Their complicated lineage includes a number of clubs and they can trace their roots back to some of the city's earliest football sides.

On 1 October 1893, a group of 17-year-old school boys formed a club they called Berliner FC Rapide Niderschönhausen.

After the war the football and handball departments of this group of clubs came together as Sportgemeinschaft Schillerpark which was renamed SC Wedding in 1948.

The other thread of SV Nord Wedding's history begins on 15 October 1896 with the founding of Berliner Sport Club Favorit.

The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 effectively split up the club by isolating the Pankowers in the east, greatly reducing the side's strength.