Minerva Berlin
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Minerva Berlin is a German association football club
from the city of Berlin
. The club was established 10 May 1893 as Berliner Fußball Club Minerva taking its name from the Roman goddess
of wisdom. A merger with Wilmersdorfer FC Frühling in 1896 led to the club taking on the name Sport-Club Minerva 93 Berlin.
After being relegated in 1906, the team re-appeared in the Berliner Meisterschaft in 1908. A unified Berlin-Brandenberg first division began play with the 1911–12 season and Minerva enjoyed their best finish to date with a 3rd place result in the league's Staffel B. Over the next dozen years they were generally a lower to mid-table side, repeating their 3rd place showing in 1915 and earning a second place finish in 1921, before being sent down after a 10th place result in 1924.
Minerva was much improved on their return to the Berlin-Brandenberg Oberliga (I) in 1926. They won a number of top three finishes over the next ten years. This included a first place finish in the Oberliga Staffel A in 1932, followed by the team's only appearance in the national playoffs where they were put out in an eighthfinal match by Bayern Munich.
(I) and returned to the role of a middling side. A second place finish in 1936 was immediately followed by a 9th place result and relegation.
The team immediately bounced back by capturing the Bezirksliga Berlin (II) and spent the next six seasons in Gauliga play before again being relegated in 1944. By this time, World War II had overtaken the country and football became more local in character due to the danger and expense of travel. Manpower shortages led to wartime mergers between clubs known as Kriegsspielgemeinshaft; Minerva joined Spandauer SV
to play the incomplete 1944–45 season as KSG Minerva 93/SSV Berlin.
At the end of the 1950s, Minerva slipped out of top-flight competition into the Amateurliga Berlin (II) where they remained until disappearing into lower tier city competition in the mid-1960s.
Minerva Berlin is a German association football club
from the city of Berlin
. The club was established 10 May 1893 as Berliner Fußball Club Minerva taking its name from the Roman goddess
of wisdom. A merger with Wilmersdorfer FC Frühling in 1896 led to the club taking on the name Sport-Club Minerva 93 Berlin.
After being relegated in 1906, the team re-appeared in the Berliner Meisterschaft in 1908. A unified Berlin-Brandenberg first division began play with the 1911–12 season and Minerva enjoyed their best finish to date with a 3rd place result in the league's Staffel B. Over the next dozen years they were generally a lower to mid-table side, repeating their 3rd place showing in 1915 and earning a second place finish in 1921, before being sent down after a 10th place result in 1924.
Minerva was much improved on their return to the Berlin-Brandenberg Oberliga (I) in 1926. They won a number of top three finishes over the next ten years. This included a first place finish in the Oberliga Staffel A in 1932, followed by the team's only appearance in the national playoffs where they were put out in an eighthfinal match by Bayern Munich.
(I) and returned to the role of a middling side. A second place finish in 1936 was immediately followed by a 9th place result and relegation.
The team immediately bounced back by capturing the Bezirksliga Berlin (II) and spent the next six seasons in Gauliga play before again being relegated in 1944. By this time, World War II had overtaken the country and football became more local in character due to the danger and expense of travel. Manpower shortages led to wartime mergers between clubs known as Kriegsspielgemeinshaft; Minerva joined Spandauer SV
to play the incomplete 1944–45 season as KSG Minerva 93/SSV Berlin.
At the end of the 1950s, Minerva slipped out of top-flight competition into the Amateurliga Berlin (II) where they remained until disappearing into lower tier city competition in the mid-1960s.
Minerva Berlin is a German association football club
from the city of Berlin
. The club was established 10 May 1893 as Berliner Fußball Club Minerva taking its name from the Roman goddess
of wisdom. A merger with Wilmersdorfer FC Frühling in 1896 led to the club taking on the name Sport-Club Minerva 93 Berlin.
