STC Görlitz
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STC Görlitz was a German association football club
from the city of Görlitz
, Saxony
. The club was established as Sportclub Preußen Görlitz in 1906.
(0:9) who were on their way to the league championship.
Domestic competition was disrupted throughout Germany from 1914–18 by World War I. The SOFV was most seriously affected of the country's various regional leagues and did not resume play until the 1919–20 season. In 1918, Preußen adopted the name Sport- und Turn-Club Görlitz and in 1920–21 reappeared in SOFV play. They again quickly went out, this time to Vereinigte Breslauer Sportfreunde
(1:6), before disappearing into lower level competition. STC made a single season cameo in the top-flight in 1928–29 before slipping away again.
German football was reorganized in 1933 under the Third Reich into 16 regional first class divisions and Görlitz became part of the Gauliga Schlesien
. They finished in last place and were immediately relegated. The team won its way back to the Gauliga in 1939 but voluntarily withdrew before the season opened. Play in the SOFV was again disrupted by war and as travel became more difficult competition became more local in character. The Gauliga Schlesien was first broken up into the Gauliga Oberschlesien (I) and Gauliga Niederschlesien (I). By the 1943–44 season, the Gauliga Niederschlesien was in turn split into five divisions and STC finished poorly in the Gauliga Görlitz in a campaign of only 5 matches. Following the end of the war in 1945 the club disappeared.
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 Görlitz
Görlitz
Görlitz is a town in Germany. It is the easternmost town in the country, located on the Lusatian Neisse River in the Bundesland of Saxony. It is opposite the Polish town of Zgorzelec, which was a part of Görlitz until 1945. Historically, Görlitz was in the region of Upper Lusatia...
, Saxony
Saxony
The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....
. The club was established as Sportclub Preußen Görlitz in 1906.
History
SC Preußen played in the top-flight regional Südostdeutscher Fußballverband (SOFV, en:Southeast German Football Association) and while they made a string of league playoff appearances from 1911–1914, they were unable to advance out of the opening qualifying round except in 1914 when they got as far as the semifinals where they were resoundingly trounced by Askania ForstAskania Forst
Askania Forst was a German association football club in what was the city of Forst , Brandenburg and is today Zasieki, Poland. Established in 1901, the team earned a number of championships in the 1910s, but disappeared from top flight German football after 1920.-History:Fußballclub Askania Forst...
(0:9) who were on their way to the league championship.
Domestic competition was disrupted throughout Germany from 1914–18 by World War I. The SOFV was most seriously affected of the country's various regional leagues and did not resume play until the 1919–20 season. In 1918, Preußen adopted the name Sport- und Turn-Club Görlitz and in 1920–21 reappeared in SOFV play. They again quickly went out, this time to Vereinigte Breslauer Sportfreunde
Vereinigte Breslauer Sportfreunde
Vereinigte Breslauer Sportfreunde was a German association football club from what was at the time the city of Breslau, Lower Silesia in Germany and is today Wroclaw, Poland. The club was established in 1919 through the merger of predecessor sides SC Preußen Breslau and Verein Breslauer Sportfreunde...
(1:6), before disappearing into lower level competition. STC made a single season cameo in the top-flight in 1928–29 before slipping away again.
German football was reorganized in 1933 under the Third Reich into 16 regional first class divisions and Görlitz became part of the Gauliga Schlesien
Gauliga Schlesien
The Gauliga Schlesien was the highest football league in the region of Silesia , which consisted of the Prussian provinces of Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia from 1933 to 1945...
. They finished in last place and were immediately relegated. The team won its way back to the Gauliga in 1939 but voluntarily withdrew before the season opened. Play in the SOFV was again disrupted by war and as travel became more difficult competition became more local in character. The Gauliga Schlesien was first broken up into the Gauliga Oberschlesien (I) and Gauliga Niederschlesien (I). By the 1943–44 season, the Gauliga Niederschlesien was in turn split into five divisions and STC finished poorly in the Gauliga Görlitz in a campaign of only 5 matches. Following the end of the war in 1945 the club disappeared.