- Lichterfelder FC
Football club infobox
clubname = Lichterfelder FC
fullname = Lichterfelder Fußball Club Berlin 1892 e.V.
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founded = 1892
ground = Stadion Lichterfelde
capacity = 4,300
chairman = Rainer Rotter
manager = Michael Wolf
league =NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V)
season = 2007-08
position = 8th
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leftarm2=ffffff|body2=ffffff|rightarm2=ffffff|shorts2=ffffff|socks2=ffffffLichterfelder FC is a German football club from the district of Lichterfelde in the southwestern quarter of
Berlin . The club has approximately 1,300 members and includes the country's largest youth department.History
The history of the association is marked by a long string of mergers and name changes. The earliest predecessor sides were "FV Brandenburg Berlin" founded on March 20, 1892, and "FC Lichterfelde" established June 18, 1912.
"FV" fielded strongly competitive sides in the early 1900s until the club briefly split in two with the formation of "TuFV Helvellia Berlin". These two sides were re-united in 1905 but the club was seriously weakened by
World War I and nearly disappeared. At the end of the war in 1919 "FV" merged with "Berliner SC 09 Brandenburg" to form "SV Brandenburg Berlin". Another union followed in 1921, this time with "BBC 03 Berlin" to create "BBC-Brandenburg Berlin". Both "Brandenburg" and "Lichterfeld" were playing second tier football through this period with "SCB" winning promotion to the top-flight for a two year turn that ended in 1925 after which "BBC" again became an independent side.By 1929 the '92 Brandenburg side was playing as "FV Brandenburg Berlin" and in 1933 merged with "FC Eintracht Lankwitz". After the outbreak of
World War II "FV" formed a partnership with "Rot-Weiß-Schöneberg" in order to be able to continue to field a team during the conflict. At war's end in 1945 occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in Germany, including sports and football clubs. Later that year the membership of "FVBB" established "SG Steglitz-Friedenau" (re-named "FV Brandenburg Berlin" in 1950) and the Lichterfeld club also re-appeared being known briefly as "SG Lichterfeld".A 1971 merger joined "FCL" and "FVBB" to create "FV Brandenburg Lichterfelde" which was in turn joined in 1988 by "Lichterfelder Sport-Union" (founded February 15, 1951) to form "VfB Lichterfelde 1892". The association adopted its current name in 2004.
These myriad predecessor sides enjoyed only limited success with both Lichterfelder sides making occasional appearances in the Amateurliga Berlin (III-IV) in the 50s and 60s. "Sport-Union" spent a single season in second tier competition in the Regionalliga Berlin in 1966-67.
"VfB" won promotion to the Oberliga Berlin (IV) in 1989 and played there continuously until being demoted in 2004 after a 16th place finish. A highlight for the club during this period was the club's advance to the final of the Paul-Rusch-Pokal (Berlin Cup) in 1998. Now playing as "FC" the club claimed the 2006 Verbandsliga Berlin (V) championship to return to the Oberliga.
tadium
"Lichterfeld" plays its home matches at the Stadion Lichterfelde in
Steglitz . The stadium has a capacity of 4,300 which includes 1,800 seats (800 covered, 1,000 uncovered). Construction of the facility began in 1926 and it was inaugurated on June 16, 1929. From 1933 to 1945 the facility was known as the Adolf Hitler Stadium and it was used as a training venue for the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. Severely damaged in the course of the war, the stadium was not restored to a usable condition until April 1952 and underwent a major renovation that included the installation of floodlights in the 1980s, followed by the installation of artificial turf in the 90s.Honours
*Oberliga Berlin (IV) champions: 2006
*Paul-Rusch-Pokal (Berlin Cup) finalist: 1998External links
* [http://www.lfc-berlin.de/ Official team site]
* [http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv] historical German football league tables (in German)
* [http://www.eufo.de/ eufo.de] European football club profiles
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