After being relegated in 1906, the team re-appeared in the Berliner Meisterschaft in 1908. A unified Berlin-Brandenberg first division began play with the 1911–12 season and Minerva enjoyed their best finish to date with a 3rd place result in the league's Staffel B. Over the next dozen years they were generally a lower to mid-table side, repeating their 3rd place showing in 1915 and earning a second place finish in 1921, before being sent down after a 10th place result in 1924.
Minerva was much improved on their return to the Berlin-Brandenberg Oberliga (I) in 1926. They won a number of top three finishes over the next ten years. This included a first place finish in the Oberliga Staffel A in 1932, followed by the team's only appearance in the national playoffs where they were put out in an eighthfinal match by Bayern Munich.
(I) and returned to the role of a middling side. A second place finish in 1936 was immediately followed by a 9th place result and relegation.
The team immediately bounced back by capturing the Bezirksliga Berlin (II) and spent the next six seasons in Gauliga play before again being relegated in 1944. By this time, World War II had overtaken the country and football became more local in character due to the danger and expense of travel. Manpower shortages led to wartime mergers between clubs known as Kriegsspielgemeinshaft; Minerva joined Spandauer SV
to play the incomplete 1944–45 season as KSG Minerva 93/SSV Berlin.
At the end of the 1950s, Minerva slipped out of top-flight competition into the Amateurliga Berlin (II) where they remained until disappearing into lower tier city competition in the mid-1960s.
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 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...
. The club was established 10 May 1893 as Berliner Fußball Club Minerva taking its name from the Roman goddess
Minerva
Minerva was the Roman goddess whom Romans from the 2nd century BC onwards equated with the Greek goddess Athena. She was the virgin goddess of poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, crafts, magic...
of wisdom. A merger with Wilmersdorfer FC Frühling in 1896 led to the club taking on the name Sport-Club Minerva 93 Berlin.
Foundation to WWII
In 1900, the team played a single season as part of the Freie Berliner Fußballvereinigung (FBF), one several early competing top tier leagues in Berlin. They were joined in 1904 by Berolina Moabit – also part of the FBF in 1900 – and Saxonia Berlin, and returned to the top-flight that season in the Berliner Meisterschaft (I). Minerva remained a first division club for most for the next 50 years.After being relegated in 1906, the team re-appeared in the Berliner Meisterschaft in 1908. A unified Berlin-Brandenberg first division began play with the 1911–12 season and Minerva enjoyed their best finish to date with a 3rd place result in the league's Staffel B. Over the next dozen years they were generally a lower to mid-table side, repeating their 3rd place showing in 1915 and earning a second place finish in 1921, before being sent down after a 10th place result in 1924.
Minerva was much improved on their return to the Berlin-Brandenberg Oberliga (I) in 1926. They won a number of top three finishes over the next ten years. This included a first place finish in the Oberliga Staffel A in 1932, followed by the team's only appearance in the national playoffs where they were put out in an eighthfinal match by Bayern Munich.
Play during the Third Reich
Germany football was re-organized under the Third Reich in 1933 into 16 regional top-flight divisions. Minerva became part of the Gauliga Berlin-BrandenburgGauliga Berlin-Brandenburg
The Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg was the highest football league in the provinces of Brandenburg and Berlin in the German state of Prussia from 1933 to 1945...
(I) and returned to the role of a middling side. A second place finish in 1936 was immediately followed by a 9th place result and relegation.
The team immediately bounced back by capturing the Bezirksliga Berlin (II) and spent the next six seasons in Gauliga play before again being relegated in 1944. By this time, World War II had overtaken the country and football became more local in character due to the danger and expense of travel. Manpower shortages led to wartime mergers between clubs known as Kriegsspielgemeinshaft; Minerva joined Spandauer SV
Spandauer SV
Spandauer SV is a German association football club that plays in Berlin.-Early years:The capital city was one of the earliest centres of German football and was home to 1. Spandauer Fußballklub Triton, formed on 24 May 1894, and Sportclub Germania Spandau, formed on 15 October 1895...
to play the incomplete 1944–45 season as KSG Minerva 93/SSV Berlin.
