Brandenburg State Football Association

Brandenburg State Football Association

Founded	July 28, 1990
president	Jens Kaden
address	Dresdener Strasse 18 03050 Cottbus
Master gentlemen	no champions played out (2019/20)
Cup winners men	FSV Union Fürstenwalde (2019/20)
Master women	no champions played out (2019/20)
Cup winners women	no winner played (2019/20)
Parent association	Northeast German Football Association
Subordinate Associations	8 football circles
region
Clubs (approx.)	662 *
Members (approx.)	99,010 *
Teams (approx.)	3,701 * * As of June 17, 2020
Homepage	www.flb.de

The Brandenburg State Football Association ( FLB for short ) is the umbrella organization for all football clubs in Brandenburg . It is one of the 21 regional associations of the German Football Association (DFB) and a member of the Northeast German Football Association (NOFV). The association has its headquarters in Cottbus .

history

Like the Berlin Football Association, the Brandenburg State Football Association is an indirect successor to the former Association of Brandenburg Ball Game Clubs (VBB), which was the umbrella organization for all football clubs from Berlin and the Brandenburg Province from 1911 to 1933 . Before that, the Brandenburg clubs were predominantly represented in the Märkischer Fußball-Bund , which in 1911 was merged with the Association of Berlin Ball Game Clubs and the Association of Berlin Athletics Clubs (in which, however, Brandenburg clubs were also registered) to form VBB.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the DFB and all regional football associations were dissolved and replaced by the Football and Football District Office. Instead of the VBB, the Gau Berlin-Brandenburg entered the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg as the top division. During the entire period, almost only sports clubs in Berlin set the tone. A club like Brandenburger SC was rarely able to break into the phalanx of Berlin clubs in the 1940s . Only clubs from Berlin provided the national champions .

After the end of the Second World War , the state of Brandenburg was dissolved in 1952 and mainly divided into the districts of Cottbus , Frankfurt (Oder) and Potsdam . After German reunification , the former districts in the new federal state of Brandenburg were merged again on October 3, 1990. For the football clubs was already on 28. July 1990 in Potsdam the Brandenburg Football Association created as an umbrella organization. 54 delegates from the district associations (BFA) Cottbus, Frankfurt / Oder and Potsdam elected Siegfried Kirschen as the first president. Cottbus was named as the place of business . The football and athletics association of Westphalia (FLVW) took over the sponsorship of the newly founded regional association

The Brandenburg State Football Association is the largest sports association in the state of Brandenburg with 99,406 members.

Organization and structure

FLB President

President

1990 - 2018: Siegfried Kirschen
Since 2018: Jens Kaden

Soccer circles

A more far-reaching structural reform was carried out in the FLB for the 2014/15 season. The main focus here was on reducing the number of football circles from 17 to 8 now. Furthermore, this reform had an impact on national matches for juniors and the league hierarchy in the men's division:

The number of relays in the national class has been reduced from five to four, reducing the number of teams at this level from 80 to 64. After the 2013/14 season, only the first eight of each season remained in the national class. The 17 district champions completed the starting field for the 2014/15 season. The structure of the Landesliga (two seasons) and Brandenburgliga (one season) remained.
The basic structure in junior football was retained. An application is currently being examined according to which the team field in the national classes of the A to C juniors as well as the national league of the D and E youth should be reduced from 12 to ten.
The district league was introduced as the highest division in the new great districts. The district leagues and district classes continue to exist below this.

In May 2012 the FLB announced the basic limits for the new counties. In January 2013, the final boundaries of the districts and the associated number of clubs as well as the official names of the eight districts were announced. With the structural reform that came into force on July 1, 2014, the number of football circles was reduced from 17 to 8.

