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Tennis Borussia Berlin
Tennis Borussia Berlin logo.svg
Full name Tennis Borussia Berlin e.V.
Nickname(s) TeBe
Veilchen (Violets)
Lila-Weiße
Founded 9 April 1902
Ground Mommsenstadion
Ground Capacity 15,005
Chairman Günter Brombosch
Head coach René Lorenz
League NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V)
2022–23 Regionalliga Nordost 18th (relegated)

Tennis Borussia Berlin is a German football club based in the locality of Westend in Berlin.

History

The team was founded in 1902 as Berliner Tennis- und Ping-Pong-Gesellschaft Borussia taking its name from its origins as a tennis and table tennis club. Borussia is a Latinised version of Prussia and was a widely used name for sports clubs in the former state of Prussia. In 1903 the club took up football and quickly developed a rivalry with Berlin's leading side Hertha BSC. In 1913 the club changed its name to Berliner Tennis-Club Borussia. 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.

Tennis Borussia Performance Chart
Historical chart of Tennis Borussia league performance

Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in Germany after World War II. This included football clubs. TeBe played as SG Charlottenburg in the first season after the war. The club was able to use its name Berliner Tennis-Club Borussia again from the 1948-49 season. 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.

In 2000, the club changed its logo to read Tennis Borussia Berlin which became the official club name in 2005. The club had always been known under this moniker and to avoid being mistaken as a tennis club. It 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.

Supporters

The fan movement started in the 1970s when TeBe began having its biggest successes. Despite their fall down the leagues the club still enjoys a relatively strong support. The fans consider themselves fiercely Far-Left, and frequently the fans cultivate the club's Jewish traditions as well as actions against antisemitism and racism.

Current squad

No. Position Player
1 Germany GK Jens Fikisi
3 Palestinian National Authority DF Youssef Sakran
5 Germany MF Jeronimo Mattmüller
6 Germany MF Efe Önal
7 Germany FW Kubilay Yilmaz
8 Germany MF Tim Oschmann
9 Germany FW Will Siakam
10 Turkey MF Tahsin Cakmak
11 Germany MF Sebastian Huke
12 Germany GK Jannis Gabrielides
13 Germany GK Karl Albers
14 Germany FW Linus Czosnyka
No. Position Player
15 Portugal FW Ruben Travassos
17 Germany DF Maximilian Stahl
18 Bosnia and Herzegovina DF Omar Pasagic
19 Serbia DF Nemanja Samardzic
20 Germany MF Vincent Tloczynski
21 Germany MF Louis Wagner
22 Germany MF Rico Gladrow
23 Germany DF Fabrice Montcheu
24 Germany DF Cedrik Mvondo
26 Kosovo DF Lirim Mema
27 Germany DF Aleksandar Bilbija
30 Germany FW Benyas Junge-Abiol

League positions since 1963–64

Year Division (Tier) Position
1963–64 Regionalliga Berlin (II) 2nd
1964–65 Regionalliga Berlin (II) 1st
1965–66 Regionalliga Berlin (II) 2nd
1966–67 Regionalliga Berlin (II) 2nd
1967–68 Regionalliga Berlin (II) 2nd
1968–69 Regionalliga Berlin (II) 3rd
1969–70 Regionalliga Berlin (II) 2nd
1970–71 Regionalliga Berlin (II) 4th
1971–72 Regionalliga Berlin (II) 4th
1972–73 Regionalliga Berlin (II) 3rd
1973–74 Regionalliga Berlin (II) Promoted to the Bundesliga 1st
1974–75 Bundesliga (I) Relegated to the 2. Bundesliga Nord 17th
1975–76 2. Bundesliga Nord (II) Promoted to the Bundesliga 1st
1976–77 Bundesliga (I) Relegated to the 2. Bundesliga Nord 17th
1977–78 2. Bundesliga Nord (II) 10th
1978–79 2. Bundesliga Nord (II) 11th
1979–80 2. Bundesliga Nord (II) 13th
1980–81 2. Bundesliga Nord (II) Relegated to the Amateur Oberliga Berlin 17th
1981–82 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 1st
1982–83 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 3rd
Year Division (tier) Position
1983–84 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 2nd
1984–85 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) Promoted to the 2. Bundesliga 1st
1985–86 2. Bundesliga (II) Relegated to the Amateur Oberliga Berlin 19th
1986–87 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 2nd
1987–88 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 2nd
1988–89 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 8th
1989–90 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 3rd
1990–91 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 1st
1991–92 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (III) 4th
1992–93 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (III) Promoted to the 2. Bundesliga 1st
1993–94 2. Bundesliga (II) Relegated to the Regionalliga Nordost 19th
1994–95 Regionalliga Nordost (III) 4th
1995–96 Regionalliga Nordost (III) 1st
1996–97 Regionalliga Nordost (III) 6th
1997–98 Regionalliga Nordost (III) Promoted to the 2. Bundesliga 1st
1998–99 2. Bundesliga (II) 6th
1999–00 2. Bundesliga (II) Forcibly relegated to the Regionalliga Nord 13th
2000–01 Regionalliga Nord (III) Relegated to the NOFV-Oberliga Nord 19th
2001–02 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV) 2nd
2002–03 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV) 4th
Year Division (tier) Position
2003–04 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV) 5th
2004–05 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV) 4th
2005–06 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV) 5th
2006–07 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV) 3rd
2007–08 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV) 6th
2008–09 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V) Promoted to the Regionalliga Nord 1st
2009–10 Regionalliga Nord (IV) Forcibly relegated to the NOFV-Oberliga Nord 15th
2010–11 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V) Relegated to the Berlin-Liga 14th
2011–12 Berlin-Liga (VI) 11th
2012–13 Berlin-Liga (VI) 8th
2013–14 Berlin-Liga (VI) 4th
2014–15 Berlin-Liga (VI) NOFV-Oberliga Nord 1st
2015–16 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V) 4th
2016–17 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V) 6th
2017–18 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V) 2nd
2018–19 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V) 2nd
2019–20 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V) Promoted to the Regionalliga Nordost 1st
2020–21 Regionalliga Nordost (IV) 16th

