SV Nord Wedding

Football club infobox
clubname = SV Nord Wedding


fullname = Sportliche Vereinigung Nord Wedding 1893
nickname =
founded = 1893
ground = Schillerpark Ungarn Strasse
capacity = 3,000
chairman =
manager =
league = Landesliga Berlin, Staffel 2 (VII)
season = 2007-08
position = 10th
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SV Nord Wedding 1893 is a German football club that plays in Berlin.

History

Their complicated lineage includes a number of clubs and they can trace their roots back to some of the city's earliest football sides. "Wedding"'s predecessors include two clubs which were part of the founding of the DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund, en:German Football Association) at Leipzig in 1900 – "Rapide 93 Berlin" and "Favorit 96 Berlin".

On 1 October 1893, a group of 17-year-old school boys formed a club they called "Berliner FC Rapide Niderschönhausen". The team was also known as "Berliner Tor- und Fußball Club Rapide" or "Berliner Fußball und Cricket Club" - torball was an early German word for cricket which has fallen into disuse. This team is recognized as the "founding side" of the present day club. This club's growth was impeded throughout its early history by the lack of a home ground they could claim as their own.

In 1906 another club called "Reinickendorfer BC" was formed. This side merged with "BFC Wedding" (1914) to create "SC Wedding" (1914). Both "Rapid" and "Wedding" played within the various levels of football in Berlin until World War II. After the war the football and handball departments of this group of clubs came together as "Sportgemeinschaft Schillerpark" which was re-named "SC Wedding" in 1948. Two years later the club reached back to its origins to take on the name "SC Wedding-Rapide 93".

The other thread of "SV Nord Wedding"'s history begins on 15 October 1896 with the founding of "Berliner Sport Club Favorit". Under the Nazi regime German football was re-organized. Politically undesirable blue collar worker's clubs were dissolved, often forced into mergers with other associations. In 1933 "Favorit" became home to the members of worker's league champions "Pankower 1908 SC". After the war the club was re-formed and played as "SG Nordbahn" before being re-named "VfL Nord" in 1947. The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 effectively split up the club by isolating the "Pankowers" in the east, greatly reducing the side's strength. In response, what was left of "Nord" merged with "BFC Nordstern 07" to form "SV Nord-Nordstern 1896".

Finally, in 2001, "SV Nord-Nordstern" and "SC Wedding-Rapide" came together to form "SV Nord Wedding 1893". This successor side currently plays in Landesliga Berlin, Staffel 1 (VI).

Team trivia

* Austrian club "SK Rapid Wien" adopted their name from the founding club "Rapide Berlin".

External links

* [http://svnordwedding.de/ Official team site]
* [http://www.svnordwedding.net Team site]
* [http://www.abseits-soccer.com/clubs/wedding.html The Abseits Guide to German Soccer]