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SG Dynamo Dresden are a Germany football (soccer) List of football clubs in Germany, based in Dresden, Saxony. They were founded in 1950, as a club affiliated to the East German police, and became one of the most popular and successful clubs in East German football league system, winning eight East German football champions. Since German reunification, 1.FC Dynamo Dresden's fortunes have been more turbulent, although they did play in the Bundesliga (football), the highest level of German football, for four years (1991–95).
History
In 1950, Dresden's most popular local club,
Dresdner SC, ran foul of the occupying Soviet authorities as being too bourgeois and not properly representative of East Germany's new socialism society. After their appearance that year against
FSV Zwickau in a farcial national final manipulated by the authorities, 1.FC Dynamo Dresden was broken up and its players exiled to other cities with many fleeing to the west. What was left of 1.FC Dynamo Dresden was tacked onto the worker's side
BSG VVG Tabak Dresden that April.
Uncertainty and success
1.FC Dynamo Dresden was formally re-established as
SG Dynamo Dresden on April 12, 1953 in the Schauburg cinema and changed its colors to wine-red and white. It was part of
Sportvereinigung Dynamo, one of a group of multi-sport clubs built on the Soviet model to promote sport for political and nationalistic purposes. Each of these societies was affiliated to or identified with a sector of the national economy or government: in the case of Dynamo that affiliation was with the state security and police forces, including the Stasi (Ministry for State Security).
Erich Mielke, head of the Stasi, was upset that Dresden was represented in the top-flight national league by several good sides while Berlin did not have even one. In late 1954,
Dynamo Dresden was packed up and moved off to the capital to become
Berliner FC Dynamo. What was left of 1.FC Dynamo Dresden – reserves and younger players – ended up as a 2nd division side which fell to the third tier after just one season of play. 1.FC Dynamo Dresden regrouped, however, and made their way back to the DDR-Oberliga in 1962.
From December 1965 to January 1966, 11 East German clubs including
Dynamo Dresden were separated from their parent sports clubs to be designated as Football club (GDR) - football-only "focus clubs" where the country's best talent would be transferred with the object of developing players for the national team. In 1968,
Dynamo Dresden took on the current team colors of black and yellow, the city colors of Dresden. They soon emerged as one of the DDR-Oberliga's best sides, enjoying a run of five championships and two FDGB Pokal wins in eight years from 1971 to 1978 under coach Walter Fritzsch. During this time
Dresden were the country's most popular side, regularly drawing crowds of 25,000, when most other clubs were attracting less than a third of that.
Second place to the Stasi
Dresden and the rest of the league then came hard up against Stasi-sponsored
Berliner FC Dynamo. After a decade-and-a-half of football that had been relatively free of interference from above, there would not be a real opportunity to challenge for the title on fair terms for a decade as circumstances were manipulated in favour of Erich Mielke's pet side: between 1979 and 1988,
Dynamo Berlin won 10 consecutive titles.
Dynamo Dresden earned six second-place finishes in that same period and could take some consolation in becoming East Germany's top performing side internationally. Once the hold of the secret police on the nation's football was loosened,
Dynamo Dresden started winning titles again, winning the title in 1989 and the double (national and cup titles) in 1990.
German reunification and the Bundesliga
After German re-unification in 1990 1.FC Dynamo Dresden was re-named
1. FC Dynamo Dresden. Following the subsequent merger of the East and West German leagues, they played for four years in the top flight Bundesliga (football), always finishing in the bottom half of the table. A last place finish in 1994-95 led to relegation, compounded by financial problems that saw 1.FC Dynamo Dresden's president imprisoned for fraud. 1.FC Dynamo Dresden was denied a license and sent all the way down to Regionalliga Nordost (III).
Dynamo then struggled for some time, at one point falling to the Oberliga Nordost-Süd (IV), before clawing its way back to the 2nd Bundesliga (football) in 2004, despite on-going financial problems.
