Berlin State Cup (football)

Berlin State Cup
Full name	AOK State Cup Berlin
Association	Berlin Football Association
Game mode	Knockout system
Title holder	VSG Altglienicke ( 1st title )
Record winner	Tennis Borussia Berlin ( 16 titles )
Website	Berlin State Cup
Qualification for	DFB Cup
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The Berlin State Cup is a year by the Berlin Football Association (BFV) be registered Association Cup . The cup winner is authorized to take part in the first round of the DFB Cup . The cup finals are now played in the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark . The cup has probably existed under different names since 1907 with interruptions. The record cup winner is Tennis Borussia Berlin with 16 titles (one of which was won by the club's amateurs).

Competition mode

All amateur teams registered with the BFV that take part in regular game play, as well as the winner of the leisure cup, are eligible to play. The Berlin soccer teams that play in the first two professional leagues - that is, in the first or second Bundesliga - are not eligible to play (currently this applies to Hertha BSC and 1. FC Union ). Since the 2004/05 season, only the first teams of a club have been allowed to start in the cup. A separate cup competition was created for the second representatives.

Draw for the 2nd round of the Berlin Pilsner Cup for the 2016/17 season in the casino of the "Haus des Fussballs".

The field of participants in the 1st main round of the 1st men consists of 128 teams. Since there are more 1st men's teams in the association, a qualifying round is necessary. Here the teams of the district leagues and some teams of the district leagues compete against each other. That was 51 games in the 2016/2017 season. In contrast to the draw for the DFB-Pokal, there are no two pots for the first main round of the Berlin Cup, but all games are drawn from one pot. In the 2016/17 season, for example, this meant that the 1st FFV Spandau from the district league B (10th league) had to compete at Tasmania Berlin from the Berlin league (6th league).

The competition is carried out in a knockout system , i. H. the respective cup matches are played in one game. If no winner was determined during normal playing time, the game must be decided by overtime or, if necessary, penalty shoot-outs . The home right is determined by lot, with the two participating clubs sharing the audience income. In the final, a third of the income is distributed to the two finalists and the BFV.

history

1907–1945: Cup winner Berlin / Brandenburg

The first Berlin Cup competition was probably played in 1907 by the Association of Berliner Ballspielvereine (VBB; at that time the leading football association in Berlin). This existed until 1910 and - like the Berlin soccer championship - was dominated by BTuFC Viktoria 1889 , which won three out of four events. Only ten years later was a Berlin Cup winner named again (as the winner of a 14-team league). From 1923 the cup was regularly held by the Association of Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs (also VBB). As the name suggests, teams from Brandenburg were also allowed to play. However, the term Berlin Cup winner has prevailed to this day . Similarly, the VBB championship is now known as the Berlin championship.

After the dissolution of the VBB in 1933, the VBB Association Cup was held for the last time in 1934 . In the following years, the participants in the nationwide Tschammer Cup were determined in so-called Gaugruppen, whereby Berlin and Brandenburg initially formed a Gaugruppe with East Prussia , Silesia and Saxony . In 1942 a Gaupokal Berlin-Brandenburg was introduced again. The winner of the Gaupokal qualified for the finals of the Tschammer Pokal. In the cup season of 1944, the Gaupokalrunde was still finished, however, due to the war , the Cup finals across the empire were no longer held.

In its early years, the trophy was shaped not only by Viktoria 89 but also by today's Bundesliga club Hertha BSC . Both won the competition five times.

1945–1950: Overall Berlin Cup

After the end of the Second World War and the associated division of Berlin into four sectors , the cup was held again in the 1946/47 season under the name of the American Wire Radio Cup (or until 1950 as the RIAS Cup ). However, this took place without the Brandenburg area - which was on the territory of the Soviet occupation zone . With the introduction of the league in the GDR , however, the political pressure on the East Berlin clubs to log off from all of Berlin's gaming operations, which finally happened at the beginning of the 1950/51 season. The East Berlin teams were integrated into the GDR football , the West Berlin teams were from then on organized by the newly founded VBB. Until the sporting reunification of the FRG and GDR in 1991, there should be two cup winners each in Berlin.

