SC Borea Dresden

Football club infobox
clubname = SC Borea Dresden


fullname = Sportclub Borea Dresden e.V.
nickname = |SC, Borea founded = 1991
ground = Sportplatz Jägerpark
capacity = 2,000
chairman = Andreas Rosse
manager = Tino Gaunitz
league = NOFV-Oberliga Süd (V)
season = 2007-08
position = 11th
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SC Borea Dresden are a German football club from the city of Dresden, Saxony. The club dropped the name "FV Dresden-Nord" on July 1, 2007 and adopted its current name to help encourage new sponsorship support. Boreas is the Greek god of the North Wind.

History

to earn promotion to the Oberliga Nordost-Süd (IV) where they still play today, generally earning mid-table results.

Predecessor "Motor TuR Dresden-Übigau" was a sports club with departments for athletics, bowling, and fistball in addition to its football side which made several appearances as a third division club in East Germany between 1959 and German re-unification in 1990. Although their play was generally un-distinguished, the footballers did manage four final appearances in the city cup competition (1967, 1972, 1990, 1991) coming away victorious only in the last of these contests.

"Borea" plays its home matches in the Sportanlage Jägerpark which has a capacity of 2,000 (>100 seats).

Current squad

Honours

*Bezirksliga Dresden (V) champions: 1993
*Landesliga Sachsen (V) champions: 1996

The club's U19 side played the 2003-04 season in their age group's Bundesliga.

External links

* [http://www.sc-boreas.de/ Official team site]
* [http://www.abseits-soccer.com/clubs/dresden-nord.html Abseits Guide to German Soccer]
* [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