Dynamo Dresden

Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden e.V. (usually just called SG Dynamo Dresden or Dynamo Dresden) is a professional association football club from Dresden, Saxony, Germany. They currently play in the 2. Bundesliga.

The club was founded on 12 April 1953 as a club affiliated with the East German police. They became one of the most successful clubs in East Germany, winning 8 DDR-Oberliga titles. After the German reunification, they played in the Bundesliga for a few seasons, but they have drifted between the 2. Bundesliga and the Regionalliga Nordost.

Their main rivals are Berliner FC Dynamo, Lokomotive Leipzig, Chemnitzer, Sachsen Leipzig, Erzgebirge Aue and Dresdner. Also, their main colours are yellow and black (previously the colours were green and white).

Current squad

As of 2 February 2026

No. Position Player 1 GK Germany Tim Schreiber 2 DF Germany Konrad Faber (on loan from St. Gallen) 5 MF Germany Vinko Šapina 6 MF Germany Kofi Amoako 7 MF Germany Jason Çeka (on loan from SV Elversberg) 8 MF Germany Luca Herrmann 9 FW Netherlands Vincent Vermeij 10 MF Germany Jakob Lemmer 13 DF Germany Julian Pauli (on loan from 1. FC Köln) 15 DF Sri Lanka Claudio Kammerknecht 16 FW Sweden Nils Fröling 18 MF Germany Robert Wagner (on loan from SC Freiburg) 19 DF Germany Alexander Rossipal 20 FW Germany Ben Bobzien (on loan from Mainz 05)

No. Position Player 22 GK Germany Lennart Grill 23 DF Germany Lars Bünning 24 MF Germany Tony Menzel 26 DF Germany Jan-Hendrik Marx 27 MF Germany Niklas Hauptmann 28 DF Germany Sascha Risch 29 DF Germany Lukas Boeder 30 FW Germany Stefan Kutschke (captain) 32 DF Germany Jonas Sterner (on loan from Hannover 96) 33 FW Germany Christoph Daferner 37 GK Germany Daniel Mesenhöler 39 DF Germany Thomas Keller (on loan from 1. FC Heidenheim) 40 GK Germany Elias Bethke 42 DF Germany Friedrich Müller

Honours

• DDR-Oberliga: 8
  • Champions 1953, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1989, 1990
• FDGB-Pokal: 7 (Record, shared with 1. FC Magdeburg)
  • Winners 1952, 1971, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1990
• Deutschland Cup: 1
  • 1990
• UEFA Cup
  • Semi-final 1989
• NOFV-Oberliga: 1
  • Winners 2002
• 3rd Liga: 2
  • Champions 2015-16
  • 3rd 2010-11 (promoted after promotion play-offs)
• Regionalliga Nord: 1 (As third tier)
  • Runner-ups 2003-04 (promoted)
• Saxony Cup: 3
  • Winners 2003, 2007, 2009
• Sachsenliga: 1
  • Winners 2009
• GDR Junior Champion: 2
  • 1982, 1985
• Junge Welt Junior Cup: 2
  • 1976, 1985
• Indoor-Regio-Cup: 1
  • 2007

Dynamo Dresden Media

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  Historical chart of Dynamo Dresden league performance

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  Dynamo face Bayern Munich in the 1973–74 European Cup

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  The championship-winning squad of 1975–76

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  Matthias Sammer lifts the FDGB-Pokal trophy in 1990

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  Dynamo v. VfB Stuttgart in the semi-final of the 1988–89 UEFA Cup

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  Matthias Maucksch made 118 Bundesliga appearances for Dynamo, more than any other player, and was manager of the club from 2009 to 2011.

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  Volker Oppitz was a key player in Dynamo's rise from the Oberliga to the 2. Bundesliga

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  The surroundings of the match location Dresden at Women's World Cup 2011. The US team won versus the North Koreans 2:0 among 21,859 spectators.

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  Wernesgrüner Sachsenpokal 2020/21, Quarterfinal: SG Dynamo Dresden vs. Bischofswerdaer FV 08 (2:0)

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  The K-Block terrace of the Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion

Other websites

• Official team site (in German)
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (in German)
• Sport 1 News topic page Dynamo Dresden Archived 2013-09-09 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
• Spiegel News topic page Dynamo Dresden (in German)
• Facebook (in German)