Tennis Borussia Berlin
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Tennis Borussia Berlin is a German football club
based in Berlin-Westend
.
ised version of Prussia
. In 1903 the club took up football and quickly developed a rivalry with Berlin's leading side Hertha BSC. They won their first city league championship in 1932 in the Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg
and repeated the feat in 1941, this time by defeating Hertha (8–2) in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg
.
After World War II and into the early 1950s, TeBe emerged as Berlin's top side but were unable to keep up their form and earn selection to the Germany's new professional league, the Bundesliga
, formed in 1963. The team played in tier II leagues throughout the 60s and 70s with the exception of two short-lived forays into the Bundesliga in 1974–75 and 1976–77. Most of the 1980s were spent playing in the third tier Oberliga Berlin.
Through most of its history TeBe has been afflicted by financial problems but has always managed to hang on while many other of Berlin's clubs folded or disappeared in mergers. In 1997–98, a deep-pocketed sponsor brought expensive new talent to the team as they made a run at a return to 2. Bundesliga
, which they achieved, winning the Regionalliga Nordost
. While initially successful, the bid collapsed in 2000 as the team's finances failed. They were refused a license and were forcibly relegated to the Regionalliga Nord
(III) where they finished last in 2000–01 and so slipped further still to the NOFV-Oberliga Nord
(IV) the following season. Tennis Borussia continued playing in the fourth tier – fifth after the introduction of the 3. Liga
in 2008 – until 2009, when they won the Oberliga championship and gained promotion again to the Regionalliga Nord. After running into financial difficulties once again, the club went into administration and dropped back down to the NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V) for the 2010–11 season
. Seen as one of the pre-season favourites for a second successive relegation, they managed to reach the relegation playoffs at the end of the campaign, but finally lost out 3–1 to SC Borea Dresden
over two legs to be relegated to the sixth tier of the German football league system
, the Berlin-Liga, for the first time in their history.
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based in Berlin-Westend
Westend (Berlin)
Westend is a locality of the Berlin borough Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf situated on the Spandauer Berg, the northern peak of the Teltow plateau between the river valleys of Spree and Havel...
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History
The team was founded in 1902 and takes its name from its origins as a tennis and ping-pong club. "Borussia" is a LatinLatin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
ised version of Prussia
Prussia
Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...
. In 1903 the club took up football and quickly developed a rivalry with Berlin's leading side Hertha BSC. They won their first city league championship in 1932 in the Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg
Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg
The Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg was the highest association football competition in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, including Berlin, from 1923 to 1933...
and repeated the feat in 1941, this time by defeating Hertha (8–2) in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg
Gauliga 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...
.
After World War II and into the early 1950s, TeBe emerged as Berlin's top side but were unable to keep up their form and earn selection to the Germany's new professional league, the Bundesliga
Fußball-Bundesliga
The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
, formed in 1963. The team played in tier II leagues throughout the 60s and 70s with the exception of two short-lived forays into the Bundesliga in 1974–75 and 1976–77. Most of the 1980s were spent playing in the third tier Oberliga Berlin.
Through most of its history TeBe has been afflicted by financial problems but has always managed to hang on while many other of Berlin's clubs folded or disappeared in mergers. In 1997–98, a deep-pocketed sponsor brought expensive new talent to the team as they made a run at a return to 2. Bundesliga
2. Fußball-Bundesliga
- Changes in division set-up :* Number of clubs: currently 18. From 1974 to 1981 there were two conferences, each of 20 teams. In 1981–91 it had 20...
, which they achieved, winning the Regionalliga Nordost
Regionalliga Nordost
The Regionalliga Nordost was the third tier of the German football league system in the states of former East Germany and West-Berlin from 1994 to 2000. As such, it was almost identical in territorial cover to the old DDR-Oberliga....
. While initially successful, the bid collapsed in 2000 as the team's finances failed. They were refused a license and were forcibly relegated to the Regionalliga Nord
Regionalliga Nord
The Regionalliga Nord is currently the fourth tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga in 2008 it was the third tier. It currently is the highest regional league for the northern and eastern part of Germany. It covers ten of the sixteen states of Germany...