Dynamo played there for two seasons, but were relegated to the Regionalliga Nord (III) in 2006. The 2006-07 campaign saw 1.FC Dynamo Dresden involved in the race for promotion early on, but a disappointing second half resulted in only a 7th place finish. In the summer of 2007 1.FC Dynamo Dresden re-adopted its old East German name to play as
SG Dynamo Dresden.
In 2008 Dynamo qualified for the inaugural 3. Liga, and after a difficult first half of the season, recovered to finish 9th. In doing so, they finished above local rivals Erzgebirge Aue, making them the top-ranked team in Saxony for the first time in 1995. This was capped off by the reserve team winning both the Landesliga Sachsen and Saxony Cup.
Recent seasons
Stadium
1.FC Dynamo Dresden plays its home fixtures at the Rudolf Harbig Stadion opened in 1923.
Former players
- Hans-Jürgen Kreische (1964-1978)
- Klaus Sammer (1965-1975)
- Frank Ganzera (1966-1976)
- Dieter Riedel (1967-1980)
- Siegmar Wätzlich (1967-1975)
- Gerd Heidler (1967-1982)
- Horst Rau (1969-1974)
- Claus Boden (1971-1981)
- Reinhard Häfner (1971-1988)
- Klaus Müller (1972-1981)
- Udo Schmuck (1972-1982)
- Peter Kotte (1973-1980)
- Hartmut Schade (1973-1984)
- Gerd Weber (1973-1980)
- Matthias Müller (footballer) (1974-1980)
- Hans-Jürgen Dörner (1977-1985)
- Bernd Jakubowski (1977-1986)
- Andreas Trautmann (1977-1990, 1991)
- Matthias Döschner (1978-1990)
- Torsten Gütschow (1980-1993, 1996-1999)
- Frank Lippmann (1980-1986)
- Ralf Minge (1980-1991)
- Karsten Neitzel (1981-1989)
- Lutz Schülbe (1981-1984)
- Hans-Uwe Pilz (1982-1990, 1990-1995)
- Ulf Kirsten (1983-1990)
- Jörg Stübner (1983-1993)
- Steffen Büttner (1984-1992)
- Jens Ramme (1985-1988)
- Matthias Sammer (1985-1990)
- Frank Lieberam (1986-1991)
- Ralf Hauptmann (1986-1993)
- Ronny Teuber (1986-1993)
- Matthias Maucksch (1987-1995)
- Rocco Milde (1987-1990, 1996-1998, 2002-2003)
- Uwe Jähnig (1988-1995)
- Sven Kmetsch (1989-1995)
- Sven Ratke (1989-1995, 2002-2004)
- Detlef Schößler (1989-1995)
- Andreas Wagenhaus (1989-1993)
- Heiko Scholz (1990-1992)
- René Müller (1991-1995)
- Uwe Rösler (1991-1992, 1993-1994)
- René Beuchel (1992-1995, 2002-2007)
- Dirk Oberritter (1992-1995, 1996-2000)
- Miroslav Stevic (1992-1994)
- Thomas Rath (1992-1995)
- Alexander Zickler (1992-1993)
- Stanislav Cherchesov (1993-1995)
- Olaf Marschall (1993-1994)
- Piotr Nowak (1993-1994)
- Marek Penksa (1993-1994, 2007-2008)
- Johnny Ekström (1994-1995)
- Jens Jeremies (1994-1995)
- Michael Spies (1994-1995)
- Rico Hanke (1995-2000)
- Matthias Großmann (1996-2000)
- Antoni Jelen (1996-2000)
- Silvio Schröter (1997-2001)
- Ignjac Kresic (1999-2006)
- Frank Paulus (1999-2003)
- Daniel Petrowsky (1999-2003)
- Steffen Heidrich (2001-2005)
- Thomas Neubert (2001-2006)
- Daniel Ziebig (2001-2005)
- Christian Fröhlich (2003-2006)
