SV Tasmania Berlin is a German football club based in the locality of

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of the homonymous

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, Germany. The team is currently playing in the fifth tier

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History

Tasmania's predecessor club,

SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin was a Football in Germany, German football club based in the Berlin district of Neukölln. History The club was founded as ''Rixdorfer TuFC Tasmania 1900'' on 2 June 1900. It is believed the founders of the club were ...

, was already financially insecure in the early 1970s, and so the amateur and youth players of the team decided to establish their own club on 3 February 1973, which they named ''SV Tasmania 73 Neukölln''. Later that year, the former

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club Tasmania 1900 was declared bankrupt and was disbanded. Many club officials and players followed suit to support the new team in

Tasmania 73 played the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons in the then fourth tier

. In December 2000, the club was renamed ''SV Tasmania-Gropiusstadt 1973''. 2007–08 saw Tasmania-Gropiusstadt play in the

Berlin-Liga The Berlin-Liga (VI), formerly the Verbandsliga Berlin, is the highest league for football teams exclusively in the German capital. Since German reunification in 1990, it has been the highest level of domestic football in the city, replacing the ...

(V). Following a league restructure and two relegations in succession, the club played the 2009–10 season in the 8th tier

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Berlin Staffel 3 before finishing second and gaining promotion to the

Landesliga The Landesliga () is a tier of football in some states of the German football league system. In Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia, Bremen, Lower Saxony and Hamburg, the Landesligas are set right below the Oberliga and therefore are the sixth tier. The r ...

Berlin Staffel 2 (VII) for the 2010–11 season. In 2011, the club was renamed ''SV Tasmania Berlin''. After finishing first in the 2011–12 Landesliga season the club was promoted once again to the Berlin-Liga. Tasmania won the 2018–2019 season and was promoted to the fifth-tier NOFV-Oberliga for the 2019–2020 season.

Stadium

Tasmania's home matches are played at the 3,000-capacity Werner-Seelenbinder-Sportpark in Berlin-Neukölln, directly next to the site of the former

Berlin Tempelhof Airport Berlin Tempelhof Airport () was one of the first airports in Berlin, Germany. Situated in the south-central Berlin borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg, the airport ceased operating in 2008 amid controversy, leaving Tegel and Schönefeld as the ...

League positions since 1978

Honours

The club's honours: *

NOFV-Oberliga The NOFV- Oberliga is a division at step 5 of the German football league system. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, it became the successor of the DDR-Oberliga, and functions today as a 5th division in the former territory of East Germany and the ...

** Champions: 2021 *

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** Champions: 1997, 2019 *

Berliner Landespokal The Berliner Landespokal () is an annual football cup competition held by the Berlin Football Association (German: Berliner Fußballverband, BFV). The cup winner qualifies for the national DFB-Pokal. Cup finals are usually held in the Friedrich-L ...

** Runners-up:

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

References

External links

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