Viktoria Stolp
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| Full name | Sportverein Viktoria von 1909 e.V. Stolp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 5 September 1909 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Hindenburg-Kampf-bahn (Capacity 60,000) |
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| League | Baltenverband | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| - | defunct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Viktoria Stolp was a German football club from the city of Stolp, Pommerania (today Slupsk, Poland).
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The club was founded in 1909 as Sportverein Viktoria Stolp and the next year grew with the addition of Fußball-Club Britannia Stolp.[1] In the 1911-12 season, the team made it first appearance in the playoffs of the Baltenverband where they were convincingly put out (0:7) in a quarterfinal match versus BuEV Danzig. They slipped into obscurity for the next two decades before emerging at champions of the Pommern division in 1932. They beat VfB Königsberg to finish second overall in the Baltenverband and move on to a national level eighthfinal match up against Tennis Borussia Berlin where they lost 0:3.[2]
The next year, German football was re-organized under the Third Reich in sixteen top-flight divisions known as Gauliga and Viktoria joined the eastern group of the Gauliga Pommern where they enjoyed considerable success through the 1930s, winning four division championships. However, they were unable to translate those victories into success on the national satge, failing to advance out of opening round group play in the German championship. Stolp continued to field strong sides in the early 40s, but were only able to capture the Gauliga Pommern-Ost group title once more in 1942 before losing the overall division final 1:6 to Luftwaffe Sport-Verein Pütnitz. Play in the Gauliga Pommern ended after the 1943-44 season as World War II overtook the region. Viktoria Stolp disappeared after the war when the city and surrounding area became part of Poland.
[edit] Honours
- Baltenverband (Pommern) champions: 1932
- Gauliga Pommern champions: 1934, 1936, 1937, 1939
[edit] References
- ^ Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9
- ^ Grüne, Hardy (1996). Vom Kronprinzen bis zur Bundesliga. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-928562-85-1
- Der Fußball in Ostpreußen und Danzig (en: Football in East Prussia and Danzig)
- Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (German)