Postwar play
Following the war, occupying Allied forces disbanded most organizations in the country, including sports and football clubs. Football club were soon reformed and the former membership was reorganized as SG Tiergarten which played in the postwar Stadtliga Berlin, Staffel C in 1945–47. As SG Tiergarten-Minerva the team was part of the Landesliga Berlin in 1947–48 where they finished atop Staffel A and moved on to the restored Oberliga Berlin (I) to play a single season that ended in relegation. Now playing again as SC Minerva 93 Berlin, they won another second division title in the Amateurliga Berlin and returned to the Oberliga for another 8 seasons. Their best results were second place finishes in 1954 and 1956.At the end of the 1950s, Minerva slipped out of top-flight competition into the Amateurliga Berlin (II) where they remained until disappearing into lower tier city competition in the mid-1960s.
Minerva Berlin is a German association football club
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 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...
. The club was established 10 May 1893 as Berliner Fußball Club Minerva taking its name from the Roman goddess
Minerva
Minerva was the Roman goddess whom Romans from the 2nd century BC onwards equated with the Greek goddess Athena. She was the virgin goddess of poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, crafts, magic...
of wisdom. A merger with Wilmersdorfer FC Frühling in 1896 led to the club taking on the name Sport-Club Minerva 93 Berlin.
Foundation to WWII
In 1900, the team played a single season as part of the Freie Berliner Fußballvereinigung (FBF), one several early competing top tier leagues in Berlin. They were joined in 1904 by Berolina Moabit – also part of the FBF in 1900 – and Saxonia Berlin, and returned to the top-flight that season in the Berliner Meisterschaft (I). Minerva remained a first division club for most for the next 50 years.After being relegated in 1906, the team re-appeared in the Berliner Meisterschaft in 1908. A unified Berlin-Brandenberg first division began play with the 1911–12 season and Minerva enjoyed their best finish to date with a 3rd place result in the league's Staffel B. Over the next dozen years they were generally a lower to mid-table side, repeating their 3rd place showing in 1915 and earning a second place finish in 1921, before being sent down after a 10th place result in 1924.
Minerva was much improved on their return to the Berlin-Brandenberg Oberliga (I) in 1926. They won a number of top three finishes over the next ten years. This included a first place finish in the Oberliga Staffel A in 1932, followed by the team's only appearance in the national playoffs where they were put out in an eighthfinal match by Bayern Munich.
Play during the Third Reich
Germany football was re-organized under the Third Reich in 1933 into 16 regional top-flight divisions. Minerva became part of the Gauliga Berlin-BrandenburgGauliga Berlin-Brandenburg
The Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg was the highest football league in the provinces of Brandenburg and Berlin in the German state of Prussia from 1933 to 1945...
(I) and returned to the role of a middling side. A second place finish in 1936 was immediately followed by a 9th place result and relegation.
The team immediately bounced back by capturing the Bezirksliga Berlin (II) and spent the next six seasons in Gauliga play before again being relegated in 1944. By this time, World War II had overtaken the country and football became more local in character due to the danger and expense of travel. Manpower shortages led to wartime mergers between clubs known as Kriegsspielgemeinshaft; Minerva joined Spandauer SV
Spandauer SV
Spandauer SV is a German association football club that plays in Berlin.-Early years:The capital city was one of the earliest centres of German football and was home to 1. Spandauer Fußballklub Triton, formed on 24 May 1894, and Sportclub Germania Spandau, formed on 15 October 1895...
to play the incomplete 1944–45 season as KSG Minerva 93/SSV Berlin.
