Dresdner SC

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Dresdner SC
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Full nameDresdner Sportclub 1898 e. V.
Nickname(s)The Friedrichstädter (The Friedrichtowners)
Founded
  • 18 March 1874;150 years ago (1874-03-18) as Dresden English Football Club
  • 30 April 1898;126 years ago (1898-04-30) as Dresdner SC
Ground Heinz-Steyer-Stadion, Dresden
Capacity5,000
ChairmanGünther Rettich
LeagueLandesklasse Sachsen-Ost (VII)
2021–226th
Website Club website

Dresdner Sportclub 1898 e.V., known simply as Dresdner SC, is a German multisport club playing in Dresden, Saxony. Founded on 30 April 1898, the club was a founding member of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fussball Bund) in 1900. The origins of the club go back still further to the predecessor side Dresden English Football Club formed in 1874 by expatriate Englishmen as Germany's first football club and possibly the earliest in continental Europe: Dresdener SC was organized by one-time German members of the EFC. [1]

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History

Historical chart of the club's league performance Dresdner SC League Performance.png
Historical chart of the club's league performance

On 30 April 1898, former members of the Dresden English Football Club and of the Neue Dresdner FC (founded in 1893 by former DEFC members and now SpVgg Dresden-Löbtau 1893) founded the Dresdner Sport-Club. [2] [3] [4] Until sports historian Andreas Wittner uncovered the earlier history of the DFC, it was thought to have been founded only in 1890. [2] Early on, DSC made regular appearances in regional finals and captured several titles. They were a dominant side in the Mitteldeutsche Verbandsliga: from 1925 to 1930 they lost only two of the ninety games they played.

The 30s and 40s

Dresdner's performance slipped for a time, but the club re-emerged as a strong side in the Gauliga Sachsen, one of sixteen top flight divisions established in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. They captured the Tschammerpokal – the predecessor of today's German Cup in 1940 and 1941, and followed up with national titles in 1943 and 1944. The club won all 23 games they played during the 1942/43 season, scoring 152 goals and conceding only 16. [5] Their 4:0 win over Luftwaffen SV Hamburg in Berlin's Olympiastadion made them the last holders of the Viktoria trophy, symbolic of German football supremacy since it was first awarded to VfB Leipzig in 1903. That trophy was secreted by a Dresden supporter to a bank safe deposit box in what would become East Germany and remained hidden away for decades before finally being returned to the German Football Association (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association).

Post World War II

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Dresdner SC previous crest.

After World War II, all existing sports clubs and other organizations were banned by the Allied occupation authorities in an attempt to create a disconnect from the recent Nazi past. In early 1946, the club was re-constituted as SG Friedrichstadt and then slipped into oblivion after a fateful appearance in the 1950 East German final. That match, against Soviet-sponsored ZSG Horch Zwickau, would be the end of the side which was regarded as being too bourgeois by the communist authorities. ZSG Horch Zwickau played a viciously physical game and, abetted by the referee who refused the homeside substitutions and eventually reduced SG Friedrichstadt to an 8-man squad, "won" the match 5:1. Unhappy Dresden spectators invaded the field several times, and at game's end, badly beat a player of ZSG Horch Zwickau. Mounted police were called in to restore order. Within weeks, orders came to dismantle the club and send the players to BSG Tabak Dresden. Most of the players instead fled to the west to play for Hertha BSC. What happened to SG Friedrichstadt would become commonplace in East Germany as highly placed politicians or bureaucrats manipulated clubs for their own purposes.

Dissolution

At this point the history of the club becomes quite convoluted, with a number of sides laying claim to some part of the heritage of Dresdner SC:

The "new" Dresdner SC was formed at the time of German re-unification, beginning play in the 1991–92 season. They reached the third-tier Regionalliga in 1998, and finished second in the 1999–2000, briefly supplanting Dynamo Dresden as the top team in the city. They were relegated in 2003, though, which prompted an insolvency and a gradual drop to the local amateur leagues. Since 2012 the club has been playing in the tier seven Landesklasse. [6] [7]

Honours

Youth


Regional

Famous players

Helmut Schön played for Dresdner/Friedrichstadt and would go on to become one of West Germany's most exceptional managers and, in an historical aside, also coached Saarland's World Cup side in 1954.

Richard Hofmann, nicknamed "King Richard", scored 24 goals in 25 games for the Germany national team from 1927 to 1933 He also was one of the integral players in the DSC's cup and championship wins, but was never considered for the national team after 1933 for political reasons.

DSC-Players who played for the Germany national team

Name [9] GamesGoalsYears
Richard Hofmann 25241927–33
Helmut Schön 16191937–41
Willibald Kreß 1601929–34
Georg Köhler 501925–28
Hugo Mantel 501927–33
Walter Dzur 301940–41
Helmut Schubert 301941
Richard Gedlich 201926–27
Friedrich Müller 201931
Herbert Pohl 201941
Martin Haftmann 101927
Arno Neumann 101908
Karl Schlösser 111931
Kurt Stössel 101931

DDR-era

Modern era

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References

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