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Hamburger SV
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Hamburger Sport-Verein e. V. commonly known as Hamburger SV, Hamburg or HSV, is a German sport club based in Hamburg, its largest branch being its football department. HSVs football team has the distinction of having played continuously in the top tier of the German football league system since the end of World War I. It is the team that has played in every season of the Bundesliga since its foundation in 1963. HSV has won the German national championship six times, the DFB-Pokal three times and the League Cup twice. The teams most successful period was from the mid-1970s until the mid-1980s when, in addition to several domestic honours, they won the 1976–77 European Cup Winners Cup and their outstanding player was German national star Felix Magath. To date, HSVs last major trophy was the 1986–87 DFB-Pokal, HSV play their home games at the Volksparkstadion in Bahrenfeld, a western district of Hamburg. The club colours are blue, white and black but the home kit of the team is white jerseys. The teams most common nickname is die Rothosen, as it is one of Germanys oldest clubs, it is also known as der Dinosaurier. HSV have rivalries with Werder Bremen, with whom they contest the Nordderby, and Hamburg-based FC St. Pauli, HSV is notable in football as a grassroots organisation with youth development a strong theme. The club had a team in the Womens Bundesliga from 2003 to 2012, other club departments include badminton, baseball, basketball, bowling, boxing, cricket, darts, hockey, golf, gymnastics, handball and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation exercises. These departments represent about 10% of the club membership, HSV is one of the biggest sports clubs in Germany with over 70,000 members in all its departments and stated by Forbes to be among the 20-largest football clubs in the world. This was the first of three clubs merged on 2 June 1919 to create HSV in its present form. HSV in its club statute recognises the founding of SC Germania as its own date of origin, the other two clubs in the June 1919 merger were Hamburger FC founded in 1888 and FC Falke Eppendorf dating back to 1906. The merger came about because the three clubs had been weakened by the impact of the First World War on manpower and finance. SC Germania was formed originally as a club and did not begin to play football until 1891. SC Germania had its first success in 1896, winning the Hamburg-Altona championship for the first of five times, Hamburger SC1888 was founded by students on 1 June 1888. It later had links with a team called FC Viktoria 95 and. SC Germania and Hamburger SC1888 were among 86 clubs who founded the Deutscher Fußball-Bund in Leipzig on 28 January 1900, FC Falke was founded by students in Eppendorf on 5 March 1906 but it was never a successful team and played in lower leagues
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Luitpold Popp
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Luitpold Popp was a German football defender who played for 1. Popp joined Nürnberg in 1917, and went on to win four German football championships with the club and he also made five appearances for the German national team between 1920 and 1926. German football championship,1920,1921,1925,1927 Profile at worldfootball. net
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Hertha BSC
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Hertha, Berliner Sport-Club e. V. commonly known as Hertha BSC, Hertha Berlin or simply Hertha, is a German association football club based in the Charlottenburg locality of Berlin. Hertha BSC play in the Bundesliga, the division of German football. Bundesliga table at the end of the 2012–13 season, Hertha BSC was founded in 1892, and was a founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900. The team won the German championship in 1930 and 1931, since 1963, Herthas stadium has been the Olympiastadion. The club is known as Die Alte Dame in German, which translates to The Old Lady, in 2002, the sports activities of the professional, amateur, and under-19 teams were separated into Hertha BSC GmbH & Co. The name Hertha is a variation on Nerthus referring to fertility goddess from Germanic mythology, Hertha performed consistently well on the field, including a win in the first Berlin championship final in 1905. In May 1910, Hertha won a match against Southend United. However, their success was not matched financially and in 1920 the staunchly working-class Hertha merged with the well-heeled club Berliner Sport-Club to form Hertha Berliner Sport-Club. The new team continued to enjoy success in the Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg. Notwithstanding, Hertha emerged as the Germanys second most successful team during the inter-war years, German football was re-organized under the Third Reich in 1933 into 16 top-flight divisions, which saw Hertha playing in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg. The club continued to enjoy success within their division, regularly finishing in the half of the table. It faded from prominence, however, unable to advance out of the rounds of the national championship rounds. Politically, the club was overhauled under Hitler, with Hans Pfeifer, after World War II, occupying Allied authorities banned most organizations in Germany, including sports and football clubs. Hertha was re-formed late in 1945 as SG Gesundbrunnen and resumed play in the Oberliga Berlin – Gruppe C, by the end of 1949, it had re-claimed their identity as Hertha BSC and earned a return to the top-flight. Tensions between the western Allies and the Soviets occupying various sectors of the city, and the developing Cold War, led to chaotic conditions for football in the capital. Hertha was banned from playing against East German teams in the 1949–50 season after taking on several players, a number of sides from the eastern half of the city were forced from the Oberliga Berlin to the newly established DDR-Liga beginning with the 1950–51 season. Through the 1950s, a rivalry developed with Tennis Borussia Berlin. A proposal for a merger between the two clubs in 1958 was resoundingly rejected, with three of the 266 members voting in favour