Postwar play
Following the war, occupying Allied forces disbanded most organizations in the country, including sports and football clubs. Football club were soon reformed and the former membership was reorganized as SG Tiergarten which played in the postwar Stadtliga Berlin, Staffel C in 1945–47. As SG Tiergarten-Minerva the team was part of the Landesliga Berlin in 1947–48 where they finished atop Staffel A and moved on to the restored Oberliga Berlin (I) to play a single season that ended in relegation. Now playing again as SC Minerva 93 Berlin, they won another second division title in the Amateurliga Berlin and returned to the Oberliga for another 8 seasons. Their best results were second place finishes in 1954 and 1956.At the end of the 1950s, Minerva slipped out of top-flight competition into the Amateurliga Berlin (II) where they remained until disappearing into lower tier city competition in the mid-1960s.
Minerva Berlin is a German association football club
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 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...
. The club was established 10 May 1893 as Berliner Fußball Club Minerva taking its name from the Roman goddess
Minerva
Minerva was the Roman goddess whom Romans from the 2nd century BC onwards equated with the Greek goddess Athena. She was the virgin goddess of poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, crafts, magic...
of wisdom. A merger with Wilmersdorfer FC Frühling in 1896 led to the club taking on the name Sport-Club Minerva 93 Berlin.
Foundation to WWII
In 1900, the team played a single season as part of the Freie Berliner Fußballvereinigung (FBF), one several early competing top tier leagues in Berlin. They were joined in 1904 by Berolina Moabit – also part of the FBF in 1900 – and Saxonia Berlin, and returned to the top-flight that season in the Berliner Meisterschaft (I). Minerva remained a first division club for most for the next 50 years.After being relegated in 1906, the team re-appeared in the Berliner Meisterschaft in 1908. A unified Berlin-Brandenberg first division began play with the 1911–12 season and Minerva enjoyed their best finish to date with a 3rd place result in the league's Staffel B. Over the next dozen years they were generally a lower to mid-table side, repeating their 3rd place showing in 1915 and earning a second place finish in 1921, before being sent down after a 10th place result in 1924.
Minerva was much improved on their return to the Berlin-Brandenberg Oberliga (I) in 1926. They won a number of top three finishes over the next ten years. This included a first place finish in the Oberliga Staffel A in 1932, followed by the team's only appearance in the national playoffs where they were put out in an eighthfinal match by Bayern Munich.
Play during the Third Reich
Germany football was re-organized under the Third Reich in 1933 into 16 regional top-flight divisions. Minerva became part of the Gauliga Berlin-BrandenburgGauliga Berlin-Brandenburg
The Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg was the highest football league in the provinces of Brandenburg and Berlin in the German state of Prussia from 1933 to 1945...
(I) and returned to the role of a middling side. A second place finish in 1936 was immediately followed by a 9th place result and relegation.
The team immediately bounced back by capturing the Bezirksliga Berlin (II) and spent the next six seasons in Gauliga play before again being relegated in 1944. By this time, World War II had overtaken the country and football became more local in character due to the danger and expense of travel. Manpower shortages led to wartime mergers between clubs known as Kriegsspielgemeinshaft; Minerva joined Spandauer SV
Spandauer SV
Spandauer SV is a German association football club that plays in Berlin.-Early years:The capital city was one of the earliest centres of German football and was home to 1. Spandauer Fußballklub Triton, formed on 24 May 1894, and Sportclub Germania Spandau, formed on 15 October 1895...
to play the incomplete 1944–45 season as KSG Minerva 93/SSV Berlin.
Postwar play
Following the war, occupying Allied forces disbanded most organizations in the country, including sports and football clubs. Football club were soon reformed and the former membership was reorganized as SG Tiergarten which played in the postwar Stadtliga Berlin, Staffel C in 1945–47. As SG Tiergarten-Minerva the team was part of the Landesliga Berlin in 1947–48 where they finished atop Staffel A and moved on to the restored Oberliga Berlin (I) to play a single season that ended in relegation. Now playing again as SC Minerva 93 Berlin, they won another second division title in the Amateurliga Berlin and returned to the Oberliga for another 8 seasons. Their best results were second place finishes in 1954 and 1956.At the end of the 1950s, Minerva slipped out of top-flight competition into the Amateurliga Berlin (II) where they remained until disappearing into lower tier city competition in the mid-1960s.