Surname	composition	Number of clubs
Dahme / Fläming	Dahmeland Jüterbog / Luckenwalde	54
Havelland	Havelland center West Havelland	115
Lower Lusatia	Lower Lusatia	70
East Brandenburg	Märkisch-Oderland Spree Or / Neisse	94
Oberhavel-Barnim	Oberhavel Barnim	103
Prignitz / Ruppin	Prignitz Ostprignitz / Ruppin	76
South Brandenburg	Elbe / Elster Senftenberg Spreewald	104
Uckermark	Ostuckermark Westuckermark	52


Representation of the football circles for the state of Brandenburg

League system of the FLB since 2020/21

step	Division
State level
6th	Brandenburg League
7th	Brandenburg State League
7th	North season				Season south
8th	State class Brandenburg
8th	North season		Season West		Season east		Season south
District level
9	District Oberliga Oberhavel / Barnim	District Oberliga Uckermark	District league Prignitz / Ruppin	District league Havelland	District league Dahme / Fläming	District Oberliga Ostbrandenburg	District Oberliga Niederlausitz	District Oberliga Südbrandenburg
10	District league Oberhavel / Barnim (2 seasons)	District League Uckermark	District league Prignitz / Ruppin (2 seasons)	Havelland District League (2 seasons)	District league Dahme / Fläming	District League East Brandenburg (3 seasons)	District league Niederlausitz	District League South Brandenburg (2 seasons)
11	1st district class Oberhavel / Barnim (2 seasons)	1st district class Uckermark (2 seasons)	1st district class Prignitz / Ruppin (3 relays)	1st district class Havelland (2 relays)	1st district class Dahme / Fläming	1st district class East Brandenburg (3 seasons)	1st district class Niederlausitz (2 relays)	1st district class South Brandenburg (3 seasons)
12	2nd district class Oberhavel / Barnim (2 seasons)	-	-	2nd district class Havelland (3 relays)	2nd district class Dahme / Fläming (2 relays)	-	2nd district class Niederlausitz	2nd district class Südbrandenburg (4 relays)

Data on the FLB

The Brandenburg State Football Association is the umbrella organization for 662 clubs with 3,701 teams . 99,010 members are organized in these associations, of which approx. 5.87% are women (as of June 2020).

The highest men's division of the FLB is the Brandenburg League, the champions of which receive the title of Brandenburg Football Champion and can be promoted to the Northeast Football League . Furthermore, the association awards the title of Brandenburg Cup winner every year , the winner of which is allowed to participate in the DFB Cup in the following season . For a short time, the FLB also hosted the so-called regional cup, in which the cup winners of the soccer circles as well as the national class teams of the previous season that did not qualify for the national cup took part. The respective winners were able to take part in the national cup in the following season . The division cup has since been abolished.

With its 662 clubs and 3,701 teams, the Brandenburg State Football Association is in 14th place compared with the remaining 20 state associations. In the members category, the FLB is in 16th place.

Competitions

The following regional competitions are held under the umbrella of the FLB:

Brandenburg state championship

Today's Brandenburg League was founded in 1990 as the Brandenburg State League. When it was first introduced, the state league became the third highest division behind the first and second division. For the 1991/92 season it was, due to the introduction of the Oberliga Nordost, only led as the fourth highest league.

From the 1993/94 season it was renamed Verbandsliga Brandenburg and in the following year, with the introduction of the Regionalliga, it became the fifth highest division. With the renewed restructuring and the associated introduction of the 3rd division for the 2007/08 season, it bears its current name and belongs to the sixth highest division.

At its board conference on May 11, 2020, the Brandenburg State Football Association decided to allow the 2019/2020 season to expire without any further games due to the SARS-CoV-2 containment ordinance issued by the State of Brandenburg. The 2019/20 season was thus ended prematurely for the first time in the history of the Brandenburg State Football Association.

Brandenburg State Cup

After the reunification of Germany, there was no uniform national cup. In the 1990/91 and 1991/92 seasons, the respective district cups for Cottbus, Frankfurt / Oder and Potsdam were played in "GDR mode". The winners then determined the winner of the state cup in a three-way tournament.

