BFC Victoria 1889

BFC Victoria 1889

Surname	Berlin football club Viktoria 1889 e. V.
Club colors	Light blue and white
Founded	June 6, 1889
Place of foundation	Berlin
resolution	2013
Association headquarters	Bosestrasse 21 12103 Berlin
Members	550
Departments	Cricket , soccer
Chairman	Christoph Schulte-Kaubruegger
Homepage	viktoria-berlin.de

The BFC Viktoria 1889 (officially Berliner Fußball-Club Viktoria 1889 eV ) was a German sports club from the Berlin district of Tempelhof with the sports soccer and cricket . The club's soccer department was twice German champion and twice runner-up. Most recently, the soccer team played in the fifth-class Oberliga Nordost Staffel Nord . On July 1, 2013, the club merged with LFC Berlin to form FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin .

In addition, the first men's team played in the cricket Bundesliga. Viktoria also provided the first German women's cricket champion (in September 2006 with a U17 team in the final against the Schwerin BBCCC).

Name history

• June 6, 1889: Founding as FC Viktoria
• 1890: Association for the Berlin Thorball and Football Club Viktoria from 1889 (BTuFC Viktoria 89)
• August 19, 1933: Renaming to Berliner FC Viktoria 89 Berlin
• March 10, 1938: New renaming in BFC Viktoria 89 Berlin
• 1944: Creation of KSG Lufthansa / Viktoria 89 Berlin
• 1945: Dissolution of the association, establishment of the Tempelhof sports group
• July 12, 1947: Re-admission as FC Viktoria 1889 in Berlin
• July 1, 2013: Merger with LFC Berlin to form FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin

Football department

Soccer
Full name	Berlin football club Viktoria 1889 e. V.
place	Berlin
Founded	1889
Dissolved	2013 (merger)
Club colors	Light blue and white
Stadion	Friedrich Ebert Stadium
Top league	1st class VBB (Berlin) , until 1911 1st class VBB (Brandenburg) , until 1933 Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg , until 1945 Berlin City League , until 1963
successes	German champion 1908 , 1911 17 times Berlin champion 6 times Berlin cup winners Promotion to the  Regionalliga Nordost  2013
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history

1889–1902: Foundation and first successes in Berlin

Students from the 101st community school founded a cricket club, and Herrmann Obst was elected the first captain. This club merged in 1890 with FC Viktoria, founded on June 6, 1889 by Otto Baudach, Franz Baudach, Paul Heyne, Karl Hesse and Paul Hochstein, to form the BTuFC Viktoria. This was one of the first football clubs in the German capital. Thorball was the common name for cricket in German at the time . Through educational trips to Prague , Vienna and even England , the players got to know different game systems and thus became the leading football team in Berlin. They won five Berlin championships in a row between 1893 and 1897 in the German Football and Cricket Federation (DFuCB; the leading football association in Berlin at the time ); the biggest competitor, BFC Germania 1888 , came second only four times behind Viktoria. In 1894, according to newspaper reports, Viktoria was the first club to succeed in defeating the Dresden English Football Club .

In 1894, the DFuCB planned a final round of the association championship, in which two foreign member clubs should also take part. However, the DFV 1878 from Hanover canceled on the grounds that he only played rugby football, a sport from which today's Association Football (i.e. soccer) arose. Back then, most of the “soccer clubs” played primarily the more popular and more established rugby football. 1. FC Hanau 1893 remained as opponents of Viktoria Berlin , but this final did not come about either. It was supposed to take place in Berlin, but Hanau 93 wanted to play at home and was probably unable to come for financial reasons, and the game was canceled. In retrospect and so to speak, Viktoria was the first all-German master. The DFB recognizes this championship, even if it was not won in its association. On July 28, 2007 Viktoria Berlin won the title in a symbolic new staging of the championship after the first leg (3: 0) and second leg (1: 1).

With the founding of the Association of German Ball Game Clubs (VDB; from 1902 Association of Berlin Ball Game Clubs - VBB) in 1897, the DFuCB became unattractive for many teams. Viktoria therefore joined the VDB from the 1898/1899 season. Here the club also belonged to the top group. Due to the stronger competition (e.g. in the form of the BTuFC Britannia 92 or the BFC Preussen ), the Tempelhofer did not win the Berlin championship again until 1902.

1902–1913: Peak in Germany

Historical logo

The players of BFC Viktoria, ca.1912

After the founding of the German Football Association in 1900, the German championship finals were held for the first time in 1903 , to which the VBB champions were allowed to compete. In the following years up to 1912 the VBB set the tone for sport in the German Reich and six Berlin clubs reached the final, with Viktoria in particular celebrating successes. In Berlin, the team won the Berlin championship five times between 1907 and 1913 and came second twice. In addition, the Berlin Cup competition was won three times in a row between 1907 and 1909.