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Baltic football championship
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The Baltic football championship was the highest association football competition in the Prussian provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and West Prussia. The competition was disbanded in 1933 and it should not be confused with the Baltic Cup, a competition for the national teams of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Instead, the competition was named after the Baltic Sea, its clubs mostly based on the shore of this sea, German football was, from its beginnings, divided into regional associations, each of which carried out their own championship matches. These often pre-dated the national German championship, with the inception of the latter in 1903, the former became qualifying tournaments. Regional championships still held a value for the local clubs. At the end of the Second World War, some resumed, others, such as the Baltic championship, completely disappeared, especially if the territories they were held in were no longer part of Germany. With the South West German football championship, a new regional competition also appeared in 1945, ultimately, with the formation of the Fußball-Bundesliga, regional championships ceased altogether. When the Baltic championship was established in 1908, the region of North Eastern Germany was politically part of the Kingdom of Prussia, as the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and West Prussia. With the defeat of the German Empire in 1918 and the formation of a Republic and this turned East Prussia into an exclave, separated from mainland Germany. The city of Danzig, previously part of West Prussia, became the Free City of Danzig, a small portion of East Prussia, the region around Soldau in the south west of the province, was also awarded to Poland. In other parts of East Prussia, a plebiscite was held, the Memel Territory came initially under French protection and was later annexed by Lithuania. Pomerania was not affected by any territorial changes after the First World War, clubs from both Danzig and Memel continued to compete in the Baltic championship despite not being part of Germany anymore. Clubs from Memel simultaneously took part in the Lithuanian championship, too, the Baltic Football Association was formed in 1907. In 1930, the parts of Pomerania joined the Verband Brandenburgischer Ballspielvereine. The Verband Königsberger Ballspiel Vereine was formed on 3 September 1904, in 1927, this association was renamed Baltischer Sportverband. The Baltic football championship was first contested in 1908 and won by the VfB Königsberg, only three teams played in the competition, the champions of Danzig, Königsberg and Elbing. The champions of Pomerania did not yet take part and it was staged as a knockout competition. The winner of this first competition took part in the sixth edition of the national German championship for the first time
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Vereinigte Breslauer Sportfreunde
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Vereinigte Breslauer Sportfreunde was a German association football club from what was at the time the city of Breslau, Lower Silesia in Germany and is today Wroclaw, Poland. The club was established in 1919 through the merger of predecessor sides SC Preußen Breslau and they dominated play in the regional Südostdeutschland league in the period immediately following World War I. Sportclub Preußen Breslau was established 15 December 1902 and made a appearance in the regional Südostdeutschland championship round in 1913. After qualifying through a 1,0 victory over Britannia Posen they went on to face Askania Forst in a semifinal contest and they lost the match 1,2, but the result was annulled and the game replayed. The rematch ended in another 2,1 victory for Forst which stood, after World War I the team merged with Verein Breslauer Sportfreunde. SC1904 Breslau was established in 1904 and took the name Verein Breslauer Sportfreunde in 1911 and they advanced to the league final in 1913–14, they beat Beuthen 093,2 in qualifying before eliminating Viktoria Forst 2,1. In the final they were beaten 1,3 by old rival Askania, World War I severely curtailed football competition in Germany, which was suspended or local in character between 1914 and 1919. Following the conflict, VBS became the dominant side in Südost regional play and they again beat Beuthen in qualifying before avenging themselves on Askania through a 1,0 semifinal victory. The team then claimed the title by way of a 6,2 win over Viktoria Forst. The title win advanced Breslau to the national stage and they defeated Union Oberschöneweide 3,2 in the quarterfinals before going out 4,0 to SpVgg Fürth. The clubs 1920–21 campaign ended in another title win through a 2,1 victory over Viktoria. VBS earned three more Südostdeutschland championships from 1922–24, quarterfinal appearances in the German championships ended in defeat in each of the following two seasons,0,4 to SpVgg Fürth in 1923, and 0,3 to Hamburger SV in 1924. The team claimed its last title in 1927 and made losing national eighthfinal appearances in 1927,1928, in 1933, VBS merged with Breslauer Sportclub 08 to form Breslauer SpVg 02. That club went on to first division play in the Gauliga Schlesien, camillo Ugi represented predecessor side Preußen on the German national team, earning a single cap before leaving for VfB Leipzig in 1909 where he would earn another 14 caps. South Eastern German champions,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1927 Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables
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