SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin was a
German football club based in the Berlin district of
Neukölln
Neukölln (), officially abbreviated Neuk, is one of the twelve boroughs of Berlin. It is located south-east of Berlin's center and stretches from the inner city southward to the border with Brandenburg, encompassing the eponymous quarter of Neu ...
.
History

The club was founded as ''Rixdorfer TuFC Tasmania 1900'' on 2 June 1900. It is believed the founders of the club were about to migrate to
Australia
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at the end of the 19th century, so they named their club after their shared desired destination
Tasmania
Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...
.
In 1965, Berlin's only
Bundesliga
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side,
Hertha BSC
Hertha, Berliner Sport-Club e. V., commonly known as Hertha BSC () or Hertha Berlin, is a German professional football club based in Berlin. Hertha BSC plays in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of German football league system, German footbal ...
, had its license revoked and was
relegated
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for breaking the league's player salary rules. The
German Football Association
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wanted to keep a club in the city of Berlin for political reasons and this led to one of the strangest episodes in the Bundesliga's history.
Both
Karlsruher SC
Karlsruher Sport-Club Mühlburg-Phönix e. V., better known as Karlsruher SC, is a Football in Germany, German association football club, based in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg that currently plays in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of Germa ...
and
FC Schalke 04
Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as Schalke 04 (), and abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional sports club from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is best known for its football team, ...
tried to avoid being demoted by laying claim to Hertha's place. It was decided to suspend relegation for one season and increase the number of teams in the league from 16 to 18 to accommodate the two teams which would normally be promoted from the Regionalligen, the Regional Leagues being the leagues below the Bundesliga at the time.
Cold War
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politics led to a space being held for a team from the former capital city to replace Hertha.
The winner of
Regionalliga Berlin
The Regionalliga Berlin was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the city of West-Berlin in Germany from 1963 until the formation of the 2. Bundesliga in 1974. It was by far the smallest of the five Regionalligas.
Ov ...
,
Tennis Borussia Berlin
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 ...
, had failed to advance to the Bundesliga through the regular promotion round that saw
Bayern Munich
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and
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e.V. Mönchengladbach, better known as Borussia Mönchengladbach () and colloquially known as just Gladbach, is a professional Association football, football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-W ...
move up. After the Regionalliga second-place finisher,
Spandauer SV
Spandauer SV was a German football club from Berlin.
History
Early years
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, refused an offer of promotion, the way was clear for third-place club ''Tasmania 1900'' to take up the opportunity to represent Berlin in the Bundesliga — just two weeks before the start of the
1965–66 season.
A top performer in the relatively weak Regionalliga Berlin, ''Tasmania'' would find themselves seriously overmatched in the Bundesliga. Despite a season-opening 2–0 win over Karlsruher SC at the
Olympiastadion, they would go on to become the worst team in league history — in a 34-game season they won only one other time, a 2–1 at home over
Borussia Neunkirchen
Borussia VfB Neunkirchen is a German association football club based in Neunkirchen, Saarland. The club ''SC Borussia Neunkirchen'' was founded out of the 1907 merger of ''FC 1905 Borussia'' and ''SC Neunkirchen''.
History
From 1912 through ...
. They scored only 15 goals while conceding 108 and finished the season in last place earning just 8 of a possible 68 points. The only team not to beat ''Tasmania'' was
1. FC Kaiserslautern
1. Fußball-Club Kaiserslautern e. V., also known as 1. FCK, FCK (), FC Kaiserslautern (), K'lautern or colloquially Lautern (), is a German sports club based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition to Association football, football ...
which managed only two draws (0–0 and 1–1) against them. The 0–0 result at Betzenberg was the only point earned by ''Tasmania'' away from their home stadium.
''Tasmania'' were relegated at the end of the season and returned to the Regionalliga Berlin. Although the team made it to the promotion round twice between 1966 and 1973, they never managed a return to the Bundesliga. In 1973, the Neukölln sports association declared bankruptcy.
SV Tasmania Berlin
A successor team, ''SC Tasmania 73 Neukölln'' was created, becoming ''SV Tasmania-Gropiusstadt 1973'' in 2000. While the new club's first team had to restart in the lowest division in 1973 and quickly rose through the ranks again, their youth teams were permitted to remain in the leagues they played in under the old name. Since 2011, the club has been known as
SV Tasmania Berlin
SV Tasmania Berlin is a German football club based in the locality of Neukölln of the homonymous borough of Neukölln in Berlin, Germany. The team is currently playing in the fifth tier NOFV-Oberliga Nord.
History
Tasmania's predecessor cl ...
.
Dubious distinctions
* 56th out of 56 in
all-time Bundesliga standings
* fewest points collected in a season: 8 points under the old scoring method of two points for a win, 10 points under today's system that allows three points for a win
* fewest wins in a season: 2 (tied by
Wuppertaler SV
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in 1974–1975)
* most defeats in a season: 28
* only Bundesliga team without an away win
* longest winless streak: 31 games (14 August 1965 – 21 May 1966); this record was almost tied when
FC Schalke 04
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failed to win for thirty consecutive games between January 2020 and January 2021
* most home defeats in a season: 12
* most consecutive home losses: 8 games (28 August 1965 – 8 December 1965), tied by
Hansa Rostock
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in 2004–05
* most consecutive losses: 10 matches, tied by
Arminia Bielefeld
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in 1999–2000, whose fans began to derisively chant "Tasmania Bielefeld!" during the record tying match
* worst ever goals for-and-against: 15–108 (goal difference of -93)
* fewest ever goals for a team's leading scorer: 4 by Wulf-Ingo Usbeck
* biggest losing margin at home: 0–9 to
Meidericher SV
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(26 March 1966); this record was almost tied when
Bayer Leverkusen
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won at
SSV Ulm 1846
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9–1 in 2000,
Leandro Fonseca scored for Ulm in injury time
* until 1993, most minutes played without scoring a goal: 831 minutes (2 October 1965 – 11 December 1965), since surpassed by
1. FC Saarbrücken
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History
The club began its existence as the footbal ...
and
1. FC Köln
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* smallest ever crowd at a Bundesliga game: 827 (15 January 1966 against
Borussia Mönchengladbach
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) after crowds of 81,500 at their first home game and 70,000 at their second
Former managers
*
Gunther Baumann
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Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a government bodies through business ...
1963–64
*
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* Franz (given name)
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1964–65
*
Heinz-Ludwig Schmidt 1965–68
*
Gyula Lóránt
Gyula Lóránt (born Gyula Lipovics, 6 February 1923 – 31 May 1981) was a Hungarian footballer and manager of Croatian descent. He played as a defender and midfielder for, among others, UTA Arad, Vasas SC, Honvéd and Hungary.
During the ...
1968–69
*
Milan Antolković
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1969–70
*
Hans Hipp
Hans Hipp (10 November 1912, Wannweil – February 2001, Friedberg) was a German football manager.
Career
In 1928, Hipp joined SSV Reutlingen 05. Two years later, he was promoted to the Reutlingen first team.
After the Second World War h ...
1970–72
*
Peter Velhorn 1972–73
References
External links
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Bundesliga clubs
Defunct football clubs in Germany
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Association football clubs established in 1900
Association football clubs disestablished in 1973
1900 establishments in Germany
1973 disestablishments in West Germany