Helgoland Berlin
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TSV Helgoland is a German association football club
from the Templehof district of the city of Berlin
. It was established 5 September 1897 as Berliner Thor- und Fußball-Club 1897 Helgoland and played first division football in the Oberliga Berlin
in 1901–02 and 1906–07. The club takes its name from the North Sea
island of Helgoland and its colours from the island's coat of arms.
TuFC also fielded a cricket
team in its earliest years. Thorball or torball was a German word in use in the 1890s and early 1900s for the sport of cricket. Several early clubs playing the new "English" games of football, rugby, and cricket incorporated it into their name. The term never caught on and did not enter into common usage, soon being abandoned by sports clubs. Today torball may be used to refer to a form of football played by the blind or vision-impaired.
On 21 February 1926, Helgoland merged with Spielvereinigung Tempelhof 1906 to create Tempelhofer Spielvereinigung 1897 Helgoland. TSV was itself the product of an earlier 1924 merger between Tempelhofer SV 1923 and Tempelhofer Fußballklub Borussia 1906. From 1926–30, the club also had a boxing
department.
Helgoland disappeared in the middle of World War II on 6 April 1941, but was re-established after the conflict on 29 October 1949, and remains active today in Berlin's Kreisliga A (IX).
Football in Germany
Association football is the most popular sport in Germany. The German Football Association is the sport's national governing body, with 6.6 million members organized in over 26,000 football clubs. There is a league system, with the 1. and 2. Bundesliga on top, and the winner of the first...
from the Templehof district of the city of Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
. It was established 5 September 1897 as Berliner Thor- und Fußball-Club 1897 Helgoland and played first division football in the Oberliga Berlin
Oberliga Berlin
The Amateur-Oberliga Berlin was the second tier of the German football league system in the city of West-Berlin in Germany from 1947 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963, operating under the name of Amateurliga Berlin. After 1963, it was the third tier until 1991, when the league was...
in 1901–02 and 1906–07. The club takes its name from the North Sea
North Sea
In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively...
island of Helgoland and its colours from the island's coat of arms.
TuFC also fielded a cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
team in its earliest years. Thorball or torball was a German word in use in the 1890s and early 1900s for the sport of cricket. Several early clubs playing the new "English" games of football, rugby, and cricket incorporated it into their name. The term never caught on and did not enter into common usage, soon being abandoned by sports clubs. Today torball may be used to refer to a form of football played by the blind or vision-impaired.
On 21 February 1926, Helgoland merged with Spielvereinigung Tempelhof 1906 to create Tempelhofer Spielvereinigung 1897 Helgoland. TSV was itself the product of an earlier 1924 merger between Tempelhofer SV 1923 and Tempelhofer Fußballklub Borussia 1906. From 1926–30, the club also had a boxing
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
department.
Helgoland disappeared in the middle of World War II on 6 April 1941, but was re-established after the conflict on 29 October 1949, and remains active today in Berlin's Kreisliga A (IX).