- Dexter Langen (2003-2006)
- Levente Csik (2001-2007)
- Ansgar Brinkmann (2005)
- Joshua Kennedy (2005-2006)
- Ivo Ulich (2006-2008)
- Martin Stocklasa (2006-2008)
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- - Champions DDR-Oberliga 1952-53, DDR-Oberliga 1970-71, DDR-Oberliga 1972-73, DDR-Oberliga 1975-76, DDR-Oberliga 1976-77, DDR-Oberliga 1977-78, DDR-Oberliga 1988-89, DDR-Oberliga 1989-90
- FDGB-Pokal: 7 (Record, shared with 1. FC Magdeburg)
- - Winners FDGB-Pokal 1951-52, FDGB-Pokal 1970-71, FDGB-Pokal 1976-77, FDGB-Pokal 1981-82, FDGB-Pokal 1983-84, FDGB-Pokal 1984-85, FDGB-Pokal 1989-90
- UEFA Cup
- - Semi-final UEFA Cup 1988-89
- NOFV-Oberliga: 1
- - Winners 2002
- Saxony Cup: 3
- - Winners 2003, 2007, 2009
- GDR Junior Champion: 2
- - 1982, 1985
- Junge Welt Junior Cup: 2
- - 1976, 1985
- Indoor-Regio-Cup: 1
- - 2007
Technical staff
{ and play in the NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V). They are the current holders of the Saxony Cup, and the Landesliga Saxony, having won the double in 2008-09.
Managers
Dynamo enjoyed its greatest successes under Walter Fritzsch, capturing the first division DDR-Oberliga title in 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, as well as finishing as vice-champions four times. The team also took the East German Cup (FDGB Pokal) in 1971 and 1977.
- Fritz Sack 07/1950 - 09/1951
- Rolf Kukowitsch 09/1951 - 04/1952
- Paul Döring 04/1952 - 07/1953
- Janos Gyarmati 07/1953 - 04/1954
- Helmut Petzold 04/1954 - 11/1955
- Heinz Werner (footballer born 1916) 01/1956 - 06/1956
- Rolf Kukowitsch 07/1956 - 12/1956
- Helmut Petzold 01/1957 - 05/1966
- Manfred Fuchs 06/1966 - 03/1968
- Kurt Kresse 03/1968 - 06/1969
- Walter Fritzsch 06/1969 - 06/1978
- Gerhard Prautzsch 06/1978 - 06/1983
- Klaus Sammer 07/1983 - 06/1986
- Eduard Geyer 07/1986 - 04/1990
- Reinhard Häfner 04/1990 - 06/1991
- Helmut Schulte 06/1991 - 05/1992
- Klaus Sammer 06/1992 - 04/1993
04/1993 - 06/1993
- Siegfried Held 06/1993 - 11/1994
- Horst Hrubesch 11/1994 - 02/1995
- Ralf Minge 02/1995 - 06/1995
- Hans-Jürgen Kreische 06/1995 - 04/1996
- Udo Schmuck 04/1996 - 09/1996
- Hartmut Schade 09/1996 - 03/1998
- Werner Voigt 04/1998 - 12/1998
- Damian Halata 12/1998 - 02/1999
- Rolf Schafstall 02/1999 - 03/1999
- Colin Bell (footballer born 1961) 04/1999 - 03/2000
- Cor Pot 03/2000 - 03/2001
- Meinhard Hemp 03/2001 - 06/2001
- Christoph Franke 07/2001 - 12/2005
- Peter Pacult 12/2005 - 09/2006
- Norbert Meier 09/2006 - 09/2007
- Eduard Geyer 09/2007 - 06/2008
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1.FC Dynamo Dresden, 1.FC Union Berlin, Carl Zeiss Jena, Eintracht Braunschweig, Erzgebirge Aue, FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Kickers Emden, Kickers Offenbach, SC Paderborn 07, SV Werder Bremen II, Wuppertaler SV