(III) where they finished last in 2000–01 and so slipped further still to the NOFV-Oberliga Nord
NOFV-Oberliga Nord
The NOFV-Oberliga Nord is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the northern states of former East Germany and West-Berlin. Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008, it was the fourth tier of the league system. It covers the German states of Berlin, Brandenburg and...
(IV) the following season. Tennis Borussia continued playing in the fourth tier – fifth after the introduction of the 3. Liga
3rd Liga
The 3rd Liga is the third division of football in Germany. The league started with the beginning of the 2008–09 season, when it replaced the Regionalliga as the third tier football league in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2...
in 2008 – until 2009, when they won the Oberliga championship and gained promotion again to the Regionalliga Nord. After running into financial difficulties once again, the club went into administration and dropped back down to the NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V) for the 2010–11 season
2010–11 NOFV-Oberliga
The 2010–11 season of the NOFV-Oberliga is the third season of the league at tier five of the German football league system.The NOFV-Oberliga is split into two divisions, the NOFV-Oberliga Nord and the NOFV-Oberliga Süd. Berlin AK 07 and VfB Germania Halberstadt were promoted to the 2011–12...
. Seen as one of the pre-season favourites for a second successive relegation, they managed to reach the relegation playoffs at the end of the campaign, but finally lost out 3–1 to SC Borea Dresden
SC Borea Dresden
SC Borea Dresden are a German association football club from the city of Dresden, Saxony. The club dropped the name FV Dresden-Nord on 1 July 2007 and adopted its current name to help encourage new sponsorship support...
over two legs to be relegated to the sixth tier of the German football league system
German football league system
The German football league system, or league pyramid, refers to a series of hierarchically interconnected leagues for association football clubs in Germany that consists of over 2,300 men's divisions, in which all leagues are bound together by the principle of promotion and relegation...
, the Berlin-Liga, for the first time in their history.
Naming of Tennis Borussia
Originally, the club was called "Berliner Tennis- und Ping-Pong-Gesellschaft Borussia". In 1913 the club changed its name to "Berliner Tennis Club Borussia". Finally, in 2000, the club adopted its current name "Tennis Borussia Berlin", as the club had always been known under this moniker and to avoid being mistaken as a tennis club.Current squad
League positions since 1964
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Notable players
- Past (and present) players who are the subjects of Wikipedia articles can be found here.
Managers
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Gerd Achterberg Gerd Achterberg is a former German football manager.Achterberg scored 131 goals in 327 games for Spandauer BC as a player and later went on to coach the team in two stints as manager. He also led Tennis Borussia Berlin to the 1984–85 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin championship and promotion to the 2... (1984–1985) Eckhard Krautzun Eckhard Krautzun is a German football coach and former football player.-Managerial career:As a player, Krautzun turned out for Union Solingen, Rheydter SV, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Young Fellows Zürich and TeBe Berlin. As well as a manager, Krautzun has acted as a technical director and scout... (1985–1986) Wolfgang Sidka Wolfgang Sidka is an association football manager. He led SV Werder Bremen to victory in the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1998. He was head coach of the Iraq national football team, having signed on August 9, 2010 and was sacked on August 2, 2011.-Manager:-References:... (1988–1989, 1993–1994) Fritz Bohla Fritz Bohla is a former German football player and manager.Bohla made a total of 51 appearances for BSG Energie Cottbus and 1. FC Union Berlin in the DDR-Oberliga during his playing career.- References :... (1991–1992) Willibert Kremer Willibert Kremer is a German football coach and a former player who currently works as a scout with Bayer 04 Leverkusen.-External links:... (1992–1993, 1994) Bernd Patzke Bernd Patzke is a former German football player.-External links:*... (1993) Uwe Jahn Uwe Jahn is a German football coach.During the mid-1990s, Jahn had two spells as manager of Tennis Borussia Berlin, but couldn't stop them from being relegated from the 1993–94 2. Fußball-Bundesliga.... (1994, 1994–1995) Rainer Zobel Rainer Zobel is a former German football player and current football coach.