SV Falkensee-Finkenkrug
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SV Falkensee-Finkenkrug is a German football club
from the communities of Falkensee
and Finkenkrug
in Brandenburg
, near the western border of Berlin.
, but was reconstituted in 1945 as Sportgemeinde Finkenkrug, and became part of the separate football league structure that emerged in the Soviet-occupied eastern half of Germany. In 1984, the club was re-named BSG Turbine Finkenkrug and four years later merged with BSG Fleisch und Frischeierproduktion Falkensee to become SG Falkensee-Finkenkrug.
Established in 1948 as SG Falkensee, BSG FuF played variously as BSG Chemie Falkensee, BSG Chemie Lichtenberg Falkensee, BSG Lok Falkensee, and BSG Motor Falkensee before becoming FuF sometime in the 1970s. With German reunification
in 1990 the association adopted the more traditional name SV Falkensee-Finkenkrug 1913.
The club has long been an unheralded lower tier side, however, in recent years SV has earned good results in the Verbandsliga Brandenburg (V), culminating in a division title in 2005 and promotion for a single season to the Oberliga Nordost-Nord (IV). A 15th place result there saw the team immediately sent down, but after repeating as Verbandsliga titlists in 2008 the team will return to the now fifth tier Oberliga in 2008–09.
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 communities of Falkensee
Falkensee
Falkensee is a town in the Havelland district, Brandenburg, Germany. It is the most populated municipality of its district and it is situated at the western border of Berlin.-History:...
and Finkenkrug
Finkenkrug
Finkenkrug is a district of Falkensee, a town west of Berlin. It has been named after Alten Finkenkrug, a tar furnace in the "Bredower Forst".- History :...
in Brandenburg
Brandenburg
Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...
, near the western border of Berlin.
History
The club was established in 1913 as Neufinkenkruger Ballspiel Club and was soon known as Sportverein Finkenkrug. Like other organizations in the country, it was ordered dissolved in the aftermath of World War II by occupying Allied authoritiesAllied Occupation Zones in Germany
The Allied powers who defeated Nazi Germany in World War II divided the country west of the Oder-Neisse line into four occupation zones for administrative purposes during 1945–49. In the closing weeks of fighting in Europe, US forces had pushed beyond the previously agreed boundaries for the...
, but was reconstituted in 1945 as Sportgemeinde Finkenkrug, and became part of the separate football league structure that emerged in the Soviet-occupied eastern half of Germany. In 1984, the club was re-named BSG Turbine Finkenkrug and four years later merged with BSG Fleisch und Frischeierproduktion Falkensee to become SG Falkensee-Finkenkrug.
Established in 1948 as SG Falkensee, BSG FuF played variously as BSG Chemie Falkensee, BSG Chemie Lichtenberg Falkensee, BSG Lok Falkensee, and BSG Motor Falkensee before becoming FuF sometime in the 1970s. With German reunification
German reunification
German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany , and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. The start of this process is commonly referred by Germans as die...
in 1990 the association adopted the more traditional name SV Falkensee-Finkenkrug 1913.
The club has long been an unheralded lower tier side, however, in recent years SV has earned good results in the Verbandsliga Brandenburg (V), culminating in a division title in 2005 and promotion for a single season to the Oberliga Nordost-Nord (IV). A 15th place result there saw the team immediately sent down, but after repeating as Verbandsliga titlists in 2008 the team will return to the now fifth tier Oberliga in 2008–09.