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| Full name | FC Germania Helsinki |
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| Founded | 17.11.2017 |
| Chairman |  Tim Becker |
| League | Vitonen |
| 2022 | 1 |
FC Germania Helsinki (FCGH) is a sports club from Greater Helsinki, Finland, playing association football.
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| Full name | FC Germania Helsinki |
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| Founded | 17.11.2017 |
| Chairman | Tim Becker |
| League | Vitonen |
| 2022 | 1 |
FC Germania Helsinki (FCGH) is a sports club from Greater Helsinki, Finland, playing association football.
The club was formed by German-speaking immigrants in 2015 [1] [2] and formally established in 2017. [3] It has been a Registered association and member of the Football Association of Finland since 2018. [4] [5] FC Germania is listed among the official German institutions in Finland. [6] The sports club has about 60 members, [7] among them many immigrants from the German speaking area and Finns with family ties to Germany, Austria or Switzerland. [8]
Germania's first men's team plays in Vitonen. [9] The second men's team, called FC Germania/Akademie, plays in Kutonen [10] and there is another men's team, called FC Germania Hki 2015, playing in Helsinki's hobby league. [11] A youth section was established in 2021 with a mixed team at preschool age training at the German School Helsinki. [12] During the winter saison 2018–19 even a women's team, called FCGH Ladies, was playing. [13] [14]
The Club Chairman is the lawyer Tim Becker, who was born in the former GDR and has been living in Vantaa since 2007. [15] [16] The German professional player Thomas Dähne, who won both the Finnish League and Finnish League Cup in 2017, has been an honorary member since the club's foundation. [17] [18]
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Eigentlich wollten wir bereits im Januar in der Deutschen Schule Helsinki mit dem Training starten, am 10. April konnten wir nun endlich draußen mit dem Kindertraining loslegen.
Die FCGH Ladies siegten beim FC Germania Cup 2018 mit 4:0.
Dähne ist Ehrenmitglied des Vereins…
Dort wurden sie sogar vom damaligen deutschen HJK-Torwart Thomas Dähne angesprochen, der fortan einige Male die Spiele der „Germanier" besuchte und sogar bei der Vereinsgründung anwesend war.
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