| Full name | Templehofer Spielvereinigung 1897 Helgoland e.V. | ||
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| League | Kreisliga A (IX) | ||
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TSV Helgoland is a German association football club from the Templehof district of the city of Berlin. It was established 5 September 1897 as Berliner Thor- und Fußball-Club 1897 Helgoland and played first division football in the Oberliga Berlin in 1901–02 and 1906–07. [1] The club takes its name from the North Sea island of Helgoland and its colours from the island's coat of arms.
TuFC also fielded a cricket team in its earliest years. 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.
On 21 February 1926, Helgoland merged with Spielvereinigung Tempelhof 1906 to create Tempelhofer Spielvereinigung 1897 Helgoland. TSV was itself the product of an earlier 1924 merger between Tempelhofer SV 1923 and Tempelhofer Fußballklub Borussia 1906. From 1926–30, the club also had a boxing department.
Helgoland disappeared in the middle of World War II on 6 April 1941, but was re-established after the conflict on 29 October 1949, and remains active today in Berlin's Kreisliga A (IX). [2]