Football in Berlin
Hertha BSC, a founder of the DFB, played in the West German system during the Cold War.
The ground was also a venue in the 1974 FIFA World Cup group containing both West and East Germany.
The 2006 FIFA World Cup Final was held at Olympiastadion and saw Italy defeat France on penalties.
Open Air gatherings of several hundred thousands spectators have become popular during international football competitions, like the World Cup or the UEFA European Championship.
[2] Hertha was the most successful club in the Brandenburg football championship (1892–1933), winning on 12 occasions, including seven consecutive titles between 1925 and 1931 and the last season in 1932-33 before the VBB-Oberliga was abolished by the Nazi regime.
In 1999–2000, Hertha were Berlin's first-ever representative in the UEFA Champions League, defeating Anorthosis Famagusta of Cyprus to qualify for the First Group Stage, where they advanced at the expense of Italy's AC Milan.
[5] The team were runner-up in the 1923 German football championship, where they lost 0-3 in the final to Hamburger SV.
After World War II the club was temporarily banned, and then re-established as SG Oberschöneweide.
Located in the eastern part of Berlin, the club suffered badly from the division of the city.
[20][21] BFC Dynamo had the youngest team in the league in the 1975-76 DDR-Oberliga season with an average age of only 22,8 years.
[22][23] Most of its top performers of the 1980s came through its own youth teams, such as Andreas Thom, Frank Rohde, Bodo Rudwaleit and Rainer Ernst.
The club was controversial for its connection to the Stasi and was re-branded FC Berlin on 19 February 1990.
BFC Dynamo has youth teams in all age groups and operates an award-winning day care project.
The club won the 1893–94 German Championship on 28 July 2007, in a two-legged final 113 years after their opponents FC Hanau 93 decided not to travel 400 km to Berlin on the original occasion.
The club led 2020-21 Regionalliga Nordost when the season ended prematurely after eleven rounds played due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The club took up football in 1903 and quickly developed a rivalry with Berlin's leading side Hertha BSC.
The team played in tier II leagues throughout the 60s and 70s with the exception of two short-lived forays into the Bundesliga in 1974–75 and 1976–77.
Through most of its history TeBe has been afflicted by financial problems but has always managed to hang on while many other of Berlin's clubs folded or disappeared in mergers.
Now competing as TuS Makkabi Berlin in the sixth-tier Berlin-Liga, the club made headlines in Germany and the Jewish State of Israel[34] in October 2006.
[35] Türkiyemspor Berlin is another sixth-tier Berlin-Liga club, founded in 1978 and composed of Germans of Turkish descent.
FC Union Berlin disputed the first Bundesliga meeting between the two teams, occurred on 3 November 2019.
[40][41] Football at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin saw group games and quarter-finals held at three venues in the capital: the Poststadion, the Mommsenstadion and the Stadion am Gesundbrunnen (home to Hertha between 1924 and 1974).
All games after the quarter-finals were held at the Olympic Stadium, and Italy beat Austria 2-1 in the final on 15 August.
France's Zinedine Zidane was sent off in his last-ever match, for headbutting Italy's Marco Materazzi's chest in retaliation to verbal insults.
[43] IPG's independent media agency Initiative Worldwide estimated a 260 million people viewership.
[44] The independent firm Initiative Futures Sport + Entertainment estimates it at 322 million viewers.
[46] In July 2014, it was announced that Berlin would also be the host for the 2015 UEFA Women's Champions League Final.
FFC Frankfurt defeated French side Paris 2–1 in the final to win a record fourth title.
