Gdansk Air Force Sports Club

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Luftwaffe SV Danzig
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Full name Gdansk Air Force Sports Club
place Danzig
Founded 1941
Dissolved 1945
Club colors Blue White
Stadion Preußenplatz Bischofsberg
Top league Gauliga
successes Gauliga champion 1944
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The LSV Danzig (short Air Force SV Gdansk ) was a military sports club from in today's Poland situated Danzig .

history

The club was founded in June 1941 and consisted mainly of flak soldiers. The eleven, whose ranks included outstanding players from Beuthen, Hirschberg, Leipzig, Wuppertal, Hamborn, Bochum and Gladbeck and who, with goalkeeper Matuschek, were able to field a player from Austria Wien, took part in the Gauliga Gdansk football league from the 1942/43 season -West Prussia part. Here the club was able to win the runner-up in the first season. In 1944 the Danzig Gauligame champions were qualified for the final round of the German soccer championship 1943/44 , in which they failed in the first round at Hertha BSC .

Subsequently, the club no longer took part in games due to the war.

successes

Known players

source

  • West Prussia Yearbook, Volume 35/1985, in it: Gerhard Gommel "Football in West Prussia - In Sportgau 19 during the Second World War"