- Coaching career :In 2005, Zobel was head coach of Persepolis F.C. in Iran's Premier Football League... (1996–1997) Hermann Gerland Hermann Gerland is a German former football player and manager. He is currently the manager of the reserve team of the German Bundesliga side FC Bayern Munich.- Career :... (1997–1998) Stanislav Levý Stanislav Levý is a retired football defender and currently the manager of KF Skënderbeu Korçë, a team that plays in the Albanian Superliga.... (1998–1999) Mirko Slomka Mirko Slomka is the current head coach of Hannover 96.-Coaching career:He was the head coach of FC Schalke 04 from 2006 to 2008. He was in charge of Schalke in the year Schalke 04 finished second in the German premier league after VfB Stuttgart... (2000) Robert Jaspert Robert Jaspert is a German football coach.Jaspert represented SF Kladow, Hertha Zehlendorf, SC Wacker 04 Berlin, Preußen Wilmersdorf, SC Rapide Wedding, Weddinger FC, SC Westend 1901, NSC Marathon 02 and Tennis Borussia Berlin II during an amateur playing career based solely in Berlin... (2000–2001) Friedhelm Haebermann Friedhelm Haebermann is a former German football player and manager.Haebermann made a total of 229 appearances for Eintracht Braunschweig in the Fußball-Bundesliga during his playing career. He also represented West Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics.-External links:... (2001) Theo Gries Theo Gries is a German football coach and a retired player who is currently coaching 1. FC Union Berlin II.-External links:... (2003–2005) Dejan Raickovic Dejan Raičković is a Montenegrin football manager and former football player.Raičković in his playing career represented FK Sarajevo, Hannover 96, FC Carl Zeiss Jena, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Tennis Borussia Berlin and played 208 games in the 2... (2006–2007) Johann Gajda Johann Gajda is a former German football manager.- External links :* at transfermarkt.de... (2007–2008) Markus Schatte Markus Schatte is a German football coach.Schatte originally studied sports science before taking up the teaching profession... (2008, 2011–) Thomas Herbst (footballer) Thomas Herbst is a German football manager and former player.- Playing career :Herbst won the 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship in Australia with the German national youth team, three months after winning the 1981 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship with the German U-18 squad in Düsseldorf... (2008–2010) Cemal Yıldız Cemal "Teddy" Yıldız is a Turkish football manager and former player.Yıldız played for Hertha Zehlendorf in the latter half of the 1990s, making an appearance in the final of the 1996 Berliner Landespokal as the team lost 2–0 to Tennis Borussia Berlin. Yıldız moved to his native Turkey in 2000,... (2010–2011) |
Honours
- Regionalliga Berlin: (2)
- Champions 1965, 1974
- 2. Bundesliga Nord: (1)
- Champions 1976
- Amateur-Oberliga Berlin: (3)
- Champions 1982, 1985, 1991
- Regionalliga NordostRegionalliga NordostThe Regionalliga Nordost was the third tier of the German football league system in the states of former East Germany and West-Berlin from 1994 to 2000. As such, it was almost identical in territorial cover to the old DDR-Oberliga....
: (2)- Champions 1996, 1998
- NOFV-Oberliga NordNOFV-Oberliga NordThe NOFV-Oberliga Nord is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the northern states of former East Germany and West-Berlin. Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008, it was the fourth tier of the league system. It covers the German states of Berlin, Brandenburg and...
: (2)- Champions 19931992–93 NOFV-OberligaThe 1992–93 season of the NOFV-Oberliga was the second season of the league at tier three of the German football league system after German reunification....
, 20092008–09 NOFV-OberligaThe 2008–09 season of the NOFV-Oberliga was the first season of the league at tier five of the German football league system after the introduction of the 3. Liga in Germany....
- Champions 1993
- Brandenburg football championshipBrandenburg football championshipThe Brandenburg football championship was the highest association football competition in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, including Berlin, established in 1898...
: (1)- Winners 1932
- German amateur football championshipGerman amateur football championshipThe German amateur football championship was a football competition in Germany, existing from 1950 to 2000, organised by the German Football Association, the DFB.-Overview:...
: (1)- Winners 1998
- Berliner Landespokal: (16) (Record)
- Winners 1931, 1949, 1951, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1985, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000Reserve team, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008
- Runners-up 1943, 1944, 1950, 1960, 1966, (1969)No title awarded, as no date for the final replay could be fixed., 1970, 1983, 1987, 2003, 2009