Notable players

Past (and present) players who are the subjects of Wikipedia articles can be found here.

Managers

  • Richard Girulatis (1912–1920)
  • Otto Nerz (1924–1926)
  • Sepp Herberger (1930–1932)
  • Lori Polster (1944–1945)
  • Walter Bussian (1945–1946)
  • Fritz Mauruschat (1949–1952)
  • Hermann Lux (1953–1954)
  • Willi Oelgardt (1955–1957)
  • Oswald Osadzuk (1957–1958)
  • Heinz-Ludwig Schmidt (1958–1962)
  • Fritz Wilde (1962–1964)
  • Herbert Siegert (1964–1968)
  • Fritz Schollmeyer (1971–1972)
  • Georg Gawliczek (1973–1975)
  • Helmuth Johannsen (1975–1976)
  • Rudi Gutendorf (1976–1977)
  • Rudi Faßnacht (1977)
  • Klaus Basikow (1978)
  • Reinhard Roder (1978–1980)
  • Peter Eggert (1980, 1981)
  • Paul Böhm (1980)
  • Anton Burghardt (1980–1981)
  • Bernd Erdmann (1981–1982, 1989–1990)
  • Gerd Bohnsack (1982)
  • Bernd Hoss (1983–1984)
  • Gerd Achterberg (1984–1985)
  • Eckhard Krautzun (1985–1986)
  • Wolfgang Sidka (1988–1989, 1993–1994)
  • Fritz Bohla (1991–1992)
  • Willibert Kremer (1992–1993, 1994)
  • Bernd Patzke (1993)
  • Uwe Jahn (1994, 1994–1995)
  • Rainer Zobel (1996–1997)
  • Hermann Gerland (1997–1998)
  • Stanislav Levý (1998–1999)
  • Winfried Schäfer (1999–2000)
  • Mirko Slomka (2000)
  • Robert Jaspert (2000–2001)
  • Friedhelm Haebermann (2001)
  • Claudio Offenberg (2001–2002)
  • Peter Ränke (2002–2003)
  • Theo Gries (2003–2005)
  • Dejan Raičković (2006–2007)
  • Johann Gajda (2007–2008)
  • Markus Schatte (2008, 2011–2014)
  • Thomas Herbst (2008–2010)
  • Cemal Yıldız (2010–2011, 2017)
  • Alexander Fritz (2011)
  • Daniel Volbert (2014–2016)
  • Thomas Brdarić (2017–2018)
  • Dennis Kutrieb (2018–2020)
  • Markus Zschiesche (2020–2022)
  • Abu Njie (2022)
  • Christopher Brauer (2023)
  • René Lorenz (2023–Present)

Honours

  • Regionalliga Berlin (II):
    • Champions 1965, 1974
  • 2. Bundesliga Nord (II):
    • Champions 1976
  • Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III):
    • Champions 1982, 1985, 1991
  • Regionalliga Nordost (III):
    • Champions 1996, 1998
  • NOFV-Oberliga Nord (III/V):
    • Champions 1993, 2009, 2020
  • Berlin-Liga (VI):
    • Champions 2015
  • Brandenburg football championship:
    • Winners 1932
  • Oberliga Berlin:
    • Champions 1947, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1958
  • German amateur football championship:
    • Winners 1998
  • Berliner Landespokal: (Tiers III-VII) (Record)
    • Winners 1931, 1949, 1951, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1985, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008
    • Runners-up 1943, 1944, 1950, 1960, 1966, (1969), 1970, 1983, 1987, 2003, 2009, 2019

Women's football

See also

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