Due to the restructuring of the game operations of the newly founded FLB (dissolution of the district leagues, introduction of the state leagues, etc.) the well-known knockout system was introduced in the 1992/93 season.

At the beginning of the 2006/07 season, another cup competition, the so-called area cup, was launched. In this regionally divided competition (north and south), the cup winners of the soccer circles as well as the national class teams of the previous season that did not qualify for the national cup took part. The respective winners were able to take part in the national cup in the following season. The division cup has since been abolished.

FLB teams in higher leagues 2020/21

Men

designation	number	Teams
Bundesliga	-	no representatives from Brandenburg
2nd Bundesliga	-	no representatives from Brandenburg
3rd soccer league	-	no representatives from Brandenburg
Regionalliga Northeast	5	FC Energie Cottbus , SV Babelsberg 03 , FSV Union Fürstenwalde , FSV Optik Rathenow , FSV 63 Luckenwalde
Oberliga Nordost	6th	Relay North SV Victoria Seelow , Brandenburger SC Süd 05 , FC Strausberg , Ludwigsfelder FC Relay South VfB 1921 Krieschow , RSV Eintracht 1949

Women

designation	number	Teams
Women's Bundesliga	1	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
2nd Bundesliga	1	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam II
Regionalliga Northeast	1	FSV Babelsberg 74

Juniors

designation	number	Teams
A-Juniors Bundesliga	1	FC Energie Cottbus
A-Juniors Regionalliga Nordost	1	SV Babelsberg 03
B-Junior Bundesliga	1	FC Energie Cottbus
B-Juniors Regionalliga Nordost	-	no representatives from Brandenburg
C-Juniors Regionalliga Nordost	2	FC Energie Cottbus , SV Babelsberg 03
B-Juniorinnen-Bundesliga	1	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam

Champion & cup winner

National champion and national cup winner
season	master	Cup winners	master	Cup winners
season	Men		Women
1990/91	FSV PCK Schwedt	ESV locomotive Cottbus	no master played ¹	SV Oak Branitz

1991/92	FSV Optik Rathenow	Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl	no master played ¹	SSV Turbine Potsdam

1992/93	SV Schwarz-Rot Neustadt (Dosse)	Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl	no master played ¹	SSV Turbine Potsdam

1993/94	SV Motor Eberswalde	BSV Brandenburg	no master played ¹	SSV Turbine Potsdam

1994/95	SG Bornim	FC Energie Cottbus	SSV turbine Potsdam II	FC Energie Cottbus

1995/96	SV Babelsberg 03	FC Energie Cottbus	SSV turbine Potsdam II	SSV turbine Potsdam II

1996/97	Frankfurt FC Viktoria 91	FC Energie Cottbus	SSV Alemannia Altdöbern	SSV turbine Potsdam II

1997/98	FC Energie Cottbus II	FC Energie Cottbus II	FSV Brieske / Senftenberg	SSV turbine Potsdam II

1998/99	Brandenburger SC Süd 05	SV Babelsberg 03	SSV turbine Potsdam III	SSV turbine Potsdam II

1999/00	SV Schwarz-Rot Neustadt (Dosse)	SV Babelsberg 03	1. FFC turbine Potsdam III	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam II

2000/01	Märkischer SV 1919 Neuruppin	FC Energie Cottbus II	1. FFC turbine Potsdam III	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam II

2001/02	SG Eintracht Oranienburg	Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl	FC Energie Cottbus	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam II

2002/03	Frankfurt FC Viktoria 91	Ludwigsfelder FC	FC Energie Cottbus	SSV Alemannia Altdöbern

2003/04	Ludwigsfelder FC	SV Germania 90 Schöneiche	Märkischer SV 1919 Neuruppin	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam II

2004/05	SV Falkensee-Finkenkrug	Märkischer SV 1919 Neuruppin	1. FFC turbine Potsdam III	1. FFC turbine Potsdam III

