SV Concordia Königsberg was a German association football club from the city of

Königsberg Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was na ...

East Prussia East Prussia ; german: Ostpreißen, label= Low Prussian; pl, Prusy Wschodnie; lt, Rytų Prūsija was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1 ...

History

Established in 1911, the team played two seasons in the Bezirk Königsberg, a city-based circuit that was part of the

Gauliga Ostpreußen The Gauliga Ostpreußen was the highest football league in the Prussian province of East Prussia (German: Ostpreußen) and the Free City of Danzig from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reorganised the administrat ...

, one of several top-flight regional divisions in Germany. ''SV'' finished fourth in the 1936–37 and 1938–38 campaigns and returned to lower level play in 1938–39 when the Gauliga was reorganized. The Königsberg club disappeared in 1945 following the end of World War II when the city was annexed by the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

and renamed

Kaliningrad Kaliningrad ( ; rus, Калининград, p=kəlʲɪnʲɪnˈɡrat, links=y), until 1946 known as Königsberg (; rus, Кёнигсберг, Kyonigsberg, ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbɛrk; rus, Короле́вец, Korolevets), is the largest city and ...

References

Der Fußball in Ostpreußen und Danzig
(en: Football in East Prussia and Danzig)
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Konigsberg, Concordia Defunct football clubs in Germany Association football clubs established in 1911 Association football clubs disestablished in 1945 Defunct football clubs in former German territories Sport in Königsberg