SG Nordring Berlin is a German association football club

Football in Germany

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 based in the capital city of Berlin

Berlin

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. The club traces its roots back to 22 November 1893 establishment of Berliner Fussball Club vom Jahre 1893

Berliner Fussball Club vom Jahre 1893

Berliner Fußball-Club vom Jahre 1893 was a German association football club from the city of Berlin. The club is notable as one of the founding clubs of the German Football Association at Leipzig in 1900...

. BFC 93 became one of the founding clubs

Founding Clubs of the DFB

The DFB was formed January 28, 1900 in Leipzig. The commonly accepted number of founding clubs represented at the inaugural meeting is 86, but this number is uncertain. The vote held to establish the association was 62:22 in favour . Some delegates present represented more than one club, but may...

 of the DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund, en:German Football Association) at Leipzig

Leipzig

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 in 1900. They played top flight city football in the Märkischer Fussball Bund

Brandenburg football championship

The Brandenburg football championship was the highest association football competition in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, including Berlin, established in 1898...

 from 1904–07 before slipping to lower tier competition.

History

In 1918, the club merged with Berliner Normannia 08 to form Berliner Sportvereinigung Normannia vom Jahre 1893. The union was brief, however, and was undone the following year.
In 1933, BFC 93 found a new partner in Berliner Sport Club Eintracht-Borussia 01 which was itself the product of a 1911 merger between Berliner Sport Club Borussia 02 and Berliner Sport Club Eintracht 01

Eintracht 01 Berlin

Eintracht 01 Berlin was a German association football club from the city of Berlin. Established on 15 September 1901, Eintracht eventually became part of the tradition of present day club Nordring Berlin. In the first decade of the 1900s the club played in the Märkische Meisterschaft, one of two...

. The team then played as BSC Eintract-Borussia vom Jahre 1893 Berlin until the end of World War II

World War II

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 when, like most other organizations in the country including sports and football clubs, it was dissolved by occupying Allied authorities.

New clubs were formed soon after the war and the former membership of SC became part of Sportgruppe Nordring in 1945. SGN joined East German competition

Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR

The Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR was since the 1950s the football association of the German Democratic Republic, fielding the East Germany national football team until 1990 before rejoining its counterpart, the German Football Association DFB, which had been founded in 1904....

 and took part in just a single season of top flight postwar play. The team briefly resumed its postwar identity in 1948 before being re-organized as Sportgemeinschaft Nordring the following year. They enjoyed some minor success over the years at the local level. The first and second teams won division titles in 1958, and the first team made appearances in two district cup finals. The club narrowly missed promotion in 1984 on goal difference and then went through a difficult period as it struggled financially.

Following German reunification

German reunification

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in 1990 the club was known as SG Nordring 1949. The team currently plays in Berlin's Kreisliga A (IX).