Dynamo Dresden

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Dynamo Dresden
Full name	SG Dynamo Dresden
Nickname(s)	The Kreisel, Dynamo, SGD, Dresden, The black-yellows
Founded	1953
Ground	Rudolf Harbig Stadion (Capacity 23,940)
Chairman	Hauke Haensel
Manager	vacant
League	Regionalliga Nord (III)
2006-07	Regionalliga Nord (III), 7th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Dynamo Dresden are a German football club, based in Dresden, Saxony.

[edit] History

In 1950, Dresden's most popular local club, SG Friedrichstadt, ran afoul of the occupying Soviet authorities as being too bourgeois and not properly representative of East Germany's new socialist society. After their appearance that year against Horch Zwickau in a farcial national final manipulated by the authorities, the club was broken up and its players exiled to other cities with many fleeing to the west. What was left of the club was tacked onto the worker's side BSG VVG Tabak Dresden that April.

[edit] Uncertainty and success

Logo of predecessor side SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden.

Sportvereinigung Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden was established after the war in October 1948 and was groomed as an ideologically safe "replacement" side for the city after the dismantling of SG Friedrichstadt. In July 1950, 17 players from 11 other police-sponsored clubs, most of them from SG Mickten, were delivered to SV DVP Dresden to create a competitive team playing in the green and white of Saxony. The new club soon enjoyed some success; they began to attract a following and inaugurated a new stadium, won the FDGB Pokal (East German Cup) in 1952, and sent their first representatives to the national side.

The club was formally re-established as SG Dynamo Dresden on April 12, 1953 in the cinema Schauburg 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).

The original green Dynamo logo reflecting the club's origins as a Saxon club, the logo in use ca. 1960s-70s, and a recent variant showing championship stars.

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 the team – reserves and younger players – ended up as a 2nd division side which fell to tier III after just one season of play. They made their way back to the 1st division in 1962.

From December 1965 to January 1966, 11 East German clubs including Dresden were separated from their parent sports clubs to be designated as 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 colours of Dresden. They soon emerged as one of the DDR-Oberliga's best sides, enjoying a run of five championships and two Cup wins in eight years from 1971 to 1978 under trainer Walter Fritzsch. During this time Dresden was the country's most popular side, regularly drawing crowds of 25,000, when most other clubs were attracting less than a third of that.

[edit] Second place to the Stasi

Dresden and the rest of the league then came hard up against Stasi-sponsored Dynamo Berlin. 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 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, making the double (national and cup titles) in 1989 and 1990.

[edit] German reunification and the Bundesliga

After German re-unification in 1990 the club was briefly 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, always finishing in the bottom half of the slate. A last place finish in 1994-95 led to relegation, compounded by financial problems that saw the club's president imprisoned for fraud. The club 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 2.Bundesliga 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 the team 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 the club re-adopted its old East German name to play as SG Dynamo Dresden.

[edit] Stadium

The club plays its home fixtures at the Rudolf Harbig Stadion opened in 1923.

[edit] Famous players

Dynamo Dresden sent 37 players to the East German national team.

• Hans-Jürgen "Dixie" Dörner, 106 caps for East Germany (1969-1985).
• Ulf Kirsten, 49 caps for East Germany (1985-1990), 51 caps for Germany (1991-2003).
• Matthias Sammer, 23 caps for East Germany (1986-1990), 51 caps for Germany (1991-1998), European Footballer of the Year in 1996.

[edit] Honours

• East German champions (DDR-Oberliga) (8): 1953, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1989, 1990
• East German Cup (FDGB Pokal) winners (7): 1952, 1971, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1990
• UEFA Cup semi-finalist: 1989
• NOFV-Oberliga champions: 2002
• Sachsenpokal (Saxony Cup) winners: 2003, 2007
• GDR Junior Champion: 1982, 1985
• Junge Welt Junior Cup: 1976, 1985
• Indoor-Regio-Cup: 2007 ^[1]

[edit] Current squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Oliver Herber 3 DF Volker Oppitz 5 DF Thomas Hübener 7 FW Sebastian Helbig 8 MF Igor Bendovskyi 9 FW Thomas Bröker 10 MF Ivo Ulich 11 FW Pavel David 15 MF Sascha Pfeffer 16 MF Michael Kügler 19 MF Jens Truckenbrod 20 GK Marcus Hesse 22 GK Christian Person

No. Position Player 25 DF Ronald Wolf 26 MF Maik Wagefeld 27 DF Ronny Nikol 29 DF Sebastian Pelzer 30 DF Stefan Süß 32 DF Cataldo Cozza 33 FW Pavel Dobry 34 FW Paul-Max Walther 39 MF Maik Kegel 99 MF Marek Penksa GK Axel Keller FW Halil Savran

[edit] 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.

