SG OrPo Danzig was a German association football club

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 Danzig, West Prussia

West Prussia

West Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773–1824 and 1878–1919/20 which was created out of the earlier Polish province of Royal Prussia...

 (today Gdańsk

Gdansk

Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...

, Poland

Poland

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). It was established in 1920 as Sportverein Schutzpolizei Danzig as the sports club of the city's police force. Through the 1920s the club made regular appearances in the playoff rounds of the regional Baltenverband

Baltic football championship

The Baltic football championship was the highest association football competition in the Prussian provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and West Prussia. The competition was disbanded in 1933....

, but did not enjoy any success there. In 1934, SV became part of the Gauliga Ostpreussen and from 1935-38 played within the Gauliga Danzig

Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen

The Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen was the highest football league in the former Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia , a Nazi administrative unit established partly from German and partly from annexed territory.-Overview:...

 which was a division of the Ostpreussen league. The team was renamed Polizei SV Danzig in 1939 and took part that year in the opening round of the Tschammerpokal, predecessor to the current-day DFB-Pokal

DFB-Pokal

The DFB-Pokal or DFB Cup is a German knockout football cup competition held annually. 64 teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga. It is considered the second most important national title in German football after the Bundesliga...

 (German Cup), where they were put out 2-3 by Viktoria Stolp

Viktoria Stolp

Viktoria Stolp was a German association football club formed in 1909, from the city of Stolp, Pomerania which was at the time part of Germany and is today Słupsk, Poland.-History:...

. The team was renamed again in 1941, becoming Sportgemeinschaft der Ordnungspolizei Danzig in 1941, and from 1940-43, was part of the Gauliga Danzig-Westpreussen.

The club was forced to withdraw from Gauliga competition partway through the 1942-43 season and disappeared in 1945 with the end of World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

when Danzig became part of Poland.

External links

• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables
• Der Fußball in Ostpreussen und Danzig football in East Prussia and Danzig