Berlin Türkspor 1965
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Türkspor Berlin is a German association football club
from the city of Berlin
formed as an ethnically Turkish
sports club in 1965. The team won its way into the Landesliga Berlin (IV) in 1989 before going on to spend three seasons (1991-94) as a lower tier side in third division play in the Amateuroberliga Nordost-Mitte
where their best result came as a 9th place finish in 1992-93. Following league reorganization in 1994, the Amateurliga became the Oberliga Nordost-Nord
(IV) where the club played just one season before they were relegated after finishing 15th. Türkspor spent the rest of the 1990s moving up and down between Verbandsliga and Landesliga play before finally slipping into lower level competition. Today they are part of the Kreisliga Berlin (X).
A high point of the club's history was their advance to the final of the Berliner Landespokal (Berlin Cup) in 1999 where they were beaten 1:4 by Dynamo Berlin
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Football in Germany
Association football is the most popular sport in Germany. The German Football Association is the sport's national governing body, with 6.6 million members organized in over 26,000 football clubs. There is a league system, with the 1. and 2. Bundesliga on top, and the winner of the first...
from the city of Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
formed as an ethnically Turkish
Turkish people
Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...
sports club in 1965. The team won its way into the Landesliga Berlin (IV) in 1989 before going on to spend three seasons (1991-94) as a lower tier side in third division play in the Amateuroberliga Nordost-Mitte
NOFV-Oberliga Mitte
The NOFV-Oberliga Mitte was the third tier of the German football league system in the central states of former East Germany and West-Berlin. The league existed from 1991 to 1994...
where their best result came as a 9th place finish in 1992-93. Following league reorganization in 1994, the Amateurliga became the Oberliga Nordost-Nord
NOFV-Oberliga Nord
The NOFV-Oberliga Nord is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the northern states of former East Germany and West-Berlin. Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008, it was the fourth tier of the league system. It covers the German states of Berlin, Brandenburg and...
(IV) where the club played just one season before they were relegated after finishing 15th. Türkspor spent the rest of the 1990s moving up and down between Verbandsliga and Landesliga play before finally slipping into lower level competition. Today they are part of the Kreisliga Berlin (X).
A high point of the club's history was their advance to the final of the Berliner Landespokal (Berlin Cup) in 1999 where they were beaten 1:4 by Dynamo Berlin
Dynamo Berlin
Dynamo Berlin may refer to:* SC Dynamo Berlin, a multi-sports club in East Berlin from 1954 to 1991* Berliner FC Dynamo, an association football club separated out of SC Dynamo Berlin in 1966 and still extant...
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