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St. Pauli Roller Derby is a flat track
roller derby Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leaguesA Roller Derby league is synonymous with an individual club or team in other team sports, as ...
league based in
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in
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. It consists of two trip teams, an A team and a B team, which compete against teams from other leagues. They are called ''St. Pauli A'' and ''St. Pauli B'' respectively. St. Pauli Roller Derby is the follow-up club to the Harbor Girls e.V., which was an independent roller derby club before it became part of
FC St. Pauli Fußball-Club St. Pauli von 1910 e.V., commonly known as simply FC St. Pauli (), is a German professional association football, football club based in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg. The team plays in the Bundesliga from the 2024–25 Bundesli ...
and changed its name. The Harbor Girls were founded by Spooky Spiky and Killing Zoe, the former had previously skated with the Stuttgart Valley Rollergirlz. By mid-2011, the league had thirty skaters. "Heavy Miss Gale", a skater from the league, was selected for the German national team for the 2011 Roller Derby World Cup. In the 2014 World Championship, four player from SPRD were selected to play in the Dallas roster: Ostblocker, Jeanne Dark, Knock 'n' Rose and Lotta Loveless. In March 2023, the league announced a changed name to St. Pauli Roller Derby on their Facebook profile. This change was made to reflect the expansive genders within the league, and to honour their history with FC St. Pauli. The logo was updated with this change.


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