In their first participation in the finals in 1906/07 , the team was runner-up after victories against SC Schlesien Breslau and Victoria Hamburg . In the final, the high favorite from Berlin lost against Freiburg FC, classified as worse, with 1: 3. In the following season they finally won after victories against VfB Königsberg and Wacker Leipzig the final in Berlin (on the place of rival BFC Germania 1888 ) 3-1 against the Stuttgarter Kickers . In the 1908/09 season Viktoria reached the final against VfB Königsberg and Altona 93 for the third time in a row and this time lost to Phoenix Karlsruhe 2: 4. In the 1910/11 season Viktoria reached the championship final against SC Lituania Tilsit and FV Holstein Kiel for the last time and won it 3-1 against the then record champions VfB Leipzig .

1913–1945: "Elevator" and success years

Former logo of BFC Viktoria

Memorial stone on the sports field, Bosestrasse 21, in Berlin-Tempelhof

With the beginning of the First World War , football became a minor matter. Both the game operations and the clubs that had to cede their players for military service suffered as a result. Viktoria was no longer able to perform consistently well, but nevertheless became Berlin champions in 1916 and 1919. The first descent followed in 1920. Although they were promoted again immediately, the club had to go one class lower again in 1924.

In 1926 Viktoria 89 returned to first class. Then the players managed to establish themselves in the top group straight away. Twice, in 1926 and 1927, they even won the Berlin Cup, and after finishing third and three times second in the league season, the team won the relay in 1933. In the playoffs for the Berlin championship, however, Hertha BSC was too strong. It was not until the following season that Viktoria was able to become champion in the newly introduced single-track Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg . In the final round of the German championship , the Berliners reached the semi-finals. But 1. FC Nürnberg was too strong there.

However, this success was followed by a rapid crash of the team, which in 1938 resulted in relegation from the Gauliga. Only once again, in the 1939/40 season , was Viktoria represented as an independent club in the top division before the end of the Second World War . In 1944 Viktoria formed a war syndicate with Lufthansa SG Berlin and entered the Gauliga until the end of the war under the name KSG Lufthansa / Viktoria 89 Berlin . At the time the game was closed, KSG Lufthansa / Viktoria was in last place.

1945–1967: surprise successes and crash

After the end of the war, all football clubs were initially dissolved. Football was only allowed to be played in local sports communities (SG). The former Viktoria players met mostly in the SG Tempelhof until 1947 the old name could be used again. Initially, there was no success; For a short time in 1947 Viktoria even had to relegate from the new Berlin city league, but immediately returned to the top division. All the more surprisingly, the club won the West Berlin championship in 1955 and 1956 (and the West Berlin Cup in 1953) and qualified for the championship finals. But Viktoria 89 had no chance in the preliminary round groups in both the 55 and the 56 finals. So there were a total of 12 final round matches, 10 defeats and only 2 draws (including against Hamburger SV and Borussia Dortmund ).

After that Viktoria played in the midfield of the city league, but financial difficulties made themselves felt. Viktoria tried this u. a. through a friendly against Real Madrid , in which on August 16, 1960 30,000 spectators in the Berlin Olympic Stadium were able to experience a Berlin selection made up of Viktoria and Hertha players against stars like Ferenc Puskás or Alfredo Di Stéfano (the Berlin team lost 0: 1). In 1963 the Victorians missed the qualification for the newly created Bundesliga (in addition to Hertha and Tasmania, the club had applied for a place). In the same year, after three relegation games against the Reinickendorfer Füchse , 9th place (out of 10 participating teams) was not enough for integration into the new second highest division under the Bundesliga, the Berlin Regional League . In the 1963/64 season , they were finally promoted to the Berlin lower house of the Regionalliga, but they rose again in the 1965/66 season as bottom of the table and after a subsequent relegation from the Berlin amateur league in 1966/67 , the club was finally found in 1967 in the fourth division again.

1967–2010: Amateur existence and mastery made up

The Tempelhofer had to wait until 1977 before their club wrote positive sporting headlines again. This year the team rose to the then third-class Berlin league . In the following years Viktoria was able to establish itself in the upper midfield of the league ( 1977/78 place 5, 1979/80 and 1980/81 place 6). However, this was followed in 1983 by relegation to the regional league and then relegated to the district league. In the national league they played again between 1988 and 1990, before going one step lower again.

After 1990, the club also suffered from the effects of the league reforms, which had become necessary due to the incorporation of the former GDR football clubs, and was briefly only sixth class. Then things gradually improved: Between 1998 and 2002 and from 2006 Viktoria was represented in the Verbandsliga Berlin - the highest Berlin football league (since 2008 the Berlin League).

