FC Teutonia Ottensen or FC Teutonia Altona-Ottensen is a
German association football club from the city of
Hamburg
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founded in July 1905. The club's original ten members were joined by one-time members of FC Hammonia Hamburg which was a short-lived side notable as one of the
86 founding clubs of the
Deutscher Fussball Bund (German Football Association) in
Leipzig
Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...
in 1900.
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History
''Hammonia'' shared a common origin with ''
FC St. Georg Hamburg'' as both sides arose out of the student's group Seminarvereinigung Frisch-Auf; ''St. Georg'' was formed first on the left bank of the Alster River, and ''Hammonia'' appeared later on the right bank. ''Hammonia'' played out its short existence from 1896 to 1904 in the top-flight city league known as the Hamburg/Altonaer Fussball Bund, founded in 1896.
''Teutonia'' joined the NDFV (Norddeutscher Fussball Verband or North German Football Federation) in 1907 and by 1910 had constructed their own ground at Hogenfeldweg. Within another four years the club had captured three local championships. Like many other clubs in the country, it was decimated by World War I and fell to lower league play. They competed in the senior city circuit, the Kreisliga Groß-Hamburg, from 1921 to 1924 and again from 1926 to 1928 before disappearing into lower level play.
''Ottensen'' remained in lower tier ball in the interwar period and through World War II. During the conflict, the team was briefly united with neighbouring association ''Sportverein Ottensen 07'' to play as a combined wartime side known as a Kriegspielgemeinschaft. Disbanded and then later reorganized after the war, the team won promotion to the Verbandsliga Hamburg, Elbestaffel (II) in 1947. The Verbandsliga became the Amateurliga Hamburg where they played until relegated at the end of the 1951–52 season. The previous year the club had captured the Altona Cup, named for the
westernmost district of the city of Hamburg.
''Teutonia'' remained a lower-tier club over the next decades until improving somewhat in the early 1990s with a climb into the
Landesliga Hamburg-Hansa
The Landesliga Hamburg-Hansa is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the second-highest league in the German state of Hamburg, together with the '' Landesliga Hamburg-Hammonia''. It is named after the Hanseatic League (''Hanse'') ...
(V) in 1993. The club was promoted to the
Oberliga Hamburg
The Oberliga Hamburg, sometimes referred to as ''Hamburg-Liga'', is the highest league in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Hamburg, incorporating some of its surrounding districts. It is one of fourteen Oberliga (football), Oberligen ...
(V) in 2017 and to the expanded
Regionalliga Nord
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(IV) in 2020.
The club participated in the first round of the
2022–23 DFB-Pokal
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, losing 8–0 to
RB Leipzig
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.
Players
Current squad
Honours
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Hamburg Cup
** Winners:
2022
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2024
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Naming
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Hammonia is the
Latinized name
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for Hamburg and of the patron goddess of the city.
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Teutons
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were an early Germanic people.
References
External links
Das deutsche Fußball-Archivhistorical German football league tables (in German)
Ottensen Teutonia
Association football clubs established in 1905
1905 establishments in Germany
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