FC Pommern Stralsund
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FC Pommern Stralsund is a German association football club
from the city of Stralsund
, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Formed on 29 March 1994, the club is the successor to the East German army sports club Vorwärts Stralsund, which was a longtime second division side in the DDR-Liga with a pair of first division seasons to its credit.
, Staffel Nord title in 1971. Their stay in the top flight was only for a single season, but the team went on to capture DDR-Liga titles in each of their next two campaigns and won their way through the promotion playoffs in 1974 to return to the Oberliga.
After another single season turn in the Oberliga Stralsund captured another pair of DDR-Liga titles over the next seven years, while finishing as runners-up five times. They failed to win their way back to first division play in two attempts in 1977 and 1982. The club's run of strong performances ended and they spent the following seven seasons as a mid-table side.
Throughout this period from 1968–89 ASG took part each year in FDGB-Pokal (East German Cup) play, but was never able to do better than an advance to the quarter-finals on four separate occasions.
In 1989, the team joined BSG Motor Stralsund which took up the place of ASG in the DDR-Liga. On 17 July 1990, on the eve of the reunification of Germany
, BSG became part of the resurrected traditional side TSV 1860 Stralsund. The team played a final season in the DDR-Liga – delivering a poor 16th place result and going out in the opening round of the FDGB-Pokal – before the football competitions of East and West Germany were combined. On 11 May 1994, the footballers left TSV to become part of present day side FC Pommern Stralsund.
The club was initially a strong side in the Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
(V), achieving a second place in the league in 1992–93. For the most part, it finished in the top six of the league, never encountering any real relegation trouble. However a finish in second-last place in the 2005–06 season meant relegation to the Landesliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-Ost(VI), and the club's attempts to return to the Verbandsliga have so far been unsuccessful.
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from the city of Stralsund
Stralsund
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, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Formed on 29 March 1994, the club is the successor to the East German army sports club Vorwärts Stralsund, which was a longtime second division side in the DDR-Liga with a pair of first division seasons to its credit.
History
.Armee-Sportgemeinschaft Vorwärts Stralsund was established on 21 July 1967 through the transfer of ASG Vorwärts Rostock-Gelsdorf as part of the reorganization of the national armed forces sports association known as Vorwärts SV. The transfer marked the return of a club that was moved to Rostock in the 1950s. The now Stralsund-based side took up its predecessor's place in the DDR-Liga (II) and continued to deliver middling performances until breaking through to the first division DDR Oberliga after a DDR-LigaDDR-Liga
The DDR-Liga was, prior to German reunification in 1990, the second level of football competition in the DDR , being roughly equivalent to the Bundesliga in West Germany.-1950-1955:The league was established with two divisions of ten teams each in 1950...
, Staffel Nord title in 1971. Their stay in the top flight was only for a single season, but the team went on to capture DDR-Liga titles in each of their next two campaigns and won their way through the promotion playoffs in 1974 to return to the Oberliga.
After another single season turn in the Oberliga Stralsund captured another pair of DDR-Liga titles over the next seven years, while finishing as runners-up five times. They failed to win their way back to first division play in two attempts in 1977 and 1982. The club's run of strong performances ended and they spent the following seven seasons as a mid-table side.
Throughout this period from 1968–89 ASG took part each year in FDGB-Pokal (East German Cup) play, but was never able to do better than an advance to the quarter-finals on four separate occasions.
In 1989, the team joined BSG Motor Stralsund which took up the place of ASG in the DDR-Liga. On 17 July 1990, on the eve of the reunification of Germany
German reunification
German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany , and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. The start of this process is commonly referred by Germans as die...
, BSG became part of the resurrected traditional side TSV 1860 Stralsund. The team played a final season in the DDR-Liga – delivering a poor 16th place result and going out in the opening round of the FDGB-Pokal – before the football competitions of East and West Germany were combined. On 11 May 1994, the footballers left TSV to become part of present day side FC Pommern Stralsund.
The club was initially a strong side in the Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
The Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern...
(V), achieving a second place in the league in 1992–93. For the most part, it finished in the top six of the league, never encountering any real relegation trouble. However a finish in second-last place in the 2005–06 season meant relegation to the Landesliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-Ost(VI), and the club's attempts to return to the Verbandsliga have so far been unsuccessful.
Current
The club is playing in the Landesliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-Ost – now a seventh tier side after the introduction of the 3. Liga – in the 2008–09 season, sitting in third place in this league, 17 points behind the leader, without any prospect of promotion. The TSV 1860 Stralsund continues to field a football team too, playing one level below in the Bezirksliga Nord, in a similar position as FC Pommern.Honors
- DDR-Liga (II)
- Champions Northern division: 1971
- Champions A division: 1973, 1974, 1977, 1982
Recent seasons
| Year | Division | Position |
| 1999–2000 | Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern The Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern... (V) |
3rd |
| 2000–01 | Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 5th |
| 2001–02 | Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 5th |
| 2002–03 | Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 9th |
| 2003–04 | Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 6th |
| 2004–05 | Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 10th |
| 2005–06 | Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 15th  |
| 2006–07 | Landesliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-Ost (VI) | 4th |
| 2007–08 | Landesliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-Ost | 2nd |
| 2008–09 | Landesliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-Ost (VII) |