[edit] Team trivia

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• Playing internationally, the team was able to knock out such well-known teams as Roma, Juventus, and Benfica, but never reached a European final.
• Dynamo Dresden won the last two DDR-Oberliga championships before reunification (1989, and 1990), as well as the last East German Cup (1990).

[edit] Dynamo Dresden in Euro competitions

Season	Competition	Round	Nation	Club	Score
1967/1968	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	1st round		Rangers FC	1:1, 1:2
1970/1971	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	1st round		FK Partizan	0:0, 6:0
		2nd round		Leeds United	0:1, 2:1
1971/1972	European Clubs' Champions Cup	1st round		Ajax Amsterdam	0:2, 0:0
1972/1973	UEFA Cup	1st round		VÖEST Linz	2:0, 2:2
		2nd round		Ruch Chorzów	1:0, 3:0
		Last 16		FC Porto	2:1, 1:0
		Quarter final		Liverpool FC	0:2, 0:1
1973/1974	European Clubs' Champions Cup	1st round		Juventus	2:0, 2:3
		Last 16		Bayern München	3:4, 3:3
1974/1975	UEFA Cup	1st round		Randers Freja	1:1, 0:0
		2nd round		Dynamo Moscow	1:0, 0:1 (4:3 a.p.)
		Last 16		Hamburger SV	1:4, 2:2
1975/1976	UEFA Cup	1st round		ASA Târgu Mureş	2:2, 4:1
		2nd round		Budapest Honvéd FC	2:2, 3:0
		Last 16		Torpedo Moscow	3:0, 1:1
		Quarter final		Liverpool FC	0:0, 1:2
1976/1977	European Clubs' Champions Cup	1st round		SL Benfica	2:0, 0:0
		Last 16		Ferencvaros	0:1, 4:0
		Quarter final		FC Zürich	1:2, 3:2
1977/1978	European Clubs' Champions Cup	1st round		Halmstads BK	2:0, 1:2
		Last 16		Liverpool FC	1:5, 2:1
1978/1979	European Clubs' Champions Cup	1st round		FK Partizan	0:2, 2:0 (5:4 a.p.)
		Last 16		Bohemians FC	0:0, 6:0
		Quarter final		FK Austria Wien	1:3, 1:0
1979/1980	UEFA Cup	1st round		Atlético Madrid	2:1, 3:0
		2nd round		VfB Stuttgart	1:1, 0:0
1980/1981	UEFA Cup	1st round		Napredak Krusevac	1:0, 1:0
		2nd round		FC Twente	1:1, 0:0
		Last 16		Standard Liège	1:1, 1:4
1981/1982	UEFA Cup	1st round		Zenit Leningrad	2:1, 4:1
		2nd round		Feyenoord Rotterdam	1:2, 1:1
1982/1983	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1st round		B93 Kopenhagen	2:0, 1:5
1984/1985	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1st round		Malmö FF	0:2, 4:1
		Last 16		FC Metz	3:1, 0:0
		Quarter final		SK Rapid Wien	3:0, 0:5
1985/1986	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1st round		Cercle Brugge	2:3, 2:1
		Last 16		HJK Helsinki	0:1, 7:2
		Quarter final		Bayer Uerdingen	2:0, 3:7
1987/1988	UEFA Cup	1st round		Spartak Moscow	0:3, 1:0
1988/1989	UEFA Cup	1st round		Aberdeen FC	0:0, 2:0
		2nd round		K.S.V. Waregem	4:1, 1:2
		Last 16		AS Roma	2-0, 2-0
		Quarter final		Victoria Bucarest	1:1, 4:0
		Semi-final		VfB Stuttgart	0:1, 1:1
1989/1990	European Clubs' Champions Cup	1st round		AEK Athens FC	1:0, 3:5
1990/1991	European Clubs' Champions Cup	1st round		Union Luxembourg	3:1, 3:0
		Lst 16		Malmö FF	1:1, 1:1 (5:4 a.p.)
		Quarter final		Red Star Belgrade	0:3, 0:3 (match abandoned)

[edit] Sponsorship

• Official Shirt Sponsor - Mister Lady
• Official Premium-Sponsor - Radeberger
• Official Premium-Sponsor - Sulo
• Official Sport Clothing Manufacturer - Nike, Inc.
• Official Stadium Sponsor - FIRA
• Official Communication Sponsor - Radio Dresden
• Official Communication Sponsor - T-Mobile
• Official Car Sponsor - Thyssen-Krupp
• Official Communication Sponsor - Sächsische Zeitung
• Official Sport Drink - Coca Cola
• Official Health Service Provider - Hamburg Mannheimer

[edit] References

[edit] Literature

• Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (in German)
• eufo.de European football club profiles and current team rosters

[edit] External links

• Official team site
• Abseits Guide to German Soccer