is a German football club from the city of Hamburg.
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[edit] History
FC Teutonia was founded in July 1905. The club's original ten members were joined by the one time members of FC Hammonia Hamburg which was a short-lived side notable as one of the founding clubs of the DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) in Leipzig in 1900. Hammonia shared a common origin with FC St. Georg Hamburg: both sides arose out of the student's group Seminarvereinigung Frisch-Auf with St. Georg being formed first on the left bank of the Alster River, and Hammonia appearing later on the right bank. Hammonia played out its short existence from 1896 to 1904 in the top-flight city league known as the Hamburg/Altonaer Fussball Bund (founded in 1896).
Teutonia joined the NDFV (Norddeutscher Fussball Verband or North Germany Football Federation) in 1907 and by 1910 has constructed their own ground at Hogenfeldweg. Within another four years the club had captured three local championships. The First World War decimated the club and it fell to lower league play.
Ottensen remained in lower tier ball in the interwar period and through World War II. Re-organized after the war, the team won promotion to the Verbandsliga Hamburg, Elbestaffel (II) in 1947. The Verbandsliga became the Amateurliga Hamburg where FCT played until relegated at the end of the 1951-52 season. The previous year the club had captured the Altona Cup, named for the westernmost district of the city of Hamburg.
Teutonia remained a lower tier club over the next decades until improving somewhat in the early 90s with a climb into the Landesliga Hamburg-Hansa (V) in 1993. Today the club plays in the Landesliga Hamburg, Hammonia Staffel as a mid-table side.
[edit] Team trivia
- Hammonia is the Latinized name for Hamburg and of the patron goddess of the city.
- Teutons were an early Germanic people.
[edit] External links
- Official team site
- Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German football league tables (in German)