In the summer of 2007 Viktoria made a name for itself nationwide when the championship final against FC Hanau 93 , which was not played in 1894, was symbolically made up for. In addition, both teams competed against each other in home and return matches. After a 3-0 win for Viktoria in Hanau, the BFC at home in the Friedrich-Ebert-Stadion was able to score a 1-1 to win the “championship”.

2010–2013: return to national football

At the beginning of the 2010/11 season, the former Bundesliga player Thomas Herbst took over the coaching position for the Berliners. Under him, Viktoria was 19 points ahead of runner-up VSG Altglienicke sovereign Berlin champion and thus rose to the meanwhile fifth-class Oberliga Nordost (Staffel Nord). There the team reached a safe midfield position in the first year. In the 2012/13 season Viktoria won the league championship on the penultimate match day and thus qualified for the Regionalliga Nordost .

In March 2013 it was announced that a merger with LFC Berlin is planned for the 2013/14 season . The new club would compete under the name FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin , keep the previous venues of both clubs and continue to refer to their successes. The aim of the merger is to create a major club that is to advance to number three in Berlin football behind Hertha BSC and 1. FC Union Berlin . In May, the members of both clubs approved the merger.

Venues

After the club was founded, Viktoria 89 first played like several other Berlin soccer clubs on the Tempelhofer Feld . In 1905 the club's own Viktoria-Platz on Eisenacher Strasse in Berlin-Mariendorf was completed, which remained the home of the Viktoria 89 footballers until 1945. Since the club was re-established in 1947, Viktoria 89's first team has played in the Friedrich-Ebert-Stadion in Tempelhof.

successes

• German soccer champion (2): 1894 (unofficial), 1908 , 1911 (both in the DFB )
• German football runner-up (2): 1907 , 1909
• Champion Oberliga Nordost , Season North (1): 2013
• Berlin (Brandenburg) football champions (17): 1893 , 1894 , 1895 , 1896 , 1897 , 1902 , 1907 , 1908 , 1909 , 1911 , 1913 , 1916 , 1919 , 1934 , 1955 , 1956 , 2011
• Berlin soccer cup winners (6): 1907, 1908, 1909, 1926, 1927, 1953

National player

• Otto Dumke (2 games / 3 goals / 1911)
• Paul Fischer (1/0/1908)
• Paul Hunder ( 8/0 / 1909-1911)
• Willi Knesebeck (2/0 ​​/ 1911–1912)
• Paul Kugler (2/0 ​​/ 1911–1913)
• Arthur Marohn ( 1/0/1921 )
• Helmut Röpnack ( 10/0 / 1909–1913)
• Karl Schulz (1/0/1923)
• Karl Tewes ( 6/0 / 1909–1912)
• Willi Worpitzky (9/5/1909–1912)

In addition, the three Viktoria players Paul Kralle , Wünsch and Baudach were involved in the so-called original international matches .

statistics

Cricket

Cricket
Venue	Körnerplatz in the Olympic Park
Places
league	DCB-Bundesliga-East
2008	7th place

The development of the cricket department can no longer build on old successes, especially in the men's area, but still plays an important role at Viktoria. In 2003 the club won the Berlin championship for the last time, was eliminated in the semifinals of the Berlin championship in 2005 and lost in the final in 2006. The club plays in the 1st Bundesliga, set up the first German women's cricket team in 2005 and was the first German club to establish another men's team in the 2nd Bundesliga in the 2006 season.

The chairman has been the lawyer Sven Leistikow for a number of years, who also plays cricket himself and was (unofficial) world cricket champion in a team of lawyers for Germany in 2006 in a single game against an English RA selection. Sven Leistikow was also chairman of the entire BFC Viktoria 89 club until February 2008.

successes

• German cricket champion (men): 1896–1899, 1909, 1914–1916, 1918, 1921–1923, 1925, 1952–1959
• German cricket champion (women): 2006

Web links

Commons : BFC Viktoria 1889  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Official homepage of the association
• Final game of the German football championship 1894 on fussball-kultur.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spiel und Sport No. 19 of May 12, 1894, page 443.
2. ↑ cf. Spiel und Sport No. 19 of May 12, 1894, page 436. There was no talk of a German championship at the time, and the DF&CB did not claim sole representation of football in Germany. There were two other associations.
3. ↑ Defective trophy . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 30, 2007.
4. ↑ Viktoria is better than Hertha . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 29, 2007.
5. ^ Ulrich Brüggemann, Christoph Schulte-Kaubrügger: Two clubs. A future. (PDF) BFC Viktoria 1889 e. V., March 2, 2013, accessed March 15, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Sebastian Stier: A new large association for Berlin. In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 2, 2013, accessed May 14, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Viktoria members vote for merger .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. viktoria-berlin.de, May 24, 2013.  
8. ↑ LFC votes for merger with Viktoria . lfc-berlin.de, May 28, 2013.