1950–1991: Cup winners in East and West

In the western part of Berlin, the cup was called the Karl-Heinz-Schulz-Pokal from 1950 to 1970 . Schulz was a trainer and sports journalist. I.a. he trained the German rowing eight at the 1936 Olympic Games . He died at the age of 39 as a result of an operation.

In 1970 the cup was renamed the Paul Rusch Cup . The namesake Paul Rusch was a Berlin sports functionary who was appointed first chairman of the new VBB by the Allies in 1949. He held this position until 1970. All amateur clubs that took part in the regular point games of the Berlin Football Association (BFV) took part in the Paul Rusch Cup. Since the 1957/58 season, the winner of the Karl Heinz Schulz or Paul Rusch Cup has qualified for the national cup competition, the DFB Cup .

In 1957 a regional cup was played in East Berlin. This was one of 15 FDGB district cups of the GDR districts formed in 1952 . All East Berlin clubs that did not play in the Oberliga, Liga or II. League took part in the competition and were thus able to qualify for the republic- wide FDGB Cup .

1992 until today: BFV-Cup for all of Berlin

After German reunification in 1990, the cup competition of the former western and eastern associations was also merged in the football sector in the 1991/92 season. Since then, the East Berlin clubs are again eligible to participate in the Berlin Cup competition. To date, four former GDR teams have made it to the final: 1. FC Union Berlin (1994, 1997, 2007 and 2009), BFC Dynamo (1999, 2000, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017), and Köpenicker SC (2007) and SV Lichtenberg 47 (2013).

The Paul Rusch Cup seldom developed supra-regional importance. In the 1992/93 season, the Hertha BSC amateurs caused a nationwide sensation when, after winning the Berlin competition, the team surprisingly made it into the final in the following DFB Cup season. There, however, the players celebrated as “Hertha-Bubis” lost to Bayer 04 Leverkusen . In 2001, SV Yeşilyurt Berlin and Türkiyemspor Berlin faced two migrant teams in the final for the first time in a German regional cup final. The “Turkish Derby” generated international media interest and a unique live TV broadcast of the Paul Rusch Cup final by the Turkish TV broadcaster TRT -int via satellite worldwide.

In 2004 the name of the competition was changed again and until 2006 it was called the ODDSET Cup . Due to a decision by the Federal Constitutional Court the name of the sponsor could be, however, no longer used, and the first trophy was named BFV Cup before in 2007 Berliner Pilsner -Pokal has been renamed.

Record winner

The record winner is Tennis Borussia Berlin

rank	society	number	of which west *	of which east *
1	Tennis Borussia Berlin 1	16	5	0
2	Hertha BSC 2nd	14th	6th	0
3	BFC Dynamo 3	10	0	4th
4th	1. FC Union Berlin 4	8th	0	3
	FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin 5	8th	1	0
6th	SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin	7th	7th	0
7th	SV Lichtenberg 47 6	6th	0	6th
8th	Spandauer SV	5	5	0
9	BFC Prussia	4th	3	0
* Number of titles won between 1950 and 1991 in the respective East and West competitions. 1 A title was won by the club's 2nd team. 2 Three titles were won by the club's 2nd team. 3 The 2nd and 3rd team of the club won two titles each. 4th Three titles were won by the club's 2nd team. 5Six titles were won by the previous club, the BFC Viktoria 1889 . 6th A title was won by the club's 2nd team.

literature

• Christian Wolter : Lawn of passion. The football fields of Berlin. History and stories. Edition Else, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-036563-8 .
• Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 , pp. 82-90.

Web links

• berliner-fussball.de Current reports on the BFV Cup
• die-fans.de Results of the cup finals up to 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Fußball-Verband e. V .: Berlin Pilsner Cup 2016/17. In: berliner-fussball.de. Retrieved August 13, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Sebastian Sons: Tennis Borussia is the favorite in the final . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 15, 1996.
3. ^ André Görke: Paul-Rusch-Pokal: Cup Law in Turkish . In: Der Tagesspiegel , May 30, 2001.
4. ↑ Stefan Hermanns: Why the ranks stay empty at the cup final. In: tagesspiegel.de. August 21, 2020, accessed on August 24, 2020 .