2005/06	SV Germania 90 Schöneiche	SV Babelsberg 03	HSV Friedersdorf / Gussow	SV Red-White Flatow

2006/07	FSV Optik Rathenow	SV Babelsberg 03	FC Energie Cottbus	FC Energie Cottbus

2007/08	SV Falkensee-Finkenkrug	SV Babelsberg 03	FC Energie Cottbus	SV Red-White Flatow

2008/09	FSV 63 Luckenwalde	SV Babelsberg 03	1. FFC turbine Potsdam III	SV Red-White Flatow

2009/10	SV Altlüdersdorf	SV Babelsberg 03 II	1. FFC turbine Potsdam III	SG Blue-White Beelitz

2010/11	FSV Union Fürstenwalde	SV Babelsberg 03	SG Blue-White Beelitz	SG Blue-White Beelitz

2011/12	SG blue-yellow foliage village	SV Falkensee-Finkenkrug	SG Blue-White Beelitz	FC Borussia Brandenburg

2012/13	FC Strausberg	FSV Optik Rathenow	SG Blue-White Beelitz	Potsdam Kickers 94

2013/14	SV Germania 90 Schöneiche	FSV Optik Rathenow	Potsdam Kickers 94	SG Blue-White Beelitz

2014/15	1. FC Frankfurt	FC Energie Cottbus	FSV Babelsberg 74	FSV Babelsberg 74

2015/16	SV Green-White Brieselang	SV Babelsberg 03	FSV Babelsberg 74	SG Blue-White Beelitz

2016/17	VfB 1921 Krieschow	FC Energie Cottbus	SpG FC Stahl Brandenburg	FSV Babelsberg 74

2017/18	Ludwigsfelder FC	FC Energie Cottbus	FSV Babelsberg 74	FSV Babelsberg 74

2018/19	SV Victoria Seelow	FC Energie Cottbus	FSV Babelsberg 74	FSV Babelsberg 74

2019/20	no master pitted	FSV Union Fürstenwalde	no master pitted	no winner determined

2020/21

¹From the 1994/95 season, Brandenburg played in its own regional league. Before that, the clubs were incorporated into the Landesliga Berlin-Brandenburg. However, there was no championship team from Brandenburg.

Web links

Official homepage of the FLB

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d quotient regulation. In: Sportbuzzer.de. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
↑ 17 circles become eight. FLB, October 19, 2011, accessed January 9, 2013 .
↑ The FLB's booklet for the 2013/14 season.
↑ Matthias Haack: 80 weeks until the merger. In: Märkische Oderzeitung . December 5, 2012, accessed January 9, 2013 .
↑ New frontiers for the future. FLB, May 8, 2012, accessed January 9, 2013 .
↑ Sebastian Morgner: The boards of the merging circles in the state of Brandenburg have decided. In: maz-online.de. Märkische Allgemeine, January 14, 2013, accessed October 4, 2017 .
↑ The DFB; Member statistics. In: www.dfb.de . German Football Association , June 17, 2020, accessed on August 16, 2020 .

[Quotientenregelung-1] quotient regulation. In: Sportbuzzer.de. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .

[2] 17 circles become eight. FLB, October 19, 2011, accessed January 9, 2013 .

[3] The FLB's booklet for the 2013/14 season.

[moz-4] Matthias Haack: 80 weeks until the merger. In: Märkische Oderzeitung . December 5, 2012, accessed January 9, 2013 .

[5] New frontiers for the future. FLB, May 8, 2012, accessed January 9, 2013 .

[6] Sebastian Morgner: The boards of the merging circles in the state of Brandenburg have decided. In: maz-online.de. Märkische Allgemeine, January 14, 2013, accessed October 4, 2017 .

[7] The DFB; Member statistics. In: www.dfb.de . German Football Association , June 17, 2020, accessed on August 16, 2020 .